2023 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

The Joint Global Change Research Institute's annual Global Change Analysis Modeling (GCAM) Annual Meeting was June 6-8, 2023. The 2023 GCAM Annual Meeting was held virtually and aimed to offer interactive workshops and virtual poster sessions showcasing the latest advancements in the Global Change Analysis Model. 

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Day 1, Session 1

MSD Overview and GCAM Introduction (Moderator: Jae Edmonds, JGCRI/PNNL)

• Welcome - Jae Edmonds/JGCRI/PNNL
• DOE Office of Science - EESSD - Gerald Geernaert/DOE
• DOE Office of Science - MSD - Bob Vallario/DOE
• MSD Community of Practice - Chris Vernon/PNNL
• GCAM + GCIMS Overview - Marshall Wise/JGCRI/PNNL

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Day 1, Session 2

MSD Methods and Applications (Moderator: Abigail Snyder, JGCRI/PNNL)

• Scenario Discovery and Large Ensemble Analyses using GCAM - Jonathan Lamontagne/
  Tufts University
• A New Scenario Framework for the Multi-Sector Dynamics and Related Communities - Brian O’Neill/
  JGCRI/PNNL
• STITCHES: Emulating Climate Models’ Output to Represent Climate Impacts in Integrated Modeling Frameworks - Claudia Tebaldi/
  JGCRI/PNNL

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Day 1, Session 3

MSD Fields of Study (Moderator: Neal Graham, JGCRI/PNNL)

• Regional Teleconnections Research in the Context of Multisector Dynamics - Gokul Iyer/JGCRI/PNNL
• Water Resources and Global Change: Advances from the GCIMS WaterVerse - Thomas Wild/JGCRI/PNNL
• FY23 Updates to the MSD-LIVE Data and Computational Platform - Casey Burleyson/PNNL
• Day 1 Close - Jae Edmonds/JGCRI/PNNL

Day 1 Session 3

 

Day 2, Session 2

GCAM Model Release (Moderator: Marshall Wise, JGCRI/PNNL)

• Welcome - Jae Edmonds/JGCRI/PNNL
• GCAM 7.0 Release Updates - Pralit Patel/JGCRI/PNNL
• Modeling Natural Gas Trade in GCAM - Matthew Binsted/JGCRI/PNNL
• Using the Global Change Analysis Model to Explore Distributional Impacts in the Residential Energy and Food Sectors - Stephanie Waldhoff/JGCRI/PNNL
• Agriculture and Land Use Updates: Bridging the Gap Between Land and Food - Xin Zhao/JGCRI/PNNL

Day 2 Session 2

Day 2, Session 3

GCIMS Modeling Capabilities (Moderator: Chris Vernon, PNNL)

• GCIMS Tools & Integration - Zarrar Khan/JGCRI/PNNL
• Hector V3 - Kalyn Dorheim/JGCRI/PNNL
• Demeter: An Overview of the Model and its Current Applications - Kanishka Narayan/JGCRI/PNNL

