Education
B.A. Environmental Science & Public Policy, Harvard, 1997
M.S. Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech, 1998
Ph.D. Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech, 2002
Current Research and Teaching
Research interests: climate change mitigation, technologies and policies for carbon management, sustainability science, energy technology innovation, CO2 capture and storage, renewable energy, universities as change agents for sustainability, climate change education
JENNIE STEPHENS’ research, teaching, and community engagement focuses in various ways on accelerating a societal transition toward sustainability, with a particular focus on climate change mitigation. Jennie has particular interest in energy technologies with potential to contribute to a stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. She focuses on understanding non-technical factors influencing the deployment of renewable energy, particularly wind power, and also in understanding the social dimensions of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Other components of Jennie’s work include climate change education, campus sustainability, and universities as change agents in sustainability.
Selected Publications
Stephens, J. C. and A. C. Graham (2008). "Climate Science to Citizen Action: Energizing Nonformal Climate Science Education." Eos 89(22): 204-205.
Stephens, J.C., E.J. Wilson, & T.R. Peterson. 2008. Socio-Political Evaluation of Energy Deployment (SPEED): An Integrated Research Framework for Analysis of Energy Technology Deployment. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. (Accepted In Press). Available online since February 2008.
Stephens, J.C.; M.E. Hernandez, M. Román, A.C. Graham, & R.W. Scholz. 2008. Education as a Change Agent for Sustainability in Different Cultures and Contexts. International Journal for Sustainability in Higher Education. Volume 9, Issue 3 (accepted, in press, publication date July 2008).
Stephens, J. C. and D. W. Keith (2008, in press). "Assessing Geochemical Carbon Management." Climatic Change.
Stephens, J. C. (2008, in press). Social and Economic Drivers for Considering Deliberate Carbon Storage. Book chapter in AGU Monograph, The Science and Technology of Carbon Sequestration: Assessment and Verification of Natural and Deliberate Carbon Sinks. B. J. McPherson and E. Sundquist (editors), American Geophysical Union.
Stephens, J.C. 2006. Growing Interest in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for Climate Change Mitigation. Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy. Fall 2006. Vol. 2, Issue 2.
Stephens, J.C. & B. van der Zwaan. 2005. The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage. In Issues in Science and Technology. Fall, 2005. p. 69-76.
Stephens, J.C. and J.G. Hering. 2004. Factors Affecting the Dissolution Kinetics of Volcanic Ash Soils: Dependencies on CO2, pH and organic acids. Applied Geochemistry. Vol. 19, No. 8, p. 1217-1232.
Stephens, J.C. and J.G. Hering. 2002. Comparative Characterization of Volcanic Ash Soils Exposed to Decade-Long Elevated Carbon Dioxide Concentrations at Mammoth Mountain, California. Chemical Geology. Vol. 186 No. 3-4, p. 301-313.
Stephens, J.C. 1997-98. Factors limiting the acceptance and use of innovative environmental technologies: A case study of the Solar Aquatics System™ (SAS) technology for wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Systems. Vol. 26, No. 2, p. 163-170.
Awards
Jennie Stephens has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Science and Society program to support collaborative research on Diffusion of Emerging Energy Technologies within a State Context, a collaboration among Clark University, the University of Minnesota and Texas A&M.
Stephens was selected among 100 young scientists from around the world to participate in the 2nd International Young Scientists’ Global Change Conference in Beijing, China, November 7-8, 2006. This conference was sponsored and organized by START, global change SysTem for Analysis, Research, and Training and all participants were fully funded to travel to Beijing and present their research.
COURSES
EN 101 Sustainability Science: Environment, Society, and Technology
Offered next Spring 2009
EN 103 The Sustainable University
EN 207/IDCE 30205 Climate Change, Energy, and Development
Offered next Spring 2009
IDCE 30226/EN 295 Energy & Climate Social Change Research Seminar
Jennie Stephens' Curriculum Vitae
Jennie Stephens' Personal Webpage
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