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:
Get involved with the EESG! The EESG is recruiting for four leadership positions: (1) Co-Chair (2) Treasurer, (3) Graduate Student Representative/Outreach Coordinator, and (4) Advisory Board Member.
Applications for these positions are due by Friday, February 20th by 11:59pm ET. To apply for one of these open positions, please email our group (aag....@gmail.com) with the following: 1) CV/resume and 2) Statement of Interest. In the subject of your email, please write “Leadership application: [position]: [your name].” For any questions regarding these positions or this process, please contact Ryan Stock (rys...@nmu.edu), Co-Chair of EESG.
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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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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.
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.
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).
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:
· Postdoctoral Associate, Nature-Based Solutions & Climate Migration. New York University (New York City, NY, US). Deadline: open until filled.
· 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
· 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.
· Postdoctoral Scholar - Agrivoltaics systems analysis and modeling. University of California-Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara CA, US). Deadline: Apr 6 (priority).
· Institute on the Environment Postdoctoral Fellowship. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis MN, US). Deadline: Apr 29.
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.
· Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (Environmental Justice). Hamilton College (Clinton NY, US). Deadline: Feb 20 (priority).
· Assistant Professor Urban Geography. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Minneapolis MN, US). Deadline: Mar 1
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.