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"Investigating the Impact of Climate Change on Electricity Demand Through Domain-informed Machine Learning."
Renee Obringer, Assistant Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State University
Moderator: Dr. June Lukuyu, University of Washington
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Online
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About the Talk
Soaring temperatures and increased frequency of heatwaves have changed the way many people use electricity, often leading to higher consumption during the summer months. This trend is likely to continue as climate change progresses and temperatures increase. In order to ensure our electricity grid is prepared for these changes, it is important to develop accurate predictive models that account for climate-induced shifts in demand. Here, Dr. Obringer will present results from two studies that leverage state-of-the-art data analytics to investigate the impact of climate change on electricity demand. The first study focuses on city-wide demand, while the second aims to evaluate changes in household-level air conditioning use. Together, these studies demonstrate the impact climate change is likely to have on the larger electricity grid, as well as the implications for residents. Understanding these shifts is a critical step to improving the resilience of our electricity infrastructure in the face of climate change.
About the Speaker
Dr. Renee Obringer is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily interested in socio-technical systems. In particular, she applies computational techniques ranging from machine learning to agent-based modeling to explore the relationship between people, climate, and infrastructure systems. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University. Her primary research aims to better understand the impact of climate change on energy systems by leveraging data analytics and other computational techniques. At Penn State, she is also affiliated with the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.
"In the Vault: The Roles of Public Green Banks in the Transition to Net-zero Emissions. Case Studies of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States."
Chell Lyons, Sir Roland Wilson PhD Scholar at Australian National University
12 - 1 p.m. | Online
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Decarbonizing the global economy requires a significant increase in funding for low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure. It is widely recognized that current levels of investment are insufficient, and need to scale up rapidly to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. Green Banks, a relatively new form of public financial institution, were developed to address this issue by accelerating investment and "crowding in" private finance. This presentation adopts a case study approach drawing on expert interviews, to elicit information on the investment governance and evaluation processes of four Green Banks; Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation, New Zealand Green Investment Finance, the New York Green Bank and the Montgomery County Green Bank. It concludes with lessons for other public financial institutions seeking to leverage private finance in the investment transition to net zero emissions.
About the Speaker
Chell Lyon's PhD research explores the role of public investment in the transition to net zero emissions. She examines how public banks, particularly green banks, evaluate investment decisions, with a focus on implications for Australian policymakers.
"Does Grid Collapse Accelerate the Energy Transition? Lessons from Lebanon's Electricity Crisis."
Camillo Stubenberg, PhD Student, Cornell University
12-1 p.m. | Online
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In June 2022, a staggering 150,000 tons of solar panels arrived at the port of Beirut—equating to more solar capacity than Lebanon had imported over the preceding decade. Once lagging behind Mediterranean counterparts, Lebanon's energy landscape transformed rapidly due to the 2021 economic crisis and subsequent severe fuel shortages. The nation's established power entities, including the state utility Electricité du Liban and the infamous generator mafia, found themselves incapacitated without fossil fuels. Drawing from recent dissertation fieldwork, Cornell's Camillo Stubenberg will explore this swift transition to off-grid solar energy. Lebanon's experience serves as a compelling case study in a world where fossil fuel supply chains and centralized grids are increasingly fragile.
About the Speaker
Camillo Stubenberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. His dissertation research examines the social aspects of the rushed transition towards off-grid solar energy in Lebanon. For his project "Under the Patronage of the Sun? the techno-politics of Lebanon's solar energy boom" he recently completed 11 month of ethnographic field research. Prior to coming to Cornell, Camillo worked worked as a consultant in rural development and impact research in the tri-border region of Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He earned a B.Sc. in environmental resource management from the University of Applied life Sciences in Vienna, as well as a BA+MA degree in International Development at the University of Vienna.
New Energy: Conversations with Early-Career Energy Researchers is an online series featuring graduate, post-doctoral, and other early-career researchers sharing their discoveries and perspectives on energy-related topics. From policy to analysis to emerging technology, this series will give anyone interested in energy the opportunity to learn from the rising stars in the field.
