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JGCRI 2015 Annual Integrated Assessment Workshop and GCAM Community Modeling Meeting
Agenda and Presentations
December 1-2: College Park Marriott & Conference Center, Room 2110
December 3-4: Joint Global Change Research Institute / ESSIC Conference Room
December 1, 2015 – Tuesday
Future Directions in Integrated Assessment Modeling: (Chair: Leon Clarke)
- Bob Vallario (DOE-Office of Science): The Perspective from DOE’s Integrated Assessment Research Program – pending
Climate Impacts on Bioenergy and Agriculture: (Chair: Kate Calvin)
- Dominique van der Mensbrugghe (Purdue and GTAP): Lessons from the Agricultural Model Intercomparison Project (AgMIP)
- Alex Ruane (NASA-GISS): Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change: Site- and Grid-based assessments of Core Biophysical Responses
Multi-Model Approaches to Energy-Water-Land Linkages:
- Ian Kraucunas (PNNL-Richland): Integrated Multi-sector, Multi-scale modeling
- Katherine Calvin (PNNL-JGCRI): Linking IA Models and ESMs
Analyzing Water from an Integrated Perspective
- Mohamad Hejazi (PNNL-JGCRI): Integrated Assessment of Water in the GCAM Framework
- Andre Lucena (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro): Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower in Brazil
- Nathalie Voisin (PNNL-Richland): Quantification of Interdependencies and Vulnerabilities Between Water and Energy in the Western Interconnection
December 2, 2015 – Wednesday
New Developments in the Global Change Assessment Model:
- Leon Clarke (PNNL-JGCRI): Introduction
- Robert Link (PNNL-JGCRI): Overview of Recent Developments in GCAM
- Ross Maciejewski (ASU): Exploring GCAM Simulation Results in a Visual Analytics
- Dan Loughlin (US EPA): Modeling U.S. Air Pollutant Emissions and Controls in GCAM-USA
Understanding the Current Climate Discussions:
The Judgement of Paris 2015 – Includes the following:
- Allen Fawcett (US EPA): Understanding the U.S. climate pledges
- Haewon McJeon (PNNL-JGCRI): Understanding the international climate pledges
- Jae Edmonds (PNNL-JGCRI): Implications of the INDCs for Long-Term Climate Mitigation Panel Discussion
Accelerating Technology Deployment:
- Meredydd Evans (PNNL-JGCRI): Accelerating International Technology Deployment
- Vance Wagner (U.S. Department of State): Climate change mitigation: perspectives on effective deployment in China
- Ira Birnbaum: Strategies for Effective Deployment of Clean Energy
Technology, Resources, and Climate
- Erin Baker (UMass Amherst): Finding common ground when experts and models disagree: Belief dominance and Climate Change R&D Policy
- Iñigo Capellán-Pérez (University of Basque Country): Implications of the uncertainty of energy resources on CO2 emission pathways
- Andy Jones (LBNL): The Natural Gas Bridge for U.S. Climate Mitigation – (Not available.)
- Matteo Muratori (PNNL-JGCRI): Pathways for CCS Deployment – (Not available.)
December 3, 2015 – Thursday
Research Activities in the GCAM Community:
- Rich Plevin (UC Davis): New tools for Monte Carlo analysis
- Alan Di Vittorio (LBNL): Uncertainty in Land Resource Projection Associated with Static Geographic Land Units in an Integrated Assessment Model
- Pierre-Alain Schieb (NEOMA Business School): Impacts of Energy Prices on the Competitiveness of Bio-based Products to 2050 Using GCAM
Overview of GCAM – Combined Presentation
- Introduction — Leon Clarke
- Overview of GCAM — Katherine Calvin
- Energy Supply — Marshall Wise
- Energy Demand — G. Page Kyle
- AgLU — Katherine Calvin
- Emissions — Katherine Calvin
- Climate — Corinne Hartin
- Trade, Solution, FAQs — Pralit Patel
Future GCAM Development Directions:
- Overview of Future GCAM Directions
- Discussion of Future GCAM Development Directions
December 4, 2015 – Friday