2024 Frontiers in Science: Climate Action

FRONTIERS PROGRAM
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SUNRISE SESSIONS | COFFEE & CLIMATE

WELCOME

Breakfast, Coffee and Check-in
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks
9:15 – 9:30 a.m.

• Ángel Cabrera
  President, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (M.S. PSY 1993, Ph.D. PSY 1995)

Part 1: Climate Change

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Hosted by Susan Lozier
Dean of the College of Sciences
Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair
Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

• Our Oceans
  9:30 – 9:40 a.m.
  • Susan Lozier
    Dean of the College of Sciences
    Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair
    Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• The Cryosphere
  9:40 – 10:10 a.m.
  • Alexander Robel
    Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Biodiversity
  10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
  • Benjamin Freeman
    Assistant Professor and Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career Faculty, School of Biological Sciences
  • Jenny McGuire
    Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
  • James Stroud
    Assistant Professor and Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career Faculty, School of Biological Sciences

Part 2: Climate Challenges

10:55 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Hosted by Julia Kubanek
Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research at Georgia Tech
Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

• The Wicked Problem
  10:55 – 11:15 a.m.
  • Annalisa Bracco
    Professor and Associate Chair for Research, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Panel Discussion: Communities
  11:25 – 11:45 a.m.
  • Isaiah Bolden
    Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Julie Ju-Youn Kim
    Associate Professor, William H. Harrison Chair, and founding director of Flourishing Communities Collaborative Education, School of Architecture
• Panel Discussion: Technology
  11:45 – 12:15 p.m.
  • S. Rutt Bridges
    Geophysicist, Entrepreneur, and Founder, Rutt Bridges Venture Fund
    (B.S. PHYS 1973, M.S. GPHYS 1975)
  • Akanksha Menon
    Assistant Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
  • Yuanzhi Tang
    Associate Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
    Interim Associate Co-director of Interdisciplinary Research, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS)
• Panel Discussion: Policy
  12:15 – 12:45 p.m.
  • Joe F. Bozeman III
    Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Michelle Midanier
    Clean Energy Programs Associate, City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Sustainability and Resilience
  • Valerie Thomas
    Professor and Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

NETWORKING LUNCH

12:45 – 1:25 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS | SOLUTIONS

1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Afternoon Remarks
1:30 – 1:40 p.m.

• Chaouki T. Abdallah
  Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech
  Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  (M.S. ECE 1982, Ph.D. ECE 1988)

Part 3: Climate Solutions

Hosted by Timothy (Tim) Lieuwen
Executive Director, Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute
Regents’ Professor and David S. Lewis, Jr. Chair in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering

• Carbon Cycling
  1:45 – 2:15 p.m.
  • Chris Reinhard
    Associate Professor and Georgia Power Chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Coastal Wetlands
  2:20 – 2:50 p.m.
  • Joel Kostka
    Associate Chair for Research in Biological Sciences
    Professor, School of Biological Sciences and School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Biofuels Production
  3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
  • Pamela Peralta-Yahya
    Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Georgia Tech Climate Action Plan and Sustainability Next
  3:40 – 4:00 p.m.
  • Jennifer Chirico
    Associate Vice President of Sustainability, Georgia Tech Infrastructure and Sustainability
    (B.S. MGMT 1997, Ph.D. PUBP 2011)
  • Jennifer Leavey
    Assistant Dean for Faculty Mentoring in the College of Sciences
    Interim Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Education, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
    (B.S. CHEM 1995)
• Closing Remarks and Call to Action
  4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
  • Susan Lozier
    Dean of the College of Sciences
    Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair
    Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Timothy (Tim) Lieuwen
    Executive Director, Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute
    Regents’ Professor and David S. Lewis, Jr. Chair in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering

NETWORKING RECEPTION

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.