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
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
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.