Conference Schedule and Sessions Listing ISSST 2013

We present the folowing schedule of speakers and presentations 14 How is Corn-based Ethanol Production Changing the Face of Irrigation in the US Midwest? Jane Bare ISSST 2013 May 15-17, Cincinnati, OHIO
Schedule (subject to change)

Wednesday

TRACK ONE - Wednesday, May 15

8:30-11:00 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP Authentic Sustainability Gabrielle Gaustad

12:00 WELCOME Tom Seager, Conference Chair 12:20 - 1:20 OPENING PLENARY Ed Sawicki, Proctor & Gamble 1:20 - 3:00 WATER 94 Life Cycle Assessment of Coastal Water and Wastewater Services Xiaobo Xue, Troy Hawkins and Nick Ashbolt 128 Metrics and Approaches for Next-Generation Municipal Water Systems Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Xiaobo Xue, Mary Schoen, Troy R. Hawkins, Wesley W. Ingwersen and Cissy Ma 38 Enterprise Water Risk Assessment Kiara Corrigan, Amip Shah and Niru Kumari

3:00 - 3:20 BREAK 3:20 - 5:00 RESILIENCE 96 Understanding Resilience in Economic Networks: Implications for Critical Infrastructure Shauhrat Chopra and Vikas Khanna 50 A Model for Assessing Regional Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of Future Energy and Water Supply Scenarios Alexander Dale and Melissa Bilec 109 Full Spectrum Resilience for Urban Water Systems Arka Pandit and John Crittenden 90 Eco-Synergy Design: Integrating Technological and Ecological Systems on Campus for Sustainability Erin L. Gibbemeyer and Bhavik R. Bakshi 5:00 - 7:00 POSTER SESSION Refreshments served

TRACK TWO - Wednesday, May 15

1:20 - 3:00 ICT 121 The need for consumption-based impact estimation of ICT-based behaviors Paul Teehan 16 Life Cycle Engineering of an Integrated Desktop Computer; A SME Perspective Colin Fitzpatrick and Stewart Hickey

127 Biodiversity Impact Assessment of ICT Companies Activities Kazue Takahashi, Yasue Nemoto, Kayo Murakami, Norihiro Itsubo and Masaharu Motoshita 78 Efficient Resource Management for Sustainable Mobile Computing Toolika Ghose, Shubhangi Argade, Vinod Namboodiri and Ravi Pendse 3:00 - 3:20 BREAK

TRACK THREE - Wednesday, May 15

1:20 - 3:00 ENERGY/ THERMO 83 Thermodynamic limits of energy efficiency of process chains: mobility powered by corn-based ethanol versus flat-plate silicon photovoltaic panels Eric Williams and Ashok Sekar 160 Thermodynamic limits of energy resources use in traditional technological processes: A general approach and a metal bonding case study Rahul Nehete and Dusan Sekulic 80 Municipal solid waste management options in India: Insight from energy analysis Sachin Jadhao, Sunil Shingade, Aniruddha Pandit and Bhavik Bakshi 89 The role of ecological goods and services in microalgal biofuel production: A life cycle thermodynamic view George Gregory Zaimes and Vikas Khanna 3:00 - 3:20 BREAK 3:20 - 5:00 ENERGY/ FUELS 71 Integrated supply chain, delivered costs and life cycle assessment of several lignocellulosic supply systems for biofuels, bioenergy and bioproducts in the Southern U.S. Jesse Daystar, Carter Reeb, Ronalds Gonzalez, Trevor Treasure, Richard Venditti and Steve Kelley 157 Profitability Benefits of Flexible Carbon Capture and Storage David Luke Oates, Peter Versteeg and Eric Hittinger

3:20 - 5:00 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

82 Life Cycle Assessment of Lithium-ion Batteries with Silicon Nanowire Anode for Electric Vehicles Bingbing Li, Jianyang Li and Chris Yuan 140 Life Cycle Assessment of CNT Li-ion Battery Manufacture Ali Hakimian, Thomas P Cullinane and Jacqueline A Isaacs 92 Anticipatory Governance and Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment: Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Anode Lithium ion Batteries Ben Wender, Rider Foley, David Guston, Thomas Seager and Arnim Wiek 93 Adapting ecological models for analysis of emerging technologies Callie Babbitt, Erinn Ryen and Greg Babbitt 5:00 - 7:00 POSTER SESSION Refreshments served

