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Flash Talks
Flash talks are short presentations on a variety of topics designed to quickly engage the audience on a novel concept or idea. Speakers will present briefly, then answer attendees’ questions at the end.
Priority Focus Areas/Topics:
Science and Diplomacy and Multilateral Mechanisms
Water and Resilience
Disproportionality and Policy
Climate Technology, Solutions, and Innovations
The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Tuesday, June 21
Flash talks Session 1, 12:30 PM EDT
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Adaptive Capacity to Shift Absorptive Capacity: A Framework of Water Reallocation in Highly Modified Rivers
Resilience tends to be a general policymaking goal. In highly modified rivers, increasing the resilience of riverine ecosystems can however decrease that of other societally vital systems, including the electric system. This presentation provides a framework, focused on water reallocation governance, to guide the analysis of such resilience shifts.
Dr. Peter M. Rudberg | Researcher, GeoViable (Sweden)
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Climate and Health: Modeling the Impacts of Air Pollution on Population Health Outcomes
This research leverages geospatial analytics and causal modeling to explore the connection between air pollution and population-level respiratory health outcomes. Our computational models can be applicable as decision support tools to help communities make better decisions about preventive programs and interventions, to build resilience plans for the future.
Dr. Nirupama Bhattacharya | Lead Data Scientist, MITRE (USA)
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Climate and Resilience in Midwestern Food-Energy-Water Systems
Climate change poses great risks to food-energy-water systems. In the Midwest, changes in land use and management have been suggested to mitigate such risks. We will discuss how we expect climate change to influence these systems, and how policy and decision makers might intervene to increase sustainability and resilience.
Dr. Robyn Wilson | Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University (USA)
Elena Irwin | Professor, The Ohio State University (USA)
Kai Zhao | Professor, The Ohio State University (USA)
Alan Randall | Professor, The Ohio State University (USA)
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Dallas Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan (CECAP): Academic Stakeholders and Policy Makers Working Together
Dallas, Texas, a vibrant city that has always handled significant challenges with a collaborative approach and an indomitable spirit. We have looked to address the effects of climate change with a community-oriented and data-driven plan. The higher education institutions have played a fundamental role in connecting science and policy making.
Dr. Maria Boccalandro | Dean of Special Academic Programs, Dallas College (USA)
Susan Alvarez, PE, CFM | Assistant Director, City of Dallas (USA)
Meghna Tare | Chief Sustainability Officer, University Of Texas - Arlington (USA)
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Keeping Clean Water Flowing
Water is at the foundation of all life. Climate change is stretching this resource to its limits. The water industry is losing operators of treatment facilities faster than they are being replaced. Community colleges play a vital role in training the next generation of operators to keep the waters flowing.
Robert Rak | Professor and Environmental Science and Technology Coordinator, Bristol Community College (USA)
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Transformative Adaptation to Increase the Community Aqueducts Resilience in Puerto Rico Post-Disasters
Transformative adaptations in community aqueducts are key to reducing vulnerability to hazards such as hurricanes. The integration of renewable energy, the creation of community networks, and a multi-sectoral coalition are making community aqueducts a pocket of resilience in the mountainous area of Puerto Rico.
Victor Ruiz-Aviles | PhD Student, Arizona State University (USA)
Thursday, June 23
Flash talks Session 2, 12:30 PM EDT
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Extreme Climate Events: Relation Between Water Scarcity and Governance's Instability
Social and economic impacts of extreme climate events such as water shortage, droughts, and flooding have adverse outcomes in societies with huge inequalities due to incremental costs of life associated with them. These outcomes have been proposed as focus on upset and uprising, causing political instability and weakening in governance.
Dr. Alex Godoy-Faúndez | Director, Sustainability Research Center, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile)
Diego Rivera | Research Associate, Sustainability Research Center, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile)
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Human Well-Being Focused Transitions to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
Current climate scenarios used to inform policy making have limited ability to reflect concerns about the various dimensions of justice. We propose to conceptualize justice as wellbeing and the provisioning of decent living standards to overcome multidimensional poverty. This can be oprationalized in bottom-up in models to assess carbon requirements.
Dr. Caroline Zimm | Researcher, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: LEED for Heat Equity: Research and Case Studies
The LEED green building rating system inspires research and projects that promote targeted design interventions, cool roofs and walls, and green infrastructure that can substantially mitigate the heat island effect while also addressing historical inequities such as unequal energy burden, frontline community health, and food deserts.
Jesse Rosenbluth | Director of Business Development - Green Infrastructure, Omni Ecosystems (USA)
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Business Youth for Engaged Sustainability to Achieve the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Sustainable development, i.e., “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” Three pillars of sustainability are “social, environmental, and economic,” referred as “people, planet, and profits.” Presentation presents business youth (“BY”) organizations’ efforts for (“4”) achieving the UNs SDGs proposing “BY4SD.”
Dr. George De Feis | Professor, Stockton University (USA)
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Developing an Actionable Knowledge Framework Facilitating Broader Impacts and Societal Outcomes From Environmental Research
The overall goal for GCSE's Actionable Knowledge Framework is to create a replicable process of integrating technology and stakeholder perspectives through key communication and engagement strategies, leading more reliably to adoption and social action. For this proposal, this framework will be described and illustrated with two case studies.
Katalina Salas | PhD Candidate, University of Texas at El Paso (USA)
Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 12:30 PM EDT: Heat Abatement Technology: a Rapid Solution to Reduce Energy Demand and Mitigate Climate Change
As climate change heats the planet, developing countries are adopting air conditioning, increasing energy demand by 35-40% by 2030. Since fossil fuels provide 90% of energy, this will increase emissions further. Advances in nanomaterials allow Heat Abatement Technology rapidlyapplied to any structure to reduce energy demand by up to 30%.
Dr. Alexander More | Member of the Board of Directors, Daniels Family Sustainable Energy Foundation (USA)