All events in this series take place via Zoom.
Ker-hsuan Chien, Assistant Professor Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University
"Powering Up the Green Supply Chains: The Sustainability Chain Governance and the Marketization of Renewable Energy in Taiwan"
In this talk, Dr. Chien will discuss her recent paper that looks at how 2050 zero emissions goals have put tremendous pressure on Taiwan's manufacturing sector to decarbonize its energy sources. In the paper, Dr. Chien focuses on sustainability chain governance, scrutinizing the formation, codification, and implementation of renewable energy procurement, and its impacts on the renewable energy market at the production end of supply chains.
By following the transactions guided by global brands (e.g. Apple, Google etc.) and global initiatives (e.g. RE 100), and their impact on the emerging renewable energy market in Taiwan, Dr. Chien aims to answer three critical questions about sustainability chain governance. Firstly, how was supply chains' decarbonization guided by the rules and norms formed by the global disclosure regimes? How was decarbonization translated differently by the global brands and their suppliers? Secondly, how was renewable energy made into a tradable commodity through the marketization process of Taiwan's energy system? Finally, how have the materialities of renewable energy conditioned the marketization of renewable energy in Taiwan?
Through focusing on the nexus of global sustainability chain governance and the marketization of renewable energy, Dr. Chien demonstrates that the renewable energy market has become the new site of struggle between local renewable project developers, the grid operator, local/global renewable energy buyers, and the state.
About the Speaker
Ker-hsuan Chien is an assistant professor at the Institute of Technology Management at National Tsing Hua University. Her research interests are energy transition, industrial policy, and regional development.
Azucena Castro, Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University; Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
"Energy Justice from Below: The Role of Artivisms from the Sacrifice Zones for a Situated Political Ecology of the Energy Transition. Insights from La Guajira, Colombia and the Argentinian Patagonia"
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Azucena Castro
The national projects to transition to clean energy forms in Latin America are not devoid of conflicts. In many cases, these projects entail new forms of colonialism and extractivism that intersect with traditional ones as coal mining. These conflicts are connected with the formation of energy imaginaries around territories that are perceived as sacrifice zones to generate energy for the nation and international markets. In this talk, Azucena Castro will address how those imaginaries are formed and sustained by hegemonic discourses but also challenged by local forms of art and activism (artivisms) that demand energy justice in the context of the energy transition. While wind and water energy have been portrayed as the solution to the climate crisis, there are many conflicts arising in regard to Eolic parks and hydroelectric dams all over Latin America. Castro will draw insights from two case studies on renewable energy forms in Latin America: La Guajira in Colombia, designated as "the epicenter of Colombia's energy transition" for Eolic Energy, and the Argentinian Patagonia, viewed as "Patagonia-energy" for the installation hydroelectric plants. By discussing the engagement of local activist art with energy from a political ecological perspective, she will show how local needs and cosmologies are highlighted as crucial to attain an energy justice from below, i.e., a just and sustainable energy transition that considers biocultural diversity, technological sovereignty, and expanding views on energy beyond electricity.
About the Speaker
Azucena Castro is Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University. Her research revolves around environmental and energy humanities with focus on Latin American and Caribbean cultural studies.
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Project: "No aire, no te vendas. Energy Sovereignty and Collective Creation in the Context of the Eolic Parks in la Guajira" (with Juan Reina-Rozo and Agustín Neko Epiyú), funded by Intersecting Energy Cultures Working Group (Penn Program in Environmental Humanities).
Forthcoming publication (Spring 2023): Castro, Azucena and Castro, Hortensia. "Geographical Imaginaries around Santa Cruz River: Creative Materialities and Territorial Activisms in the Capitalocene." Espacios de Crítica y Producción. Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (In Spanish).
