29th International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2022
June 2022 | Pittsburgh, PA
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 20/June/2022 | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
ET_preconf: LCA of Emerging Technologies working group Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Joule Bergerson Chair: Daniel Posen Open to all members of the ISSST community! This is a working meeting of the ACLCA/SETAC joint working group on LCA of emerging technologies. The group was struck in 2021 to develop guidance on applying LCA to technologies at low technology readiness levels. During this daylong meeting, participants will meet in small groups to make progress on draft guidance documents. |
| 5:00pm - 7:30pm |
Pre-Conference: Informal networking event Location: Braddock's Tavern For those arriving early, join us the night before the conference for an informal meet and greet! We'll provide the room, and you provide the rest! |
| Date: Tuesday, 21/June/2022 | |||
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
Breakfast: For workshop participants only Location: Symphony Ballroom |
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| 8:00am - 9:30am |
Workshop-1: Measuring Sustainability Education Impact through Handprints Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Jasmina Burek Measuring Sustainability Education Impact through Handprints |
Workshop-2: Creating Provocative Images for Communicating Life Cycle Concepts Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Matthew Eckelman Creating Provocative Images for Communicating Life Cycle Concepts |
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| 9:30am - 10:00am |
Break 1 |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
ISSST Opening Keynote: Dr. Costa Samaras, Advancing a Clean Energy Revolution For All Location: Symphony Ballroom Chair: Daniel Posen Dr. Costas Samaras is the Principal Assistant Director for Energy and OSTP Chief Advisor for Energy Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
SE-1: Teaching Sustainability at Different Levels Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Opeoluwa Wonuola Olawale Chair: Cuihong Song (Theme keynote) Grad School in the Rear View: Prioritizing Career Skills, Mentorship and Equity in the Interdisciplinary Environmental PhD 11:35am - 11:53am Teaching plastics sustainability at the undergraduate level 11:53am - 12:11pm Sustainable from the start: Activating sustainability priorities within early-stage product design education |
ASAM-Bio: Bio-based Systems Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: David Quiroz Evaluation of Biofuel Pathways in the CONUS using an Integrated Agent-Based Modeling Framework 11:18am - 11:36am Carbon Footprint of Biofuels Production from Forest Biomass Using Hot Water Extraction and Biochemical Conversion in The Northeast United States 11:36am - 11:54am Modeling algae cultivation at scale: Productivity, pond reliability, and resource consumption across the United States 11:54am - 12:12pm Environmental and Cost Assessment of Biogas Production from Hemp Crop-Residue for Enabling Circular Economy Transition of CBD Production Systems |
ISIR-Circular: Circularity in Infrastructure Location: George Benson Room Chair: Raymond Smith LCA of Eastman’s Molecular Recycling Technologies 11:18am - 11:36am Analyzing Material Stock and Renovation Outflow of a Building Stock for Circular Economy 11:36am - 11:54am Plastics Recycling in the U.S.: Flows and Recycling Processes for PET 11:54am - 12:12pm Sustainability assessment for the U.S. domestic paper recycling system and future pathways to increase the paper recycling rate |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch & Keynote: Performance Under Pressure Location: Symphony Ballroom Lessons in leadership, problem-solving, and building effective teams. Jamie Clarke, University of Calgary |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
IHPS-1: Designing, Developing, and Reforming Systems Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Ipek Bensu Manav Chair: Jasmina Burek Telework-induced changes in future energy demand of residential, non-residential, and transportation sectors 2:18pm - 2:36pm OBSERVING HUMAN-SCALE URBAN AIR POLLUTION AND TEMPERATURE USING SENSOR-EMBEDDED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 2:36pm - 2:54pm Navigating exploitative and explorative leadership in support of infrastructure resilience 2:54pm - 3:12pm Improving the Communication of Life Cycle Assessment Results to Maximize Decision Making |
ASAM-circular1: Materials Resources Circularity Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Stefano Cucurachi Quantifying the drivers of long-term price risk in materials supply chains 2:18pm - 2:36pm Applying Circularity Metrics to Waste Nitrogen Derived Products 2:36pm - 2:54pm Supply and demand interaction-based systems framework for plastic packaging circularity assessment 2:54pm - 3:12pm Global supply chain environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries production and future emissions projection 3:12pm - 3:30pm (Pre-recorded) Future Trends and Sustainable Circular Economic Potential of Waste Electronics in the United States |
