霍华德·J·赫尔佐格是在麻省理工学院能源倡议的高级研究工程师。自1989年以来，他一直在麻省理工学院的研究人员，他研究涉及能源和环境赞助的研究，对温室气体减排技术的重点。He was a coordinating lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (released September 2005), a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study (released March 2007), and a U.S. delegate to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum's Technical Group (June 2003-September 2007).