32nd International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology – ISSST 2025
June 16 - 18, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |
| 10:20am - 10:40am |
Opening & Welcome Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 10:40am - 11:30am |
Keynote I: Sustainability Hotdish: Welcome to Minnesota! Location: Campus Club - West Wing Hear from Dr. Jason Hill of the University of Minnesota about new research into food sustainability, covering on air quality, food waste, and other topics—presented with a focus on the North Star State. |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Lunch Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Poster Session Location: Campus Club - West Wing Tool for Assessing Carbon Storing Materials-TACSMA Assessing Equity in California School Solar Adoption Through Machine Learning Cost, performance and Life cycle assessment of biosand filters and its modified derivatives for drinking water treatment. Decarbonizing Indiana’s Steel Industry: Hydrogen-Enhanced Electric Arc Furnace Integration and Grid Modeling Incorporating Industrial Ecology into Energy Systems Optimization: Modeling the Impact of Materials and Infrastructure on Decarbonization Integrating Sustainability Indicators for Plant-Based Proteins: A Review on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework Material Supply Resilience Modeling for Defense Buildings Model based control for carbon-efficient water treatment Novel circular economy approach to the recovery of Critical Raw Materials (CRM) from photovoltaic (PV) solar panel and Fibre Optic Cable (FOC) waste Regional Climate Impacts on Renewable Energy Generation The Impact of Subsidies on Heat Pump Adoption and Residential Heating Emissions in Massachusetts S-ROI: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating Sustainability Impacts of Emerging Technologies in Established Communities Strategic Carbon Hubs for Large-Scale Industrial Decarbonization: Cement, Steel, and Chemicals Value Theories in Infrastructure Development: Advancing the Human Dimensions of Sustainability Evaluating 25 years of changes in corn ethanol’s carbon intensity in the US: Some insights for advancing prospective life cycle assessment An Iterative Approach to Incorporating Experimental Data into the Life Cycle Analyses (LCA) of Potential Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs) Amplifying Women’s Voices: Addressing Gender-Specific Barriers to Renewable Energy Adoption in Fossil-Fuel-Dependent Economies Integrating Nutrition and Environmental Impacts into Nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA) for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems Comparing the environmental impacts of economic changes of USEEIO models: 2017 vs 2012 benchmark input output tables From Waste to Resource: Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Food Waste Treatment in Wastewater Resource Recovery Facilities Versus Landfilling Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Early Stage Building LCA and Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies Towards a shared view on the climate impact of digital technology including the handprint Upcycling grocery wastes as a feed input for climate friendly egg production in the United States Techno-Economic Analysis of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the South-Central U.S. Decarbonization pathways for U.S. Automotive Steel Consumption New Tools for Synthetic Temperature and Heatwave Generation: Advancing Sustainability and Resilience under Climate Change Amplifying Women’s Voices: Addressing Gender-Specific Barriers to Renewable Energy Adoption in Fossil-Fuel-Dependent Economies Addressing data availability concerns in Social Life Cycle Assessment through a critical review on the United States manufacturing sector Identifying Key Factors Influencing Zero-Emission Vehicle Uptake Across California’s Communities Evaluation of policy requirements for the three-pillar method for clean hydrogen production in the USA Whole-process water consumption of direct lithium extraction in the Salton Sea region Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping and Principles for Green Hydrogen Ecosystem Development in Michigan Balancing Stakeholder Interests for Sustainable Road-Stream Crossing Management Using a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Evaluating the community impacts of early-stage sustainability research Analysis for decarbonization of industrial petrochemicals Understanding decarbonization challenges in the cement sector through a retrospective analysis of industry reports and policy documents Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) –Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) Harmonization Framework to Evaluate Emerging Carbon Conversion Technologies Is the Design for Circularity strategy environmentally beneficial? A case study of the U.S Photovoltaics Industry shifting from Aluminum to Steel Frames Scalability of Hemp-based Thermal Insulation in the United States – A Monte Carlo-based Techno-economic Approach |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 8:30am - 9:20am |
Plenary 1: Tools of the Trade - Overview of Technical Workshops for Sustainability, LCA, and Industrial Ecology Analysis Location: Campus Club - West Wing This plenary session will feature brief presentations from the organizers of the Technical Workshops occuring Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. Speakers include Lise Laurin of EarthShift Global, Catherine Birney of Easter Research Group, Ben Young of Eastern Research Group, and Brandon Kuczenski of University of California-Santa Barbara |
| 12:45pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch II Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm |
Plenary 2: Panel: Enhancing Assessment Quality in LCA for Emerging Technologies Location: Campus Club - West Wing Enhancing Assessment Quality in LCA for Emerging Technologies |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast II Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 8:30am - 9:20am |
Keynote II: Creating a value chain for new industrial product: The Minnesota Sustainable Aviation Fuel Hub Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 11:15am - 12:30pm |
Keynote III: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Workshop Report] Location: Campus Club - West Wing Chair: Shelie Miller |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch III & Student Awards Location: Campus Club - West Wing |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm |
ISSST Planning Meeting II Location: Campus Club - West Wing |