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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 seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary connections and collaborations on some of the most critical topics and challenges facing our world today.
The 2025-2026 Faculty Seminar Series has come to a close. You can view past seminars below. We hope you'll join us when the series kicks off again this fall!
Speaker I: Emily Behrman, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Topic: Rapid evolution to climatic change
Speaker II: Erich Osterberg, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Topic: Flood Physics to Community Resilience: Why Good Science Isn't Enough
Watch a recording of the June seminar
Speaker I: Ashwin Seshadri, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bengaluru), India
Topic: From carbon budgets to energy transitions
Speaker II: Erin Mayfield, Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
Topic: Designing net-zero energy systems under dynamic societal objectives
Speaker III: Junbo Zhao, Todd M. Cook and Elizabeth Donohoe Cook Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
Topic: Physics-Informed Data Analytics for Power System Risk Assessment and Control
Watch a recording of the May seminar
Speaker I: Sadia Sultana, Postdoctoral Fellow, Geisel School of Medicine
Talk Title: Wild-fire smoke particles: Influence of an environmental factor in host-respiratory pathogen crosstalk
Speaker II: Sarah Kelly, Research Scientist, Lecturer in Geography, and Head of the Energy Justice Clinic
Topic: Energy insecurity in northern New England: lived experiences and community-based research to understand a multi-dimensional problem
Watch a recording of the April seminar
Speaker I: Mukul Sharma, Professor, Earth Sciences
Talk Title: Atmospheric CO2 Removal with Co-benefits
Speaker II: Elijah Stommel, Professor, Neurology at Geisel School of Medicine
Talk Title: Harmful Algal Blooms and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Watch a recording of the March seminar
Speaker I: Anthony Rizzo, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: Addressing the Data Center Energy Crisis with Light
Speaker II: Bryce Ferguson, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: Algorithmic Incentive Design via Pricing and Persuasion
Watch a recording of the February seminar
Speaker I: Nate Dominy, Professor & Chair, Department of Anthropology
Talk Title: Catching fire: can firelight ignite collective action?
Speakers II & III: Miguel I. Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Will Scheideler, Associate Professor of Engineering
Combined Talk Title: Micro-to-nanoscale Materials Design for Energy Applications
Watch a recording of the January seminar
Speaker I: Mahima Sneha, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Talk Title: Making Molecular Movies with Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy
Speaker II: Eric G. Schaller, Professor of Biological Sciences
Talk Title: Genetic and chemical approaches to combating drought stress in plants
Watch a recording of Eric Schaller's talk
Speaker I: Aleah Sommers, Research Scientist, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: Understanding Himalayan glacier dynamics, future evolution, water resources, and floods.
Speaker II: Yoshihiro Nakayama, Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Talk Title: What is happening in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica?
Watch a recording of the November seminar
Speaker I: Praveen Kopalle, Endowed Professor and Chair of Marketing, Tuck School of Business
Talk Title: Effect of Pricing on Residential Electricity Conservation, and Delivering Clean Energy
Speaker II: Manpreet Singh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Irving Institute and Economics Department
Talk Title: Designing Large Procurement Auctions: India's Utility-Scale Electricity Market
May 16, 2025
April 4, 2025
February 14, 2025
View February seminar recording
January 10, 2025
November 01, 2024
January 12, 2024
Mathieu Morlighem (Earth Sciences) and visiting scholar Joerg Matschullat discuss their research.
March 29, 2024
Ekaterina Pletneva (Chemistry): Inspirations from Bioenergetics in Directing Electron Flow
Nathaniel Kitchel (Anthropology): Facing the Forest: Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Northern New England at the end of the Ice Age
December 1, 2023
Soroush Vosoughi, "Large Language Models and Persuasive Language," and "Economics, Climate Change, and Ecosystem Services: From Carbon Pricing to the Northern Forest."
November 10, 2023
Robert McLellan (The Dartmouth Institute) "Climate-Informed Pediatric Care," and Laura Paulin (Geisel), "Environmental Exposures and Respiratory Health Outcomes"
May 24, 2023
Chris Snyder (Economics) "Shaping the Market for Green Innovation," and Anant Sundaram (Tuck), "ESG Investing: Hope or Hype?"
View the May Seminar recording
April 21, 2023
Vikrant Vaze (Thayer), "Optimizing Food Waste Disposal," and Lee Lynd (Thayer), "Dartmouth Biofuels Overview"
View the April Seminar recording
March 31, 2023
Fiona Li (Thayer), "Enabling Next-Generation High Performing Sodium Batteries," and Jifeng Liu (Thayer), "Engineering Atomic Ordering for High Performance Energy Materials"
View the March Seminar recording
February 17, 2023
Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Director Melody Burkins, "Centering Arctic Knowledge in Transitions to Sustainability" and Associate Professor of Geography Justin Mankin "From Mechanisms to Decisions: Constraining Uncertainty in the Human Impacts of Climate Change"