ISIR-Bio: Harnessing the Biosphere Location: George Benson Room Chair: Dong-Yeon (D-Y) Lee A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Local Food Production Systems to Conventional Centralized Agriculture in the Contiguous United States 2:18pm - 2:36pm Life Cycle Assessment of Biochemicals with Clear Near-Term Market Potential 2:36pm - 2:54pm Modeling Glyphosate Potential Zones in the Belize River Watershed Using GIS Remote Sensing techniques 2:54pm - 3:12pm The Potential for Bioenergy Projects to Achieve Negative Emissions 3:12pm - 3:30pm Life Cycle Assessment of the Global Warming Potential Associated with Managed Aquifer Recharge Technologies |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Break 2 |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Emerging Tech: Special Session: Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Joule Bergerson ISSST Special Session: Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies: Update on the SETAC/ACLCA Working Group Progress |
CSRT-2: Other creative sustainability-related topics 2 Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Xiaoju (Julie) Chen Removal of PFAS from wastewater - end of life cycle analysis 4:18pm - 4:36pm Dynamic flows and stocks of plastics in the United States and pathways towards zero plastic pollution by 2050 4:36pm - 4:54pm Improving litterfall production prediction in China under variable environmental conditions using machine learning algorithms 4:54pm - 5:12pm Plastic Pollution as a result of the Peruvian Fishing Industry 5:12pm - 5:30pm Life Cycle Assessment of Food Consumption, Transportation, and Waste Treatment During COVID-19 in New York State Capital Region |
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| 5:30pm - 6:00pm |
Break 3 |
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| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Poster Session Location: Symphony Ballroom Design Strategies, Environmental Impact, and Cost of Zero-Energy Houses Estimating the greenhouse gas emissions of autonomous vehicle data management Quantifying the potential change in net anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorous inputs to the Chesapeake Bay watershed to the introduction of perennial species as a source of nutrient recycling A spatial optimization framework to identify hotspot counties to implement dairy manure-based duckweed farming for reduced eutrophication in the Chesapeake Bay Quantifying the potential change in net anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorous inputs to the Chesapeake Bay watershed due to the introduction of duckweed as a replacement fertilizer and or animal feed. Conventional Agriculture, Greenhouse and Hydroponics: An LCA of US Lettuce Battery materials and GHG emissions from US electric vehicle adoption scenarios Design Strategies, Environmental Impact, and Cost of Passive Houses The Right Measure Data Quality Metric for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting of U.S. Crude Oil Driving Technology Forward: Using Techno-economics to Evaluate Co-product Revenue Potential in a Natural Rubber Biorefinery How will change in price volatility impact the future cost of hydrogen? Developing an LCA surrogate model for optimal renovation solutions in the Pacific Northwest Life cycle impacts of plastics as a reducing agent for iron in a blast furnace Life cycle assessment of Waste Management Systems in two different municipalities: Columbia, MO and York, PA Stochastic multi-attribute analysis to assess the overall sustainability incorporating environmental, economic and social deminsions for disposable nonwoven wipes Techno-Economic Analysis of Advanced Small Modular Nuclear Reactors University of Michigan Scope 3 Purchased Goods & Services Emissions Footprinting A comparative life cycle assessment for insect vs beef-based patties in USA LCA Analysis for the Transformation of the UK Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet Investigating the impact of environmental outputs in building form-finding studies Realizing Profitable Carbon Capture on Natural Gas Plants with Thermal Energy Storage through Optimization-based Decision Support Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. light-duty transport in line with the 2 degrees Celsius target Harmonizing conceptualizations of sustainability in agriculture across Agroecology and Industrial Ecology Sustainability Index – a chemical sustainability metric Improving the Communication of Life Cycle Assessment Results to Maximize Decision Making THE EFFECT OF COMPOSITION, GEOMETRY AND A NOVEL TOOL DESIGN ON METAL RECOVERY DURING ALUMINUM PROCESS SCRAP REMELTING |
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| Date: Wednesday, 22/June/2022 | |||
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Breakfast & Keynote: Dr. Melissa Bilec Location: Symphony Ballroom Chair: Christine Costello Dr. Melissa Bilec is the William Kepler Whiteford Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
SE-2: Designing Sustainability Curriculum Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Opeoluwa Wonuola Olawale Chair: Cuihong Song Using the 17 UN SDGs to Teach Sustainability: The case of a regional comprehensive university 9:18am - 9:36am A MOOC on Sustainable Management of Critical Raw Materials 9:36am - 9:54am Integrating Sustainability into Capstone Senior design 9:54am - 10:12am (Pre-recorded) Opportunities to Advance Earth System Science at the National Science Foundation 10:12am - 10:30am (Pre-recorded) Lessons learned from CIRODD’s first Summer School on societal transformation |
ASAM-Transp: Advances in sustainability assessment methods for transportation Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Noah Horesh Using incremental emission factors to evaluate the greenhouse gas impact of electric vehicle deployment 9:18am - 9:36am Are vehicle lifespan caps an effective method to reduce GHG emissions from light duty vehicles? 9:36am - 9:54am Environmental Evaluation of Increasing Automotive Manufacturing Process Yields 9:54am - 10:12am (Pre-Recorded) Closing the mitigation gap with measures targeting conventional vehicles |
ISIR-Mat: Innovations in Materials Location: George Benson Room Chair: Christine Costello Material Flows of graphite in the United States 9:18am - 9:36am Life Cycle Analysis of Mineralization of Concrete Products for CO2 Utilization 9:36am - 9:54am Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Water Consumption from Existing and Emerging Hydrogen Pathways 9:54am - 10:12am Greenhouse gas emissions of construction materials in transportation infrastructure: A case study |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Break 4 |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
IHPS-2: Industrial Development vs. Conservation Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Elizabeth Moore Framework to enable the integration of sustainable design strategies into industry product development practice: A case study 11:18am - 11:36am The role of industrial hubs in decarbonizing the aluminum industry 11:36am - 11:54am There is no circular economy without the informal sector 11:54am - 12:12pm Electrifying Road Trips to/from National Parks in the Western U.S. 12:12pm - 12:30pm Environmental Comparison of Anoxic Treatment Options for Conserving Cultural Heritage |
ASAM-Circular2: Materials Resources Circularity 2 Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Michael Craig Evaluating Decarbonization Strategies for Indian Steel Industry & Potential Sustainable Scenarios 11:18am - 11:36am Decarbonization Strategies for Location Specific Aluminum Industry 11:36am - 11:54am A process model representation of the end-of-life phase for manufacturing products in a circular economy 11:54am - 12:12pm Life Cycle Analysis of Emerging CO2 Utilization Technologies: Challenges and Current Best Practices |
ISIR-Transp: Transportation Transition Location: George Benson Room Chair: Obste Therasme Chair: Dong-Yeon (D-Y) Lee Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure 11:18am - 11:36am Reducing transportation greenhouse gas emissions with electrofuels and biofuels as the grid decarbonizes 11:54am - 12:12pm GHG emissions from novel aviation fuel production pathway from captured CO2 12:12pm - 12:30pm Comparing Lifecycle Emissions of Novel Biofuels for Marine Applications |
| 12:30pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch & Panel: Lunch & Local Sustainability Panel Location: Symphony Ballroom Chair: Jorge Izar-Tenorio The path from a historic industrial town to a world-class city: how Pittsburgh became a global powerhouse for sustainable progress and the challenges ahead |
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| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
IHPS-3: Neighborhood, Community, and City-Level Changes Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Nelson Granda Marulanda Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell Addressing an equitable transition to clean heating with empirically validated housing stock improvements for US cold climates 2:48pm - 3:06pm Community-Engaged LCA: Incorporating Many Ways of Knowing 3:06pm - 3:24pm Repurposing Mesoscale Traffic Models for Insights into Traveler Heat Exposure Mitigation: ICARUS and the case of Phoenix 3:24pm - 3:42pm How do cities approach sustainability? A survey on the importance of lifecycle assessment, equity, and funding in local climate action planning 3:42pm - 4:00pm (Pre-recorded) Controlled Environment Agriculture - Farming and Food Access for Healthy Diets |
ASAM-Energy1: Advances in sustainability assessment methods for Energy Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Jason Quinn Assessing the Environmental Life Cycle Impact of Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Systems in New York State 2:48pm - 3:06pm Quantifying the Impact of Override Behavior on a Summer Direct Load Control Program 3:06pm - 3:24pm Evaluating electrification and clean hydrogen as decarbonization pathways for the U.S. chemicals industry 3:24pm - 3:42pm Sustained cost declines in solar PV and battery storage needed to eliminate coal generation in India 3:42pm - 4:00pm (Pre-recorded) Techno-economic Analysis of Thermal Energy Storage for High-Temperature Heat and Power Applications |
ISIR-Electric: Electric Transition Location: George Benson Room Chair: Daniel Posen Economic Viability of Natural Gas Power Plants with Carbon Capture and Electrically Charged Thermal Energy Storage 2:48pm - 3:06pm Multi-objective optimization of a microgrid for an islanded community 3:06pm - 3:24pm Global Battery Material Requirements and Criticality for 2020-2040 Stationary Storage Demand 3:24pm - 3:42pm Effects of incorporating productive uses of electricity from agriculture on least-cost electrification planning in Ethiopia 3:42pm - 4:00pm Cost and Employment Trade-offs in Replacing Coal-Fired Electricity Generation with Low Carbon Technologies across the United States |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Break 5 |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Career Panel Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Weiwei Mo Developing a career in sustainability - exploring the different career paths after graduate school |
ASAM-QM1: Quantitative Sustainability Assessment 1 Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Brooke Silagy A Comprehensive Water Life Cycle Assessment of Algal Fuels 4:48pm - 5:06pm Methods to environmentally assess cleanroom facilities for emerging technologies 5:06pm - 5:24pm Applying realistic time-intervals to traditional Monte Carlo simulations as a method to decrease unnecessary uncertainty in techno-economic analyses 5:24pm - 5:42pm Assessment of different forms to deal with multifunctionality issues in Life Cycle Assessment in a dairy industry |
