Faculty Seminar Series

The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society Research 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. 

Friday, February 14, 2025
12-1 PM, Irving Institute Room 375
Zoom link available by request. 

Klaus Keller, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering: "Beyond the loading dock: Approaches to co-producing knowledge to inform climate risk management"

George O'Toole, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, and Leslie Day, Postdoc, Department of Biological Sciences: "Engineering Microbes to Reduce Methane"

Please RSVP by 2/12/25 if you plan to join us for lunch. A Zoom link will be made available closer to the event date. 

January 10, 2025
Ian Baker, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering: "Developing Mn-AI Permanent Magnets," andmMarisa C. Palucis, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences: "Climate Change and Landscape Evolution in the Canadian Arctic"

November 01, 2024
Soroush Vosoughi (Computer Science) and Geoffroy Hautier (Thayer) present their current work. 

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?"

April 21, 2023
Vikrant Vaze (Thayer), "Optimizing Food Waste Disposal," and Lee Lynd (Thayer), "Dartmouth Biofuels Overview"

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"