Industrial Ecology Research Lab (IERL) – Current Students

Alena Raymond

• life cycle assessment of geotechnical infrastructure
• life cycle sustainability framework for existing geotechnical technologies and new biogeotechnical technologies
• Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics

• life cycle assessment of agricultural systems
• analysis of life cycle assessment methodology of covered and protected crop systems

• greenhouse gas footprinting and impact assessment of orchard production systems
• perennial crop agroecology
• biomass energy production
• environmental policy development

• material and environmental burdens of electric vehicle traction batteries
• emissions performance of grid-tied electric vehicles
• second-life of EV traction batteries
• energy and transportation system modeling

• agricultural residues and waste streams into energy and value-added products   
• energy and mass balances for low-/non-soil plant growth substrates
• coproduct allocation issues for biomass and zero-waste systems

• modeling and analyzing water and energy systems
• energy intensity assessment of urban water systems
• economic evaluation of energy savings