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: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building |
| Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |
| 12:40pm - 1:25pm |
Lightning 2: SRE Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Samuel Markolf Consequential impacts of large electrical loads powering direct air capture 12:45pm - 12:50pm Life cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis of an intelligent water resource recovery system 12:50pm - 12:55pm Identifying Key Factors Influencing Zero-Emission Vehicle Uptake Across California’s Communities 12:55pm - 1:00pm Evaluation of policy requirements for the three-pillar method for clean hydrogen production in the USA 1:00pm - 1:05pm Low-carbon manufacturing increases climate benefit of photovoltaics (PV) by up to 208% points 1:05pm - 1:10pm Battery supply constraints in the light-duty vehicles sector - a barrier for fleet electrification or an opportunity for more efficient battery use? |
| 1:45pm - 3:05pm |
Lightning 4: SRI Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Obste Therasme Regional Light-Duty Vehicles Decarbonization Strategy from the Emission Abatement Cost Perspective 1:50pm - 1:55pm Adaptive Building LCA Tools for Promoting Circular Economy: A comprehensive analysis 1:55pm - 2:00pm Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Risk from Hazardous Events and Power Outages: Analytics and Resilience Implications 2:00pm - 2:05pm Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping and Principles for Green Hydrogen Ecosystem Development in Michigan 2:05pm - 2:10pm Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Thermoplastic and Conventional Rebar 2:10pm - 2:15pm Analysis for decarbonization of industrial petrochemicals 2:15pm - 2:20pm Techno-economic analysis of rail decarbonization 2:25pm - 2:30pm The climate limits of construction – consumption emissions and budgets for over 1000 cities. 2:30pm - 2:35pm Comparative Environmental Impact Assessment of Fiber Reinforcement for Additive Manufacturing Composites |
| 3:25pm - 4:45pm |
Special Session 2: Advancing Harmonized Biogenic Carbon Accounting in LCA Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Advancing Harmonized Biogenic Carbon Accounting in Life Cycle Assessment: from the UNEP/LCI Project |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |
| 9:35am - 10:55am |
SRI1: General Infrastructures and Transportation Systems Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Md. Uzzal Hossain Is the best available climate model data sufficient to plan for climate adaptation? 9:47am - 9:59am Operationalizing safe-to-fail design for climate adaptation through social, ecological, and technological capabilities of infrastructures 9:59am - 10:11am Assessing roadway vulnerability to post-fire debris flows in Arizona in current and future climate scenarios 10:11am - 10:23am Advancing Sustainability in Construction: An AI-Driven Framework for Efficient EPD Analysis and Data Enrichment 10:23am - 10:35am Siting of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure with Equity Considerations 10:35am - 10:47am Time Series Analysis of Changes in Agricultural Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: The First Step Toward Climate Impact Assessment |
| 11:15am - 12:35pm |
SRE3: Sustainable Uses of Fossil Fuels in the Energy Transition Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Jenna Trost Geospatial life cycle climate change impacts of coal power in the US 11:27am - 11:39am Life Cycle Emissions-from Canadian residual forest biomass to electricity enhanced synthesis of bioLNG 11:39am - 11:51am Refinery Flexibility and Decarbonization Pathways in Canada’s Evolving Transportation Landscape 11:51am - 12:03pm Preparing for the Energy Transition: Projecting the Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on the U.S. Gasoline Supply Chain Through 2050 12:03pm - 12:15pm NAVIGATING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN TRANSITION TO A SUSTAINABLE BIOECONOMY 12:15pm - 12:27pm Life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of CLT from mixed softwood from California forests |
| 2:30pm - 3:50pm |
Technical Workshop 1a: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 1] Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling. Part 1: U.S. Facility and Sector Level Data and Modeling Tools |
| 4:10pm - 5:30pm |
Technical Workshop 1b: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 1 Continued] Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session |
| 5:45pm - 9:00pm |
Professional Development: Speed Networking and Social Gathering hosted by ISSST Student Leaders Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Marie Buhl Chair: Alana Teresa Smith Session will begin in the Presidents Room, followed by dinner and networking at the Town Hall Brewery, located a short walk from the conference location. |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 9:35am - 10:55am |
AIB2: Climate-Smart Bioeconomy: From Forests to Fields Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Chair: Obste Therasme Exploring Economic and Environmental Impacts of Emerging Incentives for Winter Rye Cover Crops in the U.S. Midwest 9:59am - 10:11am Elucidating the Value Chain of a Potential Biobased Alternative to Traditional Plastic Precursors 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 10:23am - 10:35am Soil amendments as value-added products from Integrated Pulp and Paper Biorefinery: An Environmental and Economic Analysis 10:35am - 10:47am Comparing Environmental Impacts of Beef Production Systems: A Meta-Analysis of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices Using Life Cycle Assessment |
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
Technical Workshop 1c: How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling [Part 2] Location: Presidents Room, Coffman Memorial Building Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to this session How to Use EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology Modeling. Part 2: USEEIO Model Assembly, Calculation and Analysis |