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Fall 2025 Speaker Series

Speaker: Alison Bates, PhD

Assistant Professor,

Department of Environmental Studies,

Colby College.

Date and Time: Friday, October 31st 2025 at 1:00pm Eastern Time

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Seminar Title: Strong convictions, loosely held: Attitudinal change towards offshore wind in virtual environments

Description: Although offshore wind may contribute significantly to the U.S. energy transition, development has been stymied by opposition from ocean users. The Gulf of Maine is a region in the Northeast U.S. that has intermittently been under intense scrutiny as wind energy projects have been proposed; the State of Maine received a federal research lease in 2024 to develop a demonstration project. However, Maine has faced significant pushback from fishing communities. Recent studies have supported the use of immersive virtual reality (VR) visualization to help researchers communicate complex spatial information about wind farms. In this study, we developed an immersive VR of Maine’s proposed floating wind demonstration project. In this talk, I will demonstrate the elements of the immersive VR and present results of how fishing communities in Maine respond to offshore wind, and how attitudes towards wind energy are open to change. Findings suggest the ways in which community members come together and ways where attitudes diverge when considering various attributes of offshore wind energy in the northeast US.

Past Events

Spring 2025 Invited Lecture Series

Myles Lennon, Dean's Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Anthropology, Brown University

Consponsored by the Black Geographies Specialty Group

Talk Title: Solar Simulations in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism

Date: February 21, 2:00pm ET

Spring 2025 Invited Lecture Series

Conor Harrison, Associate Professor, Geography; Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina

Consponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group

Talk Title: Brokers of Power: Finance and the changing U.S. electricity system

Date: February 10, 12:30pm ET

2025 Energy Geography Conference Keynote

Farhana Sultana, Professor, Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University

Seminar Title: Decolonizing Climate Knowledge and Repairing Epistemic Injustice in the Era of Climate Change

Recorded on January 25, 2025

Fall 2024 Invited Lecture Series

Gabriela Valdivia, Professor, Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Seminar Title: Entangled Extractions in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Recorded on November 15, 2024

Fall 2024 Invited Lecture Series

Ben Sovacool, Director, Institute for Global Sustainability and Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Seminar Title: Coping with Failure and Rejection within Academia

Recorded on October 8, 2024

Fall 2024 Invited Lecture Series

Andrew Curley, Assistant Professor, School of Geography, Development, and Environment, The University of Arizona

Seminar Title: Diné People and Carbon Sovereignty

Recorded on September 16, 2024

Spring 2024 Invited Lecture Series

Tony Reames, Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

Seminar Title: Empowering Equity: Navigating the Geographical landscape of Energy Justice

Recorded on February 8th, 2024

Spring 2024 Invited Lecture Series

Matt Huber, Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University

Seminar Title: In Defense of the Utility: Neoliberalism and the Bifurcation of Electricity Politics in the United States

Recorded on February 29th, 2024

Fall 2023 Invited Lecture Series

Kirsten Jenkins, Senior Lecturer in Energy, Environment and Society,

University of Edinburgh

Seminar Title: Undertaking Energy Justice Research in Practice: Benefits, challenges and opportunities

Recorded on October 26th, 2023

Fall 2023 Invited Lecture Series

Christina Hoicka, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor,

University of Victoria

Seminar Title: Linking Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research with Energy Geography

Recorded on September 29th, 2023

AAG 2023 EESG Plenary

Tony Reames, Deputy Director for Energy Justice, US DOE & Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

Plenary Title: Exploring Community, Place and Justice Across the Clean Energy Transition Recorded on March 52, 2023

Fall 2022 Invited Lecture Series

Benjamin Sovacool, Professor, Boston University, University of Sussex, and Aarhus University

Seminar Title: From Half-Baked Ideas to Publication: Launching and Structuring New Research Projects
Recorded on October 26, 2022

2nd Annual Energy Geography Futures and Directions Panel Session

Discussant:

Julia Haggerty (Montana State University)

Panelists:

Andrew Curley (University of Arizona)

Carelle Mang-Benza (University of Western Ontario)

Elena Louder (University of Arizona)

Elvin Delgado (Central Washington University)

Recorded on March 1, 2022

Community-Engaged Scholarship in Energy Geography

Discussant:

Marissa Bell (Cornell University)

Panelists:

Elvin Delgado (Central Washington University)

Michael Dunaway (Syracuse University)

Kelli Roemer (Montana State University)

Roopali Phadke (Macalaster College)

Recorded on March 1, 2022

Fall 2021 Energy Seminar Series

Dustin Mulvaney, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, San José State University

Seminar Title: Labor, Land, and Waste and the Political Ecology of Solar Power Commodity Chains Recorded on November 5, 2021

Engaged Energy Geography Teaching

Panelists:

Tom Ptak (Texas State University)

Julia Haggerty (Montana State University)

Andrew Curley (University of Arizona)

Heather Bedi (Dickinson College)

Recorded on February 26, 2022

Fall 2021 Energy Seminar Series

Silvia Grandi, Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences , University of Bologna

Seminar Title: The European Geographies of Energy Transition: policies and complexities
Recorded on October 8, 2021

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