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Overview

Mitchell J. Small is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
  • Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

Mitchell J. Small has contributed to several academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Applied Geochemistry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Energy

Their recent papers include:

  • Global knowledge base for municipal solid waste management: Framework development and application in waste generation prediction, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Forecast of the U.S. Copper Demand: a Framework Based on Scenario Analysis and Stock Dynamics, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Impacts of projected climate change scenarios on heating and cooling demand for industrial broiler chicken farming in the Eastern U.S, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Applying risk tolerance and socio-technical dynamics for more realistic energy transition pathways, 2021, Applied Energy
  • Utilization of produced water baseline as a groundwater monitoring tool at a CO2-EOR site in the Permian Basin, Texas, USA, 2020, Applied Geochemistry

Frequent coauthors of Mitchell J. Small are:

  • Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
  • James Gardiner
  • Randall Thomas
  • Jiaan Wang
  • Christina Lopano

Best Publications

  • The battle of the water sensor networks (BWSN): A design challenge for engineers and algorithms

    Avi Ostfeld;James G. Uber;Elad Salomons;Jonathan W. Berry

  • Sustainability Science and Engineering: The Emergence of a New Metadiscipline

    James R. Mihelcic;John C. Crittenden;Mitchell J. Small;David R. Shonnard

  • U.S. DOE methodology for the development of geologic storage potential for carbon dioxide at the national and regional scale

    Angela Goodman;Alexandra Hakala;Grant Bromhal;Dawn Deel

  • Risks and risk governance in unconventional shale gas development.

    Mitchell J. Small;Paul C. Stern;Elizabeth Bomberg;Susan M. Christopherson

  • Extending the Boundaries of Life‐Cycle Assessment through Environmental Economic Input‐Output Models

    H. Scott Matthews;Mitchell J. Small

  • Preferences for change: Do individuals prefer voluntary actions, soft regulations, or hard regulations to decrease fossil fuel consumption?

    Shahzeen Z. Attari;Mary Schoen;Cliff I. Davidson;Michael L. DeKay

  • Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Decision Making

    Granger Morgan;Hadi Dowlatabadi

  • Integrated Environmental Modeling: Pollutant Transport, Fate, and Risk in the Environment

    Anu Ramaswami;Jana B. Milford;Mitchell J. Small

  • Correlation of the physicochemical properties of natural organic matter samples from different sources to their effects on gold nanoparticle aggregation in monovalent electrolyte.

    Stacey M. Louie;Eleanor R. Spielman-Sun;Mitchell J. Small;Robert D. Tilton

  • Managing China’s coal power plants to address multiple environmental objectives

    Wei Peng;Wei Peng;Wei Peng;Fabian Wagner;Fabian Wagner;M. V. Ramana;M. V. Ramana;Haibo Zhai

  • Risk‐Based Environmental Remediation: Bayesian Monte Carlo Analysis and the Expected Value of Sample Information

    Maxine E. Dakins;John E. Toll;Mitchell J. Small;Kevin P. Brand

  • An environmental sensor network to determine drinking water quality and security

    Anastassia Ailamaki;Christos Faloutos;Paul S. Fischbeck;Mitchell J. Small

  • What information belongs in a warning

    Baruch Fischhoff;Donna Riley;Daniel C. Kovacs;Mitchell Small

  • Designing cost-effective seawater reverse osmosis system under optimal energy options

    Asmerom M. Gilau;Mitchell J. Small

  • Updating Uncertainty in an Integrated Risk Assessment: Conceptual Framework and Methods

    Kevin P. Brand;Mitchell J. Small

  • Agent‐Based Modeling and Industrial Ecology

    Robert L. Axtell;Clinton J. Andrews;Mitchell J. Small

  • Quantifying the hurricane risk to offshore wind turbines

    Stephen Rose;Paulina Jaramillo;Mitchell J. Small;Iris Grossmann

  • Elicitation of expert judgments of uncertainty in the risk assessment of herbicide-tolerant oilseed crops.

    Martin P. Krayer von Krauss;Elizabeth A. Casman;Mitchell J. Small

  • Seasonal variations in sulfate, nitrate and chloride in the greenland ice sheet: Relation to atmospheric concentrations

    C.I. Davidson;J.R. Harrington;M.J. Stephenson;M.J. Small

  • Bayesian Environmental Policy Decisions: Two Case Studies

    Lara J. Wolfson;Joseph B. Kadane;Mitchell J. Small

  • Identifying Sets of Key Nodes for Placing Sensors in Dynamic Water Distribution Networks

    Jianhua Xu;Paul S. Fischbeck;Mitchell J. Small;Jeanne M. VanBriesen

  • Risk Analysis and Society: An Interdisciplinary Characterization of the Field

    Timothy McDaniels;Mitchell J. Small

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Schervish
Mark J. Schervish Carnegie Mellon University
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Cliff I. Davidson
Cliff I. Davidson Syracuse University
Paulina Jaramillo
Paulina Jaramillo Carnegie Mellon University
David A. Dzombak
David A. Dzombak Carnegie Mellon University
Jay Apt
Jay Apt Carnegie Mellon University
Edward S. Rubin
Edward S. Rubin Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph B. Kadane
Joseph B. Kadane Carnegie Mellon University
Timothy L. McDaniels
Timothy L. McDaniels University of British Columbia
Fabian Wagner
Fabian Wagner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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