Sustainable
Transitions Lab

6/26/26 - A Dartmouth faculty delegation, including Professors Crockett, Li, Mayfield, and Parker, visited Germany for the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, establishing a research and education partnership focused on the global energy transition. Article ↗

6/18/26 - Dr. Lynée Turek-Hankins hosts a forum on home heating at BS & Beers.

6/3/26 - Undergraduates Amaya Bonn and PJ Griffiths defend their senior theses on methane mitigation and critical materials demand!

5/22/26 - Professor Mayfield presents at a conference on climate change, politics, and adaptation hosted by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

5/21/26 - Professor Mayfield gives a keynote presentation at a Thayer Engineering alumni event in Boulder, Colorado.

4/27/26 - Doctoral students Robin Zou and Michael May, along with Professor  Mayfield, are co-authors on paper led by Carbon Solutions LLC on thermal energy and direct air capture costs. Manuscript ↗

4/16/26 - Doctoral student Robin Zou and professor Mayfield present their research on steel lifecycle emissions at the California Air Resources Board Emissions Insights Seminar Series.

3/18/26 - Doctoral students Michael May and Alexis Hudes receive second and third place at the Energy Engineering Research in Progress Symposium!

1/5/26 - Doctoral student Robin Zou is the first author of a new Environmental Science & Technology article showing there is substantial variation in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions across steel plants. Manuscript ↗

11/7/25 - Dr. Yohan Min, Dr. Maarten Brinkerink, and Professor Mayfield co-author paper on the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act on renewable energy manufacturing and development. Manuscript ↗

10/31/25 - Professor Mayfield presents at the Graduate Energy Research Seminar hosted by University of California, Davis.

10/27/25 - Doctoral student Robin Zou presents at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

10/23/25 - Professor Mayfield presents at the Security & technology Forum hosted by University of New Hampshire.

9/3/25 - Professor Mayfield presents on labor readiness for industrial transitions at event hosted by Carnegie Mellon University's Critical Minerals Initiative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

​​7/31/25 - Professor Mayfield is a panelist at the film screening of "The White House Effect" hosted by League of Conservation Voters.

4/2/25 - Professor Mayfield presents at a grid resilience event hosted by the University of Vermont.

3/24/25 - Dr. Lynée Turek-Hankins is quoted on National Public Radio on her recent study on indoor heat risks!  Recording ↗

3/21/25 - The Miami Herald covers a recent study lead by Dr. Lynée Turek-Hankins. Article ↗

3/21/25 - Dr. Lynée Turek-Hankins is the first author on an article published in One Earth which finds that interactions between indoor heat and energy affordability amplify household risks in hot-humid US climate zones.  Manuscript ↗

3/13/25 - Michael May receives the best presentation award at the Energy Engineering Research in Progress Symposium!

3/12/25 - Professor Mayfield presents on American manufacturing and labor at CERAWeek in Houston, Texas.

3/1/25 - Professor Mayfield presents at the Congressional Climate Crossroads weekend retreat hosted by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in Virginia Beach.

12/26/24 - Professor Mayfield participates in the scoping meeting for the 7th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

12/10/24 - Michael May presents at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting on costs, emissions, and infrastructure routing of CO₂ network infrastructure.

10/21/24 - Michael May receives a grant through the NSF I-Corps National Teams Program to explore commercialization of energy systems modeling tools for infrastructure investment decision-making

4/25/24 - Dr. Maarten Brinkerink lead, with the support of Gordon Sherman (MEng '24), the development of a global electricity transmission database for energy system modelling. Manuscript ↗

4/8/24 - Dr. Maarten Brinkerink lead as study on spatial resolution in global electricity modelling. Manuscript ↗

3/18/24 - New paper lead by Dr. Amanda Giang in Proceedings of National Academy of Science on equity and modeling in sustainability science. Manuscript ↗

2/26/24 - Professor Mayfield participates on a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine panel on social science research needs for understanding and planning for labor impacts of a U.S. low-carbon energy transition.

