Fwd: Peter Eisenberger on "Rapid Scaling of Equitable Climate Innovations" Thursday 11/17 3:30 pm CST HPAC Presentation
Ron Baiman
From: Ron Baiman <rpba...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Peter Eisenberger on "Rapid Scaling of Equitable Climate Innovations" Thursday 11/17 3:30 pm CST HPAC Presentation
To: healthy-planet-action-coalition <healthy-planet-...@googlegroups.com>
Dear Colleagues,
It
is our great pleasure and honor to host a talk by Peter Eisenberger on: “The
Need to Rapidly Scale Equitable Climate Innovations,” at our upcoming Nov. 17,
2022 3:30 - 5:00 pm CST HPAC General Meeting.
Zoom link here (and copied below):
https://benu.zoom.us/j/88553114205?pwd=RTRhSGZCZ0t0bmdjY296RVJJTzlXZz09
Please forward this invitation and spread the word among your colleagues and friends!
I doubt that Peter needs an introduction to many of us as he has been such a prominent figure in climate science, entrepreneurship, and policy for so many years. However, I will attempt a short biography below.
Peter is a materials science physicist who is currently a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and was formerly Vice Provost of the Earth Institute and Director of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, at Columbia University. He is also co-founder and CTO, with CEO and fellow Columbia University Prof. Graciela Chichilniski (Argentine economist and lead designer and negotiator of the Kyoto Protocol), of Global Thermostat, a DAC company that has developed (among many other things) a technology for converting natural gas electric power generation into a negative GHG emissions (better than zero emissions) technology to support a rapid transition to a fully (REME) “Renewable Energy and Material Economy” (a concept also pioneered by Peter). Of particular relevance to this talk, Peter has also co-founded, with Graciela and Nadia Kock, the Elk Coast Institute, hosted a summit and produced a report on Energy Equity: https://elkinstitute.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/energy-equity-report-eci.pdf, and that a number of HPAC members including: Nadia (Director of the Elk Coast Institute), Doug, and Ron, participated in. Peter and Nadia are both signatories to HPAC letters.
More detailed biographies from the Global Thermostat and Columbia University websites are copied below:
Dr. Peter Eisenberger is the co-founder of Global Thermostat. A renowned scientist, corporate research executive, business entrepreneur, and leading academic, Dr. Eisenberger started his career at Bell Labs, where he pioneered the use of particle accelerators to produce intense X-rays to conduct basic research on the fundamental properties of materials. Dr. Eisenberger was then recruited by Exxon, following the oil shocks of the late 1970s, to lead their Physical Sciences R&D laboratory, where he led a team of international scientists looking at alternative energy technologies, including solar energy. He left Exxon for Princeton University, where he was appointed Professor of Physics and founded the Princeton Material Institute, which focused on multidisciplinary applied research in environmental technologies among others. In 1996, Dr. Eisenberger joined Columbia University where he was appointed Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vice-Provost, and founding Director of the Columbia Earth Institute and Director of the renowned Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Dr. Eisenberger holds degrees in physics from Princeton and Harvard.
Peter
Eisenberger attended Princeton University from 1959-1963, where he received a
B.A. in Physics with honors. He received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for his
first year at Harvard University and a Harvard Fellowship for his second year.
He graduated in 1967 from Harvard University with Ph.D. in Applied Physics and
remained at Harvard for one year as a Post Doctoral Fellow, where he did
research in both biophysics and on the polaron problem. In 1968 he joined the
staff at Bell Laboratories, where his research centered on using Compton
Scattering to determine the momentum distribution of electrons in metals and
semiconductors. From 1974-1981 he was a department head at Bell Laboratories,
and his research interests switched to using X-ray produced by Synchrotron
radiation to study structural properties of complex solids and surfaces. He was
a consulting professor at Stanford University’s Applied Physics Department from
1981-1987. As an outgrowth of those interests, he became actively involved in
the growth of those facilities, including Chairship of the Advanced Photon
Steering Committee and participation in National Academy of Science (NAS) and
Department of Energy (DOE) studies. In 1981 he joined Exxon Research and
Engineering Company as Director of their Physical Sciences Laboratory. In 1989
he was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Princeton Materials
Institute at Princeton University. He is currently a Professor of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, where from 1996-1999 he held the
posts of Vice Provost of the Earth Institute of Columbia University and
Director of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
Dr. Eisenberger is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Eisenberger was one of
the authors of the National Action Plan for Materials Science and Engineering,
and was a member of the Commission on the Future of the National Science
Foundation (NSF). He was chair of the Advisory Committee in the Mathematical
and Physical Sciences Division of the NSF and serves as co-chair of the NSF
Conference "Organizing for R&D in the 21st Century". His recent
activities include Chairman of the Board of the Invention Factory Science
Center, Member of the Board of Trustees for New Jersey’s Inventors Hall of
Fame, Director of Associated Institutions for Materials Science, and organizer
of NSF/DOE Conferences, "Basic Research Needs for Vehicles of the
Future," "Basic Research Needs for Environmentally Responsive
Technologies of the Future," "Organizing for Research and Development
in the 21st Century," and "Basic Research Needs to Achieve
Sustainability: The Carbon Problem". More recently, he has been appointed
by Governor Whitman to the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology and
is a member of the GEO2000.
I hope to see you all on Thursday!
Best,
Ron
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