The Northeastern Environmental Sensors Lab develops new sensors, instruments, and signal processing strategies to optimize our ability to study the natural and built environments. Our interdisciplinary team brings together engineers and scientists with different interests, perspectives, and expertise to tackle important challenges in science, remediation, energy, and manufacturing processes: characterizing nutrients in natural systems at high spatial and temporal frequency, enabling next-generation wastewater treatment strategies, facilitating online controls for distributed renewable energy systems, and real-time process outflow water quality monitoring. We are also looking at the spatial distribution of air pollutants and the connection of these patterns to the built environment, transportation modalities, green infrastructure, and other policy decisions.

In these projects we combine a deep understanding of environmental chemistry and collaborative process characterization with unique use of embedded systems, electronic and electrochemical sensors, wireless networking, signal processing, machine learning, and closed-loop controls.