Ethan Mcmahon Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

EM Environmental Solutions helps cities take action on air pollution and climate change. When cities take action sooner, they can realize the benefits of clean air sooner. That means fewer hospital visits for asthma and longer lifetimes for city residents.

Washington, Dc

Chief of Party of the Clean Air Catalyst, a flagship program launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development that uses data to catalyze action on air quality in three cities: Indore, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Nairobi, Kenya.As the lead for this project I managed a global consortium of organizations that included the Environmental Defense Fund and five other partners. I also coordinated the efforts of the pilot teams and the consortium, which provided expertise in air quality management, air quality modeling, human health, communications, etc.The Catalyst is piloting an innovative data-to-impact methodology that focuses on three areas:- Building a common understanding of the sources of air pollution by addressing key information and data gaps. - Identifying Most Effective Action. Performing root cause and disruptability analyses to identify the most effective interventions to perform. Prioritizing pollution sources that disproportionately impact the well-being of vulnerable populations and women, as well as those that play a role in causing climate change. - Building strategic coalitions to ensure that the interventions are effective and sustainable.The budget is up to $20m over five years.

Washington, Dc

- Increased state and local capacity to address climate mitigation by managing a grant program and aligning state greenhouse gas emissions methods with national and international methods.- Managed the Smart City Air Challenge, a contest for communities to monitor air quality using hundreds of sensors and make the data open.- Developed the State Climate Database (1998), a website that presented data about state greenhouse gas emissions normalized on a per capita and per gross state product basis. Automated data retrieval from the Department of Energy, the Census Bureau and states.- Developed the Surface-to-Air Quality Mission challenge so people could obtain city level air quality data from EPA, NASA and the State Department. Leveraged NASA's Space Apps to encourage hundreds of people to solve this problem.- Co-led the development of EPA's Citizen Science Data Management Strategy.- Developed My Green Apps, a website to access hundreds of environmental apps from around the world.- Project Manager of EPA's 2008 Report on the Environment: Highlights Document, a 40 page document describes the nation's environmental condition using data from seven agencies.- Manager of EPA's Apps for the Environment Challenge (2011).- Deputy Director of EPA's National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information. The process engaged EPA's customers and hundreds of staff to make EPA's data accessible and usable. Co-authored EPA's Information Access Strategy and EPA's Access Implementation Plan.- Developed Data Finder, a precursor to Data.gov that helped people find EPA's data sources.- Helped establish EPA's Data Analytics and Visualization Program by developing and managing a support contract, creating staffing plans and managing pilot projects.- Product manager of EPA's Platform-as-a-Service cloud offering from GSA, cloud.gov. Spun off the service to EPA's operations group. Clarified standard operating procedures, costs, roles and responsibilities.

Washington, Dc

- Led the International Space Apps Challenge, an event in 95 global locations to collaborate on challenges about Earth and space. The two-day hackathon yielded 660 projects, some of which are being refined into robust and useful products. Coordinated with NASA's Applied Sciences Program to help people apply Earth science data to real-world problems. - Organized the Climate Policy Speaker Series at NASA headquarters. Established connections with Earth science and data management staff in several of NASA's centers. - On temporary assignment from EPA to NASA.

- Analyzed the lifecycle climate impacts of high global warming potential chemicals. Modeled impacts with different chemicals, technologies, energy mixes and energy costs.- Evaluated the current and projected market for alternate refrigerants.- Defined the flammability of multi-component alternative refrigerants using methods from the American Society for Testing and Materials.- Designed, developed and tested a high efficiency heat pump for Mitsubishi. The system had five programmable cooling zones for a single house. It also had a scroll compressor and variable speed motors for the compressor and blower.- Developed a high efficiency heat pump for the U.S. Air Force using a new, low global warming potential refrigerant.- Designed and implemented a wastewater treatment plant for the U.S. Navy.

Ms, Civil And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Environmental Policy

Bs, Mechanical Engineering