Day 2 Session 3

Day 2 Poster Sessions

Morning Poster Presentations

• AFM Kamal Chowdhury, University of Maryland: The Implications of Global Techno-economic Change for Future Hydropower Expansion in Eco-sensitive River Basins
• Brinda Yarlagadda, JGCRI: Bilateral Trade of Deforestation-linked Oil Crops in GCAM
• Cam Wejnert-Depue, JGCRI: A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Residential Energy Security Metrics in GCAM
• Claudia Rodes, Basque Centre For Climate Change: gcamreport: An R Tool to Process and Standardize GCAM Outputs
• Dan Loughlin, EPA: GLIMPSE for GCAM Users
• Di Sheng, JGCRI: The Key Role of the Labor Market in Assessing Future Climate Impact on Global Agriculture
• Diego Chiappori, University of Alberta: GCAM-Canada's Journey to Net-Zero: Assessing Policy Strategies for 2050
• Isaac Thompson, JGCRI: Tethys: A Spatiotemporal Downscaling Model for Global Water Demand
• Jacob Wessel, Tufts University: Large Ensemble Scenario Discovery Exploration of NDC-driven Global Energy System Uncertainties to Inform Climate Policy in Latin America
• Jon Sampedro, Basque Centre For Climate Change: Residential Energy Demand, Emissions, and Expenditures at Regional and Income-decile Level for Alternative Futures
• Kelly Casper, JGCRI: Representing Agricultural Energy Use in GCAM
• Kwangnam Ryu, KAIST: GCAM-KAIST-based Assessment of the Role of BEV and FCEV in the Decarbonization Pathway of Korea’s Road Transportation
• Leeya Pressburger, JGCRI: Modeling Net Zero Pathways in Southeast Asia
• Meng Luo, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Uncertain Spatio-temporal Pattern of Future Land Use and Land Cover Change and Its Impacts on Terrestrial Carbon Cycle over the Artic-Boreal Region of North America
• Silvia Santos Da Silva, George Mason University: Lessons Learned from a Multi-Country GCAM Breakout Exercise for Scenario Analysis of Energy-Water-Land-Climate Nexus Challenges
• Simone Speizer, JGCRI: Incorporating Food Processing Energy Use into GCAM
• Srishti Vishwakarma, JGCRI: A Transferable Machine Learning Model to Assess Climate Impacts on Crop Yield
• Stephanie Waldhoff, JGCRI: Implications of the Evolution of Income Distribution on Food Access
• Taryn Waite, JGCRI: Representing Fugitive CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel Production in GCAM
• Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Council On Energy, Environment and Water: Application of Energy Modeling to Inform State-level Climate Policy and Action
• Yang Liu, Tsinghua University: Role of Climate Goals and Clean-air Policies on Reducing Future Air Pollution Deaths in China: a modeling study
• Yang Ou, JGCRI: State-level Energy-water-land Implications of the US Net-zero Goal
• Yang Qiu, JGCRI: Unveiling the Impacts of Mineral Supply Shortage on the Global Power System
• Ying Zhang, JGCRI: Incorporating Irrigation Energy Consumption by Fuel in GCAM
• Yuanqi Hong, University of Houston: SCS-PDM+ MODEL: A New Daily Runoff Generation Model for Xanthos

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Afternoon Poster Presentations

• Brian Hutchinson, Western Washington University: Emulating GCAM with Deep Learning
• Dirk-Jan Van der Ven, Basque Centre For Climate Change: “Current Policies” scenario: Implementation in GCAM and open community effort
• Franklyn Kanyako, Tufts University: Compounding Uncertainties in Socioeconomic Drivers Result in Increased Tail Risk for Most Sectors in a Multisectoral Model
• Guta Abeshu, University of Houston: Xanthos-Lake: A Global Lake Modeling Scheme for Xanthos
• Hamza Ahsan, JGCRI: Osiris: An R Package to Process Climate Impacts on Agricultural Yields for GCAM
• Hassan Niazi, JGCRI: GCAM Base Year Update to 2019 & Beyond
• Ian Pimenta, JGCRI: Enhancing GCAM-USA Modelling Capabilities: Detailed Industry Breakout
• Jay Fuhrman, JGCRI: Improving Carbon Management Technology Representation in GCAM
• Jennifer Morris, MIT: Application of Scenario Discovery Techniques to Probabilistic Ensembles in Exploration of Energy Futures
• Kowan O'Keefe, Center for Global Sustainability: Integrated Assessment of US Net-zero Emissions Pathway
• Marcus Perry, JGCRI: Rmoirai: Porting a Land Data System to R
• Maridee Weber, JGCRI: Modeling Terrestrial Soil Carbon Sequestration Technologies in GCAM
• Mengqi Zhao, PNNL: Representing Reservoir Storage in GCAM
• Molly Charles, JGCRI: Pulp and Paper Industry Transitions in a Net-Zero Future
• Nazar Kholod, JGCRI: Informing Reconstruction and Decarbonization in Ukraine: Results from Intermodel Comparison Study
• Neal Graham, JGCRI: Agricultural Market Integration Preserves Future Global Water Resources
• Osama Younis, University of Alberta: Exploring Future Pathways of Sectoral Water Use in Canada at a Subnational Scale using GCAM-Canada
• Paul Wolfram, JGCRI: Hydrogen can Disproportionately Reduce Costs of Climate Change Mitigation
• Puneet Kamboj, KAPSARC: Long-term Decarbonization Pathway for Saudi Arabia to Reach Net-zero GHG Emissions by 2060
• Rachel Hoesly, JGCRI: Recent Global Emission Trends and the Application of CEDS in GCAM
• Sarah Simm, EPA: Improving Air Quality and Meeting Climate Goals Simultaneously
• Sonya Rauschenbach, UC Davis: A Statistical Emulator of Terrestrial Ecosystem Model to Represent Forest Productivity in GCAM
• Wade Fritzeen, University of Virginia: An Integrated Assessment of the Leading Paths for Decarbonizing the Petrochemicals Sector
• Wei Peng, Penn State University: Effects of Decarbonization Efforts on Future Air Pollution Disparities across the U.S.
• Xin Zhao, JGCRI: Compiling Food Balance Sheet (FBS) using FAO Supply Utilization Accounting (SUA) Data to Improve Food System Modeling

