ISSST 2021
Virtual ISSST 2021 Conference
June 21 – 25, 2021
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| Registration Type | Early (By April 16) | Regular |
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| Regular | USD $300 | $350 |
| Government | USD $250 | $300 |
| Speaker | USD $250 | $300 |
| Student | USD $250 | $250 |
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Conference Schedule
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Conference Agenda: All times in
Eastern U.S. & Canada Time Zone
International
Symposium for Sustainable Systems and Technology
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Date:
Monday, 21/June/2021 All
times noted are in Eastern U.S. and Canada time zone |
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Day: Industrial Ecology Day The ISSST Community is invited to attend the
International Industrial Ecology Day. The 2021 IE Day features a series of
consecutive 2-hour sessions hosted on all continents. There will be
more than 20 sessions running for 24 hours beginning Monday morning at 9:00AM
eastern time. Please see the schedule here: Program
Overview - International Industrial Ecology Day 2021 | International Society
for Industrial Ecology - ISIE (is4ie.org) |
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Pre-conference
Workshop: Food Loss Waste Solutions, ReFED Engine
Insight Focused Workshop Speaker: Alejandro Enamorado, ReFED’s Capital, Innovation, & Engagement Manager ReFED is
a national nonprofit working to end food loss and waste across the U.S. food
system. Accelerating Food Waste
Reduction Solutions: Resources to Inspire International Action |
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ISSST
Opening Keynote: Linking LCA with Planetary Boundaries Speaker:
Anders Bjørn of the John Molson School of Business,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada: Linking LCA with Planetary
Boundaries |
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ESST3:
Electric Infrastructure Planning in North America Session
Chairs: Braden Limb and Daniel Posen This session features presentations
evaluating the impact of various sustainability changes on electric
infrastructure planning in North America. The particular topics discussed
include transitioning residential buildings from gas to electric, the impact
of climate change on electricity generation, the shift to renewable
microgrids, and the economic feasibility of Small Modular Nuclear
Reactors. The nonlinear shift to
renewable microgrids: Phase transitions in electricity systems Assessing the impact of
Climate change on electricity planning in Ontario, Canada Effects of Climate Change on
Capacity Expansion Decisions of an Electricity Generation Fleet in the
Southeast U.S. The gas to electric heating
transition: electric infrastructure planning for residential building
electrification in California Reliability Benefits of
Wide-Area Renewable Energy Planning across the Western United States |
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Date:
Tuesday, 22/June/2021 All times
noted are in Eastern U.S. and Canada time zone |
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Keynote
2: Engineering for One Planet: A Systems Approach to Integrating Core
Environmental Sustainability Curricula in all Engineering Disciplines Speaker: Cindy Cooper, The Lemelson Foundation |
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ECLS:
Education and Communication for LCA and Sustainability Student-Generated Knowledge
Graphs about Sustainability Storytelling in Scientist
and Journalist Communications About LCA Handicrafts for
Sustainability through Promotion of Self-reliant Craftsmanship Life Cycle Assessment in the
Cultural Heritage Field |
LSS1:
Materials, Models and Systems Large-Scale
Systems: Buildings and Infrastructure, Transportation and Energy A City-Wide Roadmap for Deep
Energy Residential Retrofits in Chicago Integrated Agent-based and
System Dynamics Modeling of the Spatial Diffusion of Home-based Decentralized
Water Technologies and the Impacts on the Water Supply System A computationally-efficient
surrogate modeling framework for estimating whole life-cycle CO2 uptake by
cement-based materials carbonation Which carbon, capture and
utilization pathway generates the highest climate benefit - Concrete,
Chemicals or Minerals? |
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WMLCAS1:
Improving Plastics and Metals End-of-Life Waste Management, Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability A Systems Dynamic Approach
to Plastic Recycling challenges in a Circular Economy Dynamic Life Cycle
Assessment of Rare Earths Supply Chain Management Circular-economic Potential
and Optimization Recommendations for Material Recovery from Electronic Wastes
in the United States Blockchain-enabled plastic
recycling: cost estimation of plastic recycling system The Cost of Logistics in
Waste to Materials and Energy Systems |
LSS2:
