Nicholas Shapiro (he, him, his)

RESEARCH COORDINATION

Nicholas Shapiro is a multidisciplinary environmental researcher that studies, and designs interventions into, issues of chemical contamination and climate change. He has worked tracking the quasi-legal resale of 120,000+ chemically contaminated housing units after Hurricane Katrina, developing air monitoring systems with communities impacted by unconventional natural gas extraction, and testing fossil fuel-free means of long distance air travel.

Current Projects

  • Leading the Carceral Ecologies Lab
  • Studying the efficacy and microbiome impacts of a low-cost bio-phyto air remediation system.
  • Finishing a book about toxic homes, climate change, settler-colonialism, and the desire for a radically different future, provisionally entitled “Homesick”.
  • Wrapping up his participation in the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), which he co-founded in 2016.

Publications

Ask Nick which publications to highlight (link them as well!)