Cool Technologies to Cool the Planet
Monday, 20 Feb 2023 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Speaker: Dr. Bernardo del CampoThe 2023 Symposium on Sustainability celebrates the diversity of sustainability efforts and initiatives taking place within our campus community focusing on supporting and nurturing enablement and empowerment toward a sustainable future that extends into the Ames community, as well as communities across the state and throughout the world. Features of this year's event include an opening speaker, a keynote speaker, sustainability tabling and art exhibits and the accompanying multi-fasceted, interactive event, Sustainapalooza.
This year's Symposium opening speaker is Iowa State graduate, Dr. Bernardo del Campo. He is the President of ARTi - Advanced Renewable Technology International, where he leads projects to design, manufacture, and implement pyrolysis systems around the world to turn waste biomass into biochar, a carbon-rich material to improve soils and sequester carbon dioxide. Besides reactor manufacturing, the ARTi team research and develops carbon products transforming wastes into biochar and modifying it to produce activated carbon, carbon black replacement, soil media, carbon sequestration products, and many others.
Dr. del Campo attended Iowa State University where he got his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a Co-major in Biorenewable Resources and Technology in 2015. He worked in the Thermochemical lab developing carbon products from Biochar. He founded ISU Biobus for the production of biodiesel on campus to assist fueling a Cyride bus. He has been involved in various "Live green" initiatives at the ISU campus and he was one of the awardees in the Green Talent International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development Competition hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2012.
For the symposium, Dr. del Campo will present many of the "cool solutions" that the ARTi team is developing to "cool the planet".
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
Sign-ins are after the event concludes. For lectures in the Memorial Union, go to the information desk in the Main Lounge. In other academic buildings, look for signage outside the auditorium.
Lecture Etiquette
- Stay for the entire lecture and the brief audience Q&A. If a student needs to leave early, he or she should sit near the back and exit discreetly.
- Do not bring food or uncovered drinks into the lecture.
- Check with Lectures staff before taking photographs or recording any portion of the event. There are often restrictions. Cell phones, tablets and laptops may be used to take notes or for class assignments.
- Keep questions or comments brief and concise to allow as many as possible.