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Day 3

GCAM & GCIMS Tools Training

Link to Training Sessions from the 2023 Annual Meeting

 

2022 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

This meeting was held virtually June 7-9, 2022. View materials on the Global Change Intersectoral Modeling System (GCIMS) website.

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2021 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

This meeting was held virtually July 13, 2021. View materials on the GCIMS website.

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2019 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

This meeting was held November 5-7, 2019, at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. View archived registration and venue information for the 2019 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting. View the agenda.

Day 1 – Tuesday November 5, 2019

MultiSector Dynamics Across Scales (Moderator: Stephanie Waldhoff, PNNL/JGCRI)

• The inherent costs and uncertainties of water scarcity in a changing world; Robert Link (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Separating planting and harvesting decisions in GCAM; Xin Zhao (PNNL/JGCRI)
• US electric sector separating investment and dispatch; Zarrar Khan (PNNL/JGCRI)
• New methods for modeling international trade in GCAM; Marshall Wise (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Weather impacts on irrigated vs rainfed agriculture in the US; Abigail Snyder (PNNL/JGCRI) – unavailable
• Future changes in the trading of virtual water; Neal Graham (PNNL/JGCR)

Earth System Emulation (Moderator: Corinne Hartin, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Calibrating Hector, a simple climate model; Kalyn Dorheim (PNNL/JGCRI)
• High latitude climate feedbacks and impacts in Hector; Alexey Shiklomanov (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Global to local sea-level rise uncertainty using Hector-Brick; Ben Vega-Westhoff (UIUC)
• Identifying and emulating hazard metrics; Claudia Tebaldi (PNNL/JGCRI)

GCAM-USA and Other Regional Modeling (Moderator: Gokul Iyer, PNNL/JGCRI)

• GCAM-USA and Regional Modeling: What’s new and where we’re headed; Gokul Iyer (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Applications of GCAM-USA in the Integrated Multi-sector Multi-Scale Modeling (IM3) Project; Casey Burleyson (PNNL)
• GCAM modeling of endogenous hydropower capacity expansion in Canada; Matthew Binsted (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Examining regional differences in the air pollutant emission impacts of electric vehicles using GCAM-USA; Dan Loughlin (EPA)
• Sub-national modeling and scenario development; Sha Yu and Leon Clarke (PNNL/JGCRI – UMD)

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Day 2 – Wednesday November 6, 2019

What’s New in GCAM v. 5.2 (Moderator: Kate Calvin, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Overview of GCAM 5.2; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Regional Ag Markets; Marshall Wise (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5.2)
• Resource Reserve; Pralit Patel (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5.2)
• Water Markets; Sonny Kim (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5.2)
• Updated GCAM-USA; Gokul Iyer (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5.2)
• Bug Fixes; Pralit Patel (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5.2)

