Salata Scholars Series
Salata Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Our goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can't be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. Each week, we have one or two brief talks followed by (vegan) dinner and discussion. In Fall 2024, we will meet weekly on alternating Tuesdays at noon (HUCE, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge) and Wednesdays at 6pm (Salata Conference Room 3.5, 79 JFK St., Cambridge).
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Spring '24 Schedule
Week 1 | February 7
"What is the cheapest way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Lessons from carbon abatement costs" with Roxana Shafiee is an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment
Week 2 | February 15
"Project of Hope: Indigenous Land Recovery & Ecological Restoration" with Leyla Uysal, Harvard GSD
Week 3 | February 21
A dual talk on transformative sustainability strategies featuring Lingling Jiang, founder of Intrapreneurs with Purpose (IWP) and an MPA student at HKS, and Elena Indar Athwal, LL.M. Candidate in International Environmental & Energy Law at HLS.
Week 4 | February 29
"The role of Substantive Youth Participation and Representation in Advancing Climate Change Policies" with Neringa Tumenaite, Ph.D. Candidate, SOAS University of London, Fulbright Schuman Fellow at FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University
"Data-driven lessons from accessing international forest carbon funding for Costa Rica and Côte d'Ivoire" with Rafael Monge, Mid-Career Master's in Public Administration student, Harvard Kennedy School, Former Director of the National Center of Geoenvironmental Information of the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica
Week 5 | March 6
"Potential threats to ocean biodiversity in the transition to renewable energy" with Jacqueline Evans, an MC-MPA 2024 student at the Harvard Kennedy School from the Cook Islands in the Pacific
Week 6 | March 20
"Geospatial Machine Learning: Data-focused algorithm design, development, and evaluation" with Esther Rolf is a postdoctoral fellow with the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Center for Research on Computation and Society
"Isotopes as a Tool to Investigate Organic Aerosol Emissions and Atmospheric Oxidation Pathways" with Daniel Crocker, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Week 7 | March 28
"From Meat to Greens: Transforming Taiwanese Diets for a Sustainable Future" with Sarah Wang
"Modeling Nutrition Transitions at Both Poles: the Arctic & Madagascar" with Sappho Gilbert
Week 8 | April 3
"Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing" with Adhitya Raghavan, HBS
"Deliberative Climate Politics - Comparing the Irish Citizens’ Assembly and the French Citizen Convention for Climate" with
Postdoctoral research fellow, Ash Center, HKS
Week 9 | April 11
"Can Doughnut Economics Guide Urban Development in Balance with People and Planet?" with Emil Bender Lassen in Public Policy student at HKS
"Regenerative Agrivoltaics as a path to net zero- the case for widespread implementation" with Anastassia Nefedova, Graduate Student (ALM) in Sustainability at the Harvard Extension School
Week 10 | April 17
"Private Wind Rights and Their Public Consequences" with Dolly Bai, 3L J.D. candidate at HLS
"Environmental History of Brazilian Hydropower: Reflecting on Past Experiences with Low-Carbon Energy" with Matthew P. Johnson, an environmental historian and 2022-2024 postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment