Mondays, 3:30 - 4:30 PM, Ecology & Evolution department seminar, KCBD 1103
Thursdays, Evolutionary Morphology seminar (Committee on Evolutionary Biology), 7:30-8:30 PM, Hinds 176
Fridays, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Geophysical Sciences departmental seminar
Mondays, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, Climate and Energy Lunch-and-Learn, Hinds 176
Mondays, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Climate Science Journal Club, Hinds 451
Tuesdays, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, EPIC lunch (energy and climate economics), Saieh 146
Wednesdays, April 10 - May 29, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, R Spatial Workshop - GIS/Visualization, Searle 240B
Wednesdays, April 10 - May 29, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, R Spatial Workshop - Raster/Kriging, Searle 240B
Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Environmental Data Science lunch, Searle 240a
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
We'll be hearing from Alejandra López Rodriguez, at our usual time and place:
Alejandra López Rodríguez is a second year Masters student at the Harris School of Public Policy. While working as an Environmental Democracy Intern at the World Resources Institute, she conducted research on the issue of violence against environmental and land defenders in Colombia. She will present the main findings of the study, hoping to motivate a discussion on the trade-offs between sustainability, growth, and human rights.
Saieh 419, 12:30pm-1:30pm.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
This is our traditional mid-quarter meet and greet! Now that we've come together for a few weeks we'd like everyone, especially the newcomers, to be able to get to know each others' interests and/or research a bit more (undergrads who may not have your own work yet, don't let this discourage you from coming; feel free to use this to probe the minds of people who are doing what you may be interested in later on). So, in that spirit, we'll be doing a form of research "speed dating" where we'll all have a bit more opportunity to discuss what we're most interested in and meet some cool people.
Saieh 419, 12:30pm-1:30pm.
Talks will resume at our next week. As always, come for the free food, stay for the interdisciplinary exchange!
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
Good news: we're back in our regular room tomorrow (Saieh 419), to hear from Econ PhD student and all-around smart guy Ishan Nath give a bit of a primer on the frontiers of energy and environmental economics:
Ishan Nath is a 4th year economics PhD student who works with EPIC and the Climate Impact Lab. He will give a brief overview of contemporary research topics in energy and environmental economics with illustrative examples of the empirical techniques economists use to identify causality.
See you all there!
We'll be hearing from Morgan O'Neill, the new post-doc in the Geophyscial Sciences Department on "Hurricanes and climate: signal v. noise in the very terrible 2017 season" :
There has been a lot of popular discussion about the role of climate change in the recent relentless onslaught of North Atlantic hurricanes. I will contextualize the 2017 hurricane season in the historical record, and share the current scientific consensus about what has happened and will happen to hurricanes in a warming world. Are these storms natural or manmade? Both! Maybe!
Keep sending me examples of any climate data you might use / want to know more about as we put together the workshop on interpreting climate data products!
The U.S. Department of Energy recently proposed a rule that would subsidize the ailing coal and nuclear industries, arguing that these sources of electricity are needed to ensure grid reliability as renewable fuels gain market share. Critics of the proposed rule say it is an unnecessary bailout of uncompetitive and dirty energy sources, and that renewables pose no threat to grid reliability. What are the major factors driving change in the U.S. grid? What are the challenges facing regulators? If Secretary Perry’s proposal is adopted, what effect will it actually have?
Join the Harris Energy and Environmental Association and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), in partnership with The Aspen Institute, for a panel discussion on the recent proposal, the underlying Electricity Markets and Reliability report, and the possible impacts to the future of U.S. energy.
We'll have our first talk of the quarter! Some of you may have met him this first week - James Rising is one of EPIC's new postdocs this year:
James Rising is an interdisciplinary modeler and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). He studies interaction between society and the planet, and is particularly interested in climate impacts, the water-energy-food nexus, and fisheries. James will present a new approach to estimating the future of coffee production, as suitable areas shift away from the equator and to higher elevations.
Potential talk on interpreting climate data for social science users
By the way, as per some discussions this week, we're trying to put together a workshop on how to interpret climate/weather/reanalysis data products. For those of you in the social sciences who work with climate data, could you let us know what products / models / data types / etc. you use generally so we can tune this potential talk to you? For those of you in the natural sciences who work on model interpretation/creation/etc. and want to help put this together, please let us know as well!
With the new year, we'll be starting up our Lunch & Learn series again. As with last year, they will be on Thursdays. However, due to the change in TTh class times, they will now be 12:30-1:30, a half hour later than last year. The first one will be 2nd Week, that is Thursday, October 5th, at 12:30pm. We'll send out the location soon, but it will be in Saieh Hall (58th/University) again.
To any newcomers, here's what we're all about:
The Energy and Climate Young Researchers' Lunch & Learn is a collaboration between RDCEP and EPIC that brings together young researchers from multiple disciplines to foster casual connections, collaborations, and interactions in the field of climate and energy, broadly defined. We meet weekly during the academic year and invite students, research assistants, and postdocs to attend, present research (professors are never present) at any stage in the process, discuss, and build casual connections across disciplines. We will feed you and everyone else attending.