The GCAM Ecosystem (Moderator: Chris Vernon, PNNL)

• The GCAM Ecosystem – Status and Future Directions; Chris Vernon (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Advancements: Fldgen; Robert Link (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Advancements: Demeter; Min Chen (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Advancements: Xanthos; Chris Vernon (PNNL/JGCRI)
• New Development: Metis; Zarrar Khan (PNNL/JGCRI)

GCAM Overview – Combined Presentations

• Economy
• Energy
• Land
• Modeling Policies Trade
• Emissions
• Earth System Water

Afternoon Parallel Sessions

• GCAM Tutorial (Updated for 2019)

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2018 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

This meeting was held October 16-18, 2018, at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. View archived registration and venue information for the 2018 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting. View the agenda.

Day 1 – Tuesday October 16, 2018

GCAM-USA and USA Modeling (Moderator: Sha Yu, PNNL/JGCRI)

• GCAM Regional Modeling Context; Sha Yu (PNNL/JGCRI)
• GCAM-USA Overview; Gokul Iyer (PNNL/JGCRI)
• US electric sector separating investment and dispatch; Pralit Patel (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Interconnection Cost Implications of Future Electricity Capacity Expansion in the USA: A Multi-sector Approach; Chris Vernon (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Aggregate Building Energy Demand Simulations: Trees vs. Forests; Casey Burleyson (PNNL)
• Future US Air quality and health using GCAM-USA; Dan Loughlin (EPA)
• Evaluating long-term scenarios of the US energy system; Matthew Binsted (PNNL/JGCRI)
• A Framework for scenarios of sub-national, multi-sector dynamics; Gokul Iyer (PNNL/JGCRI)

Model Coupling and Emulation (Moderator: Stephanie Waldhoff, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Emulation of both global means and variability from ESMs; Robert Link (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Hector, sea-level rise and probability; Ben Vega-Westhoff and Ryan Sriver (UIUC)
• Coupling GCAM to a high resolution Earth System Model; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)

Land and Water Interactions (Moderator: Mohamad Hejazi, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Case studies of the water-energy-food nexus in Latin America; Tom Wild (UMD)
• Multiple breadbasket failures; Tony Janetos (BU)
• Domestic and International Implications of Future Climate for the Value of U.S. Agriculture; Abigail Synder (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Climate Change Impacts on Global and Regional Water across the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways; Neal Graham (UMD)

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Day 2 – Wednesday October 17, 2018

What’s New in GCAM v. 5

• Overview of GCAM 5; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Land Use and Land Cover – Moirai; Alan Di Vittorio (LBNL)
• Water Demand; Page Kyle (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5)
• Endogenous Agricultural Management; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5)
• Hector Updates; Ben Bond-Lamberty (PNNL/JGCRI)
• SSP Scenario Implementation; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5)
• The GCAMdata system; Ben Bond-Lamberty (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Computational Improvements; Pralit Patel (PNNL/JGCRI) (See Overview of GCAM 5)

The GCAM Ecosystem

• Overview of the GCAM Ecosystem; Chris Vernon (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Water: Xanthos, Tethys; Sean Turner (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Land: Demeter; Min Chen (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Land: Persephone; Abigail Snyder (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Visualization: GCAM Dashboard; Caleb Braun (PNNL/JGCRI)

GCAM Overview – Combined Presentations

• Economy
• Energy
• Land
• Modeling Policies Trade
• Emissions
• Earth System Water

Afternoon Parallel Sessions

• GCAM Tutorial (Updated for 2018)

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2017 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

This meeting was held November 7-9, 2017, at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. View archived registration and venue information for the 2017 GCAM Community Modeling Meeting. View the agenda.

