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Chulakadabba grew up surrounded by extended family — she’s the youngest of eight cousins — and remembers playing inside the factory in a large pile of clay used to transform the naturally reddish palm oil to the clear yellow liquid used in a dizzying array of prepared food, cosmetics, and consumer products throughout the world.</p> <p>Chulakadabba never worked there — her mother became a psychiatrist instead of entering the family business — but she does plan to return and apply her education in environmental engineering to help make the facility more sustainable. In the meantime, she’s fostered her interest in the environment during undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and most recently in the lab of Steven Wofsy, Harvard’s Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science.</p> <p>“I feel like my family is a part of the issue,” Chulakadabba said. “I want to do something.”</p> <p>That desire had her flying around the skies near Colorado last fall in a Gulfstream V jet mounted with methane-sensing instruments. The eight-hour flight acted as something of a proving ground for a project, called MethaneAIR, which will send the jet flying around the country later this year mapping sources of methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide. The flight also tested instruments and algorithms for a second, more ambitious project called MethaneSAT. MethaneSAT has a similar goal except, instead of a plane, the platform is a satellite — expected to launch in late 2023 or early 2024 — and the hunt for methane sources will be global rather than national.</p> <div class="wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center media-cluster is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-my-family-benefited-from-the-factory-i-have-a-good-education-because-of-it-so-i-want-to-return-and-do-something-good">“My family benefited from the factory. I have a good education because of it, so I want to return and do something good.”</h2> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <figure class="wp-block-image alignnone size-full is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1667" height="2500" src="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg" alt="Ju Chulakadabba." class="wp-image-356725" srcset="https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg 1667w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=100,150 100w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=768,1152 768w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=683,1024 683w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=1024,1536 1024w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=1366,2048 1366w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=21,32 21w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=43,64 43w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lifework_110422_Chukakadabba_Ju_281.jpg?resize=1488,2232 1488w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1667px) 100vw, 1667px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><p class="wp-element-caption--caption"> </p><p class="wp-element-caption--credit">Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer</p></figcaption></figure> </div> </div> <p>The projects are being conducted in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund, which is hoping to use data they generate to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure by nearly half by 2025. Chulakadabba’s role is designing algorithms that quantify methane sources in the data.</p> <p>Though carbon dioxide has received much of the attention as a climate-warming gas, methane makes a significant contribution — roughly 25 percent that of CO<sub>2</sub> — to warming the planet, Wofsy said. Because it is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, far less methane is emitted to get that effect, which is why Wofsy terms it something of a “low-hanging fruit” in climate remediation.</p> <p>Chulakadabba has been looking for ways to help the environment for many years. In middle school, she created a project that used the industrial clay she once played with — called “bleaching earth” in the industry — to remove copper from wastewater.</p> <p>“I felt like this issue directly affected me, and it was fascinating to me that I could do something about it,” Chulakadabba said of the project. “It was small-scale but had the possibility that I could convert it into something bigger.”</p> <div class="wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content" id="supporting-content-9a4b644b-f4f8-42b6-8442-e56b26330fa5"> <div class="featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list" style=""> <h2 class="featured-articles__title wp-block-heading">More like this</h2> <ul class="featured-articles__list "> <li class="featured-article "> <figure class="featured-article__image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="750" src="https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=1200%2C750" class="attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop" alt="Steve Wofsy," srcset="https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=608,380 608w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=784,490 784w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/030223_Wofsy_016.jpeg?resize=1680,1050 1680w" /> </figure> <div class="featured-article__content"> <a class="featured-article__category" href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/science-technology/"> Science & Tech </a> <h3 class="featured-article__title wp-block-heading"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/methane-tracking-satellite-may-be-fastest-way-to-slow-climate-change/">Buying crucial time in climate change fight</a></h3> <div class="featured-article__meta"> <span class="featured-article__reading-time"> long read </span> </div> </div> </li> <li class="featured-article "> <figure class="featured-article__image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="750" src="https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=1200%2C750" class="attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop" alt="Pariroo Rattan." srcset="https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/101321_ESPP_028.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w" /> </figure> <div class="featured-article__content"> <a class="featured-article__category" href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/science-technology/"> Science & Tech </a> <h3 class="featured-article__title wp-block-heading"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/concentration-untangles-environmental-issues-solutions/">Coming to grips with planetary existential threat</a></h3> <div class="featured-article__meta"> <span class="featured-article__reading-time"> long read </span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <p>Environmentalists say processing palm oil creates pollutants that taint the air and water, but perhaps the biggest environmental threat posed by the industry involves the large-scale deforestation and habitat disruption that takes place to clear areas for growing, primarily in portions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.</p> <p>Chulakadabba moved to the U.S. and finished high school in New Jersey. While at MIT for her undergraduate studies, she did research on indoor air pollution, detecting methane emissions in a lake, doing models to examine climate impacts in China, and using satellite data to measure plant response to water availability.</p> <p>“I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, though I knew I wanted to do something with the environment,” Chulakadabba said. “Eventually, I want to go back to the factory and make it greener, or at least make the quality of life of people in that area better. My family benefited from the factory. 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