Draft Agenda (Eastern Standard Time)

• 1:00 – 1:10 PM – Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Jacob Jones, lead of the NNCI Research Community for Nanotechnology Convergence
• 1:10 – 1:25 PM – Review of NNI’s Nano4Earth Kick-Off Workshop by Dr. Matthew Hull, Director, Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory (Virginia Tech)
• 1:25 – 1:40 PM – Introduction to the NSF Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) Report, “The Role of Engineering to Address Climate Change” by Professor Khara Grieger, Ph.D., Environmental Health and Risk Assessment (NC State University)
• 1:40 – 1:45 PM – Enter Break-Out Rooms and Introductions 
• 1:45 – 2:30 PM – Breakout Sessions (See below for topics) 
• 2:30 – 2:55 PM – Report outs from Breakout Groups, which will feed into the workshop report
• 2:55 – 3:00 PM – Closing

Breakout Sessions

Attendees will meet in small groups to provide important stakeholder perspectives on a variety of specific questions. Discussion topics are broken down according to the categorization in the ERVA report and include:

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