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NCSE Energy Conference: Featured Symposia
On January 27 there will be five concurrent symposia, offering an opportunity for participants to delve deeper into the critical issues for achieving energy sustainability and security. Click here to view biographies of symposium speakers.
1. Decisionmaking in the Real World will enable such questions as: How are decisions made about energy systems to develop or use, technologies to deploy, policies to propose? How are factors such as technology, economics and public concerns balanced? What are the processes and pressures? What are the opportunities for decisions that will improve the sustainability and security of energy production and use.
Discussants will include Patrick Atkins, Director of Environmental Affairs, Alcoa; Michele Blazek, Director, Technology and Environment, AT&T; Lewis Milford, President and Founder, Clean Energy Group (CEG); Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India; Timothy Profeta, Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University; and Patrick Spears, President, Inter-tribal Council on Utility Policy. H. Jeffrey Leonard, President, Global Environment Fund will serve as moderator.
2. Guiding Research for Impact will consider: How are decisions made about research priorities? What are the processes and pressures? What are the opportunities for transformative research regarding energy sources, uses and processes?
Discussants will include P. Patrick Leahy, Acting Director, U.S. Geological Survey and Richard Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Mike Telson, Director of National Laboratory Affairs, University of California will moderate.
3. Assessing Energy Futures will look at the future of energy, in discussing: What do the major models say? Why are the projections so different? How do decisionmakers use this information? How can better models and scenarios that take advantage of technological changes be developed and used to improve decisionmaking?
Guy Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; Stephen DeCanio, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Chris Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute will serve as discussants. John "Skip" Laitner, Senior Economist for Technology Policy, EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs will moderate this session.
4. Climate Change: Science to Action will follow up on a conference sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, which was held in October 2005. US leaders from science, business and finance, environmentalists and civil society, education, entertainment and advertising, news media, politics, and religion and ethics met to craft a strategy for communicating scientific information about climate change in a way that compels action by society. Discussants will present the action plan developed at the conference. Societal leaders not present at the conference such as Gordon Slack, Director of Energy Programs, Dow Chemical, will respond, initiating a dialogue that will involve all present at this symposium. Dan Abbasi, Associate Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will moderate and chair this symposium.
5. Integrating Discoveries from Other Scientific Fields into Energy Science & Technology will delve into scientific discoveries in non-energy fields that have great potential for transforming the future use of energy. This symposium will explore contributions from fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, sensor development, microbiology and social sciences that may be applicable to energy. Leading researchers and thinkers will describe advances in these fields and potential applications to energy. All present will discuss how to provide better connections between these sciences and traditional energy research and development.
Discussants will include Marilyn Brown, Interim Director, Engineering Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Patricia M. Dehmer, Director, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy; Willett Kempton, Senior Policy Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware; and Bruce Logan, Director, H2E Center & Engineering Environmental Institute, Penn State University. Tina Kaarsberg, Office of Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy will moderate.
Please visit www.ncseonline.org to register and to view the latest program updates, details on the exhibition, poster session, and sponsorship opportunities, and information on travel and lodging. Please note: the deadline to submit a poster abstract is today, January 9, 2006. Please direct general conference questions to conference2006@NCSEonline.org or call 202-530-5810.
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