Day 1 – Tuesday November 7, 2017

Collaborative GCAM Research, Recent Development, and Future Work Energy Water Nexus (Moderator: Mohamad Hejazi, PNNL/JGCRI)

• GCAM Applications: The E-W-L Nexus in LAC & MENA; Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm (UMD/ESSIC/JGCRI)
• Xanthos: an extensible global hydrology model; Chris Vernon (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Exploring implications of global groundwater depletion with GCAM; Sean Turner (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Implications of water constraints for electricity capacity expansion in the US; Lu Liu (PNNL/JGCRI)

Earth System Modeling (Moderator: Corinne Hartin, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Hector enhancements: New energy balance and sea-level rise components and their Bayesian calibration; Ben Vega-Westhoff (UIUC) – unavailable
• Creation of synthetic surface temperature ensembles for incorporating variability within GCAM; Corinne Hartin (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Highlighting recent development of HDD/CDD feedbacks; Russell Horowitz (PNNL/JGCRI)

Land and Economics (Moderator: Kate Calvin, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Agricultural response functions to changes in carbon, temperature, and water; Abigail Synder (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Downscaling terrestrial products for use in GCAM; Min Chen (PNNL/JGCRI) – unavailable
• Development of the new food demand function; Robert Link (PNNL/JGCRI)
• New cutting edge research; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)

Regional Modeling (Moderator: Marshall Wise, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Exploring harmonization between integrated assessment and capacity expansion models; Stuart Cohen (NREL) – unavailable
• Natural Gas Infrastructure Development in the United States; Sauleh Siddiqui (Johns Hopkins) – unavailable
• Projecting state-level air pollutant emissions using GCAM-USA; Dan Loughlin (US-EPA)
• Recent developments with GCAM – China; Jill Horing (PNNL/JGCRI)

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Day 2 – Wednesday November 8, 2017

Overview of GCAM v. 4.4

Overview Part I and II – Combined Presentations

• Introduction to GCAM; Leon Clarke (PNNL/JGCRI/UMD)
• Economy; Stephanie Waldhoff (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Energy; Page Kyle and Marshall Wise (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Land; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Modeling Policies; Haewon McJeon (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Trade; Marshall Wise (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Emissions; Steve Smith (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Earth System; Corinne Hartin (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Updates Since the Last Release; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)

Overview Part III

• Community Resources; Robert Link (PNNL/JGCRI)
• GCAM Visualization; Ross Maciejewski (ASU)
• The data system rewrite (DSR); Ben Bond-Lamberty (PNNL/JGCRI)

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Day 3 – Thursday November 9, 2017

Community Modeling Meeting

• GCAM Tutorial (Updated for 2017)

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2016 JGCRI Integrated Assessment Technical Workshop

This meeting was held October 11-14, 2016. View archived registration and venue information for the 2016 JGCRI Annual Integrated Assessment Workshop and GCAM Community Modeling Meeting. View the agenda.

Day 1 – Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Integrated Assessment Past and Future: Celebrating 15 Years of Integrated Assessment at JGCRI (Moderator: Ghassem Asrar, PNNL/JGCRI)

• The Future of Integrated Assessment Research: Perspective; John Weyant (Stanford University)
• The Future of Integrated Assessment Research: Perspective; Keywan Riahi (IIASA)

Modeling Energy-Water-Land Interactions (Moderator: Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, UMD/ESSIC/JGCRI)

• Innovations in Energy-Water-Land Modeling at JGCRI; Mohamad Hejazi (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Insights on the Energy-Water Nexus from Modeling of the Integrated Water Cycle at Regional Scale; Ruby Leung (PNNL)

Climate Impacts on Agriculture (Moderator: Leon Clarke, PNNL/JGCRI/UMD)

• Lessons for Integrated Assessment from AgMIP; Alex Ruane (NASA GISS)
• Incorporating Agricultural impacts in Integrated Assessment Models; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI) – unavailable

