Hi, I’m Kuval!
Exploring climate solutions.
I’m a high school senior in the US interested in environmental science, decarbonization technologies, and sustainable growth.
My interests
Climate & sustainable growth
Experiencing Delhi’s severe air pollution firsthand sparked my interest in environmental science and practical responses to global climate challenges.
Research & public health
I explore how air pollution, urbanization, aging populations, and inequality shape health burdens across cities.
Ocean climate solutions
I evaluate ocean carbon removal and wave energy technologies to understand the ocean’s potential for innovative climate solutions.
Creativity & community
Beyond my academic interests, I enjoy art, community volunteering, tutoring children, team sports, and running.
Biography
I am a high school senior in the US with a strong interest in climate and sustainable growth, shaped by firsthand experience with Delhi’s severe air pollution and deepened through research, internships, entrepreneurship, and school leadership. This perspective has made me eager to study Environmental Science and explore how decarbonization technologies, sustainable development, policy, economics, and public health can work together to address urgent global challenges.
My independent PM2.5 research across twelve global cities showed me how pollution, urbanization, aging populations, and inequality create uneven health burdens. I am now applying this insight to develop a wearable PM2.5 monitor for people at greatest risk. My evaluation of ocean carbon removal and wave energy technologies has also strengthened my interest in the ocean’s largely untapped potential for innovative climate solutions.
Projects
Air pollution & wearable monitoring
#climate
My independent PM2.5 research across twelve global cities examined uneven health burdens. I’m now applying those insights to develop a wearable PM2.5 monitor for people at greatest risk.
Ocean carbon removal & wave energy
#climate
My evaluation of ocean carbon removal and wave energy technologies explores the ocean’s largely untapped potential for innovative climate solutions.
Blog
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Delhi’s new draft EV Policy 2.0 (April 11) is one of the most ambitious city‑level EV blueprints in India, and deserves serious praise from a policy standpoint. At the same time, its credibility will depend on how quickly the government can close gaps in financing, infrastructure, and institutional design that local experts and business media…
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We’ve mapped every technology. But chemistry doesn’t decide what gets built—capital, business models, risk, and policy do. Here’s what the money is telling us. Part 7 of 7 Over six posts, we’ve walked the entire landscape of ocean carbon removal—from a restored mangrove to a seawater electrolyzer, across the Natural and Technological categories. Now we…
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Replace the minerals with electricity, and ocean carbon removal starts to look like a factory — the most controllable and meterable process in the field, and the most power-hungry. Part 6 of 7 The last post added alkalinity to the sea by dissolving rock. This one does the same chemistry — and more — with…
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We cross from growing life to speeding up chemistry. It buys the most durable storage in the series — and, for the first time, an MRV problem that starts to look solvable. Part 5 of 7 The first four parts stayed in the ocean’s living engine — restoring, growing, and feeding the organisms that pull…
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Out in open water the removal engine shrinks to the microscopic — and becomes the single hardest thing in the field to prove. Part 4 of 7 In Part 3, we stayed at the coast, where you can core a marsh and sample what it stores. Now we head into open water, where the same…
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How the ocean’s living engine actually stores carbon at the coast — and why measuring that storage is the hardest problem in the field. Part 3 of 7 In Part 2, we split ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (OCDR) into two families and mapped them onto the sea’s two pumps. This part takes up the category…
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The sea has quietly run the largest carbon-removal operation on Earth for millennia. Understand how, and the entire field of ocean carbon removal snaps into focus. Part 2 of 7 In Part 1, I left you with a number that deserves a second look: the ocean has already absorbed roughly 30% of all the carbon…
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Even a perfectly decarbonized world has to pull carbon out of the air — and the sea. Welcome to carbon removal’s blue frontier! Part 1 of 7 For three decades, climate action has centered on a single imperative: stop emitting. Replace coal and gas with wind, solar, and nuclear. Electrify cars, heat, and industry. Wring…
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