Scot M. Miller, an assistant professor of environmental health and engineering, studies the emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. His research group uses observations of greenhouse gases collected from airplanes, towers and satellites to estimate emissions across individual states to continents.
His recent projects focus on global change in the Arctic, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and emissions from energy industries (such as coal, oil, and natural gas). Miller’s work also utilizes statistics, high performance computing, and tools for big data. For example, a 2019 paper he coauthored in Nature Communications demonstrated that China has not met its methane emissions reduction targets.
Dr. Miller received his PhD in earth and planetary sciences from Harvard University in 2015. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University before joining the Whiting School of Engineering faculty in 2018.