Wednesday, January 25
"Understanding Climate-Economy Impacts and Feedbacks Under Deep Uncertainty"
Christopher Callahan, PhD. student, Dartmouth College
Moderated by Richard Howarth, Dartmouth Professor of Environmental Studies
About the Talk
Understanding the economic impacts of climate change is essential to designing climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, but the magnitudes and mechanisms of these impacts are poorly constrained, as are the contributions of individual actors to these impacts. In this talk, Callahan will discuss his research understanding and quantifying the economic growth impacts of extreme climate events, isolating the roles of individual emitters in contributing to historical climate damages using simple climate model simulations, and illustrating coupled feedbacks between climate adaptation and global warming. Collectively, this work aims to build a fuller understanding of the coupled climate-economy system in a warming world.
About the Presenter
Chris Callahan is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Dartmouth College in the EEES program, working with Dr. Justin Mankin and the Climate Modeling and Impacts Group. His research focuses on the economic and social consequences of climate change. He uses a wide range of tools, from simple and complex climate models to econometric regression techniques, to understand the relationship between extreme climate events and outcomes such as human health and economic growth. His work aims to inform policy discussions over climate mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage funding, as well as decisionmaking tools such as the social cost of carbon.
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Wednesday, February 8
"Carbon Capital: The Moral Metrics of Energy Finance"
Sean Field, Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews
Moderator: April Salas, Executive Director, The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth
About the Talk
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with energy financiers in Houston, Texas, Sean Field explores how experts use a lexicon of models and metrics to conceptualize and construct allegories about future hydrocarbon projects and companies. Dr. Field shows that allegorical narratives built with this lexicon advance a kind of energy ethics – distinguishing what is good and advocating for particular energy futures. As the energy industry pivots toward renewables, Dr. Field argues that these metrics, models and allegories are coming to bear on new forms of extraction. This talk is based on a recent paper, Carbon Capital: The Lexicon and Allegories of US Hydrocarbon Finance.
About the Presenter
Sean Field is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Energy Ethics and in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Since late-2018, his research has focused on how financial professionals ethically and financially value energy. His ethnographic work explores the calculation of risk, the performance of financial expertise, the valuation of energy resources, and the integration of ESG into investment practices.
A key implication of his research is that the world of finance is central to the materialization of our collective energy and anthropogenic landscapes. Dr. Field's project is part of the larger Energy Ethics research project led by Dr. Mette High and funded by the European Research Council.
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Wednesday, February 22 | 12- 1 p.m.
"Early-life Exposure to Clean Cooking Transitions: Impacts on Cognition and Health"
Emily Pakhtigian, Assistant Professor, Penn State
Moderator: JT Erbaugh, Research Associate, Dartmouth Department of Environmental Studies
Between 2007 and 2013, the Indonesian Government instituted a national cooking fuel conversion program, transitioning households away from biomass and kerosene and towards liquid petroleum gas (LPG) through adjustments to kerosene and LPG subsidies. In this talk, Penn State's Emily Pakhtigian will discuss the household and individual impacts of this large-scale cooking transition. In particular, she will focus on the impacts of early-life policy-induced improved indoor air quality on children's cognitive development and health. As countries around the world look to improve climate and health through clean energy transitions, understanding the social impacts of such policies is essential for developing efficient, equitable, and sustainable policies.
About the Presenter
Emily Pakhtigian's research examines the causes and consequences of human interactions with the natural environment. Her research interests include environmental health, water and sanitation, air pollution, human capital accumulation, and water resource management. Dr. Pakhtigian's recent research includes work to understand the processes by which households adopt and utilize environmental health technologies, the health and educational consequences of ambient air pollution exposure, and the economic implications of water resource management. She has a variety of primary data collection projects related to environmental resource management, water and sanitation, and environmental health information provision. Dr. Pakhtigian's work focuses primarily on contexts in low- and middle-income countries including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Indonesia. She also studies applications of domestic environmental policy.
Dr. Pakhtigian holds a Ph.D. in public policy, with a concentration in economics, from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She has an M.A. in economics from Duke University and B.A.'s in economics and political science from Moravian College.
