2024 PI Meeting Agenda

October 28, 2024

8:30–10:00 a.m. Plenary Session — Programmatic and Project Updates

  • Welcome and Introductions – BER Management (10 min)
  • Program Manager updates (20 min)
  • Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) IFL, Cristina Negri, Argonne National Laboratory (30 min)
  • Southwest Urban Corridor IFL (SW-IFL), David Sailor, Arizona State University (30 min)

10:00–10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Plenary Session — Project and Interagency Updates

  • Southeast Texas (SETx) Urban IFL, Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin (30 min)
  • Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC) Urban IFL, Benjamin Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University (30 min)
  • US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Urban Interagency Working Group, Reid Sherman, USGCRP (30 min)

12:00–1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00–2:30 p.m. Community and Stakeholder Engagement with Panel Discussion

  • Community Engagement from a DOE perspective, Emily Brooks, DOE Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (30 min)
  • Panelist introductions and discussion (1 hour)

2:30–2:45 p.m. Break

2:45–4:15 p.m. Poster Session 1

4:15–5:45 p.m. General Breakout Session 1

  • Climate scale modeling/scenarios (Plaza 1)
  • Observational approaches (Plaza 2 & 3)
  • Community co-design, resilient solutions and decision-making (Regency)
  • Education and workforce development (Potomac)

October 29, 2024

8:30–10:00 a.m. Coordination Project Updates and Breakouts

  • 8:30–8:50 a.m. Intro to coordination projects
  • 8:50–9:20 a.m. Coordination breakout 1
    • MSD Urban Working Group Cross-IFL Community Building (Plaza 1)
    • Unified Multilayer Interface for Cataloguing Spatiotemporal Observation across IFLs (Plaza 2 & 3)
    • Green infrastructure representations in hydrologic models (Regency)
    • Coordinated inter-IFL measurements of gas-phase and particle-phase pollutants in joint intensive observation periods (Potomac)
  • 9:30–10:10 a.m. Coordination breakout 2
    • Coordinating urban land surface modeling across UIFLs (Plaza 1)
    • Greenhouse gas, criteria air pollutant, and anthropogenic heat flux inventories for the UIFL domains at the asset scale (Plaza 2&3)
    • Collaborative Evaluation of the Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (UIFLs) Transdisciplinary Team Science (Regency)

10:00–10:15 a.m. Break

10:15–11:45 a.m. Poster Session 2

11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Lunch

12:45–2:15 p.m. General Breakout Session 2

  • Equity and social vulnerability (Plaza 1)
  • Atmosphere (urban heat and air quality) (Plaza 2 & 3)
  • Hydrology (droughts, floods, and water supply/quality) (Regency)

2:15–2:30 p.m. Break

2:30–4:30 p.m. General Breakout Session 3

  • Integration across the subsurface-atmosphere-human-natural systems (Plaza 1)
  • Data & software management (Plaza 2 & 3)
  • GHG emissions/biogeochemistry (Regency)