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 - Room C |
| Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Workshop 1a: What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? [Part 1] Location: Campus Club - Room C What have we learned after 30 years of LCA? |
| 12:40pm - 1:25pm |
Lightning 3: ITM and CST Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Alysha Helmrich Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Early Stage Building LCA and Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies 12:50pm - 12:55pm Towards a shared view on the climate impact of digital technology including the handprint 12:55pm - 1:00pm New Tools for Synthetic Temperature and Heatwave Generation: Advancing Sustainability and Resilience under Climate Change 1:00pm - 1:05pm The Intersection of Sustainability, Resilience, and Smart Cities Literature 1:05pm - 1:10pm Balancing Stakeholder Interests for Sustainable Road-Stream Crossing Management Using a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm |
| 1:45pm - 3:05pm |
HDS1: Considerations for Stakeholder Engagement Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Elizabeth Wachs The Underestimated Role of Consumers in LCA 1:57pm - 2:09pm Product User Well-being from Circular Economy Behavior Engagement 2:09pm - 2:21pm Understanding the Stakeholder Landscape Surrounding Energy Efficiency Decisions in U.S. Manufacturing 2:21pm - 2:33pm Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) on Women’s Argan Oil Production in Morocco 2:33pm - 2:45pm The Impact of Online Shopping on Retail Building Space Utilization and Energy Demand in the U.S. 2:45pm - 2:57pm Evaluating Stakeholder Preferences and Network in Road-Stream Crossing Management |
| 3:25pm - 4:45pm |
Special Session 1: Restructuring EPA's WARM Model Location: Campus Club - Room C Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session Restructuring EPA's WARM Model |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |
| 9:35am - 10:55am |
AIB1: Towards Negative-Carbon Bioproducts Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Poulami Karan TOWARDS NEGATIVE CARBON: INSIGHTS FROM MATO GROSSO DO SUL, BRAZIL 9:47am - 9:59am Scalability of Hemp-based Thermal Insulation in the United States – A Monte Carlo-based Techno-economic Approach 9:59am - 10:11am Cradle-to-Gate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ethylene Produced via Corn Ethanol 10:11am - 10:23am Life-Cycle Assessment of Corn Wet Mills in the United States: Ethanol, Dextrose, and Feed Products 10:23am - 10:35am Life Cycle Assessment of poly(3-hydroxybuyrate) Production from Forest Residue and Shrub Willow Mix |
| 11:15am - 12:35pm |
ITM1: Tools and Methods for LCA Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Oksana Makarova Algorithmic Approaches to Scale Life Cycle Assessments 11:27am - 11:39am Including Supply Chain Vulnerability in Social Life Cycle Assessments of Critical Minerals 11:39am - 11:51am Holistic Evaluation of Environmental Effects Using Consequential Life Cycle Analysis for Critical Mineral Production 11:51am - 12:03pm Ojibwe Gikendaasowin (Ojibwe Knowledge) life cycle assessment of critical minerals mining 12:03pm - 12:15pm Federal LCA Commons: Dataset Updates and Contribution Opportunities 12:15pm - 12:27pm Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Techno Economic Analysis (TEA) of Sorbent-Based Direct Air Capture (DAC) Case Studies |
| 2:30pm - 3:50pm |
HDS2: Equity and Intersectional Approaches Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Eleanor M. Hennessy Advancing Energy Equity Metrics: Bridging Local Voices and Contextual Insights in Sub-Saharan Africa 2:42pm - 2:54pm Evaluating sustainability assessments via Indigenous Knowledge 2:54pm - 3:06pm Disparities in power plant-level air quality and health disparities in the United States 3:06pm - 3:18pm High-Resolution Fleet Turnover Model to Assess California's Electric Vehicle Transition |
| 4:10pm - 5:30pm |
ITM2: Cross-sector Modeling Innovations for Life Cycle and Sustainability Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Qingshi Tu Systemic Decarbonization of the U.S. Aluminum Supply Chain: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis Approach 4:22pm - 4:34pm Bill of Materials Prediction of Solid State Drives with Large Language Models 4:34pm - 4:46pm ECO-STEPS: A Multi-Criteria Decision Support Tool for Evaluating the Sustainability of Engineered Climate Solutions 4:46pm - 4:58pm Comprehensive Manure Management Impacts Tool: A Life Cycle Assessment Model for Evaluating Regionally Specific Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategies in Dairy Manure Management 4:58pm - 5:10pm Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) –Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) Harmonization Framework to Evaluate Emerging Carbon Conversion Technologies 5:10pm - 5:22pm GeoHydroSim: A Tool for Modeling Water Consumption from Geothermal Energy Production and Lithium Extraction 5:22pm - 5:34pm How to Enhance Your Data Visualization in 15 Minutes |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 9:35am - 10:55am |
ITM3: LCA for Materials and Methods Location: Campus Club - Room C Chair: Experience Nduagu Chair: Oksana Makarova Advanced Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method for Biodegradable Microplastics 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 9:59am - 10:11am Environmental impacts of future cotton production in the United States 10:11am - 10:23am Unintended consequences of plastic substitution: Life cycle assessments of polyethylene packaging vs. alternatives in US based on ten indicators 10:23am - 10:35am Modeling consumer choices of disposition of End-of-First-Use electronics 10:35am - 10:47am Circular economy for N, P and K from human urine to crops: Maximizing environmental benefits through geospatial optimization of nutrient recovery facilities |