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This will be the second of three workshops as part of the CO2-Urban Synthesis and Analysis (CO2-USA) project bringing together leading scientists, practitioners, and policy makers who are working on understanding urban greenhouse gas emissions. The project aims to synthesize researchers’ findings and to bring together leading scientists and policy makers in order to better understand urban GHG emissions. This workshop will highlight new scientific findings, progress towards analysis of urban GHG emissions, and will facilitate interaction between scientists and policymakers.
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Last update 10/18/2018
Location: Rice-Eccles Stadium, Scholarship Room, Level 4 (enter via Gate E, tower on north side) Day 1 Objectives: Facilitate conversations between scientists, stakeholders, and policy makers about
451 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
8:00~8:40 Registration, Breakfast, Poster Setup, Live-poll
Introduction, Background [Chair: John Lin (Univ. of Utah)]
8:40~9:00 Welcome, Description of Workshop Objectives John Lin, Logan Mitchell (Univ. of Utah)
9:00~9:20 Agency Perspectives Ken Mooney, Monika Kopacz (NOAA), James Whetstone (NIST)
9:20~9:40 Overview: Cities and Mayors: Advancing Climate Agendas in the Aftermath of the Paris Withdrawal Katharine Lusk (Boston Univ.)
Stakeholder Perspectives [Chair: Katharine Lusk (Boston Univ.)]
9:40~10:00 “Nexus of state-level climate policy to carbon monitoring in the Bay Area of California” Abhinav Guha (Bay Area Air Quality Management District)
10:00~10:30 Keynote Address: Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake City]
10:30~11:00 Coffee Break
11:00~12:00 Stakeholder Perspective Panel Discussion: How Cities Are Measuring Progress towards Climate Goals
- Moderator: Katharine Lusk (Boston Univ.) Panel members: Vicki Bennett (Salt Lake City Sustainability Office), Luke Cartin (Park City Sustainability Office), Abhinav Guha (Bay Area Air Quality Management District), Thomas Herrod (Denver Dept. of Public Health & Environment)
Lunch and Poster Session
12:00~13:00 Lunch & Lightning Talks: Scientists Reporting on Progress for Practitioners: What progress have scientists achieved in community-level monitoring, measurement and standardization?
13:00~14:30 Poster Session: Stakeholder Engagement & Science Advances in Network Cities
Breakout & Plenary Discussions [Chair: Lucy Hutyra (Boston U)]
14:30~15:30 Breakout Groups
- Needs Assessment: Surveying City Sustainability and Climate Offices: What more do we need to know? [lead: Katharine Lusk, Conor Gately (Boston Univ.)]
- Tackling Scope 1-3 emissions: How should we be helping cities understand induced demand versus on-site, carbon flows? [lead: Lucy Hutyra (Boston Univ.), Logan Mitchell (Univ. of Utah)]
- How long-term urban planning can take carbon emissions into account [lead: Daniel Mendoza, Martin Buchert (Univ. of Utah)]
15:30~16:10 Plenary Discussion
- Reporting from breakout groups
- Lessons on Transdisciplinary Collaboration: how do we support urban research and sustain collaborations with cities?
International & Closing Perspectives [Chair: Logan Mitchell (Univ. of Utah)]
16:10~16:30 World Meteorological Organization’s Integrated Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS)
Felix Vogel (Environment & Climate Change Canada)
17:00-18:00 – Optional Lab Tours
- Utah Atmospheric Trace gas & Air Quality (U-ATAQ) Lab Ryan Bares (Univ. of Utah)
- Stable Isotope Ratio Facility for Environmental Research (SIRFER) Jim Ehleringer, Suvankar Chakraborty (Univ. of Utah)
19:00 – Group Dinner
Location: Salt Lake City Marriott University Park, Bonneville Ballroom II
Dinner Talk: Driving GHG Reductions and Verification Forward Paul Shepson (Stony Brook University)
Location: Natural History Museum of Utah, Swaner Forum, Level 5 Day 2 Objectives:
301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
8:00~8:30 Registration, Breakfast
8:30~8:40 Introduction to Day 2 of CO2-USA workshop John Lin (Univ. of Utah)
Updates from Working Groups, Atmospheric Modeling [Chair: John Lin]
8:40~9:00 Cross-city merged GHG dataset Logan Mitchell (Univ. of Utah)
9:00~9:20 New merged atmospheric model/HYSPLIT-STILT Chris Loughner (Univ. of Maryland/NOAA Air Resources Lab)
9:20~9:40 Urban inversion working group Kim Mueller (NIST)
9:40~10:00 Atmospheric transport in an urban context Ken Davis (Penn State Univ.)
