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Session Proposal: Beyond Silos: Integrating Earth Sciences in the Water-Energy-Food-Health Nexus (AGU25)

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Beyond Silos: Integrating Earth Sciences in the Water-Energy-Food-Health Nexus

Session ID#: 249795

Session Description:
As global challenges such as climate change, population growth, urbanization, and resource scarcity intensify, integrated research approaches are more crucial than ever. The Water-Energy-Food-Health (WEF-H) Nexus offers a powerful framework for tackling these interconnected issues and advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Traditional research silos are no longer sufficient; a transdisciplinary approach is essential, uniting Earth sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, public health, and policy. This session brings together academia and industry to share cutting-edge research and explore collaboration within the WEF-H framework. We invite abstract submissions that address critical challenges and innovative solutions across WEF-H sectors. Outcomes will include identifying research priorities, forming cross-disciplinary partnerships, and generating actionable recommendations to bridge science and policy in nexus governance.
Index Terms:

0232 Impacts of climate change: ecosystem health [GEOHEALTH]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0491 Food webs and trophodynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Swapan K Sahoo, Equinor USA, Houston, United States
Conveners:  Julie Bloxson, Stephen F. Austin State University, Earth Sciences and Geologic Resources, Nachadogas, United States and Yogaraj Banerjee, STARLAB, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yogaraj Banerjee, STARLAB, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States
 
OneEarth OneHealth: An Ecosystem for Human-Centered Climate Solutions (Invited) (1860286)
Helen H Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and RCN OneEarth OneHealth team
 
From Landscape Change to Planetary Terraformation: Advancing a convergent “Landscape Terraformation science” of how life transforms planets with a multi-scale collaboratory and "digital twin" of Biosphere 2 (Invited) (1904411)
Scott R Saleska1, Regis Ferrière2, Cristian Román-Palacios3, Chris Impey4, Peter A Troch5, Katerina Dontsova6, Ghiwa Makke7, Jennifer Croissant8, Siya Shao9, William J Riley10, Aaron Bugaj6, Hannes H Bauser11, Wei-Ren Ng6, A. Elizabeth Arnold3, Jon Chorover7, Valerie Milici12, Solange Duhamel13 and Baptiste Hulin14, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)ENS-PSL, IBENS, Paris, France, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Biosphere 2, Tucson, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Gender and Women's Studies, Tucson, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (11)University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (12)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (13)University of Arizona, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson, United States, (14)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Geologie, Paris, France
 
Advances in community-driven climate action research (Invited) (1957922)
Kim M Cobb, Brown Univeristy, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
 
City CoLabs as a Transformative Science to Application Collaboratory (Invited) (1966811)
Dev Niyogi1, Naveen Sudharsan2, Alexia Leclercq3, Marc Coudert4, Zach Baumer5, Harsh Kamath6, Heidi Schmalbach7, Patrick Bixler6, Allysa Dallmann8, Trevor Brooks9, Hassan Dashtian10, Manmeet Singh11, Alka Tiwari12, Bhanu Neupane13 and UT-City CoLab, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (3)People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER), Austin, United States, (4)Office of Sustainability, City of Austin, Austin, United States, (5)Director OCAR, City of Austin, OCAR, Austin, United States, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (7)Research, Austin, United States, (8)University of Texas at Austin, EPS/JSG, Austin, United States, (9)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (10)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States, (11)University of Texas, Austin, United States, (12)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (13)UNESCO, Paris Cedex 15, France
 
Beyond Discovery; Understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with the increased mineral and metal supply needed for the Energy Transition (Invited) (1972797)
Simon Martin Jowitt, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States
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