Learn more about Dartmouth research projects that have been funded by the Irving Institute by category. Click or tap on each category to view projects to date.
An Organo-clay Composite to Remove Atmospheric CO2 and Increase Soil Fertility
Project Leader: Mukul Sharma, Professor of Earth Sciences; Annie Kandel, Project Manager (Sharma Lab); Brin Jaffe, UG Intern (Sharma Lab)
2024
Towards Accurate Carbon Accounting in Soils
Project leadership team: Joshua D. Landis, Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Earth Sciences; Carl E. Renshaw, Professor, Dept. Earth Sciences; Caitlin Hicks Pries, Associate Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences; Sophie von Fromme, Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. Biological Sciences; Mukul Sharma, Professor, Dept. Earth Sciences
2024
Decarbonization via Microbial Methane Sequestration
Project leadership team: Ekaterina V. Pletneva, Professor Department of Chemistry; William D. Leavitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
2024
Soil Incubation Experiments to Inform a Strategy for Cellulosic Biofuel Production that Avoids Land Competition and Enhances Soil Health
Project Team: Caitlin Hicks Pries (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences), Lee Lynd (Professor, Thayer), Michelle Wang (student); Sarah Goldsmith (Staff, Biological Sciences)
2021; Additional funding 2023.
The Dartmouth Big Green-Energy House: Impacts of Geothermal Energy Technology for Agriculture
Project Team: Theresa Ong (Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies), Caitlin Hicks Pries (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences); Laura Braasch (staff, Sustainability Office); Molly McBride (staff, Sustainability Office): Alana Danieu (Research Asst), Undergraduate and graduate students
2021
Woody Biofuels in the State Of New Hampshire: Analyzing the Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest-Based Bioenergy in the Granite State
Project Lead: David Lutz, Environmental Studies Department
2019
Energy Justice: Pedagogy and Practice
Project Leads: Sarah Kelly (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology), Maron Greenleaf (Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Anthropology)
2021
Teaching the Social Lives of Clean Energy
Project Lead: Laura Ogden, Anthropology Department
2020
Developing Dartmouth General Chemistry Curriculum Toward Energy and the Environment
Project Lead: Anita Prasad, Chemistry Department
2019
Lebanon's Transactive Energy Blockchain Prototype
Project Lead: Amro Farid, Thayer School of Engineering
2019
Constructing Effective Demand Response Programs in New Hampshire's Electric Market
Project Leads: Junyang Cui '21 and Harish Tekriwal '21 (Economics majors)
2019
Human Exposure, Health and Societal Issues in Rural New Hampshire Associated with Wood and Pellet Stoves as Home Heating Sources
Project Leads: Brian Jackson, Earth Sciences Department; Laura Paulin, Geisel School of Medicine
2020
Quantification of Air Pollution from Natural Gas Development and Relationship to Health Outcomes Project Leads: Charlotte Ward, Margaret Karagas, Geisel School of Medicine
Dartmouth Rural Health and Energy Equity Advancement Lab (DR-HE2AL)
Project Leads: Lisa Adams, Geisel School of Medicine; Anne Sosin, Dickey Center for International Understanding
2019
Climate-informed Pediatric Care – An Improvement Project for Pediatric Primary Care
PI: Robert McClellan, Professor, Active Emeritus, The Dartmouth Institute; Co-PIs: W. Carl Cooley, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics; Sarah Crockett, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; and Erich Osterberg, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences2023
Written on the Land: Observations on Sustainability in the Louisiana Bayou and the California Desert
Project Lead: Virginia Beahan, Studio Art
2020
A Photographic Exploration of Energy
Project Lead: Eli Burakian, Dartmouth Communications Office
2020
Convergence: Bridging the Gap Between Art and Science
Project Lead: Mary Lou Aleskie, Hopkins Center for the Arts
2019
Searching for New Rare-Earth-Free High-Performance Permanent Magnets
Project Team: Ian Baker, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering; Sarah Slotznick, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences; Geoffroy Hautier, Hogdson Family Associate Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering
2024
3D Printing Enhanced Catalysis for Energy Conversion and Production
Project team: Yan Li, Assistant Professor of Engineering; Abhishek Singh, Postdoc; Ya Tang, Graduate Student; Andrew Kim and Jace Henry, Undergraduate Students
2024
Tuning the Molecular Design of Porous Electrodes for Selective CO2 Reduction into Fuels
Project Leads: Weiyang (Fiona) Li, Thayer School of Engineering; Katherine Mirica, Chemistry Department
2020
Engineering Robust Bifacial Architectures for Boosting the Efficiency of Low-Cost Perovskite Solar Energy
Project Leads: William Scheideler and Jifeng Liu, Thayer School of Engineering
2019
Ambient Energy Harvesting Devices to Power the Internet of Things-Based Sensor Networks
Project Lead: Lin Dong, Thayer School of Engineering
2019
High Performance Nickel-Iron (NiFe) Permanent magnetics for Electric Motors and Turbines
Project Lead: Ian Baker, Thayer School of Engineering
2019
Powering the Carbon-Neutral Energy Cycle: Energy-Efficient Catalysts For Co2 Reduction
Project Leads: Weiyang (Fiona) Li, Thayer School of Engineering; Katherine Mirica, Chemistry Department
2019
Effective Messaging for Promoting Actions to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts
Project Leadership Team: Carl Renshaw, Professor, Earth Sciences; Kimberly Rose Clark, Lecturer, Psychology and Brain Sciences; Erich Osterberg, Professor, Earth Sciences
2024
Mapping Country-wide Energy Access for the Majority World
Project Lead: Neeti Pokhriyal, Computer Science
2020
Renewable Energy for the Majority World: A Pilot Project in Fond Des Blancs Haiti
Project Lead: Jack Wilson, Studio Art
2019
Community Energy Dashboard
April Salas, Revers Center for Energy at Tuck; Margaret Karagas, Geisel School of Medicine
2019
Survey of Energy and Indigenous Environmental Studies in the Americas
Project Lead: Laura Ogden, Anthropology Department
2019
Sustainable Energy for Remote and Underserved Communities
Project Lead: Mary Albert, Thayer School of Engineering
2019
Hydropower Development and Knowledge Controversies in Transboundary Rivers
Project Lead: Christopher Sneddon, Geography Department
2019
