Global Change & Sustainability Center

Barbara Reck is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. This presentation discusses the challenges of metal recycling in the context of broader material cycles and the role of interdependencies among metals– from byproducts in ores, to alloying elements and complex multi-material products. 4:00 pm | 210 ASB

Masood Parvania, Assistant Professor, University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering, is Director of Utah Smart Energy Laboratory (U-Smart). Seminar 4:00 pm | 210 ASB This talk will provide an engineering perspective on how closer collaboration and operation co-optimization of interdependent power and water infrastructure enhances the energy and economic efficiency of both systems.

Ken Tape is a Research Associate Professor at University of Alaska, Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. His lecture explores a century of changes in the arctic tundra landscape and its wildlife.  4:00 pm | 210 ASB