If you're a young researcher or student and are interested in climate and/or energy from any angle, you're invited! We're a fun mix of people studying and working in economics, physics, statistics, public policy, sociology, philosophy, business,...
If you're interested in presenting, leading a discussion, or have any other ideas for the series, please feel free to reach out to us to chat or to grab a copy of our presenter guidelines.
Looking forward to seeing all the regulars and meeting some newcomers! Tell your friends.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently proposed a rule that would subsidize the ailing coal and nuclear industries, arguing that these sources of electricity are needed to ensure grid reliability as renewable fuels gain market share. Critics of the proposed rule say it is an unnecessary bailout of uncompetitive and dirty energy sources, and that renewables pose no threat to grid reliability. What are the major factors driving change in the U.S. grid? What are the challenges facing regulators? If Secretary Perry’s proposal is adopted, what effect will it actually have?
Join the Harris Energy and Environmental Association and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), in partnership with The Aspen Institute, for a panel discussion on the recent proposal, the underlying Electricity Markets and Reliability report, and the possible impacts to the future of U.S. energy.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently proposed a rule that would subsidize the ailing coal and nuclear industries, arguing that these sources of electricity are needed to ensure grid reliability as renewable fuels gain market share. Critics of the proposed rule say it is an unnecessary bailout of uncompetitive and dirty energy sources, and that renewables pose no threat to grid reliability. What are the major factors driving change in the U.S. grid? What are the challenges facing regulators? If Secretary Perry’s proposal is adopted, what effect will it actually have?
Join the Harris Energy and Environmental Association and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), in partnership with The Aspen Institute, for a panel discussion on the recent proposal, the underlying Electricity Markets and Reliability report, and the possible impacts to the future of U.S. energy.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently proposed a rule that would subsidize the ailing coal and nuclear industries, arguing that these sources of electricity are needed to ensure grid reliability as renewable fuels gain market share. Critics of the proposed rule say it is an unnecessary bailout of uncompetitive and dirty energy sources, and that renewables pose no threat to grid reliability. What are the major factors driving change in the U.S. grid? What are the challenges facing regulators? If Secretary Perry’s proposal is adopted, what effect will it actually have?
Join the Harris Energy and Environmental Association and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), in partnership with The Aspen Institute, for a panel discussion on the recent proposal, the underlying Electricity Markets and Reliability report, and the possible impacts to the future of U.S. energy.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's India team (EPIC-India) will host this national conference aiming to provide a platform for knowledge-sharing and cross-sectoral engagement related to developments in national and state-level pollution regulation.
The Computation Institute's Summer Students will participate in the first of many weekly lunch seminars that are designed to expose the entire Institute to each organization's summer research initiative's.
Improvements in technology continue to transform the outlook for the energy sector, driving changes in business models, energy demand and supply patterns as well as regulatory approaches. What are the opportunities and challenges of scaling and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies? Eric Masanet, the head of the Energy Demand Technology Unit at the International Energy Agency (IEA), will present the IEA’s newly-launched Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) 2017—the agency’s annual comprehensive publication focused on global energy technology transformations.
RDCEP's Summer Students begin their eight week program with a breakfast, meet & greet, and orientation in Room 236 of the Computation Institute.
The world’s energy choices are leading to levels of pollution that are substantially shortening people’s lives and causing climate change. Learn from some of the University of Chicago’s top experts about the key energy trends and market forces at play to meet this challenge.
Join the UChicago Department of Geophysical Sciences as they host Neil Shubin on "Finding Your Inner Fish".
Join EPIC as they host Jeff Currie, the global head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, for a conversation on the economics and future prospects of global oil.
Join Dr. Maureen Conte, a faculty member at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and an MBL Fellow at The Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory as she shares with us her research and experience.
Join the UChicago Department of Geophysical Sciences as they host Matt Huber on "Killing Time: The Next Hyperthermal".
The University of Chicago Center for Global Health (CGH), Energy Policy Institute at UChicago (EPIC), and Sustainable Pritzker invite you to a special screening of the documentary Nowhere to Run: Nigeria’s Climate and Environmental Crisis.
With resources and prices in a state of flux, and increasing policy uncertainty under the Trump administration, accurately forecasting the future of the industry has never been more important, or challenging. Join EPIC as they host Adam Sieminski, former administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, to discuss these issues.
In 2015, 195 countries pledged to reduce emissions under the Paris Agreement. What motivations and goals will keep key countries, like China, engaged? Join a special off the record conversation with the former Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern.
Join EPIC as they host Ryan Wiser, one of America’s preeminent renewable technology and policy experts, who will summarize what is possible and where advancements are most likely for land-based and offshore wind.
When setting the U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission standards for light-duty vehicles, firms’ ability to trade off fuel economy for other vehicle performance attributes, such as acceleration performance, is not considered. Join EPIC as they host Kate Whitefoot for a Lunch Seminar Series on the 14th!
