Dr. Niemeier's current research focuses on characterizing GHG emissions and energy flows in complex systems. The research group also works in the area of transportation - vehicle emissions modeling at local and regional scales, including evaluating the connections between transportation and air quality policy. [more]

"At this point, the central forecast of leading climate models - not the worst-case scenario but the most likely outcome - is utter catastrophe, a rise in temperatures that will totally disrupt life as we know it, if we continue along our present path. How to head off that catastrophe should be the dominant policy issue of our time."

Paul Krugman New York Times - July 12, 2009

Focus Areas: Air Quality-Transportation; Transportation-Climate Change; Transportation-Energy-Land Use; Infrastructure Funding Policy

Students Accepted Through: Civil and Env Eng, TTP, Ecology, Community Development, Geography, Computer Science

UC Davis-Caltrans Air Quality Program

Research Group

Classes

• Current Projects
• Recent Reports
• Published Papers
• Conference Proceedings
• Transportation Research, Part A
• Around the World (slides)