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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Hello Everyone, please join us
<b>This Thursday </b>for this week's Enviro-Lunch talk<b> </b>by Professor Marie-Odile Fortier from UC Merced, at 11 am to noon in room
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SE1-298</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">From Bioenergy to Ocean Energy,
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Location Affects the Life Cycle Climate Change Impacts of Emerging Energy Systems</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dr. Marie-Odile Fortier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Merced. From 2015 to 2018, she was an Assistant Professor
at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in the Sustainable Energy Management program. She has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas (2015) and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering
and Sciences from the University of Florida (2010). She was awarded the college-wide 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award at SUNY ESF. Dr. Fortier’s research primarily focuses on modeling and assessing the geographically specific life cycle climate change impacts
of sustainable energy systems, including land use change and albedo change impacts and stochastic considerations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Current work: <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to measure the cradle-to-grave climate change impacts of sustainable energy systems that are planned to replace conventional fossil energy-based systems.
The field of LCA is evolving to incorporate increased geographic specificity by utilizing GIS and satellite data and conducting site-specific analyses, which has led to important conclusions for bioenergy and renewable energy systems. Dr. Fortier will cover
her past and ongoing research on the integration of geographic data at different scales in LCAs of various energy systems, from algae biofuels to woody biomass energy pathways and ocean energy systems. This evolving field of study aims to improve our understanding
of the sustainability of novel energy systems and to optimize siting of new installations towards a reduction in life cycle climate change impacts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">When: Thursday 11/07, 11am – noon</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Where:
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">SE1-298</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">We look forward to seeing you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Yang, Jennifer and Jing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Organizers for Fall 2019: Yang Yang and Jennifer Alvarez</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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