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Jonathan Buonocore, ScD

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Environmental Health

ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
MS, Harvard School of Public Health
BS, Clarkson University

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ORCID : 0000-0001-7270-892X

My research interests are in evaluating the impacts, benefits, and tradeoffs of technology and policy choices in energy, transportation, agricultural practices, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. To assist in these evaluations, I develop tools that incorporate environmental risk assessment, life cycle assessment, and environmental economics with the goal of placing health, climate, environmental, and other outcomes into a framework to aid decision-making.

BU Research

LeGUp Networked Geothermal Assessment
09/15/2022 - 09/14/2025 (Subcontract PI)
HEET Mass Clean Energy Ct

The Co-benefits of the Build Environment (CoBE) Project
07/01/2022 - 12/31/2024 (Subcontract PI)
President and Fellows of Harvard College dba Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Login5 Foundation

Climate, Health, and Energy: Air Quality and Health Benefits of Methane Reduction in the U.S. Oil and Gas Sector
07/01/2022 - 06/30/2024 (PI)
Windward Fund

Building from the Ground Up - Plan to Scale-Up Deployment of Geothermal Networks around Boston
01/01/2023 - 04/30/2024 (Subcontract PI)
HEET Liberty Mutual Fdn

Integrating Grid Effects from Electric Vehicle Adoption
01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023 (PI)
Energy Foundation

To support transportation, health, and air-quality research and communications
07/01/2022 - 12/31/2023 (PI)
Barr Foundation, Inc.

To support the TRECH Research Team in building trust and relationships in the context of transportation and racial equity
10/14/2022 - 10/31/2023 (PI)
Barr Foundation, Inc.

Air quality and health equity implications of federal medium and heavy duty vehicle electrification policies in New York and Atlanta
09/19/2022 - 06/30/2023 (PI)
Environmental Defense Fund

Air Quality and Health Impacts of Oil and Gas Emissions in the U.S
08/01/2022 - 03/31/2023 (PI)
Environmental Defense Fund

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Michanowicz DR, Leventhal OM, Domen JK, Williams SR, Lebel ED, Hill LAL, Buonocore JJ, Nordgaard CL, Bernstein AS, Shonkoff SBC. Natural gas odorants: A scoping review of health effects. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2023 Sep; 10(3):337-352. PMID: 37491689

Willis MD, Cushing LJ, Buonocore JJ, Deziel NC, Casey JA. It's electric! An environmental equity perspective on the lifecycle of our energy sources. Environ Epidemiol. 2023 Apr; 7(2):e246.View Related Profiles.

Buonocore, Jonathan
Willis, Mary

PMID: 37064423; PMCID: PMC10097546; DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000246;

Wil Lieberman-Cribbin, Xin Fang, Rachel Morello-Frosch, David J.X. Gonzalez, Elaine Hill, Nicole C. Deziel, Jonathan J. Buonocore, and Joan A. Casey. Multiple Dimensions of Environmental Justice and Oil and Gas Development in Pennsylvania. Environmental Justice. 2022; 0(0). View Publication
Samantha M Tracy, Jonathan M Moch, Sebastian D Eastham, Jonathan J Buonocore. Stratospheric aerosol injection may impact global systems and human health outcomes. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. 2022; 10(1). View Publication

Coomes KE, Buonocore JJ, Levy JI, Arter C, Arunachalam S, Buckley L, Berberian A, Gunasti J, Perera F. Assessment of the health benefits to children of a transportation climate policy in New York City. Environ Res. 2022 Dec; 215(Pt 3):114165.View Related Profiles.

Buonocore, Jonathan
Levy, Jonathan

PMID: 36087775; DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114165;

Buonocore JJ, Salimifard P, Magavi Z, Allen JG. Inefficient Building Electrification Will Require Massive Buildout of Renewable Energy and Seasonal Energy Storage. Sci Rep. 2022 Jul 13; 12(1):11931. PMID: 35831376; PMCID: PMC9278320; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-15628-2;

Michanowicz DR, Dayalu A, Nordgaard CL, Buonocore JJ, Fairchild MW, Ackley R, Schiff JE, Liu A, Phillips NG, Schulman A, Magavi Z, Spengler JD. Home is Where the Pipeline Ends: Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds Present in Natural Gas at the Point of the Residential End User. Environ Sci Technol. 2022 Jul 19; 56(14):10258-10268. PMID: 35762409; PMCID: PMC9301916; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c08298;

