The Energy and Environment Institute invite you to their ‘Colloquium Series 2024’ – a platform to share knowledge and exchange research ideas.
We expect to hold one session each Wednesday afternoon, which will include speakers drawn from across our EEI and University of Hull communities, as well as guest speakers from other Universities and partner organisations.
We aim to programme speakers that are representative of the key challenges at the heart of the work of the Energy and Environment Institute. Speakers will fall loosely within six themes, including one on Skills to contribute to staff and student capacity building, as well as five research/knowledge focused themes:
We welcome speakers from across our University community, whose work falls into one or more of our six themes. If you are interested in speaking at an event, please contact eei@hull.ac.uk in the first instance.
See details here of this week's seminar.
Dr Alexander Osborne, Knowledge Exchange Fellow in Floods and SuDS, University of Hull
"SuDSlab UK- A Living Lab for Sustainable Drainage"
Hybrid and in person - Larkin LT-B
Flood Action Week (20th-26th November) highlighted that around 3.4 million properties are in areas at risk of surface water flooding in England. The urbanisation of the environment has led to the replacement of part of the natural water cycle, with a reduction in infiltration and an increase in runoff, leading to a greater risk of flooding. The use of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) is a form of flood management that can reduce the rate of runoff, leading to a more natural drainage solution. SuDSlab UK was setup to understand how well SuDS perform with four key objectives, Understand, Optimise, Encourage and Educate. Drainage systems are not only developed for the present, but for the future, so understanding and optimising them is of benefit for all.
The seminar will include recent works related to SuDSlab, collaboration with Living with Water and the Doncaster, Immingham and Grimsby surface water resilience project (DIG) and the what the future holds for SuDSlab.
If you are not able to join us in person please join online here.
See details here of this week's Water Cultures seminar.
Dr Kate Smith & Dr Hannah Worthen, Energy & Environment Institute
'New ways with old words: historical, place-based watery knowledge for engagement today'
Hybrid and in person - EEI Building, First Floor
This seminar will contain two short case study papers which represent some of the emerging watery, place-based research in the Risky Cities team.
‘Watery-place names for environmental engagement’ by Dr Kate Smith, will trace the roots of watery place-names alongside examples from community conversations that occurred as part of the Risky Cities project to illustrate the extent to which the resource of place based language may be a secret weapon in delivering impactful flood humanities research.
‘Watery Archives: recording and remembering floods in the past and present’ by Dr Hannah Worthen, will examine the flood archives of the past and consider how encouraging communities to connect with and participate in their local watery archives can be an effective tool to foster critical climate consciousness in the present.
If you are not able to join us in person please join online here.
See details here of this week's Water Cultures seminar.
Dr Ben Kolosz, Lecturer in Renewable Energy and Carbon Removal
'A Primer on Carbon Dioxide Removal'
Hybrid and in person - First Floor Meeting Area, EEI Building
Biography
Dr Kolosz is a Lecturer in Renewable Energy and Carbon Removal. He possesses >10 years of experience in carbon accounting, management, and removal through Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Assessment across a broad range of academic and industrial projects in the UK, USA and internationally. He is a former research fellow of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania and is a leading editor of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer, a book which aims to communicate globally the key CDR technologies and strategies to reduce climate change. He has won numerous awards for his contribution to the carbon removal field.
This talk aims to introduce in laymens terms the general concepts of carbon dioxide removal, why we need it, why it is completely different from decarbonization, why we should not completely rely on it and how we can ultimately use it to combat climate change and thus keep global temperatures to within 1.5C, while we still can…
If you are not able to join us in person please join online here.
See details here of this week's Water Cultures seminar.