Faculty Seminar Series

For Dartmouth Faculty, By Dartmouth Faculty

The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society Faculty Seminar Series invites climate and energy researchers, including faculty, postdocs, and staff from across the disciplines to share their current work with colleagues. This lunchtime series, which launched in 2022, seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary connections and collaborations on some of the most critical topics and challenges facing our world today. Explore upcoming and past seminars below. 

2025 Seminars to Date

Our spring 2025 seminars have come to a close, and we will resume in the fall.

May 16, 2025

  • Yan Li, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Multifunctional Materials Design and Manufacturing"
  • Vikrant Vaze, Associate Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Developing Green Energy Infrastructure in Conflict-Affected Regions of Africa"

View May seminar recording

 

April 4, 2025

  • Kimberly Clark, Lecturer, PBS: "Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap: Applying Neuroscience for More Effective Climate Communications"
  • Donald Perovich, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "The next best thing to being there: Autonomous observations of Arctic Sea Ice"

View April seminar recording

 

February 14, 2025

  • George O'Toole, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Leslie Day, Postdoc, Department of Biological Sciences: "Engineering Microbes to Reduce Methane"
  • Klaus Keller, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Beyond the loading dock: Approaches to co-producing knowledge to inform climate risk management"

View February seminar recording

 

January 10, 2025

  • Ian Baker, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering: "Developing Mn-AI Permanent Magnets," and
  • Marisa C. Palucis, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences: "Climate Change and Landscape Evolution in the Canadian Arctic"