Arter CA, Buonocore JJ, Moniruzzaman C, Yang D, Huang J, Arunachalam S. Air quality and health-related impacts of traditional and alternate jet fuels from airport aircraft operations in the U.S. Environ Int. 2022 01; 158:106958. PMID: 34710732

Salimifard P, Buonocore JJ, Konschnik K, Azimi P, VanRy M, Laurent JGC, Hernandez D, Allen JG. Climate Policy Impacts on Building Energy Use, Emissions, and Health: New York City Local Law 97. Energy. 2021; 238. View Publication

Belsey-Priebe M, Lyons D, Buonocore JJ. COVID-19's Impact on American Women's Food Insecurity Foreshadows Vulnerabilities to Climate Change. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 26; 18(13). PMID: 34206797; PMCID: PMC8296854; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18136867;

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Yan F, Liu H, Zhang H, Yi L, Wu Y, Deng C, Qiu Y, Ma X, Li Q, Yang F, Xu W, Tao J, Buonocore JJ, Zhan Y, Dai L. Association between maternal exposure to gaseous pollutants and atrial septal defect in China: A nationwide population-based study. Environ Res. 2021 09; 200:111472. PMID: 34097890

Zelasky S, Buonocore JJ. The social costs of health- and climate-related on-road vehicle emissions in the continental United States from 2008 to 2017. Environmental Research Letters. 2021; 16(6). View Publication
Arter CA, Buonocore JJ, Chang C, Arunachalam S. Mortality-based damages per ton due to the on-road mobile sector in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. By region, vehicle class and precursor. Environmental Research Letters. 2021; 16(6). View Publication
Buonocore JJ, Salimifard P, Michanowicz D, Allen JG. A decade of the U.S. energy mix transitioning away from coal: historical reconstruction of the reductions in the public health burden of energy. Environmental Research Letters. 2021; 16(5). View Publication
Michanowicz D, Buonocore JJ, Konschnik KE, Goho S, Bernstein A. The effect of Pennsylvania's 500 ft surface setback regulation on siting unconventional natural gas wells near buildings: An interrupted time-series analysis. Energy Policy. 2021; 154(15). View Publication

Buonocore JJ, Robinson LA, Hammitt JK, O'Keeffe L. Estimating the Potential Health Benefits of Air Quality Warnings. Risk Anal. 2021 04; 41(4):645-660. PMID: 33249613

Williams AA, Baniassadi A, Buonocore JJ, Laurent JGC, Gonzalez PI, Samuelson HW. Health and Climate Benefits of Heat Adaptation Strategies in Single-Family Residential Buildings. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 2020; 2(47). View Publication

Williams AA, Allen JG, Catalano PJ, Buonocore JJ, Spengler JD. The Influence of Heat on Daily Police, Medical, and Fire Dispatches in Boston, Massachusetts: Relative Risk and Time-Series Analyses. Am J Public Health. 2020 05; 110(5):662-668. PMID: 32191522; PMCID: PMC7144447; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305563;

MacNaughton P, Cao X, Buonocore J, Cedeno-Laurent JG, Spengler JD, Bernstein A, Allen JG. Correction to: Response to "A critical look at 'Energy savings, emissions reductions, and health co-benefits of the green building movement'". J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2020 Mar; 30(2):394. PMID: 31959900

Buonocore JJ, Casey JA, Croy R, Spengler JD, McKenzie L. Air Monitoring Stations Far Removed from Drilling Activities do not Represent Residential Exposures to Marcellus Shale Air Pollutants. Response to the Paper by Hess et al. on Proximity-Based Unconventional Natural Gas Exposure Metrics. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 01 13; 17(2). PMID: 31941139; PMCID: PMC7013646; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17020504;

Buonocore JJ, Hughes EJ, Michanowicz D, Heo J, Allen JG, Williams A. Climate and health benefits of increasing renewable energy deployment in the United States. Environmental Research Letters. 2019; 14(11). View Publication
Buonocore JJ, Choma E, Villavicencio AH, Spengler JD, Koehler DA, Evans JS, Lelieveld J, Klop P, Sanchez RA. Metrics for the sustainable development goals: renewable energy and transportation. Palgrave Communications. 2019; 5(1). View Publication

Marlier ME, Liu T, Yu K, Buonocore JJ, Koplitz SN, DeFries RS, Mickley LJ, Jacob DJ, Schwartz J, Wardhana BS, Myers SS. Fires, Smoke Exposure, and Public Health: An Integrative Framework to Maximize Health Benefits From Peatland Restoration. Geohealth. 2019 Jul; 3(7):178-189. PMID: 32159040; PMCID: PMC7007093; DOI: 10.1029/2019GH000191;

