PRI Staff Events (non-training)

9–9:30 am

Opening presentation/remarks: VCR Susan Martinis, Dean Rashid Bashir, Exec. Dir. Praveen Kumar

9:30 – 11:30

Sustainability Engineering Joint Research Program: 8 projects, 15 minutes each

• From Waste to Wealth: CO2 Mineralization in WTE Ashes for Materials Recovery (Nishant Garg, Chinmoy Baroi, Jiajun He, Lav Varshney, Vikram Kumar)
• Improving environmental and economic outcomes from the closure of coal power plants (Grace Wilken, Jeffery Roesler, Nishant Garg, Aysan Farajnia, Lance Schideman) 
• Selective Recovery of Rare Earth Elements by a Novel Engineered Functional Biomaterial (Na Wei, Jared Freiburg, Yongqi Lu, Dong Wang, Quanhui Ye, Wanqi Wang, Charles Bopp, Franck Delpomdor)
• Process-Based Design of Sustainable Artificial Floating Wetlands                              (Erin Bauer, Rafael Tinoco, Susan McIntyre, Yihui Wang, Lucy Kleczewski)
• Capture and in-Situ Conversion of co2 Using Novel Plasma Technology Under Ambient Conditions (Chinmoy Baroi, Jiajun He, Lili Cai, April Novak, Davide Curreli, Beomhui Lee, Dhruv Dhanuk, Daniel Matatov)
• Technoeconomic Analysis (Tea)-Guided Design of Redox-Mediated Polymer Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Separation of Rare Earth Elements (Hong Yang, Xiao Su, Yongqi Lu, Johannes Elbert, Haley Vapnik, Bidipta Ghosh, Aaron Chen, Neal He)
• Production of Mine Tailings-Based, Geopolymer Composites (Waltrud Kriven, Pozhhan Mokhtari, Joey Lin, Sara Kashyap, Jared Freiburg)

Joint Strategic Research Initiative

• Strategic Plan for Multiplying Direct Carbon Capture Capacity with Nuclear Power (Caleb Brooks, Tim Grunloh, April Novak, Jiajun He, Kevin O’Brien, Les Gioja, Chinmoy Baroi)

11:30 – 12:00

Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA) – PRI Joint Research Projects: 2 projects, 15 minutes

• 3M Approach to WCR Management: Using UAV Imagery to Monitor, Measure, and Manage Western Corn Rootworm (Joseph Spencer, Sunoj Shajahan, Sagnika Das)
• Soil and Crop Moisture Sensing for Precision Agriculture Using Drone-based Microwave Radiometry (Mohamad Alipour, Trent Ford, Elahe Soltanaghai)

12:00 – 1:00 

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00

Center for Advanced Climate Solutions (CACS) Joint Climate Solutions Program -  

• Green Infrastructure Solutions Toolkit (GIST): Pathway to Rural Climate Resiliency (Camden Arnold, Ashlynn Stillwell, Arthur Schmidt, Glenn Heistand, Duane Friend, Eliana Brown, Carrie McKillip, Russell Medley, Zach Kennedy)
• Developing a socio-ecological framework to assess the impacts of urban greening on West Nile virus transmission (Chris Stone, Brian Allan, Nick Pitas, Deanna Hence, Japhia Ramkumar, Holly Rosencranz)
• Methane Capture and Upcycling for Decarbonization (Lili Cai, Chinmoy Baroi, Jiajun He, Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez)
• Resilient Agricultural Supply Chains Against Climate Hazards (Yanfeng Ouyang, Nicolas Federico Martin, Megan Konar, Jessica Wedow)

2:00 – 3:00

Joint Research Program Review