Climate Emulation in Integrated Assessment (Moderator: Kate Calvin, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Creating Higher Resolution Climate Information for Integrated Assessment Modeling; Claudia Tebaldi (NCAR)
• Climate modeling for Integrated Assessment: the IGSM; Erwan Monier (MIT)
• Climate Emulation for IA Models; Corinne Hartin (PNNL/JGCRI)

Poster Presenters for the JGCRI Annual Meeting 2016

• Valuing Offshore Wind Energy; Zana Cranmer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Historical Emissions and Uncertainty: The Community Emissions Data System (CEDS); Rachel Hoesly (JGCRI)
• A flexible spatial gridding system for emissions — An implementation for CEDS and CMIP6; Leyang Feng (JGCRI)
• Power Sector Modeling and the Presentation of Marginal Abatement Cost; Minho Baek (Ajou University)
• Assessing the Carbon Abatement Potential of Green Technologies in Transportation Sector using GCAM; Zulfikar Yurnaidi (Ajou University)
• Development of emission scenarios for climate stabilization considering mitigation of non-CO2 GHGs; Diego Silva (JAMSTEC)
• Russia’s black carbon emissions from diesel sources and beyond; Nazar Kholod (JGCRI)
• Coal Mine Methane; Volha Roshchanka (JGCRI)
• Modeling of natural gas infrastructure development in North America; Felipe Feijoo (JGCRI)
• Uncertainty in climate change due to short-lived climate forcers; Cecilia Moura (JGCRI)
• CMIP5 Temperature and Precipitation Patterns; Cary Lynch (JGCRI)
• Growth and Energy Savings Potential of the Indian Buildings Sector; Qing Tan (JGCRI)
• Evaluating the Impacts of Food and Fuel from Algae; Michael Walsh (Bentley University)
• Projecting the contribution of future agricultural trends in the US Midwest to global climate change mitigation by linking an agroecosystem model with GCAM JGCRI; Xuesong Zhang (JGCRI)
• Risks to food availability and access from climate policies : An integrated assessment of regional food availability and access along alternative climate mitigation strategies to 2050; Ryna Cui (JGCRI)
• Global Assessment of Exploitable Surface Reservoir Storage under Climate Change; Lu Liu (JGCRI)
• The Implications of Paris Project; Jae Edmonds (JGCRI)
• Are Nationally Determined Contributions on track toward deep decarbonization; Catherine Ledna (JGCRI)

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Day 2 – Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Implications of Paris (Moderator: Haewon McJeon, PNNL/JGCRI)

• Overview of the Paris Process; Nathan Hultman (UMD/CGS/JGCRI)
• The Paris Process and the Role of Integrated Assessment; Jae Edmonds (PNNL/JGCRI/UMD)
• NDC Implementation in Latin America; Adrien Vogt-Schilb (Inter-American Development Bank)
• Road from Paris – DOE’s International Implementation Efforts; Christie Ulman (US DOE) – unavailable
• Modeling a U.S. Mid-Century Strategy; Allen Fawcett (US EPA) – unavailable
• Global Lessons from the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project; Jim Williams (DDPP)

Energy-Water-Land Interactions, Sustainable Development, and Climate Mitigation (Moderator: Mohamad Hejazi, PNNL/JGCRI/ESSIC)

• Operationalizing the Nexus in Support of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation; Steve Schonberger (World Bank) – unavailable
• Energy-Water-Land: Perspectives on Latin America, China, Africa; Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm (UMD/ESSIC/JGCRI)
• Electricity and Water Interactions in the United States; Mort Webster (Penn State University)
• Global Energy for Water; Yaling Liu (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Estimating Global Groundwater Resources; Catherine Yonkofski (PNNL)
• Energy-Water Research under the U.S-India Sustainable Growth Working Group; Leon Clarke (PNNL/JGCRI/UMD)

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Day 3 – Thursday, October 13, 2016 – GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

Activities on Scenarios and Uncertainty in GCAM

• The GCAM SSP Implementations; Kate Calvin (PNNL/JGCRI)
• Uncertainty and the SSPs: Large Ensemble Explorations; Jon Lamontagne (Cornell University) – unavailable
• Uncertainty Analysis with Hector; Ryan Sriver (University of Illinois)

