PhD Candidate
Location
Climate & Space Research Building 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
Education
Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Public Policy – December 2021
B.S. – The College of Idaho (Mathematics-Physics; Environmental Studies) – May 2018
Research Interests
My research focuses on improving our understanding of agricultural N2O emissions with space-based and in-situ observations.
I’m also interested in: air pollution, greenhouse gases, environmental/climate policy, environmental justice, sustainability.
Honors/Awards
MGU Best Research Talk Runner-up (Apr. 2022)
Delegate to the University of Michigan for the 26th Conference of the Parties (Nov. 2021)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellow (2020)
University of Michigan College of Engineering Dean’s Fellowship (2019)
Publications
Dacic*, N., Del Greco*, C., Harris*, N., Kochan*, K., Levi-D’Ancona*, E. (2022). No Choice, No Voice: Combating Abortion Barriers in the U.S. SciTech Forefront, NSPN 2022 S&T Policy Writing Competition. (*all authors contributed equally). https://medium.com/scitech-forefront/no-choice-no-voice-combating-abortion-barriers-in-the-u-s-c9e73169e13d
Dacic, N., White, A., Ajimal, R., Boisvert, K., Oriol, L., & Akash, S. (2022). How UNFCCC’s COP Can Achieve Carbon Neutrality. Journal of Science Policy & Governance, 20 (01). https://doi.org/10.38126/jspg200102
Yorks, J.E., Selmer, P.A., Kupchock, A., Nowottnick, E.P., Christian, K.E., Rusinek, D., Dacic, N., & McGill, M.J. (2021). Aerosol and Cloud Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Space-Based Lidar Data. Atmosphere, 12, 606. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12050606
Dacic, N., Sullivan, J. T., Knowland, K. E., Wolfe, G. M., Oman, L. D., Berkoff, T. A., & Gronoff, G. P. (2020). Evaluation of NASA’s high-resolution global composition simulations: Understanding a pollution event in the Chesapeake Bay during the summer 2017 OWLETS campaign. Atmospheric Environment, 222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.117133