10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. |
Welcome - John Bolt, Senior Executive Director/Office of Communications |
10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. |
West Virginia water security – implications and opportunities of a changing climate Nic Zegre director, WVU Mountain Hydrology Laboratory |
10:40 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. |
If Trees Could Talk: The Climate History Stored in the Rings of Trees Amy Hessl, professor, Department of Geology and Geography |
11:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. |
Break-opportunity for one-on-one interviews |
11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. |
Geohealth: Thinking Beyond Traditional Water Resources Engineering Antar Jutla, associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
12:10 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. |
Lunch/Keynote: Being an R1 university: What does it mean and how do we stay there? Fred King, vice president for research |
1:10 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. |
Accelerating intellectual property commercialization of clean energy solutions James Wood, interim director, WVU Energy Institute |
1:40 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. |
Break-opportunity for one-on-one interviews |
2:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. |
When the levee breaks and other tales of public health in a changing climate Robert Duval, professor, School of Public Health |
2:40 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. |
The Clean Air Act and climate change leave their fingerprints on forest health in West Virginia Richard Thomas, professor and chair, Department of Biology |
3:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. |
Break-opportunity for one-on-one interviews |
3:40 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. |
The hidden half: The consequences of climate change on the ability of West Virginia soils to store carbon Edward Brzostek, assistant professor, Department of Biology |
4:10 p.m. - |
Wrap up and adjourn |