Faculty forum talks

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability faculty explain their research and findings in talks designed to showcase scholarship and build intellectual connections across disciplines.

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Biodiversity | Cities & society | Climate | Energy | Hazards | Land & water | Oceans

Biodiversity

Kevin Boyce: Fossil record of plant physiology and its environmental impact

Gretchen C. Daily: Valuing nature for transformation

Anne Dekas: Deep-sea microbes – The tiny engines impacting global climate

Giulio De Leo: Ecological levers for health

Rodolfo Dirzo: Biodiversity loss and its connections to environmental justice and human wellbeing

Jonathan Payne: Studying the past to understand – and change – future climate outcomes

Kabir Peay: The weather underground – Examining a critical plant-fungal symbiosis amid climate change

Manu Prakash: Planktonic wonders of a drifting world – Cell biology of climate change

Cities & society

Hunt Allcott: Economics for decarbonization

Bill Barnett: Transformative innovation for sustainability

Patricia Bromley: Higher education and the environment

Marshall Burke: Social and economic impacts of environmental change

Jenna Davis: Defining the right problem for sustainable solutions

Steve Davis: Fires and trade risks and air (pollution), oh my!

Martin Fischer: From master builders to mastering buildings

Rishee Jain: Urban informatics

James Holland Jones: Evolutionary lessons on adaptation

Desiree LaBeaud: Circular futures – Transforming waste into opportunity in coastal Kenya

Pamela Matson: Thinking about scale and transformative change

Khalid Osman: Social sensors of water quality

Krish Seetah: Adaptive Reflexive Modeling against malaria

Madalina Vlasceanu: How to catalyze climate action

Paula Welander: Understanding histories to build equity and inclusion at academic institutions

Gabrielle Wong-Parodi: Sustainable adaptation

Climate

Noah Diffenbaugh: How much climate change, and how soon?

Arun Majumdar: Methane removal – Atoms to atmosphere

Energy

Inêz Azevedo: Sustainable energy decisions

Will Chueh: Building better batteries faster

Yi Cui: Reinventing batteries through nanoscience

Thomas Jaramillo: Re-imagining fuels and chemicals for a sustainable future

Simona Onori: The role of batteries in the clean energy revolution – A control perspective

Xiaolin Zheng: Reimagining fire – Combustion for a sustainable future

Hazards

Jack Baker: Engineering disaster-resilient systems in an uncertain future

Greg Beroza: The future of earthquake monitoring

Gregory Deierlein: Quantifying the case – Using computational models to drive urban resilience programs

Scott Fendorf: Wildfire toxins we breathe

Barbara Simpson: Mitigating hazards in a flat world

Jenny Suckale: Creating actionable knowledge for reducing disaster risk

Land & water

Sarah Fletcher: Adaptive management for resilient water systems

Steven Gorelick: The challenge of freshwater vulnerability in a coupled human-natural system

Rosemary Knight: Geophysics for groundwater science and management

Ching-Yao Lai: Deep learning ice dynamics

Mathieu Lapôtre: Planets as full-scale experiments

David Lobell: Sustainable food at scale

Meagan Mauter: Water desalination for a circular water economy

Laura Schaefer: Looking for the habitable worlds of tomorrow

Dustin Schroeder: Exploring the subsurface processes of ice sheets with ice-penetrating radar

Will Tarpeh: Reimagining wastewater for circular chemical manufacturing

Sonia Tikoo: How to study big planets using tiny magnets

Jane Willenbring: Gone with the wind (and water and waves)

Oceans

Kevin Arrigo: Ocean phytoplankton as a sink for atmospheric CO2

Barbara Block: Tracking tunas and sharks in our Blue Serengeti

Jim Leape: Blue foods

Fiorenza Micheli: Supporting the viability of small-scale fisheries

Roz Naylor: Can blue foods help transform our food system?

Steve Palumbi: The sixth recovery – and the human technology to speed it up