climate change

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:

Nanotechnology for

Energy storage, transmission, and critical materials

Greenhouse gas capture and elimination

Resilient, energy-efficient, and healthful infrastructure

Water, ecosystems, and geoengineering assessment

An interdisciplinary conversation among thought leaders to provide participants an idea of what is on the horizon for helping communities build resilience of water management infrastructure and how we can move forward as a nation.

Learn about some of the ways researchers are helping communities consider climate change in local planning. Participants will gain insights into approaches for evaluating climate change impacts on hydrology for planning.