 61 Net CO2 Emissions from 1992 to 2011 by PV Timothy Gutowski and Kotaro Kawajiri 136 Impact of use phase efficiency and manufacturing process improvements on dynamic greenhouse gas (GHG) impact assessments: The case of Photovoltaic systems Dwarakanath T R, Dr. Mikhail Chester, Dr. Thomas Seager, Benjamin Wender and Dr. Matthew Fraser 5:00 - 7:00 POSTER SESSION Refreshments served

Thursday
TRACK ONE - Thursday, May 16
7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: fruit juice, coffee, danish & bagels. STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING 8:30 - 10:10 EDUCATION I 113 Informing Global Climate Policy through International Game-play Susan Spierre, Thomas Seager, Brad Allenby and Sonja Klinsky 26 Using Systems Thinking and Sustainability as Educational Tools in Africa Sara Rimer and Jose Alfaro 105 Engineering and sustainability education in K-12 classrooms: A Framework for Success Stefanie Robinson, Jennifer Mangold and David Dornfeld 141 A Continuous Improvement Cycle: Redesign of a Computer Game to Test Sustainability Tradeoffs Mark Sivak and Jacqueline A Isaacs

10:10 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:10 SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION 55 LCA models at the core of the sustainable supply chain toolkit: A paper towel case study Wesley Ingwersen, Annie Weisbrod, Maria Gausman, et al. 62 TURINEX: A Social Science Tool to Help Understand and Predict Sustainable Consumption Andrew Berardy, Thomas Seager, Evan Selinger and Russell Uhl 158 A comparison of methods for calculating the carbon footprint of a product Anthony Barnett, Richard Barraclough, Victor Becerra and Slawomir Nasuto 77 ImpactMap: Designing Sustainable Supply Chains by Incorporating Data Uncertainty Mark Fuge, Katherine McKinstry and Kevin Ninomiya 12:10 - 2:00 LUNCHEON AND AWARDS Keynote: Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh 2:00 - 3:40 DECISION ANALYSIS 130 Systems Framing and Alternatives Analysis with DASEES Brian Dyson, Tom Stockton, John Carriger, Marilyn ten Brink, Timothy J. Canfield and Kelly Black 54 Application of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to the Energy-Water Nexus of Shale Gas in South Africa Valentina Prado, Avelino Mondlhane and Theodor Stewart PhD 65 Sustainability Evaluation for Product and Process Development Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado, Raymond L. Smith and Michael A. Gonzalez 66 Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Sustainability Raymond L. Smith, Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado and Michael A. Gonzalez

3:40 - 4:00 BREAK

52 Disaggregation of the Power Generation Sector for Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment Jorge Vendries, Joseph Marriott, Troy Hawkins, Vikas Khanna and H. 4:00 - 5:40 INFRASTRUCTURE Scott Matthews 111 A Decision Support Tool for Sustainable and Resilient Ur- 57 Use Phase Energy and Economic Input-Output Life ban Infrastructure Development Cycle Assessment Arka Pandit, John Crittenden, Hyunju Jeong, Zhongming Lu, et al. Derrick Carlson and H. Scott Matthews 33 Lessons Learned After Katrina: Sustainable Frameworks 10:10 - 10:30 BREAK for Risk-based Flood Infrastructure Wendi Goldsmith 10:30 - 12:10 POLICY MODELING USING EEIO 48 Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional Concrete, Glass Life Cycle Assessment of Federal Procurement Powder Concrete, and Alkali-activated Slag Concrete: Compara- 58 tive Analysis of Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHGs) H. Scott Matthews, Jeffrey Morris and Derrick Carlson and Potential Environmental Toxicity A Holistic Input-Output Framework for Waste ManageMohan Jiang, Xiaoju Chen, Chris Hendrickson and Farshad Rajabipour 75 ment in the United States Mehdi Noori and Omer Tatari EVENING RIVERBOAT CRUISE 145 Development of the Tool for Sustainable Materials Management Priscilla Halloran, Sangwon Suh, Bill Michaud, Matt Leighton, Troy R. Hawkins and Angela Leith TRACK TWO - Thursday, May 16 98 Assessing the Effect of Combined Energy Policies with 7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: fruit juice, coffee, danish & bagels. an Input-Output Framework STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING Jun-Ki Choi, Mohammad Pakravan and Bhavik Bakshi 8:30 - 10:10 EEIO DEVELOPMENT 129 Utilizing a Physical Input-Output Model to Inform Nitrogen-Related Ecosystem Services Shweta Singh, Jana Compton, Daniel Sobota and Troy R. Hawkins 106 Assessment of Fabrication Process Chains for Environmental and Economic Optimization Stefanie Robinson and David Dornfeld 12:10 - 2:00 LUNCHEON AND AWARDS Keynote: Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh 2:00 - 3:40 HEALTHCARE 17 Evaluating the financial impacts of reprocessed medical devices Scott Unger and Amy Landis 70 Quantifying the Impacts of Green Hospital Design through a Comparative Longitudinal Assessment Cassandra L. Thiel, Kim LaScola Needy, Robert J. Ries and Melissa M. Bilec

