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

Gretchen C. Daily: Valuing nature for transformation

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

Giulio De Leo: Ecological levers for health

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

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

Cities & society

Bill Barnett: Transformative innovation for sustainability

Jenna Davis: Defining the right problem for sustainable solutions

Pamela Matson: Thinking about scale and transformative change

Gabrielle Wong-Parodi: Sustainable adaptation

Patricia Bromley: Higher education and the environment

Martin Fischer: From master builders to mastering buildings

Krish Seetah: Adaptive Reflexive Modeling against malaria

Marshall Burke: Social and economic impacts of environmental change

James Holland Jones: Evolutionary lessons on adaptation

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

Climate

Arun Majumdar: Methane removal – Atoms to atmosphere

Energy

Inêz Azevedo: Sustainable energy decisions

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

Will Chueh: Building better batteries faster

Yi Cui: Reinventing batteries through nanoscience

Hazards

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

Greg Beroza: The future of earthquake monitoring

Land & water

Sarah Fletcher: Adaptive management for resilient water systems

Mathieu Lapôtre: Planets as full-scale experiments

Laura Schaefer: Looking for the habitable worlds of tomorrow

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

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

David Lobell: Sustainable food at scale

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

Rosemary Knight: Geophysics for groundwater science and management

Meagan Mauter: Water desalination for a circular water economy

Will Tarpeh: Reimagining wastewater for circular chemical manufacturing

Oceans

Kevin Arrigo: Ocean phytoplankton as a sink for atmospheric CO2

Fiorenza Micheli: Supporting the viability of small-scale fisheries

Barbara Block: Tracking tunas and sharks in our Blue Serengeti

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

Jim Leape: Blue foods