The Energy and Resources Group Colloquium

Lee Schipper
Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley

"A New Framework for Integrating CO₂ Emissions from Road Transport INTO Transport Planning: The Case of Latin America"

Adam R. Brandt
Acting Assitant Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University

"Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Oil Substitutes: Dynamics, Resources, and Systems Behavior"

Adrian Hightower
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Occidental College

"The Role of Renewable Energy Education in the Development of the West African Energy Sector"

Eric Masanet
PhD, Energy Analysis Department, EETD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Supply Chain Energy Efficiency: What's the Potential?"

Richard Norgaard
Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Ecosystem Services: From Eye Opening Metaphor to Blinders to Complexity "

Anita Milman
PhD Candidate, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Bordering on Water Management: Ground and Wastewaters in the United States - Mexico Transboundary Santa Cruz River Basin"

Renee Kuriyan
Intel Labs, People and Practices Research

"Outsourcing the State? Public-Private Partnerships and Information Technologies in India"

Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley

"Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of 'Nature' in France and America"

Laurie Koteen
PhD, Energy and Resources Group,UC Berkeley

"Ecosystem Change in California Grasslands: Effects of Species Invasion on Climate"

Justin Brashares
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

"Connecting the Dots between Natural Resource Use, Social Unrest and Wildlife Conservation in West Africa"

Grant Miller
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor, by courtesy of Economics and of Health Research and Policy and CHP/PCOR Core Faculty Member, Stanford University

"Understanding Low Demand: An Experimental Study of Cookstove Adoption in Bangladesh"

No Colloquium

Duncan Callaway
Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Achieving Controllability of Electric Loads"

Arthur Grossman
Senior Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Science and Professor, Stanford University

"Algal Biodeisel: A Perspective on the Pros, Cons and Uncertainties"

Cornie Huizenga
Vice Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities

"Transport and Climate Change: Divided we shall fall by the roadside of climate history, united we shall move beyond Copenhagen"

David Roland-Holst
Adjunct Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

"California Climate Risk and Response"

Jeffrey Bielicki
Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project, Harvard University

"Returns to Scale for Carbon Capture and Storage"

Duncan Callaway
Assistant Research Scientist, Natural Resources & Environment, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

"Examining Energy Storage and its Alternatives in Sustainable Energy Systems"

Abigail Mechtenberg
PhD Candidate, Applied Physics, University of Michigan

"Understanding the Importance of an Energy Crisis--US CAFE Regulation and Human Development Impacts on Uganda"

Emily Fisher
Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering

"Using Electricity Infrastructure More Efficiently: Reactive Power Pricing and Optimal Transmission Switching"

Holmes Hummel
Former ERG Lecturer and Policy Specialist; 2007-2008 AAAS Congressional Science Fellow

"Where Policy and Models Meet: Taking a Second Look at EPA and EIA Analysis of Federal Climate Legislation"

Cyrus Wadia, PhD
Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

"Iron and Copper Sulfide as a New Solar PV Platform: Linking the Economics to the Chemistry"

Steve Selkowitz
Environmental Technologies Department, EETD - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Climate Change Solutions"

Nick Hanley
Scientist and Environmental Planner, EU Environment Service; EU Visiting Fellow (Spring Semester) in IGS at UC Berkeley

"From Kyoto to Copenhagen the EU Way"

SPRING BREAK

Adam Smith
ERG PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley

"'56 Billion Years From Now': The Problem of Perpetuity and the Persistence of Long-Lived Entities Within Short-Lived Cultures"

Jim McMahon
Head of the Energy Analysis Department, Leader of the Energy Efficiency Standards (EES) Group, and Co-Chair of the Water Energy Technology Team (WETT) in the Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Addressing Climate Change With Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Industry"

Deepak Rajagopal
ERG PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley

"Lifecycle Analysis and Green House Gas Regulation of Fuels"

CANCELLED

Laurie Koteen
ERG PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley

"Ecosystem Change in CA Grasslands: Effects of Species Invasion on Climate"

Ashley Murray
ERG PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley

"Don't Think of Wastewater: Evaluation and Planning Tools for Reuse-Oriented Sanitation Infrastructure"