 73 The Triple Bottom Line Approach to Sustainability Accounting of Conventional versus Robotic Cardiac Surgery Murat Kucukvar, Orhan Ozguner and Omer Tatari 164 The Role of Building Information Models in Efficient Delivery of Sustainable Healthcare Buildings Kristen Parrish 3:40 - 4:00 BREAK 4:00 - 5:40 MODELING SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS 155 Revisiting the Hidden Costs of Energy Paulina Jaramillo and Nicholas Muller 88 Integration of Life Cycle Assessment, Pollution valuation models, and Benefit Cost Analysis: case study of Monoethanolamine Carbon Capture and Sequestration Ashok Sekar, Eric Williams and Mikhail Chester 138 LCA + RA: A Necessary Nexus Michael Tsang, Troy Hawkins, David Meyer and Wesley Ingwersen EVENING RIVERBOAT CRUISE

TRACK THREE - Thursday, May 16

7:30 - 8:30 BREAKFAST: fruit juice, coffee, danish & bagels. STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING 8:30 - 10:10 DYNAMIC GHGs 123 Integrated Transportation and Land Use Life Cycle Assessment Time-based Greenhouse Gas Impacts Mikhail Chester

69 Revised emissions factors to evaluate alternative transportation fuels against a changing background climate Morgan Edwards and Jessika Trancik 165 Historical land use change emissions: Implications for biofuel carbon accounting Xiaowei Liu, Andres Clarens and James Rhodes 161 An LCA of Orchard Production Systems Using Novel Impact Assessment Methods for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Alissa Kendall, Elias Marvinney and Sonja Brodt 10:10 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:10 SPECIAL LCIA METHODS WEBCAST 53 Using only characterization results in LCA: Are we throwing Granny off the cliff? Lise Laurin 12:10 - 2:00 LUNCHEON AND AWARDS Keynote: Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh 2:00 - 3:40 LCA INNOVATION II 56 Another step toward standardizing Life Cycle Assessment for making product claims: Product Category Rule Guidance Wesley Ingwersen and Vairavan Subramanian 27 More emerging issues for Life Cycle Assessment Data and Databases Joyce Cooper 9 How to fill data gaps in life cycle inventories? A case study on CO2 emissions from coal electricity Zoran Steinmann, Ian Laurenzi, Aranya Venkatesh, Ramkumar Karuppiah and Mark Huijbregts

49 Tools to Support the Widespread Application of Life Cycle Assessment: Development of the Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization Tool and the Improvement of open LCA Troy R. Hawkins, Wesley W. Ingwersen, Michael Srocka, Thomas R. Transue and Andreas Ciroth 3:40 - 4:00 BREAK

8:30 - 10:10 BUILDINGS 47 Results of a national survey regarding whole-building life cycle assessments among the achitecture, engineering, and construction community Maureen A. Olinzock, Christi L. Saunders, Amy E. Landis, Laura A. Schaefer, Alex K. Jones and Melissa M. Bilec

