Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Monday, 17/June/2024
9:00am
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5:00pm
Pre-Conference Workshop 1: LCA of Emerging Technologies - Working Group, people are welcome to attend the meeting
Location: Ravenhurst
1:00pm
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4:30pm
Pre-Conference Workshop II: Best Practices for Sharing Data and Models
Location: Westminster
 

Best practices for sharing data and models

T. Reed Miller, Qingshi Tu, Brandon Kuczenski

5:30pm
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7:00pm
Social Event: Meet-and-Greet
Location: Explorer's Lounge

Join us for an introduction to your fellow ISSST community members. This social event is open to all attendees, and food and drinks will be available for purchase. 

Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024
8:00am
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9:00am
Registration
Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area

Kindly proceed to the registration table outside the Whitehall Ballroom to collect your name tag and additional conference materials.

9:00am
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10:10am
Opening & Keynote
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
 

Dynamic Sustainability

Jay Golden

10:10am
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10:20am
Transition II
10:20am
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11:40am
AIB1: Sust. Ag. & Environmental Impact
Location: Westminster
Chair: Christine Costello
 
10:20am - 10:35am

Life cycle impacts of fertilized and harvested winter rye to inform cover crop market initiatives in the US Midwest

Kathryn Phillips, Tim Smith



10:35am - 10:50am

Life Cycle Assessment of a Meat Alternative containing Heme Protein

Kay Glass, Hariteja Nandimandalam, James Alamia, Rui Shi



10:50am - 11:05am

Digital Atlas of Food and Agricultural Byproducts in California

Mariana Larrañaga Tapia, Keer Ni, Sarah Kakadellis, Christopher W. Simmons, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Edward S. Spang



11:05am - 11:20am

Air quality-related benefits of ammonia abatement in US livestock management

Madeline Grace Faubion, Sumil Thakrar, Jason Hill



11:20am - 11:35am

Grass 2 Gas: How nitrogen inputs to the Chesapeake Bay watershed can change by perennial grasses and winter biomass crops to produce biogas

Lucas de Lima Casseres dos Santos, Christine Costello

SRE9: Lightning Talk
Location: Hamptons
Chair: I. Daniel Posen
 
10:20am - 10:25am

GCAM, The Global Change Analysis Model

Rachel Hoesly



10:25am - 10:30am

Electric Utility Vulnerability to Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris Flow in California

Eleanor M. Hennessy, Mikhail V. Chester



10:30am - 10:35am

Implications of Zoning Ordinances for Rural Utility-Scale Solar Deployment and Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region

Papa Yaw Owusu-Obeng, Sarah Banas Mills, Michael T. Craig



10:35am - 10:40am

Carbon neutral pathways for Thailand and Bangkok: Integrated assessment modeling to inform energy system transitions

Taryn Waite, Bijay Bahadur Pradhan, Pornphimol Pornphimol Winyuchakrit, Zarrar Khan, Maridee Weber, Leeya Pressburger, Achiraya Chaichaloempreecha, Salony Rajbhandari, Piti Pita, Michael I. Westphal, Abdullah Jonvisait, Daranee Jareemit, Bundit Limmeechokchai, Meredydd Evans



10:40am - 10:45am

Power Play: Evaluating the effect of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on Electric Vehicle Battery Technology Choices and Supply Chains

Anthony Lu Cheng, Erica R.H. Fuchs, Jeremy J. Michalek



10:45am - 10:50am

Leveraging Prospective Life Cycle Inventory Databases for Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels

David Quiroz, Jason Quinn



10:50am - 10:55am

From Data to Decisions: Assessing Committed Energy Supplies for Informed Climate Policy in the US

Dawn L. Woodard, Michele L. Bustamante



10:55am - 11:00am

Cracking Appalachia: A Political-Industrial Ecology Perspective

Jennifer Baka



11:00am - 11:05am

Integrating Solar PV Projects into Traditional Energy Efficiency Programs

Tom Cosgro, Conor McGrail



11:05am - 11:10am

Using Machine Learning in Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of the University’s Geothermal Energy Pilot Plant

Mahsa Ghandi, Jasmina Burek



11:10am - 11:15am

Building Energy Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. School Infrastructure

Andrea Boero-Vera, Cordula Schmid, Lourdes Medina, David Claudio, John-Michael Davis, Scott Jiusto, Aaron Smith-Walter, Jasmina Burek



11:15am - 11:20am

Test driving a new LCA framework for critical minerals mining

Jenna Trost, Jennifer Dunn



11:20am - 11:25am

CANSTOREnergy Project

Joule Bergerson

SRI1: Decarbonization
Location: Guilford
Chair: Ben Rachunok
Chair: Alysha Helmrich
 
10:20am - 10:35am

A GIS-Based Process for En Masse Estimation of Commercial Building Energy Consumption

Jeffrey Lee Hubbs



10:35am - 10:50am

Opportunities in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Hydrogen Blending in Industrial Process Heating

Qining Wang, Jennifer Dunn



10:50am - 11:05am

Using greenhouse gas inventories to create emissions reduction targets for buildings to help reach our carbon neutrality goals at the University of Pittsburgh

Isabella Ann Cicco, Federica Geremicca, Jessica Moriah Vaden, Aurora Sharrard, Melissa Bilec



11:05am - 11:20am

APEX Green Cities: Leverage Data and Knowledge to Accelerate Climate Action in Cities

Lorraine Sugar

11:40am
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12:40pm
Lunch
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
12:40pm
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1:20pm
Panel: Energy & Agricultural Systems Modeling
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
1:20pm
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1:30pm
Transition III
1:30pm
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2:50pm
AIB2: Biomaterials, Biofuels, & Alt. Energy Sources
Location: Westminster
Chair: Kiara Winans
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Potential from Adopting Anaerobic Digestion on Large-Scale Dairy Farms in the United States

Jonah M. Greene, Jim Wallace, Robert B. Williams, April B. Leytem, Bert R. Bock, Mike McCully, Stephen R. Kaffka, C. Alan Rotz, Jason C. Quinn



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Feasibility of Purpose Grown Bioenergy Feedstocks and Power-to-Liquid Technologies for Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the Contiguous United States

Braden J. Limb, Jack P. Smith, Steven J. Simske, Jason C. Quinn



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Life Cycle GHG Emissions and Carbon Intensity of U.S. Fuel Use and Projection for the Next 10 Years

Tai-Yuan Huang, Doris Oke, Troy R. Hawkins



2:15pm - 2:30pm

The Influence of Farm Design on Manure Biosolid Availability, Biogas Potential, and GHG Emissions

Melissa Moore, Corinne Scown



2:30pm - 2:45pm

Life cycle Assessment of Biogas Production from Hemp Crop Residue using Process Modeling

Alana Teresa Smith, Anthony Roulier, Nelson Granda Marulanda, Lindsey McGregor, Jasmina Burek

STA1: LCA Tool
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

A decision-making tool to simplify data requirement for life cycle assessment of timber-based structural materials

Baishakhi Bose, Thomas P. Hendrickson, Sarah L. Nordahl, Seth Kane, Sabbie A. Miller, Corinne D. Scown



1:45pm - 2:00pm

Test driving a new LCA framework for critical minerals mining

Jenna Trost, Jennifer Dunn



2:00pm - 2:15pm

Mapping the path towards sustainable polymers: a holistic Life Cycle Assessment tool for sustainable polymer design

Miaohan Tang, Jennifer Dunn

SRE4: Tools Overview - Energy system models
Location: Guilford
Chair: Elizabeth Moore
 
1:30pm - 1:45pm

From Data to Decisions: Assessing Committed Energy Supplies for Informed Climate Policy in the US

Dawn L. Woodard, Michele L. Bustamante



1:45pm - 2:00pm

A Model Intercomparison Study of Open-Source Power System Models

Cameron Wade



2:00pm - 2:20pm

GCAM, The Global Change Analysis Model

Rachel Hoesly



2:20pm - 2:35pm

The Canadian Open Energy Model (CANOE)

I. Daniel Posen, Joule Bergerson, Andrew Leach, Heather MacLean, Sean McCoy, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Sylvia Sleep

2:50pm
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3:20pm
Break I
Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area
3:20pm
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4:40pm
AIB3: Biomaterials, Biofuels, & Alt. Energy Sources
Location: Westminster
Chair: Obste Therasme
 
3:20pm - 3:35pm

Environmental and Economic Analysis of Value-added Products from Integrated Biorefineries in the Pulp and Paper Industry

Aline Banboukian, Dipti Kamath, Sachin Nimbalkar



3:35pm - 3:50pm

A Framework for Analyzing Wood Dynamics in Construction Sector within an Emerging Forest-Based Bioeconomy

Bidhan Bhuson Roy, Qingshi Tu



3:50pm - 4:05pm

Life Cycle Assessment of Priority BioBased Chemicals: A Review and Meta-regression

Zirui Tang, Weijia Zhang, Qingshi Tu



4:05pm - 4:20pm

Life cycle assessment of different pretreatment methods yielding sugar for value-added biomaterials and biofuels

Wondwosen Aga, Kalyani Ananthakrishnan, Deepak Kumar, Obste Therasme

SRE3: Macro Energy Models
Location: Hamptons
Chair: I. Daniel Posen
 
3:20pm - 3:35pm

The role of hydrogen in decarbonizing US iron and steel production

Katherine Jordan, Paulina Jaramillo, Valerie Karplus, Peter Adams, Nicholas Muller



3:35pm - 3:50pm

Carbon neutral pathways for Thailand and Bangkok: Integrated assessment modeling to inform energy system transitions

Taryn Waite, Bijay Bahadur Pradhan, Pornphimol Pornphimol Winyuchakrit, Zarrar Khan, Maridee Weber, Leeya Pressburger, Achiraya Chaichaloempreecha, Salony Rajbhandari, Piti Pita, Michael I. Westphal, Abdullah Jonvisait, Daranee Jareemit, Bundit Limmeechokchai, Meredydd Evans



3:50pm - 4:05pm

State-level Industrial Energy and Emissions Modeling with GCAM-USA

Steven Smith, Ian Pimenta, Nazar Kholod, Rachel Hoesly



4:05pm - 4:20pm

Tools for Tractability of Datacenter NetZero Carbon Targets

Ashok Sunder Rajan, Taco Niet

STA2: Sust. Perf. & Assessment
Location: Guilford
Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell
 
3:20pm - 3:35pm

A Tool to Incorporate Non-Energy Impacts in Energy Efficiency Investment Decision Making for Firms

Elizabeth Wachs



3:35pm - 3:50pm

Carbon footprint calculators: A review and development of an updated tool

Sierra Janelle Lema, Marie-Odile Payne Fortier



3:50pm - 4:05pm

A New Technology-Based Tool for Building Profitable Biodiversity-Conserving Offerings

Timothy Haas



4:05pm - 4:20pm

Enabling Anticipatory LCA for non-LCA experts

Lise Laurin, Tejaswini Chatty, Bryton Moeller, Ismael Velasco

4:40pm
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5:00pm
Transition IV: + Poster Session setup
5:00pm
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6:45pm
Poster Session
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
 

The Canadian Open Energy Model (CANOE)

I. Daniel Posen, Joule Bergerson, Andrew Leach, Heather MacLean, Sean McCoy, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Sylvia Sleep



Seamless 3D Heat Transfer Analysis in Early Architectural Design: A Case Study with OpenFOAM

Maryam Almaian, Patrick Kastner



Assessing climate-informed engineering skills and concepts among civil engineering students

Marie Buhl, Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz, Sam Markolf



Characterization of food waste and contaminants to determine appropriate valorization methods

Jennifer Y. Park, Diana Rodriguez Alberto, Thomas Trabold, Callie Babbitt



Sustainable Production of Xylo-Oligosaccharide A Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Study

Jonathan Honore Morizet-Davis, Song Wang, Sunkyu Park, Richard Venditti, Kai Lan



Predicting climate change impacts on Chinese pines biomass in Northern China using 3-PG model

Haseen Ullah, Jie Duan, Xiaoxia Wang, Lulu He



Impact of varying renewable capacity credit allocation on larger grid capacity expansion planning

Jethro Ssengonzi, Aditya Sinha, Jeremiah X. Johnson



Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Rebar: Focus on Novel Thermoplastic Pultrusion Technology

Pratibha Sapkota, Reed Miller



The Impact of Green Infrastructure on Urban Surface Runoff and Its Enhancement: A Case Study of the Jialu River Basin in Zhengzhou City

Baowen Zhang, Yang Liu, Paul Crovella, Yihang Wang



Comparison of the Life Cycle Impacts of Materials for Large-Format Additive Manufacturing

Josephine Adu-Gyamfi, Reed Miller



Recycling Wind Turbine Blades for Large Format 3D Printing

Fatemeh Kiani Salmi, Reed Miller



Understanding Carbon Capture Utilization, Storage (CCUS) Strategies for the Cement Industry

Elizabeth Moore, Hessam Azarijafari, Randolph Kirchain



Techno-economic life cycle analysis of low-carbon freight movement

Narayan Gopinathan



UC Merced Decarbonization Survey

Isabelle Haddad, Paul Almeida, Rasha Naseif



Quantifying the Impact of Synthetic Biology Technologies on Industrial Chemical Manufacturing

Madeline R Joseph, Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Jennifer B Dunn



Harnessing Process Simulation for Life Cycle Inventory Generation

Jannatul Ferdous, Farid Bensebaa, Kasun Hewage, Pankaj Bhowmik, Nathan Pelletier



Holistic Sustainability Evaluation: Integrating Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Analysis, Process Optimization, and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approaches

Jannatul Ferdous, Farid Bensebaa, Nathan Pelletier



Technological readiness of direct food waste to feed valorization pathways across the globe: a review of case studies

Shaiyan Siddique, Qingshi Tu, Rehan Sadiq, Nathan Pelletier



Understanding the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Facility Construction in Biofuel LCAs

Huy Nguyen, Rui Shi



Assessing the Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles Through Carbon Footprint Analysis in California

Noah Blank



Understanding and addressing variability in wind and solar energy resources for decarbonization strategies

Shannon Hwang, Micah Ziegler, Jessika Trancik



Using Machine Learning in Life Cycle Assessment to Provide a Comprehensive Environmental Assessment of the University’s Geothermal Energy Pilot Plant

Mahsa Ghandi, Jasmina Burek



Integrating Solar PV Projects into Traditional Energy Efficiency Programs

Tom Cosgro, Conor McGrail



Electrification of Buildings Cost Effectiveness in New Construction

Tom Cosgro, James Domanski



Lithium-Ion Battery Waste and Recycling Management: A New Proposal for Decentralized Waste and Recycling Locations

Mila Ann Lubeck, Thomas A. Herring



Reducing Water Treatment System Emissions Using Predictive Process Control

Ryan Mauery, Ilya Kovalenko, Margaret Busse



Applying Optimization Strategies in Material Flow Analysis - A Case Study of Copper

Xiaohan Wu, Fu Zhao



Allocating the limited battery capacity across light-duty vehicles market segments to increase GHG mitigation – A scenario-based analysis of the U.S. fleet

Nadine Alzaghrini, Amir F.N. Abdul-Manan, Jon McKechnie, I. Daniel Posen, Heather L. MacLean



Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Direct CO2 Capture and Underground Energy Recovery Integration

Shima Bashti, Sean McCoy, Nader Mahinpey



A Systematic Review on the True Environmental Impact of Shared Mobility Systems (preliminary results from Bike-Sharing Systems)

Laura Almeida Tinjaca, Hua Cai



Accounting for the carbon benefits of harvested wood products at the subnational level

Oludunsin Arodudu, Obste Therasme



Assessing the Environmental Life Cycle Impacts of Lignin-Derived Polyurethane Foams for High-Performance Insulation

Piumi Jayalath, Deepak Kumar, Chang Geun Yoo, Charles M. Cai, Paul L. Crovella, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Eric A. Mintz, Obste Therasme



TEA of fuels and products from using industrial carbon capture and metabolic engineering

Anthony Roulier, Matthew Eckelman



A global anthropogenic emissions inventory of reactive gases and aerosols (1750 – 2022): an update to the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)

Rachel Hoesly, Steven J Smith, Noah Prime, Hamza Ahsan

Date: Wednesday, 19/June/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Breakfast
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
8:30am
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9:30am
Keynote II: Beyond the Lens: Shifting Power through Process and Action
Location: Whitehall Ballroom

K. Baja

9:30am
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9:40am
Transition V
9:40am
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11:00am
SRE7: Minerals
Location: Westminster
Chair: Jennifer Dunn
 
9:40am - 9:55am

Towards Consequential Life Cycle Analysis of Minerals Mining for Decarbonization

Yilun Zhou, Jennifer Dunn



9:55am - 10:10am

Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Rare Earth Element Recovery from Phosphogypsum

Adam John Smerigan, Rui Shi



10:10am - 10:25am

Modeling the Impact of Direct Lithium Extraction Technologies on Overall Water Use in the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area

Shaily Gupta, Margaret Busse



10:25am - 10:40am

Revealing Material Requirements and Environmental Impact for Canadian Wind Energy Development Based on Material Flow Analysis

Peijin Jiang, Bidhan Bhuson Roy, Qingshi Tu



10:40am - 10:55am

Power Play: Evaluating the effect of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies on Electric Vehicle Battery Technology Choices and Supply Chains

Anthony Lu Cheng, Erica R.H. Fuchs, Jeremy J. Michalek

SRI2: Circular Economy and LCA
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Elizabeth Moore
Chair: Qingshi Tu
 
9:40am - 9:55am

Sustainable Well Plugging: Evaluating Biochar’s Integration in Orphan Oil & Gas Wells

Brooke Silagy



9:55am - 10:10am

Life Cycle Assessment of Alfalfa in the Southwestern United States

Raji Lukkoor



10:10am - 10:25am

The opportunity for utilizing end-of-life scrap to meet growing copper demand

Isabel Diersen, Karan Bhuwalka, Elsa Olivetti

HDS1: Stakeholder Engagement
Location: Guilford
Chair: Opeoluwa Wonuola Olawale
 
9:40am - 9:55am

Just by Design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse

Fernanda Cruz Rios, Brieanne Berry, Cindy Isenhour, Michael Haedicke, Melissa Bilec



9:55am - 10:10am

Comparing online and offline social capital as measures of community resilience

Ignacio Sepulveda, Benjamin Rachunok



10:10am - 10:25am

Advancing community scale transitions to circular economy in the construction and demolition sector using the Circularity Assessment Protocol

Nicole E Bell, Amy L Brooks, Jenna Jambeck, Madison Werner, Melissa M Bilec



10:25am - 10:40am

Cracking Appalachia: A Political-Industrial Ecology Perspective

Jennifer Baka



10:40am - 10:55am

Transformative urban agriculture: applying food waste-derived fertilizers in Community Learning Gardens

Sarah Kakadellis, Christopher W. Simmons, Edward S. Spang

11:00am
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11:20am
Break III
Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area
11:20am
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12:40pm
HDS2: Energy Justice and Inequity
Location: Westminster
Chair: Kiara Winans
 
11:20am - 11:35am

Incorporating worker preferences to design sociotechnical solutions for decarbonized industries using discrete choice models

Rebecca Ciez



11:35am - 11:50am

Revisiting Energy Inequity from a Climate Perspective Using Machine Learning

Ying Yu, Xijing Li, Angel Hsu, Noah Kittner



11:50am - 12:05pm

Equity Considerations in U.S. Climate Action Planning

Isabelle Haddad, Sam Markolf



12:05pm - 12:20pm

Disparities in Residential Proximity to Power Plants in the United States

Eleanor M. Hennessy

SRI4: Transportation Systems
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Samuel Markolf
 
11:20am - 11:35am

Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Vehicles and Charging Station Network during Evacuations

Denissa Purba, Eleftheria Kontou



11:35am - 11:50am

Electric Vehicles Limit Equitable Access To Essential Services

Yamil Essus, Benjamin Rachunok



11:50am - 12:05pm

Internalizing societal costs is unlikely to make most Chicago Uber and Lyft riders choose transit instead

Miki Tsuchiya, Parth Vaishnav



12:05pm - 12:20pm

Investigating ZEV Adoption Progress in California and Identifying Barriers to Advancing Adoption Rates

Genevieve Ann McKeown-Green, Ricardo de Castro, Isabelle Haddad, Sam Markolf



12:20pm - 12:35pm

Trade, Extended Use, and End of Life in the Global South: An Expanded EV Life Cycle Assessment

Francisco Parés Olguín, Alissa Kendall

 
12:40pm
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1:40pm
Lunch II
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
1:25pm
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2:10pm
Panel II: LCA of emerging technologies
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
 

LCA of emerging technologies: we can’t agree, so let’s stop trying

Joule Bergerson, Mik Carbajales-Dale, Greg Cooney, Joe Cresko, Abby Kirchofer, Manish Kumar, Heather P. H. Liddell, Sheikh Moni, Lisa Peterson, I. Daniel Posen, Sylvia Sleep, Liz Wachs, Rachel Woods-Robinson

2:10pm
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2:20pm
Transition VI
2:20pm
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3:40pm
SRE5: Prospective LCA
Location: Westminster
Chair: Julie Chen
Chair: Obste Therasme
 
2:20pm - 2:35pm

Life Cycle Analysis of Methanol Production via Photocatalytic Carbon Conversion

John White, Xinyao Shen, Sheikh Moniruzzaman Moni, Michelle Krynock



2:35pm - 2:50pm

Leveraging Prospective Life Cycle Inventory Databases for Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuels

David Quiroz, Jason Quinn



2:50pm - 3:05pm

Life Cycle Assessment of Polyethylene and Alternative Packaging Materials in the United States

Elizabeth Avery, Experience Nduagu, Eric Vozzola, Timothee Roux, Rafael Auras



3:05pm - 3:20pm

Evaluating costs and potential of select bioenergy pathways for decarbonization of hard to decarbonize U.S. economic sectors

Saurajyoti Kar, Troy R. Hawkins, Doris Oke, Udayan Singh

SRI5: Urban Systems
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Alysha Helmrich
 
2:20pm - 2:35pm

Interdependency Classification and Modeling: A Framework for Infrastructure Resilience

Negin Shamsi, Alysha Helmrich



2:35pm - 2:50pm

Complexity of increasing knowledge flows: the 2022 Southwest Airlines Scheduling Crisis

Alysha Helmrich, Mikhail Chester, Megan Ryerson



2:50pm - 3:05pm

Analyzing Redistribution of Federal Disaster Aid Through Machine Learning

Adriana Bryant, Allison Reilly, Deb Niemeier



3:05pm - 3:20pm

Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene

Mikhail Chester, Thaddeus Miller, Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, Alysha Helmrich, David Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth Cook, Nancy Grimm, Samuel Markolf



3:20pm - 3:35pm

Assessing the Impact of a Decentralized of Echocardiogram Scan System on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Arushi Singh, Melissa Brindise, Margaret Busse

CSRT1: New Approaches, Models, and Frameworks
Location: Guilford
Chair: Kiara Winans
 
2:20pm - 2:35pm

Digital Circular Environment: State-of-art approaches for enabling digital circularity in the building environment - An emerging framework

Cagla Keles, Fernanda Cruz Rios, Simi Hoque



2:35pm - 2:50pm

The Impact of State and Federal Decarbonization Policies on Technological Pathways

Gavin Michael Mouat, Christopher Galik, Aditya Sinha, Aranya Venkatesh, Katie Jordan, Paulina Jaramillo, Jeremiah Johnson



2:50pm - 3:05pm

A proposed framework for quantifying and incorporating the water-energy-food nexus in life cycle assessment

Jonah M. Greene, Jason C. Quinn



3:05pm - 3:20pm

A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable vs. Disposable Stethoscopes at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Emergency Department

Isabella Ann Cicco, Sammie Roenigk, Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Isabela Cajiao Angelelli, Melissa Marie Bilec

3:40pm
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4:10pm
Break IV
Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area
4:10pm
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5:30pm
SRE1: Climate impacts and resilience for energy systems
Location: Westminster
Chair: Derrick R. Carlson
 
4:10pm - 4:25pm

Electric Utility Vulnerability to Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris Flow in California

Eleanor M. Hennessy, Mikhail V. Chester



4:25pm - 4:40pm

Leveraging machine learning to investigate the predictability of solar power generation under climate change

Renee Obringer



4:40pm - 4:55pm

Building Energy Resilience and Sustainability in U.S. School Infrastructure

Andrea Boero-Vera, Cordula Schmid, Lourdes Medina, David Claudio, John-Michael Davis, Scott Jiusto, Aaron Smith-Walter, Jasmina Burek



4:55pm - 5:10pm

Understanding and addressing variability in wind and solar energy resources for decarbonization strategies

Shannon Hwang, Micah Ziegler, Jessika Trancik

SRI3: Stormwater and Water Systems
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Alysha Helmrich
 
4:10pm - 4:25pm

Assessing the integration of social media information as a potential data source for improved urban flood infrastructure

Swagato Biswas Ankon, Alysha Helmrich



4:25pm - 4:40pm

Balancing Water, Energy, and Cost: Analysis of Zero/Minimal Liquid Discharge Desalination Technologies

Margaret Grace O'Connell, Neha Rajendran, Jennifer Dunn



4:40pm - 4:55pm

Nature-Based Design Solutions to Enhance Urban Resilience in Underserved Coastal Communities: A Case Study on Campostella and Campostella Heights, Norfolk, VA

Farzaneh Soflaei, Luka Hamel Serentity, Mason Andrews, Mujde Erten Unal, Carol Considine



4:55pm - 5:10pm

Synthetic Water Distribution Network Models: Challenges and Opportunities

Ian Searles, Mikhail Chester, Ahmed Mustafa, Rajan Jain, Ryan Sparks, Ryan Hoff, Kate Klise, Kirk Bonney, Samuel Rivera, Jason Poff



5:10pm - 5:25pm

Building Climate Resilience in East Africa: Time-Series Building Footprint Analysis for Urban Flood Hazard Assessment

Emily Zuetell, Paulina Jaramillo, Matteo Pozzi, David Rounce

STA3: Sustainability Education
Location: Guilford
Chair: Jennifer Dianne Russell
 
4:10pm - 4:25pm

Assessing sustainability content in an undergraduate engineering curriculum in Canada

Sherry-Ann Ram, Deborah Tihanyi, Heather MacLean, Daniel Posen



4:25pm - 4:40pm

Exploring the correlation between students’ sustainability knowledge (literacy) and actions (carbon footprints, estimated from a Life Cycle Assessment perspective)

Sherry-Ann Ram, Heather MacLean, Deborah Tihanyi, Daniel Posen



4:40pm - 4:55pm

Can Reflective Practice Change Engineering Students’ Sustainability Perceptions?

Sherry-Ann Ram, Daniel Posen, Deborah Tihanyi



4:55pm - 5:10pm

Sustainable Project Management: Barriers and Enabling Factors

Emily M Mertz



5:10pm - 5:25pm

Sharing ethical perspectives in agricultural sustainability research

Christine Costello, Farrah Dingal

6:00pm
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9:00pm
Social Event 2: Explore the Baltimore Inner Harbor area in small groups.
Early-Career Panel: Early-Career Researcher & Professional: Panel Discussion
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
Chair: Kiara Winans
Chair: Qingshi Tu

Join us for an engaging panel session! Panelists will introduce themselves before moving to separate tables for small group discussions. Afterwards, enjoy a social dinner at designated restaurants. Don't miss this chance to connect, learn, and share ideas!

A big thank you to our student leaders who will be moderating the sessions with the panelists!

 
Date: Thursday, 20/June/2024
7:00am
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8:00am
ISSST Planning Meeting
Location: Hamptons

All are welcome! Come join us to discuss what you like about the conference, what you'd change, and whether you'd like to get involved in helping us plan future events!

8:00am
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8:30am
Breakfast II
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
8:30am
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9:30am
Keynote III
Location: Whitehall Ballroom

 

The Cooperative Research Model of the Coordinating Research Council and Sustainable Mobility Committee

Christopher Tennant

9:30am
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9:40am
Transition VII
9:40am
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10:45am
CSRT2: Climate Futures
Location: Westminster
Chair: Adam John Smerigan
Chair: Obste Therasme
 
9:40am - 9:55am

Sustainability-oriented labs in Brazilian cities

Carolina Santos, Adriane Angelica Queiroz, Susana Carla Pereira



9:55am - 10:10am

Implications of wide-ranging socioeconomic and climate futures on crop production in the United States

Hamza Ahsan, Mengqi Zhao, Jennie Rice



10:10am - 10:25am

Automatic detection of macroplastics in bodies of water using Deep Learning approach: case study, Rímac river, Peru.

Miguel Angel Astorayme, Ian Vázquez-Rowe, Ramzy Kahhat, Eizo Muñoz



10:25am - 10:40am

Quantifying Plug-in Electric Vehicle Mileage and Resale Value

John Paul Helveston, Lujin Zhao, Laura Roberson, Eliese Ottinger, Arthur Yip

SRE6: Commercial & Industrial Energy Use & Emissions
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Ben Rachunok
Chair: Alysha Helmrich
 
9:40am - 9:55am

Implications of Zoning Ordinances for Rural Utility-Scale Solar Deployment and Power System Decarbonization in the Great Lakes Region

Papa Yaw Owusu-Obeng, Sarah Banas Mills, Michael T. Craig



9:55am - 10:10am

Digital Twin For Urban Metabolism. A Pilot Model For A Campus Building.

Federica Geremicca, Alessandro Fascetti, John C. Brigham, Melissa M. Bilec



10:10am - 10:25am

Data-driven Characterization Of Cooling Needs In A Portfolio Of Co-located Commercial Buildings

Aqsa Naeem, Sally Benson, Jacques de Chalendar



10:25am - 10:40am

Impacts of teleworking on US office building space

Kun Liu, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Chaeyeon Han, Eric Hittinger, Sinoun Phoung, Eric Williams

10:45am
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11:15am
Break V
Location: Whitehall Pre-Function area
11:15am
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12:00pm
SRE8: Land & Air for Legacy Systems
Location: Westminster
Chair: Marie-Odile Fortier
 
11:15am - 11:30am

Direct land use change impacts of natural gas well pads in New Mexico determined through geospatial analysis and machine learning

Amir Sharafi, Marie-Odile Fortier



11:30am - 11:45am

Carbon sequestration in Deep-Saline Aquifers (CS): A Regional Study Case in Northern South America

Catalina Moreno, Paulina Jaramillo, Andres Clarens



11:45am - 12:00pm

Evaluating the environmental impacts of historical oil spill incidents in North America from the life cycle perspective

Yiming Liu, Hua Cai

SRI6: Wastewater Systems
Location: Hamptons
Chair: Samuel Markolf
 
11:15am - 11:30am

Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Utilizing Waste Nitrogen to Develop Microbial Protein from Cyanophycin Accumulating Organisms Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Utilizing Waste Nitrogen to Develop Microbial Protein from Cyanophycin Accumulating Organisms

Chayse Monroe Lavallais, Keith Tyo, George Wells, Jennifer Dunn



11:30am - 11:45am

Addressing outstanding obstacles to the adoption of anaerobic membrane bioreactors for sustainable wastewater treatment infrastructure through techno-economic analysis and lifecycle assessment

Garrett M. Cole, Lance C. Schideman, Gerardine Botte, Jason C. Quinn



11:45am - 12:00pm

Techno-Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of an Algal Turf Scrubber Wastewater Treatment Plant for Nutrient Removal

Ashley M. Ryland, David Quiroz, Jason C. Quinn

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Closing Remarks: (Light lunch will be served)
Location: Whitehall Ballroom
1:00pm
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2:00pm
ISSST 2025 Planning Meeting
Location: Hamptons

If you are able to join us to get started on planning for ISSST 2025, please meet us here for a relatively informal discussion.


 
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