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Wednesday, March 8
"Productive Uses of Decentralized Renewable Energy"
Vivek Shastry, PhD Student, University of Texas, Austin
Moderator: Mark Laser, Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
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For over a billion households today, electricity is still unavailable, unreliable, or unaffordable. Historically, the use of stand-alone decentralized renewable energy (DRE) for rural electrification primarily focused on powering lights and mobile chargers. In the past decade, the electrification agenda has shifted to a demand-centric approach, focusing on understanding how rural livelihoods, healthcare, and education can be powered by DRE, enabled by a supporting ecosystem. In this talk, Vivek Shastry will present findings from an in-depth field study of rural entrepreneurs in southern India who are using solar powered appliances for a range of rural livelihoods and businesses. Specifically, he explores the market and non-market factors that influence entrepreneurs' access to these solutions, and the mechanisms through which they contribute to building their resilience to future livelihood and climate shocks.
About the Presenter
Vivek Shastry is passionate about facilitating inclusive development through sustainable energy solutions. As a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin, his current work explores the intersection of energy access, primary health care, rural livelihoods, and gender. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, he earned master's degrees in Sustainable Design, and Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin and worked with the policy and planning group at SELCO Foundation. He has traveled extensively in rural India and worked on decentralized renewable energy projects from implementation, research, and policy perspectives.
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Wednesday, September 14
"Lithium-ion Battery Material Circularity: Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle"
Jessica Dunn, Senior Analyst, Union of Concerned Scientists
The lithium-ion battery is a key enabling technology for transport decarbonization. While substantial impact reduction can be achieved, their use has also sparked concern due to the use of critical materials such as cobalt, nickel, and lithium. Through the circularity principles of reduce, reuse, repurpose, and recycle, resource conservation and impact mitigation can be achieved. This presentation will discuss current research, industry development, and policy which supports lithium-ion battery material circularity.
Dunn is currently finishing her Doctorate in Energy Systems at the University of California, Davis. During her studies she was a co-facilitator for the California Lithium-ion Battery Recycling Advisory group and a private consultant for the International Energy Agency on topics related to energy technologies and battery systems. In addition, she published several academic journal articles about using industrial technology methods to forecast and evaluate the impact of battery recycling.
Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she earned a master's degree from University College London in Economics and Policy of the Environment and Energy and worked in the energy and environmental consulting industries.
Wednesday, September 28
"Examining Electricity Consumption and Complementary Infrastructure for Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya"
Bob Muhwezi, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Moderator: Erin Mayfield, Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering
In Kenya, between 2010 and 2015, the number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) connected to the grid increased by over 60%. Despite this substantial increase, little is known about the behavioral patterns or conditions that contribute to increased electricity consumption among these SMEs. In his talk, Bob Muhwezi, PhD student at the University of Amherst Massachusetts, will discuss a recent study that addresses the problem through a longitudinal analysis of monthly electricity bills for over 179,000 grid connected SMEs in Kenya. The study leverages multiple publicly available geospatial datasets to estimate how complementary infrastructural variables (such as access to roads, markets, financial services, and macro/micro-economic conditions) correlate with sustained electricity consumption growth by SMEs.
Bob Muhwezi is a third year PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining UMass, he graduated with a master's in electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Carnegie Mellon University-Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. He then worked in the planning department of the Energy Development Corporation (EDCL) of Rwanda where he was responsible for modeling optimal expansion of the nation's generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure. His current research centers on the application of data-driven methods to understand electricity demand in data-scarce countries. Specifically, he uses a combination of remotely sensed and ground-collected data to understand how infrastructural features influence electricity consumption growth in some sub-Saharan countries.
Wednesday, October 12
"Optimizing Collaborative Energy Storage Systems for an Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transition"
Ogechi Vivian Nwadiaru, PhD Candidate/NRT ELEVATE Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Moderated by Sarah Kelly, Irving Institute Research Associate and Lecturer, Dept. of Geography
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To support the delivery of an equitable and just transition, it is imperative to study models of ownership that can sustainably promote adoption. The aim of the study is to assess the benefits of co-operatively owned and operated storage systems. The underlying hypothesis is that there is a monetary and non-monetary value to residential storage. The hypothesis is built on the flexibility offered by storage as a demand response asset, which can be used by residents in price-based demand response programs and equally provides consumers with increased autonomy and reduced cost.
