Agenda

• 9:00 am - Opening Remarks, Room 1115
• 9:10 am - Flash Talks, Room 1115
• 9:50 am - Keynote presentation, "Exploring Climate Impacts at a Human Scale" - Dr. Vijay Limaye, NRDC; Room 1115
• 10:30 am - Poster Session and Reception, Atrium 
• 11:45 pm - Awards and Closing, Atrium

Presenters

Keynote: "Exploring Climate Impacts at a Human Scale" 

Dr. Vijay Limaye
Director, Applied Research Initiatives, Science Office & International

Vijay Limaye is a climate and health scientist in NRDC’s Science Office. As an epidemiologist, he is broadly interested in addressing international environmental health challenges—quantifying, communicating, and reducing the risks associated with climate change—with a focus on the public health burdens of air pollution and extreme heat. At NRDC, he leads economic valuation research and advocacy to understand and address the significant health costs of climate change and he works to defend the science that underpins the Clean Air Act. Prior to joining NRDC, he worked as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientist, focusing on Clean Air Act regulatory implementation, air quality monitoring policy, and health risk communication. Limaye, who also speaks Spanish and Hindi, has led multiple research studies on the health impacts of climate change, including analyses of air pollution and extreme heat in both the U.S. and India. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in environmental epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is based out of NRDC’s Chicago office.

Flash Talks

• Mridula Menon - Agrivoltaics: An Interdisciplinary Journey to Planetary Health 
• Mary Blanchard - Building a Circular Bioeconomy Ecosystem:  Lessons Learned
• Prajakta Dongre
• Matilyn Bindl - Role of Uncertain Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies in Climate Policy
• Sarada Sripada - Reductive Catalytic Fractionation: Redefining Lignin Valorization 
• Nicholas Mailloux - Applying local health cost data to better estimate the economic burden of air pollution in the United States
• Ben Hall - A newly discovered kinase from Novosphingobium aromaticivorans involved in catabolism of aromatic monomers
• Wissam Kontar - Energy-Tech Interaction: Complexities in Transportation Sustainability
• Eric Agyeman-Duah - Unravelling the metabolic limitations to enhanced 1,2-propanediol biosynthesis by solvent-producing Clostridium species
• Hitarth Shah - Industrial Process Heat applications of nuclear fusion
• Katie Gabrick - Increasing Electricity Reliability to Improve Vaccine Storage in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cost-benefit analysis
• Javiera Vergara-Zambrano - Optimizing wind farm layouts for a sustainable future
• Anne-Sophie Bohrer - Becoming agents of change, one day at a time 
• Melanie Hebl - Sustainability Research Hub

Posters

• Mridula Menon - Agrivoltaics: An Interdisciplinary Journey to Planetary Health 
• Mary Blanchard - Building a Circular Bioeconomy Ecosystem:  Lessons Learned
• Prajakta Dongre
• Matilyn Bindl - Role of Uncertain Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies in Climate Policy
• Sarada Sripada - Reductive Catalytic Fractionation: Redefining Lignin Valorization 
• Nicholas Mailloux - Applying local health cost data to better estimate the economic burden of air pollution in the United States
• Parisa Sarzaeim - FAIRification of Indigenous Water-Climate-Environment Nexus Databases for Environmental Justice
• Kenneth Martinez - Circular Economy Assessment for Sustainable Vehicles
• Naveenkumar Rajendiran - Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of cellulose nanocrystals production from wood pulp
• Aminata Diaby - Structural Elucidation of Oligomeric Fraction Derived from Oxidative Depolimerization of Poplar Lignin
• Brayan Riascos - Gaining Value from Post-anaerobic Digestion Dairy Manure Fibers
• Steven D. Karlen - Alkaline pretreatment liquors for microbial funneling
• Jason Coplien - Processing GLBRC Biomass through the Deconstruction Pipeline
• Caitlin Wienkes - Wisconet--Wisconsin’s Environmental Mesonet Supporting Utilities and Energy Resources
• Amy Enright - Meet the Jason Peters Lab: CRISPR Tools for Functional Genomics in Zymomonas mobilis
• Rose Lizzo - Exploration of a Unique Fe-S Cluster biogenesis regulator in Zymomonas Mobilis
• Lexi Sun - Compositional Synergy in CuGaZrOx Catalysts for Selective CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol
• Doohyun Baek - Producing Phenol from Polystyrene
• Jaime Garibay Rodriguez - Advancing Sustainability by Exploring Rooftop Solar Potential at UW-Madison
• Jordi Francis Clar - Improving aqueous ammonia pretreatment
• Drashti Amin - Evaluating air quality models for regulatory applications
• Xinran Wu - Characterizing multi-pollutant emission impacts of sulfur reduction strategies from coal power plants
• Jennifer Jones
• Austin Holland - Wisconsin Board of Regents Renewable Energy Project