Activities on Regional Modeling in GCAM

• GCAM-China; Sha Yu (PNNL/JGCRI)
• GCAM-USA; Gokul Iyer (PNNL/JGCRI)

Activities on Visualization and Tools for Running GCAM

• A New GCAM Workflow Process; Rich Plevin (UC Berkeley)
• Visualization and Diagnostics with GCAM; Ross Maciejewski (Arizona State University)
• User Interface Activities at US EPA; Dan Loughlin (US EPA)

Overview of GCAM

• Overview; GCAM Team
• New Directions in GCAM Development; GCAM Team

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Day 4 – Friday, October 14, 2016

GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

• GCAM Tutorial – unchanged from 2015

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2015 JGCRI Integrated Assessment Technical Workshop

This meeting was held December 1-4, 2019. View archived registration and venue information for the 2015 Annual Integrated Assessment Workshop and GCAM Community Modeling Meeting. View the agenda.

Day 1 – Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Future Directions in Integrated Assessment Modeling: (Chair: Leon Clarke)

• The Perspective from DOE’s Integrated Assessment Research Program; Bob Vallario (DOE-Office of Science)

Climate Impacts on Bioenergy and Agriculture (Chair: Kate Calvin)

• Lessons from the Agricultural Model Intercomparison Project (AgMIP); Dominique van der Mensbrugghe (Purdue and GTAP)
• Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change: Site- and Grid-based assessments of Core Biophysical Responses; Alex Ruane (NASA-GISS)

Multi-Model Approaches to Energy-Water-Land Linkages

• Integrated Multi-sector, Multi-scale modeling; Ian Kraucunas (PNNL-Richland)
• Linking IA Models and ESMs; Katherine Calvin (PNNL-JGCRI)

Analyzing Water from an Integrated Perspective

• Integrated Assessment of Water in the GCAM Framework; Mohamad Hejazi (PNNL-JGCRI)
• Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Hydropower in Brazil; Andre Lucena (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
• Quantification of Interdependencies and Vulnerabilities Between Water and Energy in the Western Interconnection; Nathalie Voisin (PNNL-Richland)

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Day 2 – Wednesday, December 2, 2015 

New Developments in the Global Change Assessment Model

• Introduction; Leon Clarke (PNNL-JGCRI)
• Overview of Recent Developments in GCAM; Robert Link (PNNL-JGCRI)
• Exploring GCAM Simulation Results in a Visual Analytics; Ross Maciejewski (ASU)
• Modeling U.S. Air Pollutant Emissions and Controls in GCAM-USA; Dan Loughlin (US EPA)

Understanding the Current Climate Discussions

The Judgement of Paris 2015 – Includes the following:

• Understanding the U.S. climate pledges; Allen Fawcett (US EPA)
• Understanding the international climate pledges; Haewon McJeon (PNNL-JGCRI)
• Implications of the INDCs for Long-Term Climate Mitigation Panel Discussion; Jae Edmonds (PNNL-JGCRI)

Accelerating Technology Deployment

• Accelerating International Technology Deployment; Meredydd Evans (PNNL-JGCRI)
• Climate change mitigation: perspectives on effective deployment in China; Vance Wagner (U.S. Department of State)
• Strategies for Effective Deployment of Clean Energy; Ira Birnbaum

Technology, Resources, and Climate

• Finding common ground when experts and models disagree: Belief dominance and Climate Change R&D Policy; Erin Baker (UMass Amherst)
• Implications of the uncertainty of energy resources on CO2 emission pathways; Iñigo Capellán-Pérez (University of Basque Country)
• The Natural Gas Bridge for U.S. Climate Mitigation; Andy Jones (LBNL) – unavailable
• Pathways for CCS Deployment; Matteo Muratori (PNNL-JGCRI) – unavailable

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Day 3 – Thursday, December 3, 2015 