Buildings: Circular Economy and Life Cycle Assessment Buildings: Circular Economy and Life Cycle Assessment Barriers and Enablers to Circular
Building Design in the US: An empirical study Material Stock Analysis of
Buildings: Barriers, Opportunities, Future Perspective Connected economic and
environmental assessment of building a circular economy in the U.S. building
sector based on CO2-generated products Life-Cycle Analysis of
Embodied Carbon Impacts of a US Residential House: Bridging the Gap Toward
Net Zero Carbon Buildings |
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SS1: Special
Session 1 Session Chair: Andre
Nogueira Opportunities and challenges
for equitable water access in Chicago How do Water Moratorium
Policies Impact COVID-19 Transmission? |
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WMLCAS2:
Bio-based and Waste Systems Optimization Waste
Management, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Biodiversity and Climate
Change Impacts of Biopower with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) An Integrated Sustainability
Evaluation of Biochemical Deconstruction and Conversion of Biomass to Fuels
and Products via Integrated Biorefinery Pathway through Short-Chain
Carboxylic Acid Intermediates Solid Waste Optimization
Life-cycle Framework in Python (SwolfPy) Economic and environmental sustainability
assessment of thermochemical conversion of guayule bagasse to biofuels Negative Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Without Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology: a Life Cycle
Assessment of Willow Bioenergy System |
LSS3:
Infrastructure: Focus on Pavements Large-Scale
Systems: Buildings and Infrastructure, Transportation, and Energy Embodied Construction
Materials in an Urban Road Network: A Case Study of Toronto Can rubberized asphalt
pavements alleviate waste tire problems in Puerto Rico? The attributional and
consequential LCA approach. The Role of Pavements in
mitigating the U.S. climate change impact |
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7:30pm |
ESST4:
Energy and Sustainability in the Global South Energy
Systems and Sustainable Transportation Assessing the potential for
complementary hydropower resources across three African power pools in a
changing climate Electric pressure cooking on
minigrids: A potential path towards energy
sustainability in the Global South Finding effects of
small-scale irrigation on land use, crop productivity, and electricity
requirements in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda through an integrated system
modeling approach Impact of supply and
demand-side drivers on the decarbonization of the electricity sector in India Carbon reduction assessment
of direct and indirect natural gas demand in the Brazilian textile industry |
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Date:
Wednesday, 23/June/2021
All times noted are in Eastern U.S. and Canada time zone |
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10:30am |
Keynote 3: Infrastructure Resilience to Navigate
Increasingly Uncertain and Complex Conditions in the Anthropocene Speaker:
Mike Chester, Ph.D., Director, Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable
Engineering, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at
Arizona State University Infrastructure
Resilience to Navigate Increasingly Uncertain and Complex Conditions in the
Anthropocene Mikhail Chester |
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ESST6:
Thematic Keynote: Integrated assessment and energy system modeling Effective strategies for
multi-sectoral research using large-scale models |
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Solutions and Technology Integrated Solution to
Carbon Emission, Plastic Rubbish, Bushfires and Wilderness Reduction Microbial Technology,
Regenerative Infrastructures and Interspecies Co-Creation Modeling hydrogen direct reduction
of iron oxide with an integrated waste-heat driven carrier system Design and Analysis of
Microgrids in Line with SDG7 for Residential Communities in the Global South A Texture-Informed Approach
for Hurricane Loss Estimation: How Discounting Neighborhood Texture Leads to
Under-Valuing Wind Mitigation |
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2:00pm |
Movie
Panel: Picture a Scientist: Film and Discussion |
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4:00pm |
SS2:
Special Session 2: Long-term Operation Optimization of Complex Systems,
Considering Degradation Mechanisms and Performance Deterioration Long-term Operation
Optimization of Complex Systems, Considering Degradation Mechanisms and
Performance Deterioration https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6807729395030118400-plW0 |
Poster Presentations followed by The Business of Electric
Vehicles: A Platform Perspective Chair: Jonas Boehm, Fellow
at World Economic Forum: Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing
& Production, Hemant Bhargava, Geoffrey Parker Location:
Virtual
Room Two |
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5:30pm |