10:00~10:20 Discussion
10:20~10:40 Coffee Break
Bottom-up Inventory Development [Chair: Conor Gately (Boston Univ.)]
10:40~11:00 Urban biosphere fluxes Lucy Hutyra (Boston Univ.)
11:00~11:20 New ACES anthropogenic inventory Conor Gately (Boston Univ.)
11:20~11:40 GHG inventory and linkages with air quality-relevant inventories Vincent Camobreco (Environmental Protection Agency)
11:40~12:00 Urban high-resolution emissions data products: capabilities, convergence, and comparisons Kevin Gurney (Northern Arizona University)
12:00~12:20 Discussions
12:20~13:20 Lunch
Urban GHG Observations [Chair: Anna Karion (NIST)]
13:20~13:40 GHG source sector apportionment with isotopes and air quality-relevant tracers. Jocelyn Turnbull (GNS Science, New Zealand)
13:40~14:00 Urban emissions from East Coast Outflow Experiment Colm Sweeney (NOAA-ESRL)
14:00~14:20 Observing CO2 hotspots from space: the OCO-2 experience and OCO-3 new capabilities Thomas Kurosu (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
14:20~14:40 Prospects for near term detection of emission reductions Ron Cohen (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
14:40~15:00 Discussions:
- Are we measuring the right things? What is still missing?
- How can the different observations be combined?
15:00~15:20 Coffee Break
Synthesis, Challenges, Next Steps [Chair: Logan Mitchell]
15:20~15:40 Challenges carrying out inverse modeling at urban scale Taylor Jones/Steve Wofsy (Harvard Univ.)
15:40~17:00 Plenary Discussion: Next Steps
- Do we have what we need to understand urban the carbon budget? What is still missing?
- Cross-city synthesis activities
- Papers
- Funding
- Other steps
Morning field trip up to Wasatch Mountains, Snowbird Resort/Hidden Peak CO2 site
Departing at 8:30am from: Marriott Hotel, 480 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
All workshop presentations can be viewed at the CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis Network website.
MAPS, DIRECTIONS, TRANSIT, PARKING
Salt Lake City has light rail (TRAX) and bus service through UTA (801) 287-4636. Find route info and transit planner at http://rideuta.com.
To download comprehensive details for transit options to the hotel and venues, please click here.
Venues
10/24 Rice-Eccles Stadium Tower – Scholarship Room, Level 4 | 451 South 1400 East, SLC UT, 84112 Enter the stadium structure through Gate E. The stadium is easily accessible from downtown via TRAX light rail red line. (Participants may also park in the lot west of the stadium at no charge. See map.) Driving directions:
10/25 Natural History Museum of Utah – Swaner Forum | 301 Wakara Way, SLC UT 84108
getting around salt lake city
Salt Lake is laid out on a simple grid system. If you think of it in terms of longitude and latitude, the zero-point in Salt Lake City is Temple Square. Virtually every address in the city has a set of two coordinates telling how far east or west and how far north or south it is from Temple Square (or the corner of Main and South Temple Streets to be exact). Although an address such as 682 East 400 South may look strange to you, just remember that it simply describes a location on the grid. Consequently, both “halves” of the address (“682 East” and “400 South”) are equally significant, the second half being the street name and the first half being a specific point on that street. Even streets with names (Harvard Avenue, for instance) also have a numbered “coordinate.” If you were looking for Harvard Avenue, it would be helpful for you to know that its coordinate is 1175 south. Read more here.
Click here to view list of participants (last updated 10/23/2018)