Stanford University
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Emily Gwynn
Program Coordinator, Energy Science & Engineering
Current Role at StanfordProgram Coordinator, Energy Science & Engineering, Doerr School of Sustainability
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Angela Halfpenny
Director, Integrated Shared Laboratory Management, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability - Dean's Office
Current Role at StanfordDirector, Integrated Shared Laboratory Management
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Andrew Hennig
Research Asst - Graduate, Oceans
BioAntarctic ice sheet, both of which have exhibited significant mass loss over the past few decades. If the two ice sheets were to fully collapse, they could be responsible for up to 15m of global sea level rise (roughly equal parts from both). This sea level rise would not only pose serious problems for coastal settlements, but cause serious changes to ecosystems, and could profoundly alter the Earth’s ocean circulation.
Current estimates of the mass balance for ice sheets are based primarily on satellite data. This data has become more accurate and more available than ever before, since the 1990s. While estimates can be provided by satellite data, satellites are limited by virtue of the fact that they can only evaluate the surface of the ice shelf. Recent research has shown that a significant amount of the mass loss from the West Antarctic ice sheet is happening underwater, along grounding lines, where deep waters, warmed by global warming, enter the area underneath the ice shelf, and melt the shelves from the bottom. This not only results in mass loss directly, but increases calving of glaciers into the ocean, further accelerating their loss. This melting, below the surface of the ice shelves, cannot be estimated by satellites.
To get a better understanding of the impact of warmer deep waters on glacial retreat in Western Antarctica, we need to measure the melt more directly. Using highly precise measurements of salinity and isotopic composition of seawater in coastal regions of Western Antarctica, we can estimate the amount of glacial meltwater present in the oceanic adjacent to ice sheets. Gaining a greater understanding of the rates and locations of West Antarctic melting will be crucial to developing our understanding of future sea level rise, and other wider impacts. -
Holmes Hummel, PhD
Managing Director Energy Equity & Just Transitions, Precourt Institute for Energy
Current Role at StanfordEnergy Equity & Just Transitions, Managing Director
Precourt Institute for Energy
Resident Fellow, Explore Energy House
Coordinating Council Member, Environmental Justice Working Group
Advisory Member, Partnership in Climate Justice in the Bay
Collaborator in Collaborative Learning about Equity and Rapid Decarbonization (CLEAR Decarbonization), one of the first projects selected for an award from the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator -
Keith Iverson
IT/Web Manager, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability - Dean's Office
Current Role at StanfordIT/Web Manager at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Thomas Johnson
Water Communication and Knowledge Manager, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
BioTom manages communications for two water-related programs within the Stanford Woods Insitute for the Environment: Water in the West; and Water, Health & Development. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2022, Tom managed a graduate program at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo that prepared students for careers in the dairy foods industry. A seasoned communications professional, he once served as business editor at The Coloradoan, a Gannett daily newspaper, and was editor of Outlook Magazine, a publication of Colorado State University's College of Natural Sciences. Tom earned a Master's degree in Watershed Science from Colorado State University and was the founding director of the Colorado Springs-based Fountain Creek Watershed Project, an intergovernmental task force that won consensus buy-in for a plan that guides management of the Pikes Peak watershed. Tom is also an award-winning cheesemaker and musician.
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Rob Jordan
Associate Editor, Environment and Sustainability, Woods Institute
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Editor, Environment and Sustainability, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Arpita Kalra
Program Manager, Precourt Institute for Energy
BioArpita Kalra is a program manager at the Precourt Institute for Energy. In this role she supports the Institute's outreach efforts and manages current and upcoming external engagement programs. Prior to Stanford, she worked in the advertising industry as a media planner and buyer where she developed and executed marketing campaigns across print, electronic and social media. Arpita holds a masters in Marketing Communications from the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) in India and a bachelors in Statistics from Delhi University.
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Isik C Kizilyalli
Senior Director of Technology (R&D), Sustainability Accelerator
BioDr. Isik C. Kizilyalli currently serves as the Senior Director of Technology (R&D) Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. In his new role, Kizilyalli brings a wealth of research and management experience working in technology R&D in both the public and private sectors.
Most recently, Kizilyalli served as the Associate Director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Department of Energy (ARPA-E). At the elite moonshot funding organization, he oversaw and coordinated program development and management of early-stage, high-impact energy technology solutions across all mission areas of the agency. Furthermore, he personally directed projects that covered semiconductor devices; power electronics and power systems; electric distribution and transmission grids; grid resiliency against aging, EMP, space weather, natural disaster, and cyber threats; technologies aiding to decommission abandoned subsea and on-land oil, gas, and coal assets; subsurface instrumentation including advanced drilling concepts that enable enhanced geothermal systems; and electrification of aviation and the development of regional airports.
Now at Stanford, he aims to apply that same active program management methodology to Accelerator projects and programs on campus with hands-on support and engagement. He will contribute to the Sustainability Accelerator facilitating Stanford researchers to develop scalable sustainability solutions with global impact in collaboration with international resources.
Before joining ARPA-E, Kizilyalli served as founder and CEO/CTO of Avogy Inc. and Zolt Inc., venture backed start-ups focused on a new class of GaN power semiconductor switches and efficient and compact power converters. At the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Zolt Inc. was a CES Best of Innovation Awards Honoree, Best Startup CES finalist (by Engadget), a Top Tech of CES nominee (by Digital Trends), and a Top Pick CES (by Laptop Magazine).
Previously, at AT&T Bell Laboratories and its spinouts, he is credited with the development of four generations of CMOS transistors for integrated circuits, the discovery of the hydrogen/deuterium isotope effect in hot electron related device degradation, modeling, and reliability studies. Later, he served as the technical manager for the development of InP-based optoelectronics (detectors and high-speed electronics) technologies and RF LDMOS devices for base station communications. This was followed by a senior management role at Nitronex Corporation and a technical founder position at solar PV startup Alta Devices, where his team still holds the world record for single junction solar cell conversion efficiency.
Kizilyalli was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2007 for his contributions to "Integrated Circuit Technology". He also received the Bell Laboratories’ Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award and the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (ISPSD) in 2013. Kizilyalli holds his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in Metallurgy, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering all from the University of Illinois (Urbana). He has published a Springer-Nature book titled "Direct Current Fault Protection" and has two more books under contract with Springer Nature titled “Wide Bandgap Power Electronics: Emerging Converter Technologies and Applications” and “Gallium Nitride and Related Materials: Device Processing and Materials Characterization for Power Electronics Applications.” Dr. Kizilyalli has published more than 100 papers and holds 127 issued U.S. patents. -
Karalee Elizabeth Kokeny
Financial Analyst, Precourt Institute for Energy
Current Role at StanfordFinancial Analyst, Precourt Institute for Energy
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Margaret Krebs
Program Designer, Earth Leadership Program, Woods Institute
Current Role at StanfordDirector, Leading Interdisciplinary Collaborations and Program Designer, Earth Leadership Program