103 Understanding Energy Models Results in the Context of 4:00 - 5:40 LCA INNOVATION I a Buildings Lifetime: Focus on a High Performance Building Christi Saunders, Amy Landis, Laura Schaefer, Alex Jones and Melissa 115 Allocation in LCA as an Ill-Posed Problem: How it can be Bilec used to get your desired result and what can be done about it? Rebecca Hanes, Nathan Cruze, Prem Goel and Bhavik Bakshi 91 Synergistic Scenarios for Indoor Health and Productivity in Whole-Building Life Cycle Assessment 153 The use of regression in streamlined life cycle assessWilliam Collinge, Amy Landis, Alex Jones, Laura Schaefer and Melissa Bilec ment Rebecca Hanes, John Davenport, Bhavik Bakshi and Prem Goel 84 Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment through Materials 10:10 - 10:30 BREAK Classification and Under-specification Lynn Reis, Elsa Olivetti and Randolph Kirchain 10:30 - 12:10 EDUCATION II 125 A general framework for incorporating uncertainty into 2 Reinventing the Modern American University (again) comparative LCA Thomas P Seager Jeremy Gregory, Arash Noshadravan, Elsa Olivetti and Randolph Kirchain 142 Sustainability Awareness and Sustainability Framework A necessary step toward sustainability leadership EVENING RIVERBOAT CRUISE and management Don Sweet and Thomas P. Seager, PhD 133 Spaces of Resonance: Towards a useful framework for the collaborative life of groups engaged in sustainability Alan Bush TRACK ONE - Friday, May 17 159 Reframing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Systems Thinking for Sustainability 7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: oatmeal, cold cereal, yogurt Gregory Luhan, Fazleena Badurdeen, Robert Gregory, Margaret MohrLEADERSHIP & 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING Schroeder, Leslie Vincent and Dusan Sekulic (open to all participants)

Friday

12:10 - 1:30 LUNCH AND CLOSING KEYNOTE Paul Anastas, Yale University

TRACK THREE - Friday, May 17

7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: oatmeal, cold cereal, yogurt LEADERSHIP & 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING (open to all participants) 8:30 - 10:10 MATERIAL SYSTEMS 37 Challenges in sustainability certification of metals Zhe Yuan, Steven Young and Goretty Dias 20 Issues on Energy Sustainability: Consumption, Efficiency, and Environmental Impact Leisha Vance, Tarsha Eason and Heriberto Cabezas 10:10 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:10 TRANSPORT 163 Life cycle water footprint of automobiles: an inventory analysis and caegorization Hyung Chul Kim 21 Automotive transition to sustainable technology mix, a response to CAFE standards Alan Jenn, Christian Blanco, William Chernicoff and Ines Azevedo 63 Conventional, Corn Ethanol, and Electricity Powered Cars: Lessons Learned from Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Research Directions Troy R. Hawkins, Wesley W. Ingwersen, Guillaume Majeau-Bettez, Debalina Sengupta, Bhawna Singh, Raymond Smith, Anders Hammer Stromman and Xiaobo Xue 12:10 - 1:30 LUNCH AND CLOSING KEYNOTE Paul Anastas, Yale University

TRACK TWO - Friday, May 17

7:30-8:30 BREAKFAST: oatmeal, cold cereal, yogurt LEADERSHIP & 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETING (open to all participants) 8:30 - 10:10 EOL 107 An Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of End-ofLife Pathways for Electronics Jennifer Mangold and David Dornfeled 110 A Robust Computational Method to Quantify United States Used Electronics Flows Huabo Duan 19 Closed Loop Manufacturing: Global Status Timothy Gutowski 46 Designing Recycling Separation Systems Robust to Parameter Uncertainty Malima Wolf and Marcello Colledani 24 EOL Product Remanufacturing and reuse economics: consumer-side and producer-side Malima Wolf and Timothy Gutowski 10:10 - 10:30 BREAK 10:30 - 12:10 SPECIAL EDITOR'S ROUNDTABLE 12:10 - 1:30 LUNCH AND CLOSING KEYNOTE Paul Anastas, Yale University