Speaker List
Fall 2022
Sept 6th
Speakers TBD
Oct 3rd
Speakers TBD
Nov 7th
Speakers TBD
Dec 5th
Speakers TBD
SPRING 2022
Feb 7th
Janet Torres (Berkeley Environmental Engineering) - climate change and the development trajectory of Cuba
Utkarsha Agwan (Berkeley EECS) - flexible loads and batteries to incorporate more renewables into the grid
Mar 1ST
Jennifer Head (Berkeley Epidemiology) - effect of drought on valley fever in CA
Jeannie Wilkening (Berkeley Civil and Env Engineering) - plant-water-carbon interactions under a changing climate
APR 5th
Margiana Petersen-Rockney (Berkeley ESPM) - climate change adaptation with farmers & ranchers in northern CA
Daniel Startosa (Berkeley Masters of Development Practice) - complexities of developing cultures of preparedness in high-risk areas
MAY 2ND
Ankur Mahesh (Berkeley Earth & Planetary Science) - atmospheric rivers & climate change
Sayantan Mitra (Berkeley Agricultural & Resource Economics) - carbon sequestration in agriculture and forests
Fall 2021
Sept 7th
Ben Franta (Stanford History of Science) - History of climate denialism - VIDEO LINK
Chris LeBoa (Berkeley Environmental & Health Sciences) - Infectious disease solutions - SLIDES
Oct 4th
Leela Velautham (Berkeley Education) - Teaching climate change with hope for solving it
Rebecca Sugrue (Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering) - Wildfire impact on air quality and monitoring - SLIDES
Nov 1st
Nikki Tulley (Arizona Dept of Environmental Science) - Remote sensing for water resource access and quality
Ann Scheliga (Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering) - How terrestrial water contributes to sea level rise
Dec 6th
Helen Fitzmaurice & Jacob Barton (Berkeley Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley Education) - Oakland Teachers Advancing Climate Education
Yuliya Borodina (Berkeley Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics) - Public attitudes regarding climate change disasters
Spring 2021
Feb 1st
Alex Turner (Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences) - Atmospheric Methane
Tessa Maurer (Civil & Env Engineering) - Blue Forest - Forest Resilience Bond
March 1st
Lisa Rennels (ERG) - Climate change and data science tools - SLIDES
Mindy Price (ESPM) - Climate-driven agricultural frontiers in the circumpolar North - SLIDES
April 5th
Emily Bercos-Hickey (LBL) - African Easterly Waves - SLIDES
Samantha Harper (California Water Board) - Climate Change at the Water Board - taking science and making policy
May 3rd
Nell Green (Berkeley Law) - Improving Water Rights Administration and Oversight for Future Droughts
Annelise Sytsma (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning) - Green stormwater infrastructure - SLIDES
Fall 2020
Sep 8 - Topic: Earth's Systems
Ned Molter (Astronomy) - Atmospheric dynamics
Alan Rhoades (LBL-Hydrogeology ) - Climate change & mountainous hydroclimate through modifications in atmospheric river character and the magnitude and timing of snowpack
Note this is on a Tuesday due to labor day weekend.
Oct 5th - Topic: New Data and Climate Science
Tessa Maurer (Civil/Env ECIC) - Data collection methods & improved modeling tools for PG&E's hydropower system
Lisa Rennels (ERG) - RESCHEDULED FOR SPRING
Nov 9th - Reorganizing Society
Ted Lamm (Law) - Climate change, extreme heat, and insurance
Sofia Hamilton (ECIC) - High-Resolution Modeling and Apportionment of Diesel-Related Contributions to Black Carbon Concentrations
Dec 7th - Energy Technologies
Carlos Biaou (EECS) - Printed electronics: Degradation of solar cells
Anaya Hall (ERG) - Institutional and ecological capacity of using composted municipal organic waste for carbon sequestration in California
Spring 2020
Feb 3
Lorenzo Rosa (ESPM) - Hydrological limits of post-combustion carbon capture and storage
Justin Gilmore (History) - The global right-wing and climate change
Laney Siegner (ERG) - Climate Education [rescheduled]
March 2
Gabe Eckhouse (Geography) - The temporal contradictions of the hydraulic fracturing revolution in oil: investment at a time of energy-uncertainty.
Areidy A. Beltran (ESPM) - Global Food Security Outlook in the Face of Climate Change and Population Growth with Sustainable Irrigation
Jenny Rempel & Ella Belfer (ERG) - CA's water governance regime under climate change
Apr 13th
Anustubh Agnihotri (Public Policy) - Field level bureaucracy in India that is responsible for the last-mile implementation of a range of welfare policies
George Moore (ME) - How to make empowering technologies more sustainable [rescheduled]
May 4
Julia Szinai (ERG) - Water and energy systems adaptation
Drew Hart (ESPM) - Spatial and genomic determinants of evolutionary responses to climate change
Dana Miller (CBE) [rescheduled]
Casey Finnerty (CEE) - TBD