CERAWeek 2020 Waves of Change: Charting the Energy Transition

Revers Center for Energy will send student Fellows to attend this annual favorite in Houston, TX which brings together experts from around the world to continue discussions around global energy markets, geopolitics, and technology. The full agenda and a list of contributors can be found here.

Dartmouth Energy Collaborative Lunch & Learn: Associate Professor of Anthropology Laura Ogden as she

Join the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative (Revers Center for Energy, The Irving Institute, Sustainability Office, and Thayer School of Engineering) for our bi-weekly energy lunch series. This week, Associate Professor of Anthropology Laura Ogden presents an "Analysis of Energy and Indigenous Environmental Studies in the Americas." She will discuss key themes important to Indigenous scholars working on energy issues in the United States. These themes include the centrality of water, energy and sovereignty, health and energy inequalities, as well as infrastructure politics. Lunch will be available to attendees!

Tuck staff and students can sign up here.

Energy Club 3-mile Fun Run

Join Energy Club members for a weekly 3-mile run on the streets of Hanover to catch up on energy news of the week! No need to sign up, just meet in front of Buchanan with your high-viz and headlamp on Wednesdays at 4pm. If in doubt about the weather, email Madeleine. Everyone is welcome!

Women’s Leadership in Science, Technology, Policy, and Diplomacy

Join Dr. Melody Brown Burkins (GR '98) for lunch. She will be sharing insights from her work to advance greater gender inclusion and equity in STEM through her leadership roles in global science policy and science diplomacy, including serving as a member of the Governing Board of the International Science Council, as Chair of the Board on International Science Organizations (BISO) at the U.S. National Academies, and the Advisory Committee of the science diplomacy division of the International Network of Government Science Advisors (INGSA). She also serves as Dartmouth's Council Member to the UArctic international network where she is engaged in gender equity initiatives led by the Plan A. (“Gender is not Plan B in the Arctic”), Women of the Arctic (WOTA), and Gender Equity in the Arctic (GEA) networks. At Dartmouth, Burkins is Associate Director for Programs and Research in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies. She serves as the faculty advisor to Dartmouth’s Science Technology and Engineering Policy Society (STEPS) and advises students, fellows, and early-career professionals working to develop valuable “boundary spanning” and leadership skills at the intersection of science, policy, and diplomacy.

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Solar Power Systems Engineering from Earth to Orbit

Speaker: Emily Warmann, Space Solar Power Program, Caltech

Date: Friday, February 28, 2020, 3:30–4:30pm

Location: Rm 100 (Spanos Auditorium), Cummings Hall

Systems analysis has tremendous potential for improving the performance and value of solar energy technologies. Through examples ranging from tandem cell development for terrestrial applications, a space solar power system, and integration of conventional photovoltaics with agriculture, this talk will discuss the necessity of examining the deployment environment for solar technologies and including this analysis in the design cycle from the cell level and onward.

About the Speaker

Emily C. Warmann received a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her PhD in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Her PhD research interests in the Atwater group include systems design approaches to photovoltaics and the spectral dependence of photovoltaic energy production. After completing her studies, she remains as technical staff on the Space Solar Power Program at Caltech.

For more information visit the event page for the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society.

Lynn Badia, Assistant Professor of English, Colorado State University

On Tuesday, Februrary 25, 2020 from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Dr. Lynn Badia, Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, will give a talk entitled "Technologies of Abundance: On the Possibility of Unlimited Energy," in Haldeman 041. In her talk, Dr. Badia, a specialist in Environmental and Energy Humanities, will consider the questions: What would it mean for humanity to have a virtually unlimited energy source? How have the conditions of energy crisis also produced a discourse about energy abundance? Considering case studies of "free energy" technologies from the twentieth century and the present day, she will investigate how ideas about new energy infrastructures necessarily involves a particular social vision, whether acknowledged or not.

This talk is sponsored by the the Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business, Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, and the Dartmouth College Office of the Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and Environmental Humanities.

For more information, visit the event page.

Advancing Energy Frontiers by Understanding Engineering Behavior

Speaker: Leidy Klotz, Copenhaver Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Date: Friday, February 21, 2020, 3:30–4:30pm

Location: Rm 100 (Spanos Auditorium), Cummings Hall

With a goal of helping a broad audience envision new paths towards more sustainable energy futures, this seminar will describe emerging technical frontiers between engineering and behavioral science. We will begin with examples of research on the engineering of buildings and infrastructure (which account for more energy use and climate changing emissions than vehicles and airplanes combined.) This research shows that science-informed changes to the contexts in which engineering occurs have the potential to prevent gigatons worth of carbon dioxide emissions. From these illustrative examples, we will then zoom out to systematically review other energy frontiers that can only be seen—and then pursued—using a similar approach that deeply integrates engineering with behavioral science. We will see why these frontiers are relevant not only to a narrow notion of “engineers,” but to a broader conception of Dartmouth Engineers: defined here as anyone creatively applying science to change existing situations into preferred ones. To support this assertion of broad relevance, we will review research on Lego building, grilled cheese making, and music composition. Because, taken together, these studies suggest ways to relieve a sustainable energy conundrum recognized by thought leaders including Dana Meadows and Dr. Seuss.

About the Speaker

Leidy Klotz is the Copenhaver Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. His scholarship spans engineering and behavioral science, in pursuit of more sustainable energy systems. To support this work, Klotz has been awarded over ten million dollars in competitive funding. He has published more than 65 peer-reviewed articles in top journals in built environment and energy engineering, design, and engineering education, as well as imprints of both Science and Nature. Through his research, Klotz advises organizations including the Department of Energy, the World Bank, and ideas42. To share with even broader audiences, Klotz has written one book, drafted a second, and published articles in venues such as Fast Company, The Daily Climate, and ASEE Prism. An award-winning teacher and mentor, Klotz works closely with students in his courses and beyond: for example, his open online course led to energy innovation projects on three continents, he speaks frequently to student groups, and eleven of his undergraduate mentees have earned NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Klotz has also advised more than twenty doctoral and post-doctoral students, with ten alumni of his research group now holding tenure-track faculty positions, and others in influential industry roles. More than three quarters of Klotz’s exceptional current and former advisees identify with groups underrepresented in engineering.

For more information visit the event page for the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society.

UVA Darden Climate CAP Summit

The Tuck delegation to the UVA Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, VA will be led by Kevin Yuan T’20. Tuck students who are interested in attending should email Kevin directly by 1/31/20.