Sunday: Environmental Justice
Keynote: Dr. Erica Holloman-Hill, CEO, Ayika Solutions
Guest Speakers:
Celest Lomax, CEO, CelestialCare Solutions
Annie Moore, Park Ambassador, Friends of Lindsay Street Park
Donna Stephens, Community Engagement Specialist, Proctor Creek Stewardship Council
Monday: Community engagement
Keynote: Dr. Ángel Cabrera, President, Georgia Institute of Technology
Keynote Dr. Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, Provost, Spelman College
Guest Speakers:
Garry Harris, Managing Director, Center for Sustainable Communities
Janelle Wright, Environmental Justice Programs Manager, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
Diamond Spratling, Founder, Girl + Environment
Autumn McNeil, Atlanta Hub Leader, Black Girl Environmentalist
Chandra Farley, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Atlanta
Tabling Organizations:
SnapCo. https://www.snap4freedom.org/
Teresa Mourad for the The Ecological Society of America
RCE Greater Atlanta https://rcega.org/
Tuesday: Science
Keynote: Dr Evvan Morton: Climate, Communities and Carbon Removal
Keynote: Dr. Marshall Shepherd: Extreme Weather: Risk and Vulnerability
GT Student Presentations:
Dr. Yao Fu: What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?
Dr. Corentin Gilbert: Tracking climate: how paleontology can help us protect biodiversity
Skylar Lama: Resilience and connectivity of coral reefs
Madeline Mamer: Improving the representation of ocean-forced melting
Katherine Slenker: The role of megaherbivore physiology in influencing isotope proxies for aridity
Lifei Yin: Climate penalty on air quality: Spatial pattern and evolution with emission reduction
Wednesday: Modeling
Keynote: Dr Gokhan Danabasoglu: An Introduction to Modeling
Keynote: Dr Alice DuVivier: Climate Modeling Applications
GT Student Presentations:
Aminat Ambelorum: Quantifying Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections
Xuquing Cai: Meteorological Impact on DAC performance
Danielle Grau: A Physics-Based Parameterization of Supraglacial Melt Ponds
Dr. Yoshiki Kanzaki: Carbon leakage after capture by enhanced rock weathering
Melody Lu: Mechanisms of Fast Walker Circulation Responses to CO2 Forcing
Qi Zhang: The AMOC – Carbon Uptake Relation in the Subpolar North Atlantic
Thursday: Solutions
Keynote: GT President Emeritus Wayne Clough: Climate Change: Am I an optimistic or a pessimistic
Keynote: Dr. Greeshma Gadikota: Advancing Sustainable Climate Solutions
Keynote: Dr. Matthew Realff: Closing the carbon cycle from DAC to alternative fuels
Keynote: Ms. Sangita Sharma, Director of Sustainable Skies Lab: Delta’s Go-Forward Sustainability Strategy
GT Student Presentations:
Joseph Guta: CO2, O2, and H2O and the Oxidative Stability of Solid Amine DAC Sorbents
Jinsu Kim: System-level Analysis of Adsorption-based Atmospheric Water Extraction Process
Guanhe Rim: Support Pore Structure & Composition’s Influence in Direct Air Capture
Akriti Sarswat: Separation Processes for Refinery of the Future