The HMEI Faculty Seminar Series is a forum for Princeton faculty to discuss their research on environmental topics. A total of 8 Faculty Seminars are held annually including 4 seminars each in the fall and spring semesters. Topics cover a wide range of subject matter and are closely aligned with the featured speaker’s current research activities. Past topics have included insights and perspectives on climate change, extreme weather, water dynamics, policy solutions, carbon sequestration, green technology, renewable energy, biodiversity, infectious diseases and global health, urban infrastructure, environmental history, environmental chemistry and ocean biogeochemistry.
HMEI Faculty Seminars are held in 10 Guyot Hall, beginning at 12:30 p.m. and last approximately 1 hour including Q&A with the audience. A buffet lunch is held in the Guyot Atrium for seminar attendees beginning at noon. The events are free and open to the public. Seminar proceedings are also livestreamed via Zoom and recordings of the seminars are made available on our website following each event.
Spring 2024 HMEI Faculty Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Zoom Livestream |
| February 6 Towards Understanding Interdependence of the Climate and Biodiversity Crises |
Steve Pacala, Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus; Senior Scholar in the High Meadows Environmental Institute | WATCH |
| March 5
Underground H2 Storage and Natural Production: Pathways to Energy Decarbonization |
Catherine Peters, George J. Magee Professor of Geological Engineering; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering | WATCH |
| April 2
Projecting Flooding by Bringing the Physical Processes Back in the Flood Frequency Analysis |
Gabriele Villarini, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute | WATCH |
| May 7 | Kevon Rhiney, 2023-2024 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Anthropology, and African American Studies | WATCH |
Past Faculty Seminars
Fall 2023
| Date and Topic (Click title for video) | Speaker |
| September 12 | Luc Deike, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute |
| October 3
Mysteries and Challenges of Agricultural Emissions to the Atmosphere |
Mark Zondlo, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| November 7
Visuality Against the Anthropocene: Landscape Vision and Things That Do Not See |
Rachael DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art; Professor of Art and Archaeology and American Studies |
| December 5
Where there is Fire, there is Smoke: Effects on Air Pollution and Mental Health in Canada |
Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs |
For more past seminars, please use the sidebar.