2014 CEDM Annual Meeting Presentations
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Day 1: May 20th, 2014
| 08:30 – 09:10 | Opening and Introductions |
| Overview of CEDM Activities – Granger Morgan and Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 09:10 – 11:00 | Session 1: Energy Behavior and Efficiency |
| Energy and behavior research – Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Effects of rebates on energy consumption – Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
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| Enabling Energy Efficiency in Pittsburgh’s Class B and C Commercial Office Buildings: Preliminary Findings from a Mental Models Approach – Tamar Krishnamurti, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Evaluating the benefits of commercial building energy codes and improving federal incentives for code adoption – Nathaniel Gilbraith, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Alternative approaches to assess the value of preventing electricity disruption – Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| The energy burden – Mike Dworkin, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Session 2: Climate Mitigation Strategies: Transportation |
| Controlled charging of electric vehicles – Jeremy Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| CAFE loopholes and CO2 emissions – Alan Jenn, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Aviation and aviation emissions – Parth Vaishnav, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 13:00 – 14:20 | Session 3: Climate Mitigation Strategies: Renewables |
| Assessing the impact of flexible ramping products in the Midcontinent ISO – Dalia Patiño Echeverri, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Wind innovation in China – Long Lam, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Economics of solar PV in the United States – Shelly Hagerman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| The impact of technology characteristics on the formation of exploration and exploitation alliances – insights from the solar PV industry – Meagan Mauter, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Video overview of the RenewElec Book now in press at RFF Press – Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
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| 14:20 – 15:25 | Session 4: Climate Mitigation Strategies: Natural Gas |
| Residential Energy Tax Credits, did they lead to more projects or more expensive projects – Hadi Dowlatabadi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC | |
| Natural gas fugitive emissions rate uncertainties based on global atmospheric methane and ethane – Stefan Schwietzke, NOAA, Denver, CO | |
| Natural gas pathways for transportation – Fan Tong, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 15:25 – 17:05 | Session 5: Empirical Applications of Decision Making Methods |
| Public perceptions of weather and climate change – Wändi Bruine de Bruin, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK | |
| RDM for civil infrastructures – Costa Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Coupled ethical-epistemic analysis – Nancy Tuana, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA | |
| Multi-objective robust decision making for climate change mitigation – Klaus Keller, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA | |
| Long-term political sustainability of greenhouse gas emissions policies: an agent-based, evolutionary approach – Robert Lempert, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Climate change adaptation to sea level rise – Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 17:05 – 18:00 | Session 6: Climate Change Effects: Ocean and Ecosystems Impacts |
| Charactering resilience in regional infrastructures – Tim McDaniels, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC | |
| Habitat fragmentation from Marcellus shale gas development – Leslie Abrahams, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| The impact of climate stressors on coral bleaching and mortality – Paul Welle, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Session 7: Cross-cutting research and outreach activities |
| CEDM Theory Workshops – Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
Day 2: May 21st, 2014
| 08:30 – 12:00 | Workshops |
| Workshop I: Ocean Acidification – Scott Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA and Sarah Cooley, Ocean Conservancy, Washington, DC | |
| Workshop II: Overview of the National Climate Assessment – Tony Janetos, Boston University, Boston, MA |
This research was made possible through support from the Center for
Climate and Energy Decision Making (CEDM). This Center has been created
through a cooperative agreement between the National Science Foundation
(SES-0949710) and Carnegie Mellon University.
