2023 Speaker Slides and Audio Recordings

2023 Fall Symposium, "Think and Do: Climate Challenges and Solutions" audio recordings and speaker slides that are able to be shared. You can also see the full list of speakers with links to their bios.

Keynote: Ariana Eily

Audio Recording

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“Where Science & Art Meet, Society Benefits”

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Climate Leaders Program Student Lightning Talks

Audio Recording

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Student-Mentor Teams

Session 1: Clean Energy Options

Session 1 Audio Recordings

Jennifer Mundt

Assistant Secretary – NC Clean Energy and Economic Development

“North Carolina Clean Energy Policies, Initiatives, and Opportunities”

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Jason Hou

Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering – NC State University

“Let’s Talk Nuclear”

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Daniela Jones

Assistant Professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering – NC State University

“Agriculture Analytics to Decarbonize our Food and Energy Needs”

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Session 2: Energy Actions

Session 2 Audio Recordings

Autumn Proudlove

Associate Director of Policy & Markets – NC Clean Energy Technology Center

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Matt Abele

Interim Executive Director – NC Sustainable Energy Association

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Jennifer Weiss

Co-Director – NC Clean Energy Fund

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Session 3: Carbon and Climate

Session 3 Audio Recording

Raghubir Gupta

President and Co-founder – Susteon

“Introduction to Susteon: Technology Portfolio for Mitigating Climate Change

Joe Sagues

Assistant Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering – NC State University

“The Potential for Biomass Carbon Removal & Storage in the US Bioeconomy”

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Sonja Salmon

Associate Professor in Wilson College of Textiles – NC State University

“Biocatalytic Textiles: Technology that removes CO2 from point sources and directly from air”

Session 4: Food and Climate

Session 4 Audio Recording

Alan Franzluebbers

Co-Director of Agriculture Research Services – USDA Southeast Climate Hub

“Climate Change and Agricultural Production: Resilience through Conservation”

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Minliang Yang

Assistant Professor in Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Science – NC State University

“Ex-ante LCA and cost analysis of non-thermal food technologies”

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Ryan Bethea

Owner – Oysters Carolina

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Session 5: Adaptation to Extreme Weather

Session 5 Audio Recording

Gwen Collman

Director, Office of Scientific Coordination, Planning and Evaluation – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

“Climate Challenges and Solutions: NIH-Wide Climate Change and Health Initiative”

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Maureen Sullivan

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environmental)

“DoD & Climate Change. Really? Yes, Really.”

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Joseph Roise

Professor of Forestry and Operations Research – NC State University

Talk not available in audio recording.

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