AGU 2024: DOE and ESS Relevant Town Halls and Booths
Join the UIFL community at this year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington, D.C. on December 9–13. The following list highlights DOE, ESS, and UIFL–related town halls and booths that may be of interest to our community.
DOE and ESS Relevant Town Halls
Monday, December 9
TH13A—DOE’s Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division Strategic Priorities
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET | 206 (Convention Center)
TH13E—The FLUXNET Town Hall: Advancing Global Ecosystem-Atmosphere Exchange Measurements
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Marquis 3-4 (Marriott Marquis)
TH15I—Nature-Based Solutions in Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Evidence and Opportunities
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. ET | Salon H (Convention Center)
TH15O—National Security Implications of Environmental Change: Developing a Framework for Analysis and Foresight
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. ET | Salon B (Convention Center)
Tuesday, December 10
TH23A—A Discussion with Program Managers for Early-Career Scientists
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Marquis 1-2 (Marriott Marquis)
TH23L—USGCRP Coordination of Urban Climate Research in the Federal Agencies
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Marquis 12-13 (Marriott Marquis)
TH25G—Building Trust in Science Through Relevance Before Crisis Strikes
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. ET | Marquis 1-2 (Marriott Marquis)
Thursday, December 12
TH43F—Cross-Agency Coordination for Advancing Earth System Modeling and Prediction
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Marquis 1-2 (Marriott Marquis)
TH45D—Developing a Community of Practice for Decision-Relevant Climate Data Products
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. ET | Marquis 1-2 (Marriott Marquis)
Friday, December 13
TH53E—Advancing Coastal Research in the Southeast United States: Insights from a DOE Environmental System Science Workshop
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Capitol/Congress (Marriott Marquis)
DOE and ESS Relevant AGU Booths
Visit the DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program at Booth 139 for up-to-date information about ESS research projects, funding opportunities, awards, and workshops. You can also chat with ESS program managers and several ESS principal investigators who’ll be holding booth office hours during the week. Check with booth representatives for a schedule. While you’re there, pick up some BER-themed stickers and other programmatic materials.
Additional booths that may be of interest are:
- Booth 239: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
- Booth 338: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility
- Booth 341: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Booth 345: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
- Booth 344: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- Booth 245: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
- Booth 244: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Booth 145: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
- Booth 144: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- Booth 142: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
- Booth 140: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Urban Integrated Field Laboratory AGU Activities
December 10, 2024
8:30 am
PM2.5 Is Not the Same Across Seasons: Characterization of PM2.5 Composition at a Fixed Urban Site for the DOE BSEC Project - A21A-1668
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Benjamin Nault, Johns Hopkins University; Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Type: Poster
Project: BSEC
9:30 am
Advances and Data Releases Associated with the Vulcan and Hestia CO2 Emission Projects: Linking to US Government and Stakeholder Needs - SY21A-06
Location: Independence D (Marriott Marquis)
Presenter: Kevin Gurney, Northern Arizona University
Type: Oral Presentation
Project: SW-IFL
1:40 pm
Integrating Urban Modeling Across Scales: A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework - A23E
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Peiyuan LI, University of Illinois System
Type: Poster
Project: CROCUS
1:40 pm
Urban Canopy Modeling Enhanced by Detailed Height Mapping of Trees and Buildings - A23E
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Peiyuan Li, University of Illinois System
Type: Poster
Project: CROCUS
1:40 pm
e-JUST - Environmental Justice using Urban Scalable Toolkit - A23E
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Ashish Sharma, University of Illinois System, Argonne National Laboratory
Type: Poster
Project: CROCUS
4:18 pm
Co-Generating Equitable Pathways for Climate Action: Experience from the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative Urban Integrated Field Laboratory - SY24B-06
Location: eLightning Theater 2 (Convention Center)
Presenter: Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University
Type: eLightning
Project: BSEC
December 11, 2024
8:30 am
Missing Hazards: Improving Detection and Delineation Methods of Multi-Hazard Events and Assessing Their Impact on Vulnerable Populations - GC31V
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Matthew Preisser, University of Texas–Austin
Type: Poster
Project: SETX
1:40 pm
Development of Gridded Vehicle Anthropogenic Heat Emission Datasets for the Chicago Metro Area and Testing Using WRF SLUCM with Distributed Urban Parameters - A33A
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Gonzalo Huidobro, University of Notre Dame
Type: Poster
Project: CROCUS
December 12, 2024
8:30 am
A Multi-Scale Framework for Urban Heat Island Analysis: Integrating Building Energy Modeling, Spatial Analytics, and Machine Learning in Maricopa County, Arizona - GC41A-01
Location: Salon A (Convention Center)
Presenter: Shovan Chowdhury, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Type: Oral Presentation
Project: SW-IFL
8:30 am
A Near Real-Time Compound Flood Inundation Python Package - NH41D
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Mark Wang, University of Texas–Austin
Type: Poster
Project: SETX
8:30 am
Adopting a Modeling-Observation-Experimentation (MODEX) Research Approach for the Model-Informed Urban Canyon Observation Campaign in the Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) Project - GC41I-0044
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Dimitrios Fytanidis, Argonne National Laboratory
Type: Poster
Project: CROCUS
8:30 am
Changes in the Terrestrial Aquatic Interface and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Urban Watersheds - B41I-1399
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Peter Groffman, City University of New York
Type: Poster
Project: BSEC
8:30 am
Estimating Urban Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuel Combustion in Arizona Using Vulcan v4 Data - A41N
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Huilin Sun, Northern Arizona University
Type: Poster
Project: SW-IFL
1:40 pm
Understanding Water Flow Dynamics in Urban Soils: Implications for Stormwater Management - H43P
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Ian Yesilonis, USDA Forest Service
Type: Poster
Project: BSEC
December 13, 2024
8:50 am
Modeling and Measurement of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions to Improve Understanding of Ozone Formation in an Urban Desert Region (Phoenix, Arizona, USA) - A51A-03
Location: 154 A-B (Convention Center)
Presenter: Trinity Olquin, Arizona State University
Type: Oral Presentation
Project: SW-IFL
1:40 pm
Community-Informed Robust Adaptation Pathways for Urban Flood Resilience in Baltimore - H53P-1322
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Ava Spangler, Pennsylvania State University
Type: Poster
Project: BSEC
1:40 pm
Downscaling Modeled Fluvial and Pluvial Flood Inundation to a Lidar Grid: A New Volume Conservative Method - H53M
Location: Hall B-C (Poster Hall) (Convention Center)
Presenter: Mark Wang, University of Texas–Austin
Type: Poster
Project: SETX