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 are open to the public and video of the seminars are made available on our website.
All seminars for Spring 2021 will be held online via Zoom webinar and will begin at 12:30 p.m. Registration to receive a webinar link will be available in each event posting.
Upcoming Faculty Seminar Series
Spring 2021
Date and Topic (Click title of past events for video) |
Speaker | |
February 2 | Bryan Grenfell, | REGISTER |
March 2
From Multiscale Scientific Understanding to Predictions and Projections of the Earth System |
“Ram” Ramaswamy, Director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; | REGISTER |
April 6
The Science Is Clear: Why the Climate Crisis Needs New Narratives |
Allison Carruth, Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute | REGISTER |
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 | REGISTER |
Past Faculty Seminar Series
Fall 2020
Date and Topic (Click titles for video) |
Speaker |
September 15 | Meera Subramanian, 2019-20 Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities |
October 6
Forever Chemicals No More: Harnessing the Novel Feammox Bacterium for PFAS Defluorination |
Peter Jaffé, the William L. Knapp ’47 Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
November 3 | Anne McClintock, the |
December 1
Understanding Species Responses to Climate Change: The Role of Population and Community Ecology |
Jonathan Levine, y |
For more past seminars, please use the sidebar.