The HMEI Faculty Seminar Series was created in 2015 as a public venue for senior faculty to discuss their research in the context of environmental science and current events. Each semester features four faculty seminars on topics that include sea-level rise, climate change, carbon sequestration, green technology, renewable energy and sustainability, biodiversity, infectious diseases and global health, urban infrastructure, environmental history and humanities, environmental chemistry and ocean biogeochemistry. All lectures begin at 12:30 p.m. — video of seminars are made available on our website after the event.
Register to attend using the link below for each talk. Registered Princeton University ID holders can attend in-person contingent on University guidelines for indoor events — updates will be posted as necessary. Face coverings are required. Seminars for fall 2021 also will be livestreamed via Zoom webinar — the livestream is open to the public.
Upcoming Faculty Seminar Series
Fall 2021
| Date and Topic | Speaker | In Person (PUID only) | Zoom Livestream |
| September 14
Low-Cost Calcium-based Solid Sorbents for Carbon Capture |
Claire White, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment | WATCH | REGISTER |
| October 5
Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean |
Christina Gerhardt, Barron Visiting Professor in the Environmental Humanities and Visiting Associate Professor of the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the German Department | WATCH | REGISTER |
| November 2 Necropolitics at the End of Empire: The Paradox of White Supremacy in the U.S. |
Carolyn Rouse, | REGISTER | REGISTER |
| December 7 Building Forms That Adapt to the Natural Environment |
Sigrid Adriaenssens, | TBA | REGISTER |
Past Faculty Seminar Series
Spring 2021
| Date and Topic (Click titles for video) |
Speaker |
| February 2 | Bryan Grenfell, |
| March 2
From Multiscale Scientific Understanding to Predictions and Projections of the Earth System |
“Ram” Ramaswamy, Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; |
| April 6
The Mean, the Extreme and the Connection Between Controversial Cloud Feedback and Future Heat Stress |
Stephan Fueglistaler, Associate Professor of Geosciences and Director of the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
| May 4
A Better Understanding of Water Availability in the U.S. Through Community Tools |
Reed Maxwell, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute |
For more past seminars, please use the sidebar.