Upcoming events
Clean Energy and Climate Series
The Climate and Clean Energy Series is hosted by the Schatz Energy Research Center at Cal Poly Humboldt. All lectures and webinars are free and open to the public. For questions or accessibility requests, contact schatzenergy@humboldt.edu or call 707-826-4345.
Thursday, April 4 from 5:30-7:00 pm in Founders Hall 118:
From Isotopes to Arboreal Giants: Perspectives on Trees, Water, and Climate
Water is crucial for plant survival on land, particularly as the climate continues to warm and dry. In this talk, Dr. Lucy Kerhoulas will discuss the fascinating dynamics between trees, water, and climate. How does water move through giant trees? How did forests respond to the record-breaking drought 2012-2016 and what can that tell us about how forests respond to a changing climate? What’s going on with fog and redwoods? Dr. Kerhoulas will explore these questions, sometimes from up in the canopy, with a spotlight on her favorite ecosystems – the coastal and montane forests of northern California.
Dr. Lucy Kerhoulas is an Associate Professor of Forest Physiology in the Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management Department at Cal Poly Humboldt.
Recordings
Schatz Center Research
California offshore wind
- Offshore wind and transmission infrastructure in northwestern CA: video recording and slide deck (March 2024)
- Seabirds in 3D: a new framework for assessing collision vulnerability with floating offshore wind (April 2023)
- Transmission Alternatives (May 2022)
- Energy Production and Delivery, and Economic Development (September 2020)
- Ecological and Geological Environment (September 2020)
- Port and Coastal Infrastructure (September 2020)
- Community Perspectives on Regional Impacts and Opportunities (October 2020)
- Reflections and Next Steps
(October 2020)
Microgrids and resiliency
- Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid Grand Opening Celebration (June 2022)
- Local Governments Leading the Way through Resilient Microgrids (Statewide Energy Efficient Collaborative, September 2020)
- Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid: Advancing a resilient and clean energy future (Clean Coalition, September 2020)
- Innovations of the Redwood Coast Airport microgrid (Cal CCA, April 2020)
Off-grid energy access
- IEC quality standards for pico-solar products & SHS kits (VeraSol, May 2020)
Sustainable Futures
- Preparing frontline communities for climate disruption: Lessons from community-embedded research – Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (November 2, 2022)
- Children’s fundamental rights and the climate crisis: the call for judicial branch engagement – Andrea Rodgers (April 28, 2022)
- What can we still do? – Bill McKibben (October 7, 2021)
- Building a net zero energy system that protects biodiversity – Grace Wu (September 23, 2021)
- Cántaro Azul: An organization’s journey to contribute to the human right to water and sanitation in rural Mexico – Fermín Reygadas (March 18, 2021)
- Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: from reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis – Myles Lennon (October 29, 2020)
- Redwood Coast telecommunications resilience – Karen Eckersley and Jana Ganion (October 22, 2020)
- Safer breathing: reducing the risk of airborne COVID 19 infection – Mark Nicas (September 3, 2020)
- Thwaites Glacier Research: On board the Nathaniel B Palmer -Julia Wellner, Al Hickey, and Tim McGovern (July 29, 2020)
Additional Sustainable Futures recordings are available here…