Michanowicz DR, Williams SR, Buonocore JJ, Rowland ST, Konschnik KE, Goho SA, Bernstein AS. Population allocation at the housing unit level: estimates around underground natural gas storage wells in PA, OH, NY, WV, MI, and CA. Environ Health. 2019 07 08; 18(1):58. PMID: 31280723; PMCID: PMC6613251; DOI: 10.1186/s12940-019-0497-z;

Keyes AT, Lamber KF, Burtraw D, Buonocore JJ, Levy J, Driscoll CT. The Affordable Clean Energy Rule and the Impact of Emissions Rebound on Carbon Dioxide and Criteria Air Pollutant Emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 2019; 14(4). View Publication

MacNaughton P, Cao X, Buonocore J, Cedeno-Laurent JG, Spengler JD, Bernstein A, Allen JG. Response to "A critical look at 'Energy savings, emissions reductions, and health co-benefits of the green building movement'". J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2019 06; 29(4):594-596. PMID: 30718732

Buonocore JJ, Levy JI, Guinto RR, Bernstein A. Climate, air quality, and health benefits of a carbon fee-and-rebate bill in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Environmental Research Letters. 2018; 13(11). View Publication
Macnaughton P, Cao X, Buonocore JJ, Cedeno M, Spengler JD, Bernstein A, Allen JG. Energy Savings, Emission Reductions, and Health Co-Benefits of the Green Building Movement. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2018; 2018(1). View Publication
Buonocore JJ, Hughes E, Heo J, Williams A, Michanowicz D, Allen JG. Development and Demonstration of the Environmental Policy Simulation Tool for Electrical Grid Interventions (Epstein), Version 2.0. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2018; 2018(1). View Publication
Michanowicz D, Buonocore JJ, Vallarino J, Gao Q, Li L, Allen JG, Bernstein A. ISEE Conference Abstracts. The Sky's the Limit: 3D Air Pollution Sensing Using Drones. 2018; 2018(1). View Publication
Michanowicz D, Williams S, Rowland ST, Konschnik KE, Buonocore . Household-Level Population Estimates and Building Setbacks near Underground Natural Gas Storage Wells in PA, OH, NY, WV, MI, and CA. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2018; 2018(1). View Publication

Ambasta A, Buonocore JJ. Carbon pricing: a win-win environmental and public health policy. Can J Public Health. 2018 12; 109(5-6):779-781. PMID: 29981108; PMCID: PMC6964422; DOI: 10.17269/s41997-018-0099-5;

Vörösmarty CJ, Osuna VR, Koehler DA, Klop P, Spengler JD, Buonocore JJ, Cak AD, Tessler ZD, Corsi F, Green PA, Sánchez R. Scientifically assess impacts of sustainable investments. Science. 2018 02 02; 359(6375):523-525. PMID: 29420281

Vörösmarty CJ, Rodriguez Osuna V, Koehler DA, Klop P, Spengler JD, Buonocore JJ, Cak A, Tessler Z, Corsi F, Green P, Sanchez RA. Scientifically assess impacts of sustainable investments. Science. 2018; 359(6375):523-525. View Publication
Chang KM, Hess JJ, Balbus J, Buonocore JJ, Cleveland DA, Grabow ML, Neff R, Saari R, Tessum C, Wilkinson P, Woodwar A, Ebi KL. Ancillary health effects of climate mitigation scenarios as drivers of policy uptake: A review of air quality, transportation and diet co-benefits modeling studies. Environmental Research Letters. 2017; 12(11). View Publication
Micanowicz D, Buonocore JJ, Rowland ST, Konschnik KE, Goho S, Bernstein A. A national assessment of underground natural gas storage: Identifying wells with designs likely vulnerable to a single-point-of-failure. Environmental Research Letters. 2017; 12(6).
Marlier ME, Defries RS, Koplitz S, Jacob DJ, Mickley LJ, Buonocore JJ, Schwartz J, Pongsiri M, Myers SS. A scientific tool to address severe haze in Equatorial Asia. The Lancet. 2017; 389.
Koplitz S, Mickley LJ, Marlier ME, Buonocore JJ, Kim PS, Liu T, Sulprizio M, Defries RS, Jacob DJ, Schwartz J, Pongsiri M, Myers SS. Public health impacts of the severe haze in Equatorial Asia in September-October 2015: Demonstration of a new framework for informing fire management strategies to reduce downwind smoke exposure. Environmental Research Letters. 2016; 11(9). View Publication
Buonocore JJ, Luckow P, Fisher J, Kempton W, Levy J. Health and climate benefits of offshore wind facilities in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Environmental Research Letters. 2016; 11(7). View Publication

