2011 CEDM Annual Meeting Presentations

Day 1: May 16th, 2011

9:30 – 11:00 AM Climate Change Mitigation
Public choice in the mix of electric power generation
Lauren Fleishman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Update on work from the PEPCO project
Baruch Fischhoff and Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Recent CEDM work in energy efficiency
Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Recent CEDM work on the transportation sector
Costa Samaras, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
Update on work in renewable energy and storage (CEDM/CEIC/RenewElec)
Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Helping PUCs analyze options to reduce GHG regulatory risk in coal dependent states
Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Duke University, Durham, NC
Influencing attitudes towards carbon capture and sequestration: a social marketing approach
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1:00 – 2:00 PM Climate Change Impacts
Impacts from ocean acidification and warming
Scott Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Participatory processes in coastal management
Mitch Small, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Correlations between storms and other climate change impacts
Iris Grossman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Climate Change and Adaptation: Impacts on Insurance Pricing and Coverage
Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Day 2: May 17th, 2011

8:30 – 9:15 AM Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Linkages / Climate Adaptation
Work on linkages between mitigation and adaptation
Tim McDaniels and Hadi Dowlatabadi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Tropical Cyclone Modification: Decision Analysis and Public Perceptions
Kelly Klima, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
10:15 – 11:00 AM Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Geoengineering
Global governance of SRM
Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Modeling SRM with HadCM3
Kate Ricke, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Research on geoengineering: recent results and a research agenda
Klaus Keller, Penn State University, University Park, PA
11:45 – 12:30 PM Decision Tools: For What and For Whom?
Recent book on decision analysis with stakeholders and results from the research work on Salmon vulnerability and cultural impacts of declining salmon on the Fraser River in British Columbia
Tim McDaniels, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Legal Systems as Complex Systems for Decision-making
Michael Dworkin, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
Agent based models in the context of climate change decision-making
Rob Axtell, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Using decision support tools to understand trends in carbon emissions
Paul Fischbeck, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1:30 – 2:15 PM T&M Workshops
Update on plans for Rebound effects workshop
Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Update on plans for elicitation methods workshop
Umit Guvenc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Possibilities related to IP for SRM; time preference
Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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.