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.
You can also submit items directly by filling out this form or emailing Maddy Kroot (maddy...@wisc.edu).
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EESG News:
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.
Not from EESG, but many members may also be interested in applying for awards from the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group. Deadlines vary by award. The last deadline is Feb 15 for the Field Study Award and Scholar-Activist Award.
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Are you organizing a session for AAG 2026? Would you like to request sponsorship by the Energy and Environment Specialty Group? Please complete this sponsorship request form.
Note that effective March 31, 2025, the EESG leadership team voted to require all events, gatherings, happenings, or meetings to have a virtual option for participation in order to receive our official sponsorship. Virtual options include (but are not limited to) virtual streaming, hybrid sessions, with or without an option to have the have the event recorded for asynchronous viewing and future engagement. This decision was made to support the EESG's ongoing commitments to climate action, decarbonizing AAG meetings, and improving accessibility of EESG events to those who cannot be physically present.
Further questions about EESG sponsorship of sessions should be directed to the EESG email (aag....@gmail.com) or the current EESG secretary, Maddy Kroot (maddy...@wisc.edu).
You will hear back via email about your request within a week. Upon email approval of your sponsorship request, you will need to manually add EESG sponsorship to your session within the AAG portal.
Looking for a session for your work? Click here for the current list of EESG’s sponsored sessions for AAG 2026.
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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. Information webinar on Feb 3, 1-2pm ET.
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.
· Critical Geographies Mini-Conference and the Bodies, Health, and Environments Unconference. Temple University (Philadelphia PA, US), Apr 24-26. Let organizers know of your intent to participate by Feb 10. For the BHE Unconference, email Allison Hayes-Conroy at an...@temple.edu. For the Critical Geographies submission, submit an abstract (up to 200 words + 5 keywords) and/or organize an alternate-format session for, please fill out this form.
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:
· SCALES (Scholars for Climate and Advanced Leadership in Environment and Sustainability) Postdoctoral Fellows Program. Duke University (Durham NC, US). Deadline: Feb 15
· Postdoctoral Fellow - Gulf Coast Resilience. Auburn University (Auburn AL, US). Deadline: Feb 16 (priority)
· Fellowships in Legal Studies. University at Buffalo (Buffalo NY, US). Deadline: Feb 22.
· Post Doctoral Research Associate - Renewable Energy Development. University of Massachusetts - Amherst (Amherst MA, US). Deadline: Feb 27
· Postdoctoral Associate Positions at the Digital Ethics Center. Yale University (New Haven CT, US). Deadline: Mar 1
· Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Postdoctoral Associate in Just and Equitable Cities. Cornell University (Ithaca NY, US). Deadline: Mar 1
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.
· Energy, Sustainability and Climate - Assistant Professor. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) - Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE). Deadline: open until filled.
· Environmental Sciences Faculty and Assistant Director. Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· Policy Studies (1-year, start Fall 2026). Grinnell College (Grinnell IA, US). Deadline: Feb 7
· Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change Professor or Associate Professor, Tenured. Brock University (St Catherines, Ontario Canada). Deadline: Feb 14
· Research Chair (Full or Associate Professor). Brock University (St Catherines Ontario, Canada). Deadline: Feb 14.
· Assistant Professor Climate Science and Agricultural Resilience. University of Wisconsin-River Falls (River Falls, WI US). Deadline: Feb 15 (priority)
· Synergies for Sustainability Solutions Cluster Hire Initiative - Multiple Open Rank Faculty Positions. University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington TX, US). Deadline: Feb 15 (priority)
· Assistant Professor of Environmental Science. University of North Carolina at Asheville (Asheville NC, US). Deadline: Feb 15 (priority)
What is this email?
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.