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| HYATT VIP WELCOME CONTEST
What can make the soothing décor of a Hyatt Regency Crystal City guestroom more inviting? What about a plate of Chocolate Truffles or an Artisanal Meats and Cheese platter when you arrive?
Everyone who has registered for the conference and booked at least one night’s stay at the host hotel before December 24th will be entered into a drawing to receive a complementary Hyatt VIP Welcome Amenity! A winner will be announced at the beginning of January.
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Over the past few weeks, we have highlighted over 40 sessions and 200 speakers who will be part of the conference in January. Here we want to highlight another 18 sessions and 95 speakers that you will want to interact with:
- Renowned speakers such as former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and National Public Radio correspondent Allison Aubrey
- Program officers from federal agencies including NSF, NOAA, USGS, USDA, and NASA; and other organizations like Coca-Cola, Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the International Society of Sustainability Professionals
- International speakers from Germany, Japan, China, Australia, and elsewhere
This is a conference unlike any other. See the full conference agenda for yourself and join us in January. |
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| Join 1,200 scientists, government leaders, conservationists, political leaders, business leaders, and other thinkers and doers like yourself who are developing new solutions to big challenges. Learn. Share. Network. Form new partnerships. Launch new initiatives. This may be the most productive and enjoyable three days of your year. |
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Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy
Moderator: Heather Lair, Meridian Institute
Speakers:
- Daniel Glickman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
- Jim Moseley, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; Indiana farmer
- Kathleen Merrigan, George Washington University & former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
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Soil: The Invisible Link Between Food, Water, and Everything Else
Moderator: Alison Aubrey, National Public Radio
Speakers:
- Diana Donlon, Center for Food Safety
- Henry Lin, Pennsylvania State University
- Heather Gall, Pennsylvania State University
- Jonathan Cobb, Farmer, Texas
- Christine Morgan, Texas A&M University
- Lara Bryant, Natural Resources Defense Council
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Feeding 9, 10, 11 Billion Sustainably Part 2
Opening Remarks: Ron Sands, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Moderator: Birgit Meade, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Speakers:
- Ron Sands, USDA Economic Research Service
- Carolyn Dimitri, New York University
- Robin Schoen, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Closing Remarks: Jerry Miller, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine |
Towards Food-Energy-Water Nexus Data and a Data Science Community
Moderator: Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota
Speakers:
- Chaitanya Baru, National Science Foundation
- Bradley Doorn, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Lawrence Buja, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
- Ranga Vatsavai, North Carolina State University
- Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
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The Roadmap to Reduce Food Waste: A Focus on Scalable, Transformative Innovation
Moderator: Sarah Vared, Associate, MissionPoint Partners/ReFED
Speakers:
- Emily Broad Leib, Harvard Law School
- James Rogers, Apeel Sciences
- Ron Gonen, Closed Loop Fund (invited)
- JoAnne Berkenkamp, Natural Resources Defense Council
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How Telling Stories About Our Work Can Help Us Do It Better
Moderator: Lara Fowler, Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University
Speakers:
- Beth Karlin, University of Southern California
- Liz Neeley, Story Collider
- Thomas Seager, Arizona State University
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Public Opinion and Nexus Policy
Moderator: Kent E. Portney, Texas A&M University
Speakers:
- G. Tracy Mehan, American Water Works Association
- ManuelTeodoro, Texas A&M University
- Paul Lussier, Me2U Media Inc. and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (invited)
- Bryce Hannibal, Texas A&M University
- Justin Bullock, Texas A&M University
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Ecosystem Services for Nexus Solutions
Moderator: Nathaniel Matthews, CGIAR Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems and International Water Management Institute
Speakers:
- Tracy Rouleau, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Wei Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Andrew Bell, New York University
- Anthony Janetos, Boston University
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Confluence of Government, Industry and Academic Research Activities
Moderators: Patricia Sobecky & Carl Pinkert, University of Alabama; Melanie Beazley, University of Central Florida
Speakers:
- Greg Koch, The Coca-Cola Company
- Peter Colohan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Ching-Hua Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Bennett Bearden, Water Policy and Law Institute, University of Alabama
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How to get Faculty who have Expertise on Different Aspects of Food-Energy-Water to Overcome Barriers (Intellectual, Cultural, Institutional, Disciplinary) to Collaboration
Speakers/Facilitators:
- David Blockstein, National Council for Science and the Environment
- Richard Moore, The Ohio State University
- Serpil Guran, Rutgers University
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Aquaponic and Hydroponic Systems in Controlled Environments
Moderator: William “Bill” Cooper, Environmental Engineering Program, National Science Foundation
Speakers:
- Michael Mageau, University of Minnesota, Duluth
- Gene Giacomelli, Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, University of Arizona
- David Specca, Rutgers University
- Rachel Brennan, Pennsylvania State University
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Fish, the Forgotten Food Source, in Food-Water-Energy Nexus
Moderators: Abigail Lynch & Douglas Beard, U.S. Geological Survey
Speakers:
- Babtist ʺPaulʺ Lumley, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
- Joppe Cramwinckel, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- Anthony Cox, Organization Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Fred Binkowski, Great Lakes Aquaculture Center, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
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Sustainability Education at the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Ongoing Research
Moderator: Seaton Tarrant, University of Florida
Speakers:
- Shirley Vincent, Center for Environmental Education Research, National Council for Science and the Environment
- Arnim Wiek, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
- Maureen Hart, International Society of Sustainability Professionals
- Deana Pennington, University of Texas, El Paso
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Managing Water Resources at the River Basin Scale
Moderators: Maureen McCarthy, University of Nevada, Reno and Dustin Garrick, McMaster University
Speakers:
- Michael Dettinger, U.S. Geological Survey
- Loretta Singletary, University of Nevada, Reno
- Derek Kauneckis, Ohio University
- Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute
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The Food-Energy-Water Nexus in Asia and Its Global Importance
Moderator: Hanqin Tian, Auburn University
Speakers:
- Yonglong Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qinxue Wang, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
- Ge Sun, U.S. Forest Service
- Hongyuan Yu, Shanghai Institute for International Studies
- Shufen Pan, Auburn University
- Wei Ren, University of Kentucky
- Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University
- Dennis Ojima, Colorado State University
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Perspectives on Integrated Nexus Assessment
Moderator: Sarah Venghaus, Research Center Juelich, Germany
Speakers:
- Juergen-Fr. Hake, Research Center Juelich, Germany
- Deepak Sharma, University of Technology, Sydney
- Kenneth Strzepek, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Holger Schloer, Research Center Juelich, Germany
- Cristina Madrid-López, Yale University
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Systems-Based Modeling of FEW Nexus in Megacities
Moderator: Nada Marie Anid, New York Institute of Technology
Speakers:
- Joshua Sperling, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Bernard Engel, Purdue University
- Zhongming Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, New York Institute of Technology
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Food, Energy and Water in the Corn Belt
Moderator: David Blockstein, National Council for Science and the Environment
Speakers:
- Rattan Lal, The Ohio State University
- Lois Wright Morton, Iowa State University
- Robert Anex, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- J. Gordon Arbuckle, Iowa State University
- Dennis Todey, South Dakota State University
- Kristi Lekies, The Ohio State University
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