Daniel Cohan
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
Rice University
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Daniel Cohan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. His research specializes in the development of photochemical models and their application to air quality management, uncertainty analysis, energy policy, and health impact studies. Before joining Rice, Dr. Cohan worked for the Air Protection Branch of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. He received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry from Georgia Tech, and served as a Fulbright Scholar to Australia at the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology. Dr. Cohan is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER young investigator award and served as a member of the NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team.
Recent Posts by Daniel Cohan
Recent Comments by Daniel Cohan
- "Thank you Alex for launching this discussion. FERC would be best served by dismissing this NOPR. Yes, there should be ongoing work to enhance the resi"
Pricing Grid Resiliency: A Lifeline for Coal and Nuclear? - "EIA's Annual Energy Outlooks are the most influential projections of future energy trends in the United States. While they are explicitly "not predict"
The Future of Fossil Fuels: Trailing and Leading Indicators - "The DOE study was based on the outdated paradigm of "baseload" power. As variable power sources like solar and wind become the least cost options for "
DOE Grid Study Delayed - "ARPA-E funds the most cutting-edge research in energy technologies. Eliminating ARPA-E funding as sought by President Trump's budget would have set ba"
Omnibus Maintains Energy Funding for 2017 - "What's needed is to move away from energy tax preferences and toward taxing emissions. That would shift energy policy from a drain on revenue to a sou"
The Effects of Energy Tax Policy on Markets and the Environment - "Axing the Clean Power Plan would have little immediate impact, since power plant emissions are already falling faster than it targets, but would remov"
Trump Expected To Sign New Climate Orders - "This is a tale of two pipelines. For Keystone XL, opposition has dissipated but the economic viability is no longer clear, as low oil prices hit high-"
Trump to Approve Orders for Controversial Pipelines - "The author highlights that transportation may be a more challenging sector to decarbonize than electricity. While market forces are pushing coal from "
Why You Should Care about Low Carbon Fuels and Vehicle Initiatives - "Indeed, many already see China as the leader in climate change reform, as the U.S. abrogates its role: http://www.salon.com/2016/11/15/china-is-now-th"
What Will Energy Policy Look Like Under President Trump? - "I agree with you that new coal power plants won't be built -- they are too costly to compete with natural gas, wind, or solar, and face huge risks if "
What Will Energy Policy Look Like Under President Trump?