Webinars

Jason Keiper is Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer at Stepan Company, based in Northfield, IL (USA). He is responsible for Stepan’s global R&D teams and Sustainability program.

Jason joined Stepan Company in 2001 as a research chemist, and then moved to Syngenta in 2006. At Syngenta, he held several roles in product development, eventually leading their Product Technology & Engineering team globally. He rejoined Stepan in 2019 in his current role. 

Jason received his Ph.D in Chemistry in 2000 from Emory, and held a postdoctoral position at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Matthew is a Senior Lecturer in Carbon Accounting at the University of Edinburgh’s Business School. His current research focuses on the development of methods for corporate, product (life cycle assessment), project and policy-level greenhouse gas accounting.  He has particular interest in bioenergy, offsetting, electricity accounting, greenhouse gas removal, and land use baselines. He has served as a member of several technical working groups for the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), and is on the peer review panel for BEIS/Defra’s emission factors publication for company reporting. Prior to his current position Matthew worked for over seven years in carbon management and greenhouse gas assessment at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management, and at Ecometrica.

Allison Bridges, PhD, recently completed an Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and is now a Lecturer in the Sustainability Management Graduate Program and a Fellow at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Resiliency. Allison’s postdoctoral research focused on the use of sustainability indicators in decision making, post-disaster recovery and resiliency, and policies for decarbonization.

Adam Parris is an interdisciplinary researcher and knowledge broker with 17 years of experience developing, applying, and translating science for numerous US states, cities, and local communities. His background ranges from landscape change to sea level rise impacts to collaborative approaches to equitable climate adaptation in large coastal cities. Currently, he is the Deputy Director of Climate Science and Risk Communication at the Mayor’s Office of Resiliency in New York, where he works to integrate climate information into all aspects of city decision-making. Previously, he led the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay.

Professor Asmeret Berhe is the Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences Life & Environmental Sciences Dept.  Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate Division University of California, Merced.

Professor Berhe works on three major research areas in soil biogeochemistry investigating the effects of physical perturbations in the environment on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics: effect of erosion, fire, and climate change. Professor Berhe's work at the intersection of soil, climate change, and political ecology lends itself well to a number of global issues.  

Dr. Berhe is an advocate for women in science and renowned in addressing racism in the field of earth science, geoscience, and soil science, etc. Here are a few examples of her advocacy and global impact work: Race and Racism in Soil Science,Women in Soil Science, and Ten Simple Rules to build an antiracist lab.

Her TED Talk (A climate change solution that is right under our feet) has been viewed over 1.9 million times. 

Professor Mayo is an Assistant Professor in the Emory Department of Mathematics, and was awarded the Early-Career Research Fellowship by the National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Program and the Early Career Faculty Innovator Award by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She is a fierce advocate of accessible, inclusive science and education of all people.