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D-Index
59
Citations
22188
World Ranking
1526
National Ranking
732

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

M. Granger Morgan is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. The primary field of study is engineering, with significant contributions in several subfields including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, environmental engineering, aerospace engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

The research topics covered by Morgan focus extensively on areas such as:

  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Frequent collaborators include Ahmed Abdulla, Joana Mendonça, Erica R.H. Fuchs, Jay Apt, and Rachel Dryden.

Morgan has published multiple papers in recognized academic venues, with prominent publications in:

  • Risk Analysis
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Electricity Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Morgan include:

  • "Estimating what US residential customers are willing to pay for resilience to large electricity outages of long duration," 2020, published in Nature Energy
  • "Keep wind projects close? A case study of distance, culture, and cost in offshore and onshore wind energy siting," 2020, published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Expanding Transmission Capacity: Examples of Regulatory Paths for Five Alternative Strategies," 2020, published in The Electricity Journal
  • "Environmental and health consequences of shore power for vessels calling at major ports in India," 2021, published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "A strategy to improve expert technology forecasts," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recognitions awarded to Morgan include:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1995

Best Publications

  • Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach

    M. Granger Morgan;Baruch Fischhoff;Ann Bostrom;Cynthia J. Atman

  • What Do People Know About Global Climate Change? 1. Mental Models

    Ann Bostrom;M. Granger Morgan;Baruch Fischhoff;Daniel Read

  • Use (and abuse) of expert elicitation in support of decision making for public policy

    M. Granger Morgan

  • Managing Soil Carbon

    Rattan Lal;Michael Griffin;Jay Apt;Lester Lave

  • Now what do people know about global climate change? Survey studies of educated laypeople

    Travis William Reynolds;Ann Bostrom;Daniel Read;M. Granger Morgan

  • Characterizing Mental Models of Hazardous Processes: A Methodology and an Application to Radon

    Ann Bostrom;Baruch Fischhoff;M. Granger Morgan

  • The Transition to Solid-State Lighting

    I.L. Azevedo;M.G. Morgan;F. Morgan

  • Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar

    Christopher T. M. Clack;Christopher T. M. Clack;Staffan A. Qvist;Jay Apt;Morgan Bazilian

  • Marginal emissions factors for the U.S. electricity system.

    Kyle Siler-Evans;Inês Lima Azevedo;M. Granger Morgan

  • Inside the black box: Technology and economics, by Nathan Rosenberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 344 pp. Price: $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper

    M. Granger Morgan

  • Research on global sun block needed now.

    David W. Keith;Edward Parson;M. Granger Morgan

  • The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics in the Technological Age

    M. Granger Morgan;Hans Jonas

  • Regional climate response to solar-radiation management

    Katharine L. Ricke;M. Granger Morgan;Myles R. Allen

  • Initial Public Perceptions of Deep Geological and Oceanic Disposal of Carbon Dioxide

    Claire R. Palmgren;M. Granger Morgan;Wändi Bruine De Bruin;David W. Keith

  • Learning from integrated assessment of climate change

    M. Granger Morgan;Hadi Dowlatabadi

  • What Risks Are People Concerned About

    Gregory W. Fischer;Gregory W. Fischer;M. Granger Morgan;Baruch Fischhoff;Indira Nair

  • Regional variations in the health, environmental, and climate benefits of wind and solar generation

    Kyle Siler-Evans;Inês Lima Azevedo;M. Granger Morgan;Jay Apt

  • Graphical Communication of Uncertain Quantities to Nontechnical People

    Harald Ibrekk;M. Granger Morgan

  • Categorizing Risks for Risk Ranking

    M. Granger Morgan;H. Keith Florig;Michael L. DeKay;Paul Fischbeck

  • Elicitation of Expert Judgments of Climate Change Impacts on Forest Ecosystems

    M. Granger Morgan;Louis F. Pitelka;Elena Shevliakova

  • Powerline frequency electric and magnetic fields: a pilot study of risk perception.

    M. Granger Morgan;Paul Slovic;Indira Nair;Dan Geisler

  • Informed public preferences for electricity portfolios with CCS and other low-carbon technologies.

    Lauren A. Fleishman;Wändi Bruine De Bruin;M. Granger Morgan

Frequent Co-Authors

Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Lester B. Lave
Lester B. Lave Carnegie Mellon University
Cynthia J. Atman
Cynthia J. Atman University of Washington
David W. Keith
David W. Keith University of Chicago
Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Wändi Bruine de Bruin University of Southern California
Ann Bostrom
Ann Bostrom University of Washington
David G. Victor
David G. Victor University of California, San Diego
Mitchell J. Small
Mitchell J. Small Carnegie Mellon University
Kirsten Zickfeld
Kirsten Zickfeld Simon Fraser University

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