Dr. Blackhurst received his PhD from Civil and Environmental Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He was the Executive Director of Open Energy Outlook Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University from 2023-2025 before joining the Department in 2026.
- PhD, 2005, Civil and Environmental Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS, 2001, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, University of Texas - Austin
- BS, 1999, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Education & Training
Blackhurst, Michael, Aranya Venkatesh, Aditya Sinha, Katherine Jordan, Nicholas Z. Muller, Cameron Wade, Jeremiah X. Johnson, and Paulina Jaramillo. 2025. “Marginal Abatement Costs for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States Using an Energy Systems Approach.” Environmental Research: Energy. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2753-3751/adb588/meta.
Hajiseyedjavadi, Seyedsaeed, Hassan A. Karimi, and Michael Blackhurst. 2022. “Predicting Lead Water Service Lateral Locations: Geospatial Data Science in Support of Municipal Programming.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, March,101277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2022.101277.
Blackhurst, Michael, and H. Scott Matthews. 2022. “Comparing Sources of Uncertainty in Community Greenhouse Gas Estimation Techniques.” Environmental Research Letters 17 (5): 053002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6084.
Blackhurst, Michael. 2021. “Identifying Lead Service Lines with Field Tap Water Sampling.” ACS ES&T Water 1 (8): 1983–91. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00227.
Hajiseyedjavadi, Seyedsaeed, Michael Blackhurst, and Hassan A. Karimi. 2020. “A Machine Learning Approach to Identify Houses with High Lead Tap Water Concentrations.” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34:13300–305. https://aaai.org/ojs/index.php/AAAI/article/view/7040.
Blackhurst, Michael. 2020. “Empirically Modeling the Energy Implications of Cool Roof Retrofits.” Frontiers in Built Environment 6. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2020.571429.
Blackhurst, M, Chris Briem, and Sabina Deitrick. 2019. “Contrasting Different Geographies in Fair Market Rents.” Cityscape 21 (3): 187–206.
Berhanu, Bruk M., Michael Blackhurst, Mary Jo Kirisits, Paulina Jamarillo, and Derrick Carlson. 2017. “Feasibility of Water Efficiency and Reuse Technologies as Demand-Side Strategies for Urban Water Management.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 21 (2): 320–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12430.
Torres, Pamela, Michael Blackhurst, and Nour Bouhou. 2015. “Cross Comparison of Empirical and Simulated Models for Calculating Residential Electricity Consumption.” Energy and Buildings 102 (September):163–71.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.05.015.
Tamayao, M. M., M. F. Blackhurst, and H. S. Matthews. 2014. “Do US Metropolitan Core Counties Have Lower Scope 1 and 2 CO2 Emissions than Less Urbanized Counties?” Environmental Research Letters 9 (10): 104011.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104011.
Sanders, Kelly T., Michael F. Blackhurst, Carey W. King, and Michael E. Webber. 2014. “The Impact of Water Use Fees on Dispatching and Water Requirements for Water-Cooled Power Plants in Texas.” Environmental Science & Technology 48 (12): 7128–34. https://doi.org/10.1021/es500469q.
Ghosh, Neal K., and Michael F. Blackhurst. 2014. “Energy Savings and the Rebound Effect with Multiple Energy Services and Efficiency Correlation.” Ecological Economics 105 (September):55–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.05.002.
Mashayekh, Yeganeh, Paulina Jaramillo, Constantine Samaras, Chris T. Hendrickson, Michael Blackhurst, Heather L. MacLean, and H. Scott Matthews. 2012. “Potentials for Sustainable Transportation in Cities to Alleviate Climate Change Impacts.” Environmental Science & Technology 46 (5): 2529–37. https://doi.org/10.1021/es203353q.
Hoesly, Rachel, Mike Blackhurst, H. Scott Matthews, Jeffrey F. Miller, Amy Maples, Matthew Pettit, Catherine Izard, and Paul Fischbeck. 2012. “Historical Carbon Footprinting and Implications for Sustainability Planning: A Case Study of the Pittsburgh Region.” Environmental Science & Technology 46 (8): 4283–90. https://doi.org/10.1021/es203943q.
Blackhurst, Michael, H. Scott Matthews, Aurora L. Sharrard, Chris T. Hendrickson, and Inês Lima Azevedo. 2011. “Preparing US Community Greenhouse Gas Inventories for Climate Action Plans.” Environmental Research Letters 6 (3): 034003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034003.
Blackhurst, Michael, Inês Lima Azevedo, H. Scott Matthews, and Chris T. Hendrickson. 2011. “Designing Building Energy Efficiency Programs for Greenhouse Gas Reductions.” Energy Policy 39 (9): 5269–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.05.037.
Blackhurst, Michael, Chris Hendrickson, and H. Scott Matthews. 2010. “Cost-Effectiveness of Green Roofs.” Journal of Architectural Engineering 16 (4): 136–43. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000022.
Blackhurst, Michael, Chris Hendrickson, and Jordi Sels i Vidal. 2010. “Direct and Indirect Water Withdrawals for U.S. Industrial Sectors.” Environmental Science & Technology 44 (6): 2126–30. https://doi.org/10.1021/es903147k.