NSF SRS Awardees Conference
June 7 – 8, 2023
2415 Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria, VA 22314
Participation by invitation only.
Agenda
(last updated May 30, 2023. Google Doc version viewable HERE)
Wednesday, June 7
| Start Time | Session | Description & Location | Lead(s) |
| 8:30am | Registration Opens | – Permit 30 minutes to clear NSF security upon 1st entry – Breakfast on own, drinks available. – Poster set-up, load slides. | |
| 9:00am | Welcome & Overview | Call to Order Official NSF Welcome Rules of Conduct Organizing Committee Welcome Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Bruce Hamilton, Rayvon Fouche, Melanie Hughes, Jaishri Srinivasan, Brian Roe, |
| 9:15am | Seeding Reflections | Calling of Witnesses Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Jamie Donatuto |
| 9:25am | Icebreaker & Introducing the Convergence Cafe | Structured networking and discussion of convergence Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Lee Davis, Steffanie Espat |
| 9:45am | Track 1 Update | Transformation Network Room: E2020 (Conference Room B | Mindy Morgan |
| 10:15am | Poster Break | Poster Session 1 & Convergence Cafe Room: C2010 (Conference Room A) | Debankur Sanyal (poster coord.) |
| 10:45am | Track 1 Update | RECIPES Network Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Callie Babbitt |
| 11:15am | Poster Break | Poster Session 2 & Convergence Cafe Room: C2010 (Conference Room A) | Debankur Sanyal (poster coord.) |
| 11:45am | Lunch on own offsite | Click HERE for some suggestions NSF cafeteria closed (but you may bring outside food in and eat in cafeteria area) | |
| 1:15pm | Panel Session | Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion for Convergence Research Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Malini Ranganathan, Monica Cox, Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Kaitlin Meissner, Gabriela Pereyra |
| 2:15pm | Poster Break | Poster Session 3 & Convergence Cafe Room: C2010 (Conference Room A) | Debankur Sanyal (poster coord.) |
| 3:00pm | NSF/NSFC Track Update | PI’s: Grassini, Zhao, McDowel Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Julian Wang (coord.) |
| 3:45pm | Break | ||
| 4:00pm | NSF/NSFC Track Update | PI’s: Shobe, Wang Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Julian Wang (coord.) |
| 4:30pm | Group Activities | – Guided reflection on day – Prompts for Day 2 self-organizing sessions Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Brian Roe, Lee Davis |
| 4:55pm | Closing Instructions | Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Jaishri Srinivasan, Bruce Hamilton |
Thursday, June 8
| Start Time | Session | Description & Location | Lead(s) |
| 8:45am | Room Opens | – Breakfast on own, drinks available. – Poster set-up, load slides. | |
| 9:00am | Welcoming Session | – Overview of the day – Self-organizing session organizing time Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Bruce Hamilton, Brian Roe |
| 9:30am | Parallel Sessions: Track 2 Brief Presentations | (by grant PI name) Room: W2160 (Conference Room) Group 1: Gilligan, Jin, Tuler, Pickett, Fay; Room: W2190 (Conference Room) Group 2: Hamin, Lewis, Sengupta, Erkoc, Overbye | Richard Rushforth (coordinator) |
| 10:30am | Poster Break | Poster Session 4 & Convergence Cafe Room: C2010 (Conference Room A) | Debankur Sanyal |
| 10:45am | Parallel Sessions: Track 2 Brief Presentations | (by grant PI name) Room: W2160 (Conference Room) Group 1: Foo, Tchen, Wooley, Theis, Chang, Donatuto Room: W2190 (Conference Room) Group 2: Barba, Jackson, Heyman, Cross, Nolin | Richard Rushforth (coordinator) |
| 11:45am | Lunch on own offsite – Self-organizing session leads meet in Room E2020 at 12:45 | Click HERE for some suggestions NSF cafeteria closed (but you may bring outside food in and eat in cafeteria area) | |
| 1:15pm | Parallel Self-organizing Sessions: | Community Engagement and Co-Creation – Elicia Ratajczyk Metrics of Convergence and Transformation – Jeni Cross Convergence Logistics (Time, Best Practices, Tips, Supportive Environments, etc.) – William McDowell Tensions between Justice and Academic and Funding Institutions – Josiah Heyman Perspectives Manuscript on Convergence Challenges – Heejun Chang Building and Navigating Relationships and Inter-Grant/Project Networking – Robin Dillon-Merrill & Convergence Cafe Room: C2010 (Conference Room A) | |
| 2:00pm | Moderated panel: | Sharebacks from self-organizing sessions Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Heejun Chang, Jaishri Srinivasan |
| 2:45pm | Closing Activity | Reflection on convergence Room: E2020 (Conference Room B) | Jamie Donatuto |
| 3:15pm | Adjourn |
Poster Sessions
(Posters should be 30” x 40” in order to work with the easel and backing boards provided in the conference room. Either portrait or landscape orientation work.)
