Sustainable Transportation Fuels � Challenges and Opportunities for Designing Good Metrics
There is likely no disagreement that "objective and grounded" is a hard standard to meet when designing metrics to measure and characterize a complex socio-political-techno-economic enterprise, such as the future of transportation energy and fuels. Still, an objective, grounded approach that integrates diverse stakeholder viewpoints and facilitates coordination and responsiveness, begs for measures, even if at times they are qualitative rankings, such as low, medium, high, which all parties respect and understand, and yet may disagree on. Webinar #4 will sound out the participants on considerations and challenges for developing valuable frameworks and appropriately using metrics.
An important consideration to keep in mind is that different stakeholder groups typically have different values and beliefs deriving from different perspectives and needs or wants. It is also difficult, in designing metrics, not to subtly favor the results that we want, either from unconscious biases or by not separating the problem from the solution. A holistic systems view will underpin this discussion of metrics with an objective of surfacing where differing perspectives lead to conflicting metrics or conflicting use of the metrics.
Speaker and Presenter Information
Dr. Gary Dirks is the Director of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University and of LightWorks, an ASU initiative that capitalizes on ASU's strengths in solar energy and other light-inspired research. Before joining ASU, Dr. Dirks was the President of BP Asia Pacific and the President of BP China.
Dr. James Hinkley is a Project Leader at CSIRO Energy Technology (CET). Dr Hinkley worked for BHP Research for four years in sintering and mineral processing, six years at Rio Tinto as a process specialist and quality control superintendent in coal preparation plants, and nine years at CSIRO concentrating on solar thermal research. Dr Hinkley's research interests include hydrogen production from thermochemical water splitting cycles, technoeconomic evaluations of the cost and potential for CSP in Australia, and solar and solar fossil hybrid fuels.
Dr. Cheryl Martin is the founder of Harwich Partners and is currently managing a process to assist private technology companies and investor-owned electric utilities to develop new business models and form partnerships for the New York State Energy Development Agency. Previously, she was the Deputy Director for Commercialization for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), a United States Department of Energy initiative.
Dr. Andrew Maynard is a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, and Director of the Risk Innovation Lab - a unique center focused on transforming how we think about and act on risk. Maynard's research and professional activities focus on risk innovation, and the responsible development and use of emerging technologies, including nanotechnology and synthetic biology.
Dr. Eric Miller has worked for over 20 years on alternative energy research. He currently acts as the Hydrogen Production and Delivery Program Manager at the Department of Energy. His career has focused on research in alternative fuels, including work at Bell Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the NASA Lewis Research Center.
Louise Vickery is manager of renewable futures at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. She manages over 170 contracts aimed at improving the competitiveness of renewables through researching, demonstrating and commercializing emerging solar, ocean, geothermal and bio energy and enabling technologies. Louise has represented the Australian Government on IEA working parties and the International Partnership on Energy Efficiency Cooperation, based at the IEA with involvement of China India and Russia.
Relevant Government Agencies
Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Energy, Dept of Transportation, EPA, Coast Guard
Event Type
Webcast
This event has no exhibitor/sponsor opportunities
When
Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
ET
Cost
Complimentary: $ 0.00
Website
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Organizer
Security and Sustainability Forum
Arizona State University
