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JGCRI 2016 Annual Integrated Assessment Workshop and GCAM Community Modeling Meeting
Agenda and Presentations
October 11-13: College Park Marriott & Conference Center, Room 2110
October 14: Joint Global Change Research Institute
Day 1 – Tuesday October 11, 2016
Integrated Assessment Past and Future: Celebrating 15 Years of Integrated Assessment at JGCRI: – Moderator: Ghassem Asrar (PNNL/JGCRI)
- John Weyant (Stanford University): The Future of Integrated Assessment Research: Perspective
- Keywan Riahi (IIASA): The Future of Integrated Assessment Research: Perspective
Modeling Energy-Water-Land Interactions: – Moderator: Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm (UMD/ESSIC/JGCRI)
- Mohamad Hejazi (PNNL/JGCRI): Innovations in Energy-Water-Land Modeling at JGCRI
- Ruby Leung (PNNL): Insights on the Energy-Water Nexus from Modeling of the Integrated Water Cycle at Regional Scale
Climate Impacts on Agriculture: – Moderator: Leon Clarke (PNNL/JGCRI/UMD)
- Alex Ruane (NASA GISS): Lessons for Integrated Assessment from AgMIP
- Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI): Incorporating Agricultural impacts in Integrated Assessment Models – (Unavailable)
Climate Emulation in Integrated Assessment – Moderator: Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)
- Claudia Tebaldi (NCAR): Creating Higher Resolution Climate Information for Integrated Assessment Modeling
- Erwan Monier (MIT): Climate modeling for Integrated Assessment: the IGSM
- Corinne Hartin (PNNL/JGCRI): Climate Emulation for IA Models
Poster Presenters for the JGCRI Annual Meeting 2016
- Zana Cranmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst) – Valuing Offshore Wind Energy
- Rachel Hoesly (JGCRI) – Historical Emissions and Uncertainty: The Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)
- Leyang Feng (JGCRI) – A flexible spatial gridding system for emissions — An implementation for CEDS and CMIP6
- Minho Baek (Ajou University) – Power Sector Modeling and the Presentation of Marginal Abatement Cost
- Zulfikar Yurnaidi (Ajou University) – Assessing the Carbon Abatement Potential of Green Technologies in Transportation Sector using GCAM
- Diego Silva (JAMSTEC) – Development of emission scenarios for climate stabilization considering mitigation of non-CO2 GHGs
- Nazar Kholod (JGCRI) – Russia’s black carbon emissions from diesel sources and beyond
- Volha Roshchanka (JGCRI) – Coal Mine Methane
- Felipe Feijoo (JGCRI) – Modeling of natural gas infrastructure development in North America
- Cecilia Moura (JGCRI) – Uncertainty in climate change due to short-lived climate forcers
- Cary Lynch (JGCRI) – CMIP5 Temperature and Precipitation Patterns
- Qing Tan (JGCRI) – Growth and Energy Savings Potential of the Indian Buildings Sector
- Michael Walsh (Bentley University) – Evaluating the Impacts of Food and Fuel from Algae
- Xuesong Zhang (JGCRI) – Projecting the contribution of future agricultural trends in the US Midwest to global climate change mitigation by linking an agroecosystem model with GCAM JGCRI
- Ryna Cui (JGCRI) – Risks to food availability and access from climate policies : An integrated assessment of regional food availability and access along alternative climate mitigation strategies to 2050
- Lu Liu (JGCRI) – Global Assessment of Exploitable Surface Reservoir Storage under Climate Change
- Jae Edmonds (JGCRI) – The Implications of Paris Project
- Catherine Ledna (JGCRI) – Are Nationally Determined Contributions on track toward deep decarbonization
Day 2 – Wednesday October 12, 2016
The Implications of Paris: – Moderator: Haewon McJeon (PNNL/JGCRI)
- Nathan Hultman (UMD/CGS/JGCRI): Overview of the Paris Process
- Jae Edmonds (PNNL/JGCRI/UMD): The Paris Process and the Role of Integrated Assessment
- Adrien Vogt-Schilb (Inter-American Development Bank): NDC Implementation in Latin America
- Christie Ulman (US DOE): Road from Paris – DOE’s International Implementation Efforts – (Unavailable)
- Allen Fawcett (US EPA): Modeling a U.S. Mid-Century Strategy – (Unavailable)
- Jim Williams (DDPP): Global Lessons from the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project
Energy-Water-Land Interactions, Sustainable Development, and Climate Mitigation: – Moderator: Mohamad Hejazi (PNNL/JGCRI/ESSIC)
- Steve Schonberger (World Bank): Operationalizing the Nexus in Support of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation – (Unavailable)
- Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm (UMD/ESSIC/JGCRI): Energy-Water-Land: Perspectives on Latin America, China, Africa
- Mort Webster (Penn State University): Electricity and Water Interactions in the United States
- Yaling Liu (PNNL/JGCRI): Global Energy for Water
- Catherine Yonkofski (PNNL): Estimating Global Groundwater Resources
- Leon Clarke (PNNL/JGCRI/UMD): Energy-Water Research under the U.S-India Sustainable Growth Working Group
Day 3 – Thursday October 13, 2016 – GCAM Community Modeling Meeting
Activities on Scenarios and Uncertainty in GCAM:
- Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI): The GCAM SSP Implementations
- Jon Lamontagne (Cornell University): Uncertainty and the SSPs: Large Ensemble Explorations – (Unavailable)
- Ryan Sriver (University of Illinois): Uncertainty Analysis with Hector
Activities on Regional Modeling in GCAM:
- Sha Yu (PNNL/JGCRI): GCAM-China
- Gokul Iyer (PNNL/JGCRI): GCAM-USA
Activities on Visualization and Tools for Running GCAM:
- Rich Plevin (UC Berkeley): A New GCAM Workflow Process
- Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University): Visualization and Diagnostics with GCAM
- Dan Loughlin (US EPA): User Interface Activites at US EPA
Overview of GCAM:
- GCAM Team: Overview
- GCAM Team: New Directions in GCAM Development
Day 4 – Friday October 14, 2016
GCAM Community Modeling Meeting:
– (unchanged from 2015)