DAy 1, Session 1 (Wednesday, June 7 | 10:15am)
- Mallory: Transformation Network
- Gilligan: Connecting Rural and Urban Environments for Equitable Access to Transportation, Telecommunications and Energy (CREEATTE)
- Lewis: Hybrid Water Infrastructure and Regional Sustainability – Planning a Convergence Science Approach in Greater New Orleans
- Sengupta: Integrated Food, Energy, Water Units for Disaster Resilient Sustainable Regional Systems
- Wooley: Reimagining the Chemical Heartland: Closing the loop on the oil-plastics-recycling nexus to forge a resilient circular economy
- Theis: Convergent Innovations in Regional CirCULAR Economies (CIRCULAR)
DAy 1, Session 2 (Wednesday, June 7 | 11:15am)
- Babbitt: RECIPES Network
- Fay: Integrating Land and Sea: Building Coastal Resilience and Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Urban-Rural Systems
- Cross: Planning for a Network to Address Pressures, Responses and Sustainability Intersections across a Growing, Innovative, and Dry State
- Tuler: Land Use in Regional Sustainability Transitions: Establishing a Network of Research and Practice to Support Governance in Linked Urban and Rural Systems of Massachusetts
- Barba: Regional Transition to Sustainability Beginning with Food and Water
- Jackson: Sustainable and Equitable Urban Stream Corridors: Improving aesthetic, social, water quality, and ecological values of urban watersheds to achieve downstream rural benefits
DAy 1, Session 3 (Wednesday, June 7 | 2:15pm)
- Foo: To be truly regenerative, we must be reparative: a BIPOC agenda for regional sustainable systems
- Nolin: Nevada Water: A Science-With-Society Research and Education Network
- Heyman: Shared destinies: Hydro-social infrastructures for community involvement and sustainability in fragmented border regions
- Hamin: Preparing for Just and Sustainable Climate Migration
- Erkoc: Planning Grant: Integrated and Convergent Sea Level Adaptation for Urban and Rural Systems in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Regions
- Pickett: The Continuum of Urbanity as an Organizing Concept to Promote Sustainability in the Mid-Hudson Region
- Tchen: Aligning upstream and downstream: increasing equity in watershed management with and for underrepresented communities
DAy 2, Session 4 (Thursday, June 8 | 10:30Am)
- Jin: People-Centric Integrated Assessment Model for Regional Sustainability (PIAMRS): Focusing on the Central Appalachian Region
- Chang: MACRO-SETS: Microplastics Across the Columbia River basin to the Ocean – Social-Ecological-Technological System
- Overbye: Sustainable Transportation Electrification for an Equitable and Resilient Society (STEERS)
- Zhao: Infrastructure-Driven Decision Making for Sustainable & Equitable Urban –Rural Development
- Shobe: Shobe Regionalized Integrated Assessment Modeling of Carbon Dioxideremoval Pathways in USA and China
Track 2 Presentation Instructions
The schedule for update presentations from each Track 2 awardee is tight! We have 21 presenters scheduled for two hour-long concurrent sessions (four sessions in total) at 9:30-10:30 and 10:45-11:45 on Thursday (6/8).
- Please prepare 4 slides. One possibility: 1) Bio Slide, 2) Overview of Proposed SRS-RN; 3) Convergence Research Approach; and 4) Approach to Capacity Building/Goals of the Track 2 project, but feel free to do what works best for your project.
Given the tight timelines, each speaker will have 10 minutes inclusive of the presentation and questions
- Prepare to present for 6-8 minutes to allow time for questions.
- This format will allow time for a group discussion after everyone has presented.
- There is one group with 6 presenters (Foo, Tchen, Wooley, Theis, Chang & Donatuto), so unfortunately that group will not have time for an open discussion.
We have a small organizing group, so we are asking each Track 2 concurrent session to self-moderate.
- In practice, what this means is that if your project’s PI is listed last on the program for your Track 2 concurrent session you will be asked to moderate the session to ensure timeliness
- Moderators will be from projects with PI’s: Fay, Overbye, Donatuto & Nolin
Conference Planning Committee Members
- Heejun Chang – Portland State University
- Lee Davis – Maryland Institute College of Art
- Jamie Donatuto – Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
- Steffanie Espat – Maryland Institute College of Art
- Brian E. Roe – Ohio State University (co-chair)
- Richard Rushforth – Northern Arizona University
- Debankur Sanyal – University of Arizona
- Jaishri Srinivasan – University of New Mexico (co-chair)
- Camille Stevens-Rumann – Colorado State University
- Julian Wang – Pennsylvania State University
- Bruce Hamilton – National Science Foundation
- Melanie Hughes – National Science Foundation
- Ashley Pierce – National Science Foundation
- Brandi Schottel – National Science Foundation
Invitation Letter
If you require an invitation letter to justify travel to your institution/organization, please look for an attachment to a March 10, 2023 email sent to each PI. The content of that letter is duplicated here.
Building Entry Notes
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