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ROLES FOR SMART BUILDINGS IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Jordan Clark, PhD
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
As we move toward a solution to the twin climate and energy challenges, the variable and less certain output of renewable energy sources must be met with a similar degree of flexibility on the demand side. At the moment, electricity demand in the United States is dominated by buildings, and thus buildings will play an outsized role in providing this flexibility.
This talk discusses a few completed, current, and upcoming projects at Ohio State that are helping buildings get “smarter” and expand the flexibility that they can offer. This includes a large U.S. Department of Energy-funded project that will leverage the Columbus campus to demonstrate a path to not just smart buildings but smart and connected communities and cities.
GREENING THE COMMUTE: INSIGHTS FROM TWO TRANSPORTATION STUDIES
Andre Carrel, PhD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Dr. Andre L. Carrel is an assistant professor of transportation and the director of Ohio State's Travel Behavior Research Group. His expertise is in travel demand modeling and public transportation, and his research focuses on the dynamics of travel behavior, travelers’ adaptation to experienced service quality, and the impact of emerging mobility technologies on travel behavior. His research contributes to the forecasting of long-term trends in travel behavior and has practical implications for designing policies to promote more sustainable travel choices and to strengthen public transportation.
His principal methods involve complex, survey-based studies, discrete choice models, and the integration of automatically collected data from mobile phones with survey data.
ROLE OF UV IN THE FUTURE OF SAFE WATER
Natalie Hull, PhD
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Prof. Hull studies water microbiology at fundamental and system scales. Her academic background is in civil engineering (University of Kentucky, University of Colorado Boulder) and environmental engineering (University of Colorado Boulder), with post-graduate professional molecular biology and microbiome research (University of Colorado Boulder).
Dr. Hull leads the Water TEAM (Treatment Engineering And Microbiome) research group, which investigates sustainable engineering of water microbiology to protect human and environmental health. Her fundamental scale research focuses on optimizing physical ultraviolet light treatment and cellular/enzymatic biological water treatment to combat microbial threats.
BIOMIMETIC POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION
Alper Yilmaz, PhD
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The Indoor Microbiome: Novel Applications in Mold Prevention, Healthy Spacecraft, and COVID-19 Surveillance
Karen Dannemiller, PhD
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
We spend 90% of our time indoors where we are continuously exposed to diverse microbial communities. This talk will highlight three applications where enhanced understanding of the fungi, bacteria, and viruses in our indoor space can improve our health.
First, we demonstrate that elevated relative humidity in the air is sufficient to support microbial growth in carpet and dust, and this can be modeled quantitatively using the time-of-wetness framework. Prevention of mold growth in homes is especially important for underserved communities who may be more likely to reside in poor quality housing and/or have asthma.
Second, these findings can be applied in a wide variety of environments, including on the International Space Station (ISS) to ensure that astronauts can remain healthy during long-duration space travel.
Finally, these measurement techniques have resulted in a novel surveillance tool to monitor viral diseases such as COVID-19.
Equitable Energy Transitoin In Our Backyard
Jeffrey Bielicki, PhD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Scientific consensus overwhelmingly concludes that we must transition our energy systems to rely on resources and processes that are much more benign than at present. Are you interested in learning about efforts to address climate change, health disparities, and needs for energy and mobility? And in doing so in ways that address historical inequities? Join me as I speak about the latest understanding and how our FLEETS for All project -- a $1.1M project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- is a community-engaged effort to bend trajectories for electrified energy and mobility in ways that improve conditions for fifteen communities in the Columbus Metropolitan Area that exhibit hallmark effects of having been historically underserved and marginalized. Among other metrics these communities have higher rates of asthma, infant mortality, incarceration, low birthrates, violent crimes, unemployment, and vacancies relative to all of Franklin County.
FLEETS for All is collaboration of faculty from five colleges across the university, the City of Columbus, Franklin County Public Health, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, and the Electrification Coalition that will (a) partner with the underserved communities to understand their needs for electrified energy and mobility and evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of existing efforts to increase the provision of electrified energy and mobility; (b) develop transition investment and deployment strategies so that electrified energy and mobility improve health, environmental, and social conditions over time for communities across the urbanexurban- rural gradient; and (c) understand how knowledge, perception, and values vary across individual and identity and community and group affiliations and design and evaluate informational interventions based on inter-identity group variations to inform individual and domicile-level decisions for the energy transitions.
Drinking Water Affordability: Past, Present and Future
Daniel Gingerich, PhD
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Starting with the initial legislative hearings around the Safe Drinking Water Act in the 1970s, affordability of water service provision – and how to define it - has been a hotly contested topic by policy makers, utilities, and community activists. This talk will explore the past, present, and future of this concept over the past two and a half decades – starting with the Arsenic regulation in the early 2000s; the state of water rates and affordability today in Ohio; and what the implications might be of future regulations for engineers, utilities, and their rate payers.
Performance of Structures Under Extreme Loads
Halil Sezen, PhD
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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