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| 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
Offsite: Official off-site social activities |
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| Date: Thursday, 23/June/2022 | |||
| 7:00am - 8:00am |
ISSST planning: Future of ISSST planning meeting 1 Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Breakfast meeting for anyone interested in providing feedback on the conference, discussing future directions, or looking for ways to get involved on the organizin committee. All are welcome! |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Breakfast & Keynote: Dr. Matt Eckelman Location: Symphony Ballroom Chair: Weiwei Mo Dr. Matthew Eckelman is Associate Professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
CSRT-1: Other creative sustainability-related topics Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Olivia Muza Chair: Kiara Winans Life Cycle Analysis of Seabed Mining for Rare Earth Elements 9:18am - 9:36am Forecasting U.S. aluminum flows and key alloying element streams for designing of recycling friendly alloys 9:36am - 9:54am Model-based energy and emission analysis of ammonia production for improved process sustainability 9:54am - 10:12am Toward Greener Indonesian Nickel Production: Life Cycle Assessment of Nickel Production Processes |
ASAM-Energy2: Advances in sustainability assessment methods for Energy Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Ethan Markey Chair: Roberto Vercellino Natural Gas as a Decarbonization Strategy: Evaluating Emission Mitigation Opportunities throughout the Value Chain 9:18am - 9:36am Greenhouse Gas Estimates of LNG Exports Must Include Global Market Effects 9:36am - 9:54am Assessing direct versus technological progress benefits in justifying renewable subsidies 9:54am - 10:12am Assessment of integrated electricity and hydrogen production at existing US nuclear power plants |
ISIR-Resil: Infrastructure Resilience Location: George Benson Room Chair: Roozbeh Ghasemi Chair: Weiwei Mo An Exploratory Study of Criteria for Transition to Infrastructure Resilience 9:18am - 9:36am Balancing efficiency and resilience trade-offs in pursuit of sustainable and adaptable infrastructure systems 9:36am - 9:54am Measuring the Social Burden of Infrastructure Disruptions to Inform Resilience Planning 9:54am - 10:12am Evaluation of Economic and Environmental Benefits of Multi-Unit Dwelling Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Using Real World Charging Data 10:12am - 10:30am (Pre-recorded) Improving infrastructure resiliency to earthquakes through biomediated liquefaction mitigation |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Break 6 |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
ISIR-Sys: Thinking in Systems Location: Rhapsody Ballroom Chair: Matthew Eckelman Infrastructure Autopoiesis: Requisite Variety to Engage Complexity 11:35am - 11:53am Using Synthetic Infrastructure Networks to Simulate Cascading Failure 11:53am - 12:11pm Integrating Structural Resiliency into Lifecycle Thinking |
ASAM-QM2: Quantitative Sustainability Assessment 2 Location: Jimmy Stewart Room Chair: Jonah Michael Greene Integrating quality and uncertainty into corporate carbon footprints at scale: An implementation example with Amazon’s e-commerce catalog 11:18am - 11:36am Advancing Sustainability Assessment of Pig Diets Rations through Multi-Objective Optimization 11:36am - 11:54am Expert Elicitation and Data Noise Learning for Material Flow Analysis using Bayesian Inference 11:54am - 12:12pm Assessing Climate Projection Uncertainty with the Physical-parameter-based Probabilistic Model 12:12pm - 12:30pm (Pre-recorded) FLOWSA: Environmental data preparation for life cycle assessment modeling and beyond |
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| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch, Closing & Keynote: Stacey Smedley, Building Transparency, You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure - The Importance of Open, Transparent Data and Tools for Climate Action Location: Symphony Ballroom Chair: Kiara Winans Stacy Smedley has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of Washington and over 18 years in the architecture and construction professions. Her resume includes the first LEED for Homes Platinum certified project in Washington State and the first project in the world to be certified under Living Building Version 2.0 standards. As Sustainability Director at Skanska, Stacy has led sustainable initiatives and is considered a subject matter expert in LEED, Living Building Challenge, and carbon emissions associated with buildings and construction.
In her role at Building Transparency, Stacy leads the continued management and development of the free, open-access Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) tool and works to educate and engage the building industry on actionably reducing embodied carbon emissions of building materials.
Stacy has served in various advisory and leadership roles, including Co-Chair of the Washington Businesses for Climate Action; Advisory... |
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| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
ISSST 2023: Future of ISSST planning meeting 2 Location: Symphony Ballroom Working session for ISSST executive and 2023 organizing committee to update conference planning guides and begin preparations for next year. All are welcome to attend! |
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