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Erin Mayfield

Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering

mayfield@dartmouth.edu

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Professor Mayfield participated on two CERAWeek '23 panels: "Building Equity and Fairness in Climate Solutions" and "The Current State of Climate Change."

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Sustainable Transitions Lab

Research Interests

Sustainable systems; energy transitions; multi-objective and multi-attribute computational modeling and decision-making; social equity; data science; environmental and energy policy

Education

  • BS, Environmental Science, Rutgers University
  • MS, Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
  • PhD, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Awards

  • Rob Socolow Carbon Mitigation Initiative Best Paper Award (2021)
  • American Chemical Society's Editors' Choice Award (2017)
  • Herbert L. Toor Award Winner (2016)

Selected Publications

  • Mayfield, E.N., J.L. Cohon, N.Z. Muller, I.L. Azevedo, and A.L. Robinson. "Quantifying the social equity state of an energy system: Environmental and labor market equity of the shale gas boom in Appalachia." Environmental Research Letters, 14, 124072. (2019).
  • Mayfield, E.N., J.L. Cohon, N.Z. Muller, I.L. Azevedo, and A.L. Robinson. "Cumulative environmental and employment impacts of the shale gas boom." Nature Sustainability, 2, 1122–1131. (2019).
  • Mayfield, E. N., A.L. Robinson, and J.L. Cohon. "System-wide and Superemitter Policy Options for the Abatement of Methane Emissions from the U.S. Natural Gas System." Environmental Science & Technology. 51 (2017) 4772-4780.
  • Larson, E. C. Greig, J. Jenkins, E. Mayfield, A. Pascale, C. Zhang, S. Pacala, R. Socolow, R. Williams, J. Drossman, EJ Baik, R. Birdsey, R. Duke, R. Jones, B. Haley, E. Leslie, K. Paustian, and A. Swan, "Net-Zero America: Potential Pathways, Infrastructure, and Impacts," Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 15, 2020. [Website: https://netzeroamerica.princeton.edu/]

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Research Quick Takes

Professor Erin Mayfield

Sep 04, 2025

Climate Change Collaborator

Professor Erin Mayfield was selected to serve as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report. IPCC is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change, and Mayfield is one of 664 experts from 111 countries appointed to participate. Assessment reports are published every 5 to 7 years to provide governments with information to develop climate policies, and to inform international negotiations to tackle climate change. 

Professor Erin Mayfield headshot

Jul 13, 2023

Measuring the Impact of Climate Legislation

Professor Erin Mayfield is a co-author of "Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act" published in Science. The paper leverages "results from nine independent, state-of-the-art models to examine potential implications of key IRA provisions, showing economy-wide emissions reductions between 43 and 48% below 2005 levels by 2035."