Have you thought about who to nominate for the 2016 Freudenburg Award? Award Nominations are now open! We encourage you to learn about William “Bill” Freudenburg’s legacy and past recipients.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS MARCH 1, 2016.
CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE.
Beth Karlin, Awards Committee Chair, can answer your questions BKARLIN@USC.EDU.
Read more about the 2015 award winner, Tony Rosenbaum.
What time does the Superbowl start? (6:30pm EST for those wondering).
What time can I submit my proposal? Now until 11:59pm EST, Monday, February 8, 2016.
The program committee is hard at work reading through your submissions (and will continue to do so for the next few weeks).
We thank you for taking the time to share your work and hope to see you at AESS 2016.
So finalize those drafts between the commercials tonight. What, you’re going to watch the game, too? OK, ok, so finalize those drafts sometime before midnight tomorrow.
Peyton says – submit!
James E. “Jim” McMahon
Trained as a chemist/biophysicist, James E. “Jim” McMahon engaged in multi-disciplinary energy policy analysis for over 30 years at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He remains an Affiliate at LBNL and at the University of California, Berkeley, Energy Resources Group, where he advises faculty and students, and occasionally is a guest lecturer on energy and water efficiency, climate mitigation, and public policy. Jim is an active independent consultant in California, the USA and internationally, and is a regular contributor (author, program committee, and one-time co-chair) to such conferences as ACEEE (co-chair in 2000) and ECEEE Summer Studies on Energy Efficiency in Buildings; Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC); Alliance to Save Energy’s (Energy Efficiency) EE Global; and Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL). In 2011-2014, he participated in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Working Group 3 (Mitigation) as co-author of a new chapter Human Settlements, Spatial Planning, and Infrastructure.
“The greatest opportunities for innovation are at the boundaries between disciplines – the dynamic intertidal zones – where diverse partners can mutually learn from each other and collaborate on better approaches to sustainability.”
The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) is an independent faculty-and-student-based professional association in higher education, designed to serve the needs of environmental scholars and scientists who value interdisciplinary approaches to research, teaching, and problem-solving.
