Energy Lecture Series
Sustainability research in action: the campus as a living laboratory
Date: 28 Sept 2009
Time: 5.45pm–7pm
Venue: Lanchester Building‚ Highfield Campus
Speaker: Professor Paul Linden‚ Environmental and Science Engineering‚ University of California‚ San Diego
Widely acknowledged as the greenest campus in the US, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is a living laboratory for interdisciplinary research on the environment and sustainability.
In 2009, UCSD established the Sustainability Solutions Institute (SSI), which is a focal point for the highly innovative environment and sustainability research undertaken at San Diego. Through the SSI, the UCSD are tackling the complex questions that society is facing as we strive for economic progress while sustaining the natural systems on which we depend.
At this lecture, Professor Paul Linden will describe the range of innovative sustainable solutions undertaken at the UCSD, and the steps they are taking to become one of the cleanest and greenest campuses globally.
The innovative practices and technologies being developed and adopted by UCSD provide a useful model for universities, organisations and businesses to emulate.
Who should attend: researchers, university staff and students plus businesses and organisations interested in sustainable energy initiatives.
This event is free for all to attend, please register by emailing: [email protected]
About the speaker: Professor Linden was the chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, where he is the Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering. He also is director of the UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute.
Professor Linden is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the American Physical Society. He has published extensively on the topics of geophysical, environmental and industrial fluid dynamics. He has received recognition for the application of his work in fluid dynamics to environmental engineering to create more “energy efficient” buildings – many of which are located in the United Kingdom.