Buonocore JJ, Lambert KF, Burtraw D, Sekar S, Driscoll CT. Correction: An Analysis of Costs and Health Co-Benefits for a U.S. Power Plant Carbon Standard. PLoS One. 2016; 11(6):e0158792. PMID: 27359324

Buonocore JJ, Lambert KF, Burtraw D, Sekar S, Driscoll CT. An Analysis of Costs and Health Co-Benefits for a U.S. Power Plant Carbon Standard. PLoS One. 2016; 11(6):e0156308. PMID: 27270222

Buonocore JJ, Luckow P, Norris GA, SPengler JD, Biewald B, Fisher J, Levy J. Health and climate benefits of different energy-efficiency and renewable energy choices. Nature Climate Change. 2015; 6(1). View Publication
Driscoll CT, Buonocore JJ, Levy J, Lambert KF, Burtraw D, Reid SB, Fakhraei H, Schwartz J. US power plant carbon standards and clean air and health co-benefits. Nature Climate Change. 2015; 5(6). View Publication

James P, Ito K, Banay RF, Buonocore JJ, Wood B, Arcaya MC. A health impact assessment of a proposed bill to decrease speed limits on local roads in Massachusetts (U.S.A.). Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Oct 02; 11(10):10269-91. PMID: 25279544

Buonocore JJ. Climate policy not so costly. Nature Climate Change. 2014; 4(10):861-862.

James P, Ito K, Buonocore JJ, Levy JI, Arcaya MC. A health impact assessment of proposed public transportation service cuts and fare increases in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.). Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2014 Aug; 11(8):8010-24.View Related Profiles.

Buonocore, Jonathan
Levy, Jonathan

PMID: 25105550; PMCID: PMC4143846; DOI: 10.3390/ijerph110808010;

Buonocore JJ, Dong X, Spengler JD, Fu JS, Levy JI. Using the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model to estimate public health impacts of PM2.5 from individual power plants. Environ Int. 2014 Jul; 68:200-8.View Related Profiles.

Buonocore, Jonathan
Levy, Jonathan

PMID: 24769126; DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.03.031;

von Stackelberg K, Buonocore J, Bhave PV, Schwartz JA. Public health impacts of secondary particulate formation from aromatic hydrocarbons in gasoline. Environ Health. 2013 Feb 20; 12:19. PMID: 23425393

Marwick TH, Buonocore J. Environmental impact of cardiac imaging tests for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Heart. 2011 Jul; 97(14):1128-31. PMID: 21685481

Epstein PR, Buonocore JJ, Eckerle K, Hendryx M, Stout Iii BM, Heinberg R, Clapp RW, May B, Reinhart NL, Ahern MM, Doshi SK, Glustrom L. Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2011 Feb; 1219:73-98. PMID: 21332493

Levy JI, Buonocore JJ, von Stackelberg K. Evaluation of the public health impacts of traffic congestion: a health risk assessment. Environ Health. 2010; 9:65.View Related Profiles.

Buonocore, Jonathan
Levy, Jonathan

PMID: 20979626; PMCID: PMC2987789; DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-65;

Buonocore JJ, Lee HJ, Levy JI. The influence of traffic on air quality in an urban neighborhood: a community-university partnership. Am J Public Health. 2009 Nov; 99 Suppl 3:S629-35.View Related Profiles.

Buonocore, Jonathan
Levy, Jonathan

PMID: 19890168; PMCID: PMC2774178; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.149138;

Schreiner C, Gonyo E, Shandilya K, Buonocore JJ, Zhou X, Salamero G, Moore H, Brown J, Rossner A, Ferro AR. Children's Exposure to Diesel Exhaust at a Rural Elementary School. Epidemiology. 2006; 17(6):S146-S147. View Publication

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 53 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2018 and 2021

Bar chart showing 53 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2018 and 2021

Year	Publications
2006	1
2009	1
2010	1
2011	2
2013	1
2014	4
2015	2
2016	4
2017	3
2018	8
2019	6
2020	5
2021	8
2022	5
2023	2

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