WMLCA3:
Nutrient Management and Circular Nutrient Systems Waste
Management, Life Cycle Assessment, and Sustainability Consumption-based accounting
of environmental impacts of beef supply chains in the United States Fertilizer Demand and
Potential Supply through Incorporating Nutrient Recovery Technologies at
Organic Waste Recycling Facilities in California Estimating nitrogen and
phosphorus flows embodied in manufactured foods and per capita nutrient
footprints in the United States. Assessing the potential of
phosphorus loss mitigation strategies to eliminate both net anthropogenic
phosphorus inputs and mineral P demand in the United States Economic and life cycle impacts
of creating a circular nitrogen bioeconomy at dairy farms: nutrient recovery
and protein-rich feed production by duckweed |
ESST1:
Sustainable Freight and Maritime Technologies Energy
Systems and Sustainable Transportation Impacts of Freight Trucking
Pollution in the Contiguous United States: Health Damages and Implications
for Environmental Justice Techno-economic Analysis of Charging
Infrastructure for Heavy Duty Vehicles Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas
Emissions of Conventional and Alternative Fuel Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Review
and Harmonization Lu
Xu, Heather L. MacLean, I. Daniel Posen Environmental Assessment of
Alternative Fuels for Maritime Shipping George
G. Zaimes, Jaxon Z. Stuhr,
Eric C.D. Tan, Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy, Jalal A. Askander,
Mike Kass, Brian Kaul, Troy R. Hawkins |
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Thursday, 24/June/2021 All times noted
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10:30am |
Keynote 4: Ethics of Interspecies Relations: A
Tipping Point for Biodesign Speaker:
Rachel Armstrong, Newcastle University, United Kingdom |
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ESST5:
Carbon Capture and Carbon Negative Technologies Energy
Systems and Sustainable Transportation The Future of Carbon
Capture: A Story of the Tortoise and the Hare Life Cycle Assessment of an
Emerging Light Driven Dry Methane Reforming Process for Low Carbon Syngas
Production Biomass – potential to
deliver hydrogen and negative emissions? Evaluation of Renewable
Natural Gas (RNG) Life Cycle Global Warming Potential (GWP) Impacts |
EIS2:
Evaluation of the Emerging Technologies This
session will present three talks in the quantitative frameworks and methods
of assessing the emerging technologies. A probabilistic assessment
of the environmental and economic impacts of biofuel from cyanobacteria Fuzzy logic methodology for
scoring and optimizing sustainability and performance of algae-to-fuel
pathways Who Would Most Likely
Interact with Demand Flexibility at Home? – Sociodemographic Predictors from
the American Time Use Survey |
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2:00pm |
MAAWS:
Methodology Advancements: Air & Water Systems Methodology
Advancements Advancing Water Scarcity
Footprint Methods for Arid Regions Water quality integrated
techno-economic assessment of filamentous algae Evaluating industrial
externalities through quantified stakeholder-needs metrics Estimating future industrial
emissions of hazardous air pollutants in the United States using the National
Energy Modeling System (NEMS) |
SCD:
Supply Chain and Digitalization Supply
Chain and Digitalization Supply chain use in long natural
gas supply chains: Quantifying the compounded effect of supply chain natural
gas use and the impact of modeling approaches on assessing impacts Blockchain-empowered Online
Information Sharing Platform for Enhancing Resilience of Circular Energy
Supplies |
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4:00pm |
Keynote
5: Participatory, Community-Engaged Sustainability Research Speaker: David
D. Hart, Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability
Solutions |
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CTS1:
Advancements in Sustainability Decision Support Tools Computational
Tools for Sustainability A comparative analysis of
the scenario framework building process Beyond the (energy) bill:
incorporating health, emissions, and resilience into the REopt
model Use of a statistical time
series forecasting model for location-specific temperature and precipitation
to facilitate engineering applications Driving Low-Carbon Supply Chain
Innovation with Open Access Tools & Data |
SOL:
Solar Solar Achieving Optimal Value of
Solar Through Municipal Utility Rate Design Spatial and temporal impact
of residential solar photovoltaics-battery (PV-battery) adoptions The Net-Zero Carbon
Building: Utilizing Life Cycle Assessment to evaluate the potential of mass
timber beams and rooftop solar arrays to offset carbon emissions from
building construction and operation |
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7:30pm |
ESST2:
Electric Vehicles and Battery Technologies Energy
Systems and Sustainable Transportation Life Cycle Energy and Carbon
