2020 Symposium
Creating a Model for Global Decarbonization through Washington State Science, Engineering, and Technology
The 2020 symposium explored leading work that contributes to decarbonizing Washington’s most influential economic sectors – aerospace, land use, and technology – and securing our citizens’ prosperity and employment prospects in a carbon constrained future.
A detailed agenda can be found below.
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 9AM – 4PM
{this was a virtual event}
2020 Symposium Detailed Agenda
AM
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome – Roger Myers, WSAS President
9:05 – 9:20 Introduction and Framing – Dan Schwartz, Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director, Clean Energy Institute, UW
9:20 – 9:40 Keynote – Chad Frischmann, Vice President and Research Director, Project Drawdown
From Drawdown to Regeneration: Creating the Future We Want Today
9:40 – 10:00 Keynote – Representative Gael Tarleton, WA State Legislature, 36th District
How WA State’s 100% clean electricity bill became “the best of the bunch”
10:05 – 10:50 Session 1: Decarbonizing Land Use
Moderator: Chad Kruger, Director, Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources, WSU
Janet Jansson, Chief Scientist for Biology and Laboratory Fellow, PNNL – Climate change impacts on the soil microbiome and soil carbon cycling
David Montgomery, Professor of Geomorphology, UW – Growing a Revolution: Farming to Improve Soil Health
10:55 – 11:40 Session 2: Decarbonizing Aerospace
Moderator: Michael Wolcott, Regents Professor and Vice President for Research, Director, Office of Clean Technology, WSU
Manuel Garcia-Perez, Professor and Director, Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory, WSU – Production of Cheap Alternative Bio-Jet Fuels: A Carbon Balance Problem
Jim Heidmann, Manager, Advanced Air Transport Technology Project, NASA Glenn Research Center – The Electrification of Aviation
11:45 – 12:30 Session 3: Decarbonizing Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Moderator: Stuart Adler, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, UW
Sean James, Director of Datacenter Research, Microsoft Corporation – Decarbonizing Datacenters
Baosen Zhang, Keith and Nancy Endowed Career Development Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW – Integrating Data Center Battery Storage with the Grid
LUNCH
PM
1:00 Keynote – Mary Collins, Policy Advisor, Energy and Environment, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
From Local to Global: The Road to COP26 in Glasgow
1:25 – 2:30 Parallel Workshops: RD&D for decarbonizing leading WA export sectors
What is the role of state, federal, and private RD&D to accelerate decarbonization as we look out 10 to 20 years? Panelists will spark conversations about needs in WA related to the research enterprise (see sessions below).
Land Use Panel, Malin Young, Associate Laboratory Director for Earth and Biological Sciences, PNNL (Discussion leader)
Panelists:
William Pan, Professor of Soil Science, WSU
Kirsten Hofmockel, Earth Scientist, Biological Sciences Division, PNNL and President, Soil Ecology Society
Chad Kruger, Director, Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources, WSU
Dan Brown, Director and Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, UWv
Aerospace Panel, Michael Wolcott (Discussion leader)
Panelists:
Mehran Mesbahi, Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, UW
Roei Ganzarski, CEO, magniX
Sean Newsum, Director of Environmental Strategy, Boeing
Marianne Csaky, Director of Environmental Affairs, Alaska Airlines
John Holladay, Co-Director, Bioproducts Institute, PNNL
ICT Panel, Stuart Adler (Discussion leader)
Panelists:
Olga Marina, Chief Scientist, Energy and Efficiency Division, PNNL
Dustin McLarty, Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, WSU
Jack Brouwer, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center and Advanced Power and Energy Program, UC Irvine
Baosen Zhang, Keith and Nancy Endowed Career Development Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW
3:00 – 3:30 Reporting out from workshops
3:30 – 4:00 Roles for WSAS, WA State and the Private Sector