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Nicholas Shapiro is a multidisciplinary environmental researcher who studies and designs interventions addressing issues of chemical contamination and climate change. He worked on tracking quasi-legal resale of over 120,000 chemically contaminated housing units post-Hurricane Katrina and developed air monitoring systems for communities impacted by unconventional natural gas extraction. His research focuses on the efficacy of microbiome impacts from low-cost bio-phyto air remediation systems and supports environmental research on toxic living conditions within carceral institutions. Additionally, he is finishing a book on toxic homes, climate change, settler-colonialism, and potential futures. He is a co-founder of the Environmental Data Governance Initiative, started in 2016, which undertakes projects pertaining to information hardware and software. Shapiro's publications include work on residential testing for formaldehyde and historical analyses of environmental health protections.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.