School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Civil, Environmental, & Sustainbility Engineering Program
School of Sustainability

Mikhail Chester, Assistant Professor
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Civil, Environmental, & Sustainbility Engineering Program
Affiliate Faculty, School of Sustainability

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

 
A Framework for Environmental Assessment of Carbon Capture and Storage Systems
Roger Sathre, Mikhail Chester, Jennifer Cain, and Eric Masanet
Energy, 37(1), 2012, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.10.050   
Costs of Automobile Air Emissions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Yeganah Mashayekh, Paulina Jaramillo, Mikhail Chester, Chris Hendrickson, and Chris Weber
Transportation Research Record, 2233, Transportation Research Board, 2011, doi: 10.3141/2233-14   
Green Car Congress
Valuation of Plug-in Vehicle Life-cycle Air Emissions and Oil Displacement Benefits
Jeremy Michalek, Mikhail Chester, Paulina Jaramillo, Constantine Samaras, C.S. Norman Shiau, and Lester Lave
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 108 (40), 2011, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1104473108         
Parking Infrastructure: Energy, Emissions, and Automobile Life-cycle Environmental Accounting
Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, and Samer Madanat
Environmental Research Letters, 5 (3), Institute of Physics (July 2010)      
This study was discussed by several media outlets including Environmentalresearchweb, the San Francisco Business Times, and the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies.
Life-cycle Assessment of High Speed Rail: The Case of California
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath
Environmental Research Letters, 5 (1), Institute of Physics (January 2010)      
Environmentalresearchweb ran a story on this study which was reprinted in the UK Guardian. This work was featured in the Spring 2010 issue of Berkeley Engineering's Forefront magazine and the Institute of Transportation Studies Spring 2010 Berkeley Transportation Letter (V.1, No.1).
Life-cycle Energy and Emissions Footprints of Passenger Transportation in Metropolitan Regions
Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, and Samer Madanat
Atmospheric Environment, 44 (8), 1071-1079 (March 2010)      
Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath
Environmental Research Letters, 4 (2), Institute of Physics (June 2009)      
This study was recognized by several media outlets including the New York Times, BBC News, BBC Radio, ABC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Popular Science magazine, and Slate magazine. This was the #1 most downloaded Environmental Research Letters manuscript of 2009.
Cellulosic Ethanol from Municipal Solid Waste: A Case Study of the Economic, Energy, and Greenhouse Gas Impacts in California
Mikhail Chester and Elliot Martin
Environmental Science & Technology, 43 (14), 5183-5189, American Chemical Society (June 2009)      
National Public Radio's All Things Considered and the San Francisco Chronicle mentioned this study.
Energy, Greenhouse Gas, and Cost Reductions for Municipal Recycling Systems
Mikhail Chester, Elliot Martin, and Nakul Sathaye
Environmental Science & Technology, 42 (6), 2142-2149, American Chemical Society (February 2008)   
Cost Impacts, Scheduling Impacts, and the Construction Claims Process
Mikhail Chester and Chris Hendrickson
ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering & Management, 131 (1), 102-107 (January 2005)   

Publications in Review

 
Avoiding Unintended Tradeoffs by Integrating Life-cycle Impact Assessment with Urban Metabolism
Mikhail Chester, Stephanie Pincetl, and Braden Allenby
Complementing Urban Metabolism with Life-cycle Assessment for Sustainable Communities
Mikhail Chester, Stephanie Pincetl, and Paul Bunje
Biofuel System Boundary Selection and Life-cycle Assessment
Elliot Martin, Mikhail Chester, Sintana Vergara, and Michael O'Hare
High-speed Rail with Emerging Automobiles and Aircraft to Reduce Environmental Damages in California's Future
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath

Publications in Preparation

 
I am completing several transportation LCA and urban sustainability analyses and will begin manuscript preparation in the near future.

Conference Proceedings

 
The Role of Life Cycle Assessment in Identifying and Reducing Environmental Impacts of CCS
Roger Sathre, Eric Masanet, Jennifer Cain, and Mikhail Chester
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, 2011   
Automated Photologging and Retrieval for a Digital Photograph Library
Burcu Akinci, Mikhail Chester, Chris Hendrickson, Scott Matthews, and Kevin McCloskey
Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting 2004   

Other Relevant Documents

 
Parking Infrastructure and the Environment
Access Magazine Fall 2011      
Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath, and Samer Madanat
Vehicle Manufacturing Futures in Transportation Life-cycle Assessment
University of California eRepository (August 2011)
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath
Life Cycle Assessment Support for California EPA's Green Chemistry Initiative
California Environmental Protection Agency (April 2011)   
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath
Life-Cycle Environmental Assessment of California High Speed Rail
Access Magazine (Fall 2010)      
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath
Life-cycle Energy and Emissions Inventories for Motorcycles, Diesel Automobiles, School Buses, Electric Buses, Chicago Rail, and New York City Rail
Life-cycle air emissions inventory for motorcycles, diesel automobiles, school buses, electric buses, Chicago rail, and New York City rail (May 2009).
Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath
Life-cycle Environmental Inventory of Passenger Transportation Modes in the United States
Doctoral Dissertation (August 2008)
Mikhail Chester

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