Vivian Ogechi Nwadiaru received her bachelor's in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and an MS in Energy Engineering. Before joining UMass Amherst as a Ph.D. student, she completed an International Climate Protection Research Fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Oxford, investigating Nigeria's energy transition and proliferation of fossil backup generators. Her research with ELEVATE explores equitable demand response strategies, such as pricing schemes for deploying solar and storage technologies to reduce cost and improve reliability in low-income communities.
Wednesday, October 26 | 12- 1 p.m. ET
"The Cultures of Energy Efficiency in Kharkiv (Ukraine) In the Times of War"
Viktoriia Grivina, PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews
Moderator: Laura Ogden, Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
On February 24, 2022 the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 40 km from the border with Russia, woke up on the frontline of the large-scale war. The rapid drop in population from 1.5 million to 800,000 and continuous damage inflicted to urban infrastructure led to visible and invisible transformations affecting local habits, the way the city looks, the way its services operate and more. In her talk, Viktoriia Grivina will reflect on some of the strategies that the local government, big and small businesses, transport and communal services, as well as the inhabitants remaining in Kharkiv, have adopted in order to minimize the consequences of the large- and small-scale destructions, energy crisis, and the persistent danger resulting from daily shelling and missile strikes targeting residential areas of the city.
Taking the perspective of a local resident, Grivina will highlight the changes in daily routines of the city, survival strategies and methods of adaptation, from window protection to the rule of the two walls, amendments to everyday routines, shopping, commute and preparations for the winter season. Analyzing these changes might help us better understand how war (and other crises) reveal critical energy issues in the city, flaws in its infrastructure and the potential for energy efficiency improvements.
Researcher, translator, writer, Viktoriia Grivina graduated from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University majoring in English and German Linguistics. In 2018-2020 she was awarded Erasmus Mundus Master's scholarship with Crossways in Cultural Narratives programme (Universities of Tubingen, St Andrews, and Bergamo). In 2020 Viktoriia presented her Master's dissertation (The Influence of Street Art on Community Development in Kharkiv, Ukraine). In September 2020, she joined the project "(Un)Archiving (Post)Industry" implemented by the Center for Urban History jointly with the University of St Andrews. In 2021 she started her PhD research at the University of St. Andrews, focusing on mythology, ecology and aesthetics in the city of Kharkiv in the times of war.
March 30: Priya Donti, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
"Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning"
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April 13: Churchill Agutu, ETH Zurich
"Scaling Off-Grid Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa"
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April 27: June Lukuyu, UMass Amherst
"Power to Thrive: Stimulating Electricity Demand to Enhance Sustainable Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa"
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May 11: Maarten Brinkerink, University College Cork
"Assessing Global Climate Change Mitigation Scenarios from a Power System Perspective"
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May 25: Benedict Probst, ETH Zurich/Cambridge University
"Carbon Offsets: Problem or Panacea?"
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January 19: Vivek Srikrishnan, Assistant Professor, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
"Climate Risk, Uncertainty, and Coupled Energy Systems"
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February 2: Joan Casey, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University
"Power Outage Preparedness, Duration, and Distribution: Spotlighting Environmental Justice"
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February 16: Dominic Bednar, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University
"Towards Energy as a Human Right: A Multidimensional Exploration of State and Utility Level Disconnect Policies in the United State During COVID-19"
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March 2: Jorge Izar-Tenorio, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University
"The Double Dividend of Irrigation and Electricity in East Africa"
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September 15: Abel Gustafson, Associate Professor of Public Relations and Environmental Communication, University of Cincinnati
"Renewable Energy Public Opinion and Strategies for Effective Communication"
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September 29: Daniel Møller Sneum, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Technical University of Denmark
"Flexible and Integrated Energy Systems — Finding and Addressing the Barriers"
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October 13: Danae Hernández-Cortés, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
"Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California's Carbon Market"
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October 27: Paige Weber, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
"Equity Impacts of Markets for Clean Air"
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November 10: Liz Allen, Research Development Officer, Northeastern University
"Envisioning the Future of Sharing in Electrical Energy Systems: Opportunities and Risks for Resilience, Sustainability & Equity"
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July 14: Trisha Shrum, Assistant Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont
"Endogenous Preferences, Intrinsic Motivation, and the Evolution of Pro-Environmental Behavior"
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July 21: Deidra Miniard, PhD. Candidate, Indiana University
"Shared Vision of a Decarbonized Future"
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April 7: Sarah Kelly, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dartmouth College Dept. of Anthropology
"Institutional Surprises in the Water-Energy Nexus: How Markets and Indigenous Territorial Conflicts Shape the Dynamics of Small Hydro Development in Chile"
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April 21: Michael Davidson, Assistant Professor School of Global Policy and Strategy/Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
"Carbon Neutrality in China: What's Behind the Numbers?"