Emission Benefits of Shared Electric Autonomous Vehicles The SESAME Fleet Model:
Electrification Pathways for Passenger Cars Influence of road traffic
patterns and installation types on the carbon footprint of piezoelectric
energy harvesting systems Trends and determinants of
lithium-ion battery technology cost decline |
CTS2:
Spatio-Temporal Impacts in Sustainability and
Resiliency Analyses Computational
Tools for Sustainability Balancing Conflicting Objectives
to Optimize Onsite Produced Water Treatment and Reuse Understanding impacts and
adaptations for disruptions to inter-city road networks across the western
United States Geographical and temporal
evaluation of the water demand of algae-based products and comparison to
traditional biomass feedstocks Understanding the dynamic and
variabilities in life cycle carbon and energy analysis for cross-laminated
timber produced in the Southeastern United States Roles of diffusion patterns
and environmental benefits in determining renewable subsidies |
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ISSST
2021 Closing Session and Awards In
the coming days, we will announce the day and time for our closing session
and awards. Join
the ISSST Community for networking and reflection on the 2021 ISSST Annual
Conference. We will also announce the winners of the Student Presentation and
Student Poster contests. |
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Keynote Speakers
Alejandro Enamorado, ReFED's Capital, Innovation, & Engagement Manager
Alejandro serves as ReFED’s Capital, Innovation, & Engagement Manager, working to spur investment in the food waste sector. In his position, he works to contribute to the Insights Engine and build relationships with solution providers. He brings six years of technology investment banking, equity research and sales, and trading experience, including time at TD Securities, CI Investments, and RBC Capital Markets.
Anders Bjørn, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Anders is a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, Canada. Over the past decade, Anders has worked on linking the planetary boundaries framework with LCA, to facilitate absolute environmental sustainability assessment. This allows researchers and practitioners to widen the focus from whether something is “better for the environment” to whether it is “good enough for the environment”. Likewise, an absolute perspective can be used to derive “science-based targets” for future environmental performance of companies, cities, technologies, etc. Anders' current research evaluates the integrity of science-based and net-zero targets for greenhouse gas emissions set by large companies.
Anders is the founder and co-manager of the research network LCAbsolute, which aims to support the development and use of LCA for absolute environmental sustainability assessments. He holds a master's degree in environmental engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, where he also completed the world’s first PhD on LCA-based absolute environmental sustainability assessment.
Cindy leads The Lemelson Foundation’s higher education initiative which aims to galvanize and support equitable and inclusive student participation in invention and innovation. She also leads Engineering for One Planet, a multi-sector, collaborative initiative to integrate tenets of environmental sustainability as learning outcomes across engineering disciplines.
For more than 20 years, Cindy has cultivated social and environmental impact across academic, philanthropic, business, and entrepreneurship fields through pioneering efforts. Cindy co-founded and led Portland State University’s Impact Entrepreneurs Program, where she led the Ashoka U Changemaker Campus initiative, developed social innovation incubation programs, and led the creation of the nation’s first online academic and professional certificate in social innovation and entrepreneurship. She co-founded Speak Shop, an award-winning social enterprise and the first organization to offer Spanish tutoring by videoconferencing with teachers in Guatemala. She has consulted to a variety of clients on social innovation, marketing, and sustainability projects including Nike, Ashoka Changemakers, and Meyer Memorial Trust.
Cindy holds an MBA with distinction from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Psychology/Spanish BA summa cum laude from Claremont McKenna College.
Ever since he became embroiled at the age of 17 in a controversial proposal regarding the environmental and economic future of a coastal California watershed, David Hart has been searching for ways to increase the value of science in society. Along the way, he has conducted a wide range of environmental research; served as a science advisor to government, the private sector, and NGOs; and developed innovative programs to address pressing challenges at the intersection of environmental, social, and economic issues (i.e. sustainability challenges).
