EESG Outreach Digest

[Maddy Kroot]

Hello all!

 

Here’s the latest Outreach Digest from the Energy and Environment Specialty Group (EESG). Please continue sharing things directly with the listserv and AAG Knowledge Community pages! This digest email is not meant to replace direct postings, and we’ll be pulling from those emails as we put together the digest.

 

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EESG News:

 

Congrats to this year’s EESG award winners and honorable mentions! See our website for more information.

 

·         EESG Dissertation Data and Field Work Award: Sebastián Solarte-Caicedo (University of California Los Angeles)

·         Best Student Paper Award: Deniz Mine Öztürk (Clark University)

·         Best Student Paper Honorable Mention: Bruce Baigrie (Syracuse)

·         Advancing Diversity and Inclusion Award: Lyric Patterson (University of Michigan)

·         EESG Powershift Award: Sarah Kelly (Dartmouth College)

·         Energy Luminary Award: Tom Ptak (Texas State University), for the paper "Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography" (2025). Dialogues in Human Geography 

·         Energy Luminary Honorable Mention: Chinedu Nsude (University of Oklahoma), for the paper “Renewables but unjust? Critical restoration geography as a framework for addressing global renewable energy injustice” (2024) in Energy Research and Social Science

 

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the EESG’s Spring 2016 invited lecture by Dr. Patrick Devine-Wright (University of Exeter) on March 4, 12-1pm Eastern! Dr. Devine-Wright will be presenting his talk, titled “From place attachment to spatial imaginaries: how spatial thinking can advance understandings of energy infrastructure siting.” Click here to register for the Zoom link.

 

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the geographical and social dimensions of infrastructural change in energy systems, with a specific focus on the challenges of community engagement. I will review different conceptual approaches and discuss their implications for geographical and interdisciplinary understandings. This will be informed by presentation of empirical findings from several recent research projects conducted in the UK and Sweden, covering topics such as community objections to shale gas, the decarbonisation of industrial regions using technologies such as Hydrogen and CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage), and conflicts over the siting of transmission power lines in Sweden. Referencing my work as Director of the ACCESS network (Advancing Capacity in Environment and Climate Social Science), I will conclude with a discussion about the policy implications of this work, discuss the (social) science/policy nexus, and discuss ways to increase the visibility, impact and use of social science in policy making. 

 

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What is the EESG up to this year at AAG? Click here for the current list of EESG’s sponsored sessions for AAG 2026. Schedule of events coming soon!

 

Be sure to mark your calendar for EESG-organized events (all hybrid):

 

Tuesday, March 17:

·         10:10am – 11:30am Pacific: Energy Futures and Directions Panel

·         12:50pm – 2:10pm Pacific: California Energy and Climate Justice Panel

 

Thursday, March 19:

·         2:30pm – 3:50pm Pacific: Environmental and Climate Law and Policy in 2023 Plenary Panel (with Legal Geographies)

 

Friday, March 20:

·         8:30am – 9:50am Pacific: EESG Business Meeting

·         10:10am – 11:30am Pacific: Power Hour!

·         12:50pm – 2:10pm Pacific: Fresh Energies in the Classroom: Teaching Energy Geographies Workshop

·         4:10pm – 5:30pm Pacific: EESG Plenary by Jenn Baka: Political-Industrial Ecology for Just Energy Futures

 

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Not part of the EESG, but may be of interest: for those whose work intersects with energy history, there is a new listserv (EnergHist) connected to the energy history subgroup of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). You do not need to be a member of SHOT to join. Click here to join.

 

 

Funding Opportunities and awards:

·         Early-Career Faculty Support for Interdisciplinary Energy System Research. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Letters of inquiry due Mar 17.

 

WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND MORE!

·         Call for sessions, papers and posters for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 program. Conference will take place in London, UK at the Society and Imperial College London, and online, from September 2-4, 2026. The deadline for submissions for the conference programme (organised sessions, papers and posters) is Friday, March 6, 2026.

