From the Institute Executive Director

As we reflect on a summer punctuated by devastating wildfires, historic flooding, and shattered heat records, there is no question that climate change is here. This is a complex and urgent challenge that requires everyone's participation. One of the Irving Institute's primary areas of focus is convening a diverse range of people, perspectives, and disciplines with the aim of catalyzing interdisciplinary collaborations that can help us avoid climate change's worst impacts.

This summer, we welcomed our second cohort of early-career climate and energy researchers to campus for our New Energy Summer Summit, a multi-day opportunity for the rising stars in this space to build the interdisciplinary networks needed to create high-impact solutions. We also launched the Greenshot Climate Solutions Accelerator, an innovative new hybrid program that invites climate entrepreneurs from Dartmouth and beyond to propel their seed-stage climate startups to the next level. You can read more about both initiatives below.

Meeting the challenges of a climate-changing world is no small task, but we know that if we continue to work together and engage across disciplines, perspectives, and communities, our chances of success are much greater. We look forward to collaborating with you over the next year on this critical work.

~ April M. Salas

Irving Institute and Magnuson Center Launch New Climate Solutions Accelerator

The Irving Institute for Energy and Society and the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship are excited to announce the launch of Greenshot, Dartmouth’s accelerator for climate solution entrepreneurs. Participants will benefit from exclusive access to Dartmouth’s reach and resources: engaged alumni in climate fields, expert mentorship, customer development, working and lab space, and student consulting teams. Greenshot offers a curriculum shaped by expert faculty from the Tuck School of Business and other partners and successful entrepreneurs to prepare participating startups for scaling and fundraising, and the chance to win up to $75K in non-dilutive funding. Greenshot is open to all entrepreneurs and is formatted as a hybrid program that allows participation from any location.

The deadline to apply is October 27. Learn more here and apply at dartmouthgreenshot.org.

New Energy Summer Summit Brings 19 Interdisciplinary Early-Career Researchers to Campus

Against a backdrop of accelerating climate challenges, and with a heightened sense of urgency, purpose, and positivity, the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society convened its second cohort of early-career energy and climate researchers during the New Energy Summer Summit in July. Building on the summer ’22 Summit's successes while adding some new elements, the Institute welcomed 19 "Summiteers" from 17 US and Canadian universities (including Dartmouth!) to campus from July 23-26.

"The Summit provides a unique opportunity for researchers at the start of their academic careers to meet other researchers from across the disciplines to work together to devise solutions to pressing energy and climate challenges," said Dr. Megan Litwhiler, Irving Institute Advanced Learning Initiatives Program Manager. "We're hoping to catalyze new interdisciplinary opportunities and help expand a growing and high-impact network that will play a role in devising equitable and durable climate and energy solutions."

Read more.

Baltic LEAP Foreign Study Program Gives Dartmouth Students a Summer of Learning About Culture, Energy, and Government

Mark Your Calendars! Dartmouth Climate and Energy Week: October 9 -14

Dartmouth Energy and Climate News

McGuire Prizewinner on Campus for Climate and Energy Week: Energy for Growth Hub Research Director and Irving Institute Advisory Board member Rose Mutiso ’08, TH’08, will give a public talk, lead a science communications workshop, receive the McGuire Prize for Social Impact, and more at Dartmouth in October.

Research from Dartmouth and Associate Professor of Geography and Institute Affiliate Jonathan Winter is cited in this USA Today article, this Boston Globe article, this WMUR video, and this NY Magazine article.

Summer Plagued by Heavy Rain, Air Quality Concerns: Institute Affiliates Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Laura Paulin, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Erich Osterberg, and Jonathan Winter are quoted in this The Dartmouth student newspaper article.

Teaching and Scholarship: The 2023 Faculty Awards: Irving Institute Affiliates Weiyang (Fiona) Li, the William P. Harris Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering and Caitlin Hicks Pries, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences were honored for their exceptional accomplishments in teaching and mentoring, research, and other service to Dartmouth.

Indigenizing Arctic Research: A five-institution collaborative co-led by Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies (IAS) has been awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to inform and influence the future of Arctic research through an innovative, Indigenous-led, Indigenous Knowledge engagement process.

Mathieu Morlighem and the Science of Ice Sheets: Dartmouth profiles Evans Family Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences and Institute Affiliate Mathieu Morlighem in this video.

Faster Permits Alone Won't Build a U.S. Clean-Energy Supply Chain: Environmental Studies Professor and the Irving Institute's inaugural director Elizabeth Wilson co-authors this op-ed in the Union Leader focused on sustainable and equitable solutions for increasing domestic mining.