For more than a decade, David and his colleagues have been growing the capacity of universities to conduct stakeholder-engaged, interdisciplinary research, which led to the creation of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. More than 200 faculty and 600 students from 17 universities representing the natural and social sciences, engineering, design, and the humanities have participated in this solutions-driven research (e.g. 60+ projects focused on water resources, forestry, agriculture, coastal fisheries, municipal planning, renewable energy, materials management, community and economic development). Research support has come from many sources, including more than $32 million in grants from the National Science Foundation.
Mikhail Chester, Director of the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University
Dr. Chester is the Director of the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University where he maintains a research program focused on preparing infrastructure and their institutions for the challenges of the coming century. His work spans climate adaptation, disruptive technologies, innovative financing, transitions to agility and flexibility, and modernization of infrastructure management. He is broadly interested in how we need to change infrastructure governance, design, and education for the Anthropocene, an era marked by acceleration and uncertainty. He is co-lead of the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research network composed of 19 institutions and 250 researchers across the Americas, focused on developing innovative infrastructure solutions for extreme events. Chester directs the Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University where he facilitates the transdisciplinary efforts to modernize infrastructure for the Anthropocene. He was awarded the American Society of Civil Engineer’s early career researcher Huber prize in 2017. He recently published Urban Infrastructure: Reflections for 2100 (2020).
Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, and is a Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, a Senior TED Fellow and a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Rising Waters II confab Fellow. She holds a First-Class Honours degree with 2 academic prizes from the University of Cambridge (Girton College), a medical degree from the University of Oxford (The Queen’s College), was admitted as a Member to the Royal College of New Zealand General Practitioners 2005-2015 and awarded a PhD (2014) from the University of London (Bartlett School of Architecture). Armstrong’s career is characterised by design thinking as a fusion element for interdisciplinary expertise. She creates multi-disciplinary research teams to address “wicked” real world problems through pioneering design prototypes that advance innovation at the point of implementation. Exploring the transition from an industrial era of architectural design to an ecological one, she pioneers an ethical, technological and humanistic practice called “living architecture” that considers the implications for designing and engineering in a world thrown off balance. She is author of a number of books including The Art of Experiment: Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design with Rolf Hughes (2020), Experimental Architecture: Prototyping the unknown through design-led research (2019), Liquid Life: On non-linear materiality (2019), Soft Living Architecture: An alternative view of bio-informed design practice (2018) and other titles.
We are grateful for our sponsors!
Patron Level Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Student Poster Competition Sponsor: EarthShift Global
Stakeholder Level Sponsors
ISSST 2021 Program Committee
Executive Committee
Daniel Posen, University of Toronto
Derrick Carlson, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Jeremy Gregory, MIT
Kiara Winans, Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
Lise Laurin, EarthShift Global
Beth Shafer, Executive Director, Sustainability Conoscente and ISSST
ISSST 2021 Program Co-Chairs
Jason Quinn, Colorado State University
Kiara Winans, Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
Yuan Yao, Yale University
ISSST Chairs In-Waiting
Peter Canepa, Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
Weiwei Mo, University of New Hampshire
Finance Chair
Jeremy Gregory, MIT
Sponsorship and Grants Chairs
Matt Eckelman, Northeastern
Susan Clark, University at Buffalo
International Chair/ Diversity/International sector differentiation
Lise Laurin, EarthShift Global
Theme Chairs
Andre Nogueira, Harvard
Amy Landis, Colorado School of Mines
Chris Costello, Penn State
Daniel Posen, University of Toronto
Eric Williams, RIT
Jasmina Burek, MIT
Jeremy Gregory, MIT
Julie Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Kai Lan, North Carolina State University
Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh
Paulina Jaramillo, Carnegie Mellon University
Priya Donti, Carnegie Mellon University
Ray Smith, Environmental Protection Agency
Rebecca Hanes, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Keynote Chairs
Minal Mistry, Oregon Dept. of Env. Quality
Weiwei Mo, University of New Hampshire
Workshop Chairs
Olivia Valdes, University of California, Davis
Shweta Singh, Purdue
Poster Session and Student Competition Chairs
Brandon Kuczenski, UC Santa Barbara
Derrick Carlson, National Energy Technology Laboratory