Dano Weisbord joined Tufts in 2022 and serves as Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Director of Campus Planning. This joint role is intended to further Tufts’ commitment to be a higher education leader in sustainability and climate.

Dano came to Tufts from Smith College where he was Associate Vice President for Campus Planning and Sustainability. Dano was responsible for projects at Smith including the electrification and decarbonization of a thermal and electric district energy system and a Landscape Master Plan. Earlier in his career, Dano worked for CLF Ventures, the former consulting arm of the Conservation Law Foundation. In that capacity he worked on projects around Boston in energy and real-estate sectors. Dano spent four years aboard working for ActionAid International and served as a director of the Global Association of Corporate Sustainability Officers in London.

Dano has a Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Michael Ahern has over 30 years of experience in leading development, engineering, construction, operation, and management of industrial and energy systems. This includes operational oversight of businesses in the industrial and energy fields, with a specific focus on district systems over the last fifteen years. At Ever-Green, he leads the development and advancement of mission-based campus and community energy and utility systems that achieve clients’ strategic goals. Ahern holds a BS in Business Finance from the University of Notre Dame, with an International Business Minor.

Brooke Lautt is a Project Manager at The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. She received her BS in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 2019, and started working at Whiting-Turner immediately following graduation. She worked on the Princeton University TIGER project for the beginning of her career, focusing on the geo-exchange installation, and is currently working on an engineering & science project for the same client.

Megan Mikrut is a Project Manager with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, specializing in renewable energy. She has an engineering degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware.

Justin currently serves as a Senior Mechanical Engineer and Department Manager in Burns & McDonnell’s OnSite Energy and Power Group. To this role, he brings diversified experience in the management and design of large decarbonization/electrification and district energy and power projects. His technical expertise lies in central cooling plant design, utility and energy planning, energy system modeling, sustainability, and energy conservation.

Chris Pauzer is an MEP Project Manager for the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. He has been involved with Mission Critical projects in the mid-west, and was most recently the MEP Project Manager for the Princeton University TIGER project, overseeing commissioning, flushing, and MEP installation. Chris is a graduate from Elizabethtown University.

Michael Ahern has over 30 years of experience in leading development, engineering, construction, operation, and management of industrial and energy systems. This includes operational oversight of businesses in the industrial and energy fields, with a specific focus on district systems over the last fifteen years. At Ever-Green, he leads the development and advancement of mission-based campus and community energy and utility systems that achieve clients’ strategic goals. Ahern holds a BS in Business Finance from the University of Notre Dame, with an International Business Minor.

Jeff Hammond is Executive Director at the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA), a non-profit, member-driven organization established in 1987 to advance ground source heat pump (GSHP) technology on local, state/provincial, national, and international levels. Jeff earned a B.S. in business administration from the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and an A.A.S. in electrical engineering technology from Purdue University. He joined IGSHPA with 35 years’ experience in the ground source heat pump (geothermal) industry, including positions at ClimateMaster, Enertech, Geo-Flo, and WaterFurnace. Jeff is a member of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers), AEE (Association of Energy Engineers), ASAE (American Society of Association Executives), and has served on CSA (Canadian Standards Association), AHRI (Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute), and IGSHPA technical and advisory committees. He is currently chair for the next edition of the ANSI/CSA/IGSHPA C448 Ground Source Heat Pump Standard.

Megan Lim graduated MIT in 2024, and is now an education and engagement consultant for MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative. She is part of MIT Alumni for Climate Action/Geo@MIT, a alumni-student team that is advocating for MIT to decarbonize by 2035 with thermal energy networks. She is working on student engagement with climate opportunities, and building a coalition of students across the greater Boston area to contribute to climate action on their campuses and in the city.

Michael Ahern has over 30 years of experience in leading development, engineering, construction, operation, and management of industrial and energy systems. This includes operational oversight of businesses in the industrial and energy fields, with a specific focus on district systems over the last fifteen years. At Ever-Green, he leads the development and advancement of mission-based campus and community energy and utility systems that achieve clients’ strategic goals. Ahern holds a BS in Business Finance from the University of Notre Dame, with an International Business Minor.

Dr. Saqib Javed is a senior researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Colorado, USA. He also serves as an Editor at the ASHRAE’s official journal, Science and Technology for the Built Environment (STBE). He regularly works as an Expert for the European Research and Innovation Programmes. His main research interests are directed toward low-carbon technologies and thermal and building energy systems including building integrated energy systems; heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration; renewable and geothermal energy; district energy and heat pumps; and energy supply and storage systems. He has worked extensively with the design, performance evaluation, techno-economic assessment, and lifecycle analysis of these technologies. He has obtained over 15 million Dollars in research funding and in-kind contributions. He is a certified teacher and has a Diploma of Higher Education in teaching and supervision at the university level. He has supervised 6 PhD and more than 25 post-graduate students. He has made over 90 scholarly publications, including over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has acted as the organizing and scientific committee member for several international conferences and symposiums. He has delivered keynote and invited speeches at research gatherings and conferences across the world. He is a reviewer for over 25 scientific journals.

Matt Mitchell, PhD. Research Engineer. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado. Matt leads several teams of researchers focused on development of design and simulation tools for geothermal heat pumps and thermal energy networks.

Ian Davies, PE, is a Mechanical Engineer specializing in high-efficiency, carbon-free energy systems ranging in size and complexity from individual buildings to community-scale campuses. His planning, design, and implementation experience at the district energy level includes geothermal systems for Amherst College, Dartmouth College, Oberlin College, Princeton University, Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

For over 25 years, Jeff Urlaub, PE, has been a leader in the geothermal energy field, advancing the use of geo-exchange technologies as long-term, cost-effective, carbon-free heating and cooling solutions. Over the past decade alone, Jeff has led the energy analysis, planning, design, and implementation of more than 450 geo-exchange projects, providing over 90,000 tons of system capacity and producing a portfolio of industry benchmarks in scale, performance, and technological innovation. He is responsible for some of the most sophisticated and complex geothermal systems in North America, including the largest U.S. district geo-exchange network, for the campus of Epic Systems Corporation, in Verona, Wisconsin.

Michael Ahern has over 30 years of experience in leading development, engineering, construction, operation, and management of industrial and energy systems. This includes operational oversight of businesses in the industrial and energy fields, with a specific focus on district systems over the last fifteen years. At Ever-Green, he leads the development and advancement of mission-based campus and community energy and utility systems that achieve clients’ strategic goals. Ahern holds a BS in Business Finance from the University of Notre Dame, with an International Business Minor.