12/15/23 - Professor Mayfield presents at the American Geophysical Union on socioeconomic, political, and physical drivers of renewable siting decisions in the United States in San Francisco, California.

11/8/23 - Professor Mayfield presents at New York University's Industrial Decarbonization Seminar on integrating cost, climate, and equity objectives into steel infrastructure planning and decision-making.

10/12/23 - Professor Mayfield presents at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Generate | Regenerate Conference on the “Pace and scale of U.S. energy transitions.”

10/12/23 - Doctoral student Michael May wins the poster competition at Dartmouth's Climate and Energy Week.

10/6-8/23 - Professor Mayfield co-hosts in an energy equity workshop at Southern Methodist University, and presents at the National Association of Business Economics conference in Dallas, TX.

9/18-19/23 - Professor Mayfield participates in Air Quality and Climate Change Workshop hosted by Dr. Wei Peng in Washington, D.C.

9/14/23 - Dr. Yohan Min and Professor Mayfield publish new paper "Rooftop solar, electric vehicle, and heat pump adoption in rural areas in the United States" in Energy Research & Social Science.  Manuscript ↗

7/26/23 - Professor Mayfield presents to the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board hosted at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.

6/29/23 - New paper led by Dr. John Bistline in Science on the climate and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act. Manuscript ↗

6/8/23 - Professor Mayfield participates in panel discussion on the New Economics of Clean Energy hosted by the Wall Street Journal.

6/1/23 - New paper "Labor pathways to achieve net-zero emissions in the United States by mid-century" published in Energy Policy.  Manuscript ↗

5/24/23 - Avery Moorhead '25 and Karson Smith '25 present research at the Wetterhahn Science Symposium!

3/31/23 - Professor Mayfield gives lecture on integrating equity into energy systems modeling at UT-Austin, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering program.

3/21/23 - Professor Mayfield participates in panel discussion barriers to decarbonization at Center for Strategic and International Studies' Energy Futures Forum.

3/7/23 & 3/8/23 - Professor Mayfield participates in panel discussions on equity and climate change at CERAWeek. Recording ↗

1/27/23 - Professor Mayfield quoted in Science News on the meeting net-zero goals. Article ↗

1/11/23 - Professor Mayfield quoted in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences News on the benefits of electric vehicles. Article ↗

1/3/23 - Welcome Dr. Maarten Brinkerink who joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar!  Dr. Brinkerink is an expert in power systems modeling, integrated assessment modeling, and climate mitigation.

12/9/22 - Professor Mayfield participates in a panel discussion regarding Improving Data and Modeling for Decisionmaking at the Energy Insights conference hosted by Resources for the Future and the Sloan Foundation at the National Academy of Sciences. Recording ↗

11/14/22 - Professor Mayfield presents at Department of Labor Future of Work seminar series on high road labor policies in the energy transition.

11/2/22 - Professor Mayfield participates in a congressional briefing regarding What's on the Table for COP27 Negotiations? hosted by EESI.  Recording ↗

11/1/22 - Professor Mayfield participates in panel discussion hosted by Resources for the Future on What is an Energy Community?  Recording ↗

11/1/22 - Congratulations to Martin Roeck (MEM '23) for winning the Startup Prize at Dartmouth's Pitch competition!

10/20/22 - Michael May (PhD student) and Professor Mayfield participate in panel discussion on Energy Leadership with U.S. Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-2 , Dartmouth '78)!

10/19/22 - Professor Mayfield presents at Irving Institute's Inaugural Symposium on Climate, Energy and Society.  Recording ↗

10/16/22 - Professor Mayfield presents research on modeling equity objectives in coal transitions at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

10/14/22 - Professor Mayfield presents about Energy Security at the In-Practice Conference hosted by Climate Energy Leader Institute.

9/23/22 - Professor Mayfield participates on panel discussion hosted by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum with OSTP Deputy Director Sally Benson, U.S. EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis, Carnegie Mellon Professor Destenie Nock, U.S. DOE Director of the Office of Energy Jobs Betony Jones, and U.S. DOE Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alejandro Moreno.