·         "Energy geographies books and special issues: Convening authors and editors to reflect on the evolving discipline" session at the Nordic Geographers Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland from June 22-25th, 2026. Deadline to apply: Mar 23. Contact: Siddharth Sareen (ssa...@fni.no).

·         Summer Schools at Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Topics this year include Global Energy Transitions, Governing Climate Change, and Environmental Justice in Theory and Practice. Dates of classes vary by course. Applications close March 31. Early bird discount available for applications completed before March 31.

·         New Energy Summer Summit. Summit dates: July 26-29 (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH). Deadline: Apr 1.

·         A 2-day energy data lab for early career researchers, including Python tutorials, open lab time, and networking, leading up to the Macro-Energy Systems workshop. August 11-12, 2026 at Georgia Tech; in-person only. Hosted by the Catalyst Cooperative. Deadline to apply: April 3.

 

PhD Positions:

·         Towards just energy renovations: design and evaluation of energy efficiency policies with equity criteria using optimization models. Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid, Spain). Open until filled.

 

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:

·         Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow) - Center for Place, Culture & Politics. City University of New York (New York City, NY US). Deadline: Mar 5

·         Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Climate Change Impacts. Indiana University-Bloomington (Bloomington IA, US). Deadline: Mar 13 (priority)

·         Postdoctoral Research Fellow Opportunity. University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN US). Deadline: Mar 15.

·         Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Ethnography. Colorado School of Mines (Golden CO, US). Deadline: Mar 15 (priority)

·         Postdoctoral Scholar - Agrivoltaics systems analysis and modeling. University of California-Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CA, US). Deadline: Apr 6 (priority).

·         CASI Postdoctoral Climate Fellow. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA US). Deadline: Apr 23 (priority).

·         Institute on the Environment Postdoctoral Fellowship. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis MN, US). Deadline: Apr 29.

·         Postdoctoral Fellowship. The New School (New York City, NY US). Deadline: May 1

·         Post Doctoral Fellow in Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Buildout. Emory University (Atlanta GA, US). Deadline: May 30

 

FACULTY JOB POSTINGS:

·         Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of MSCEP (Masters of Science in Climate and Energy Policy). University of Chicago (Chicago IL, US). Deadline: open until filled.

·         Assistant Professor of Human Development (Environmental Justice). California State University-Long Beach (Long Beach CA, US). Deadline: Open until filled

·         Assistant Teaching Professor, Environmental Studies. University of Tampa (Tampa FL, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·         Assistant/Associate Professor - School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability - Tenure Track. Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo MI, US). Deadline: Open until filled

·         Assistant or Associate Professor of the Practice. North Carolina State University (Raleigh NC, US). Deadline: open until filled.

·         Environmental Sciences Faculty and Assistant Director. Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·         Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Geoscience; Sustainability. University of North Alabama (Florence AL, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·         Visiting Assistant Professor in International Studies (political, cultural, or environmental geography). Boston College (Chestnut Hill MA, US). Deadline: Mar 17

·         Assistant Teaching Professor of Indigenous Environmental Studies. University of Montana-Missoula (Missoula MT, US). Deadline: Mar 18 (priority).

·         Teaching Professor (Open Ranks) in Sustainability. Arizona State University (Tempe AZ, US). Deadline: Mar 20 (priority)

·         Open Rank Faculty Position in Geographic Education. Texas State University (San Marcos TX, US). Deadline: Mar 29

·         Lecturer in Human Geography. Dartmouth College (Hanover NH, US). Deadline: Mar 30 (priority).

·         Full-Time Lecturer – Geography. California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo, CA US). Deadline: Apr 6

 

 

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The Energy and Environment Specialty Group sends out a digest email every two weeks with events or opportunities we think might be of interest to the specialty group. This email is not meant to be an exhaustive list or to replace regular messaging on the EESG listserv, but as a way to compile information and resources together in one place.