Union Sessions



U001
Achieving Sustainable Food Systems
Primary Convener:  Kyle Frankel Davis, University of Delaware, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences; Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, Newark, United States
Convener:  Landon Marston, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Marta Tuninetti, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy


U002
Advancing National Security Through Science: Opportunities for the AGU Community to Engage
Primary Convener:  Bruce Franklin Molnia, U.S. Geological Survey, National Civil Applications Center, Reston, United States
Conveners:  Anthony L Nguy-Robertson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Research, St. Louis, MO, United States and Brittney L Szabo, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Springfield, VA, United States


U003
AGU-EGU-JpGU Great Debate: Open Science, Societies, and Society
Primary Convener:  Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and Helen Glaves, EGU
Conveners:  Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Tetsuya Takemi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Helen Glaves, EGU


U004
Climate Action in an Era of Global Energy Security Concerns
Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States
Convener:  Erin Mayfield, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States


U005
Climate Empowerment: Social Knotworking and Infrastructuring to Accelerate Just Climate Actions
Primary Convener:  Deb L Morrison, CLEAR Environmental, Pender Island, BC, Canada
Convener:  Frank Niepold III, NOAA Washington DC, Climate Program Office, Washington, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Haley Crim, CLEAR Environmental, Pender Island, Canada


U006
Data Visualization as a Communication Tool in Earth and Space Science
Primary Convener:  Erik R Hankin, American Geophysical Union, Talent Pool, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Erik R Hankin, American Geophysical Union, Talent Pool, Washington, DC, United States and Mark Subbarao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States


U007
Fifth National Climate Assessment: Updates and Opportunities for the AGU Community
Primary Convener:  Christopher William Avery, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Conveners:  Allison Crimmins, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., United States and Allyza Lustig, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States


U008
Frontiers in Multisector Dynamics; Synergies across Climate Security, Energy Transitions and Societal Aspirations
Primary Convener:  Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Conveners:  Klaus Keller, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria and Jan H. Kwakkel, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft, Netherlands
Student/Early Career Convener:  Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States


U009
Geologic Carbon Storage
Primary Convener:  Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Brian J O L McPherson, Univ Utah, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Robert M Dilmore, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Michel Verliac, TotalEnergies, Geo-Technologies Solutions Division, Pau, France


U010
Global Needs for Carbon Neutralization by Combining Stable Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy and H2/NH3 Production and Supply
Primary Convener:  Daijiro Kaneko, Remote Sensing Environmental Monitor, Inc., President, Yokohama, Japan
Convener:  Swadhin K Behera, Application Laboratory, JAMSTEC, Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan


U011
International research in a world under crisis
Primary Convener:  Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Guy Brasseur, AGU, Washington, DC, United States


U012
Machine Learning Applications in Earth, Energy, and Environmental Studies
Primary Convener:  Michael J Friedel, University of Colorado Denver, Physics, Denver, CO, United States
Conveners:  Gege Wen, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Erin Wallin, HIGP/SOEST/Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States and Sahar Bakhshian, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


U013
Mapping the Built Environment: New Data, Advances, and Challenges in Creating Detailed Understanding of Building Characteristics from Materials to Occupancy
Primary Convener:  Amy Rose, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Robert Stewart, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geographic Data Science, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Kishor Jaiswal, Research Civil Engineer, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Charles K Huyck, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA, United States


U014
Seeing Smaller, Larger, Deeper but Thinking Bigger – Imaging the Earth’s Surface
Primary Convener:  Susan Roberts, The National Academies, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Tissa H Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Civil and & Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Anne Meltzer, Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States and Eileen E Hofmann, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States


U015
Standards to Fuel New Climate Solutions: Establishing an Ethical Framework for Climate Interventions
Primary Convener:  Brooks Hanson, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Billy M Williams, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States, Lisa J Graumlich, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Guy P Brasseur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


U016
The formation and early evolution of the Earth and the Moon
Primary Convener:  Qian Yuan, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States; California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Simon J. Lock, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Srinidhi Ravi, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States


U017
Transboundary water for Peace, Development, and Security
Primary Convener:  Mekonnen Gebremichael, University of California Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  Ana Elisa Cascao, Independent Consultant, Lisbon, Portugal


U018
Transformative Discoveries, Technological Breakthroughs and Societal Challenges - Lessons from the Past as Guideposts to the Future
Primary Convener:  Michael J McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Francis Macdonald, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Imke De Pater, University of California, Berkeley, Departments of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and Eileen E Hofmann, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States


U019
Climate Change & Climate Action Leadership in Illinois
Primary Convener:  Trent Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, United States
Conveners:  Ashish Sharma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois State Water Survey and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Champaign, IL, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States


U020
Climate Services in the Central U.S.: Serving Agriculture and Water Sectors in a Changing Climate
Primary Convener:  Dennis Todey, USDA-ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment-Midwest Climate Hub, Ames, IA, United States
Conveners:  Doug R Kluck1, Roger S Pulwarty1 and Mark D. Svoboda2, (1)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE, United States


U021
Co-creating and Sharing Knowledge in Partnership with Earth and Space Scientists
Primary Convener:  Vincent C H Tong, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Michael Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States and Sunday Siomades, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sunday Siomades, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States


U022
How Indigenous Knowledges Create Positive Climate Futures
Primary Convener:  Rajul Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States and AGU's Indigenous Action Committee
Conveners:  Darryl Reano, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Ángel Garcia Jr., James Madison University, Harrisonburg, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia and AGU's Indigenous Action Committee