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May 19: Gregg Sparkman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
"Progress on the 'Wicked' Problem: Overcoming Behavioral and Decision Making Hurdles to Address Climate Change and Decarbonize Society"
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June 2: Nathan Williams, Assistant Professor at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology
"Necessary but Not Sufficient: Unlocking the Impact of Electricity Access"
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January 27: Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University
"Reframing US-China Climate Relations: Competition as the Key to Climate Mitigation"
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February 3: Sarah Jordaan, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
"Grid-Scale Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation"
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February 17: Elise Harrington, Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy area, University of Minnesota
"Off-Grid Solar Distribution Models and Consumer Safeguards in Rural Kenya"
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March 3: D. Cale Reeves, Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Public Policy
"Generating Insight from the Bottom Up: Agent-Based Modeling of Home Energy Technology Diffusion"
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March 17: Roman Sidortsov, Assistant Professor of Energy Policy at Michigan Technological University
"Stranded Assets, Path Dependencies & Carbon Lock-in: Implications of Oil & Gas Development in the Russian, Norwegian and U.S. Arctic"
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September 9: Stephanie Lenhart, Senior Research Associate at the Energy Policy Institute, Faculty in the School of Public Service, Boise State University
"Regional Electricity Market Governance and Market Rules for Energy Storage"
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September 23: Erin Mayfield, Postdoctoral Scholar, Princeton University
"Prioritizing Social Equity in Infrastructure Transitions to Achieve Net Zero Emissions"
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October 7: Steffi Muhanji and Wester Schoonenberg, Graduate Students, Dartmouth College
"Interdependent Energy Infrastructure Systems"
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October 21: Diana Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"Energy, Poverty and Health in a Changing Climate: Implications for Policy and Practice"
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November 4: Saurabh Biswas, Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Energy and Society, Arizona State University
"Understanding the Energy-Poverty Nexus: A Transdisciplinary Approach for Designing Sustainable Energy Transitions"
Moderator: Clark Miller, Arizona State University
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November 18: Tony Reames, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment & Sustainability
"An Incandescent Truth: Spatial, Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Energy Efficiency"
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June 3: Gabriel Chan, Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
"Cooperative Electric Cooperative Research"
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June 17: Bjarne Steffen, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Energy Politics Group, ETH Zürich
"The Role of Finance in the Low-Carbon Energy Transition"
Moderator: Valerie Karplus, MIT Sloan School of Management
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July 1: Parth Vaishnav, Assistant Research Professor of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
"Electrify Everything"
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July 15: Rebecca Ciez, Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University
"Designing Energy Storage for Climate Goals"
Moderator: Jason Ren, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Acting Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
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July 29: Michael Craig, Assistant Professor in Energy Systems, University of Michigan
"Electric Power Systems in a Changing Climate"
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August 12: Destenie Nock, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
"In-depth Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollutants From Electric Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Systems"Moderator: Paulina Jaramillo, Carnegie Mellon University
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August 26: Jesse Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment, Princeton University
"Clean Electricity: the Linchpin for a Net-Zero Economy"
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This series is a collaborative effort between professors at Dartmouth College's Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society and the following colleges and universities: