Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
7:00am
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8:00am
ISSST Planning Meeting
8:00am
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8:30am
Breakfast II
9:20am
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9:35am
Transition VII
9:35am
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10:55am
AIB2: Climate-Smart Bioeconomy: From Forests to Fields
 
9:35am - 9:47am

Impact of Species Mixing Ratios and Tree Size on Forest Resilience to Climate Stressors for Sustainable Management

Haseen Ullah, Xiaoxia Wang, Lulu He, Duan Jie



9:47am - 9:59am

Exploring Economic and Environmental Impacts of Emerging Incentives for Winter Rye Cover Crops in the U.S. Midwest

Kathryn Phillips, Tim Smith



9:59am - 10:11am

Elucidating the Value Chain of a Potential Biobased Alternative to Traditional Plastic Precursors

Madeline R. Joseph, Jennifer B. Dunn



10:11am - 10:23am

The Impacts of System Boundary and Biogenic Carbon Accounting in an Attributional Life Cycle Analysis of U.S. Renewable Natural Gas Production Pathways

Jorge L. Izar-Tenorio, Megan S. Henriksen, Kavya Chivukula, Michael Whiston, Matthew Jamieson



10:23am - 10:35am

Soil amendments as value-added products from Integrated Pulp and Paper Biorefinery: An Environmental and Economic Analysis

Aline Banboukian, Dipti Kamath, Sachin Nimbalkar, Joe Cresko



10:35am - 10:47am

Evaluating the Efficacy of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices: A Meta-Analysis of Life Cycle Assessment Studies

Rohit Kumar, Shelie Miller

ITM3: LCA for Materials and Methods
 
9:35am - 9:47am

Advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method for Biodegradable Microplastics

Zhengyin Piao, Yuan Yao



9:47am - 9:59am

Addressing challenges in the lifecycle assessment (LCA) of circular economy for the US beverage industry: A case study of single use versus reusable cups

Dwarak Ravikumar, Dileep Nakka



9:59am - 10:11am

Environmental impacts of future cotton production in the United States

Pengxiao Zhou, Yilun Zhou, Jennifer B. Dunn



10:11am - 10:23am

Unintended consequences of plastic substitution: Life cycle assessments of polyethylene packaging vs. alternatives in US based on ten indicators

Elizabeth Avery, Emma Lawrence, Experience Nduagu, Luis Sotomayor, Kirti Richa, Timothee Roux, Rafael Auras



10:23am - 10:35am

Modeling consumer choices of disposition of End-of-First-Use electronics

Eric Williams, Payam Saeedi, Stacey Watson, Willie Cade, Tae Oh



10:35am - 10:40am

Circular economy for N, P and K from human urine to crops: Maximizing environmental benefits through geospatial optimization of nutrient recovery facilities

Sarishma Bhandari, Dwarak Ravikumar, Treavor Boyer

SRE5: Sustainable and Resilient Transportation
 
9:35am - 9:47am

Evaluating Use-phase Carbon Footprint of EV Batteries: A Physics-Based Approach

Hyung Chul Kim



9:47am - 9:59am

Driving Toward Net-Zero: Unlocking Circular Economy Strategies to Decarbonize U.S. Automotive Sheet Metal Production

Mohammadreza Heidari, Gregory A. Keoleian, Daniel R. Cooper



9:59am - 10:11am

Creating electrical load profiles for heavy-duty vehicle charging in Ontario, Canada using real-world GPS data

Sebastian Villada Rivera, David R. Turnbull, Matthew J. Roorda, I. Daniel Posen



10:11am - 10:41am

The Coordinating Research Council’s Sustainable Mobility Committee: Current and Future Research

Prem Lehr



10:41am - 10:46am

A Two-Echelon Bidirectional Energy Supply Problem with Uncrewed Electric Aerial and Ground Vehicles for Emergency Response Logistics

Hyunhwa Kim, Denissa Sari Darmawi Purba, Eleftheria Kontou

 
10:55am
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11:15am
Break V
11:15am
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12:30pm
Keynote III: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Share-Out]
Chair: Shelie Miller
12:45pm
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1:45pm
Student awards
1:45pm
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2:30pm
ISSST 2026 Planning Meeting
2:00pm
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5:00pm
Antelope: Technical Workshop: Using Antelope
 

Using Antelope - open source toolset for LCA benchmarking and analysis

Brandon Kuczenski

EPA tools for IE 2: Technical Workshop: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling Part 2
 

How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling. Part 2: USEEIO Model Assembly, Calculation and Analysis

Ben Young, Catherine Birney, Wesley Ingwersen

Workshop: Climate Fresk
Workshop ROI sustainability: Workshop: How to assess the return on investments into sustainability
 

How to assess the return on investments into sustainability

Lise Laurin, Zeynab Yousefzadeh

5:00pm
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7:00pm
Post-Conference Social Event - details TBD

 
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