Research Activities in the GCAM Community

• New tools for Monte Carlo analysis; Rich Plevin (UC Davis)
• Uncertainty in Land Resource Projection Associated with Static Geographic Land Units in an Integrated Assessment Model; Alan Di Vittorio (LBNL)
• Impacts of Energy Prices on the Competitiveness of Bio-based Products to 2050 Using GCAM; Pierre-Alain Schieb (NEOMA Business School)

Overview of GCAM – Combined Presentation

• Introduction; Leon Clarke
• Overview of GCAM; Katherine Calvin
• Energy Supply; Marshall Wise
• Energy Demand; G. Page Kyle
• AgLU; Katherine Calvin
• Emissions; Katherine Calvin
• Climate; Corinne Hartin
• Trade, Solution, FAQs; Pralit Patel

Future GCAM Development Directions

• Overview of Future GCAM Directions
• Discussion of Future GCAM Development Directions

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Day 4 – Friday, December 4, 2015

• GCAM Tutorial

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2014 JGCRI Integrated Assessment Technical Workshop

Held October 20-23, 2014, the 2014 JGCRI Combined Integrated Assessment Technical Workshop covered ongoing, cutting edge research in integrated assessment modeling from researchers at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Sessions of the GCAM Community Modeling Meeting covered the current status of GCAM, future development directions, a tutorial on using GCAM, and user training. View archived registration and venue information. View the agenda.

The JGCRI Integrated Assessment Technical Workshop

Day 1 – Monday, October 20, 2014

• The evolution of integrated assessment modeling and research: past and future; Leon Clarke (JGCRI)

Energy and Climate Change

• The implications of abundant natural gas on climate change – a multi-model analysis; Haewon McJeon (JGCRI)
• Bioenergy and climate mitigation — lessons from GCAM modeling; Marshall Wise (JGCRI)
• Climate change and U.S. electricity infrastructure: insights from coupling GCAM with a high-resolution siting model; Jennie Rice (PNNL)
• Renewable energy futures in China: an application of GCAM; Jae Edmonds (JGCRI) for Zhou Sheng (Tsinghua University)

Water and Climate Change

• DOE perspectives on energy-water-land research priorities; Bob Vallario (U.S. DOE) – unavailable
• Modeling water in GCAM: past and future; Mohamad Hejazi (JGCRI)
• Balancing global water supplies and demands: initial experiments in an integrated assessment model; Sonny Kim (JGCRI)
• Modeling regional water stress using a coupled modeling framework with GCAM and regional water system models; Ruby Leung (PNNL)
• Climate change impacts on hydropower generation; Yuyu Zhou (JGCRI) – unavailable

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Day 2 – Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Topics in Climate Impacts

• Modeling climate impacts in GCAM: where are we now and where are we headed? Kate Calvin (JGCRI)
• Climate change and civil conflict – initial results from the Minerva project; Stephanie Waldhoff (JGCRI)
• Heat deaths and climate change in the United States; Elisabeth Gilmore (UMD)
• The effects of land unit boundaries on land use and cover projection; Alan DiVittorio (LBNL)
• The development of new scenarios; Richard Moss (JGCRI)
• The Integrated Earth System Model; Bill Collins (LBNL)
• Hector – a new earth system emulator; Corinne Hartin (JGCRI)

Climate Mitigation Strategies

• Using integrated assessment models for policy analysis: recent U.S. experience; Allen Fawcett (U.S. EPA)
• The challenges of climate stabilization — lessons from IPCC AR5; Leon Clarke (JGCRI)
• Black carbon in Russia – sources and policy effects; Nazar Kholod (JGCRI)
• Near-Term Climate Change: Projections and Mitigation; Steve Smith (JGCRI) – unavailable

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The GCAM Community Modeling Meeting

Day 3 – Wednesday, October 22, 2014

• Welcome and Introduction; Leon Clarke (JGCRI)
• An Overview of GCAM; Kate Calvin (JGCRI)
• Tutorial on Running GCAM; Page Kyle (JGCRI)

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