Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado
Dr. Garvin Heath is an inaugural Distinguished Member of the Research Staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA, specializing in the analysis of environmental impacts of energy systems – renewable and conventional, electricity and fuels. He is also a member of the State of Colorado’s Air Quality Enterprise Board and is a Senior Research Associate in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado. Using the tools of life cycle assessment, air quality modeling, and sustainability analysis, he has led research that has developed novel methods for quantifying environmental impacts, including circularity, that has been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, journals published by Nature Research, and international benchmark reports (IPCC, UNEP). Dr. Heath leads the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems (PVPS) Technology Collaboration Programme Task 12: Sustainability. Dr. Heath is an interdisciplinary scientist and engineer with a B.S. in Environmental Science from Brown University, M.S. in Environmental (air quality) Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
8:00am – 10:30am PT
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