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Thank you Liem. As another reminder, I also pass on the announcement from the Baker Center that UT Adjunct Faculty member and former member of the GIST group at ORNL, Bandana Kar, is giving a talk on Sustainability, Energy, and Climate at 1PM today. It should be a good day of engaging seminars today! Nicholas ------------------------------ Join us for the next Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum, which will take place on Thursday, February 2, at 1:00 pm in the Toyota Auditorium at the Baker Center. We also have a virtual viewing option at the Zoom meeting link tiny.utk.edu/BandanaKar<https://tiny.utk.edu/BandanaKar> Bandana Kar (AAAS Science, Technology and Policy Fellow) will give a 45-minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. Her talk is titled: Energy Security and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change Abstract: In the U.S., reliable and affordable access to energy is limited due to rising energy prices, aging infrastructures, as well as significant power outages and service disruptions due to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change. Vulnerable communities often face disproportionate impacts of extreme weather events, such as high energy burden, energy insecurity and adverse health effects. There is also no shortage of extreme events. In the past few years, there has been a record number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, record high carbon dioxide level, an increase in number of heatwaves and wildfires, and a record number of billion-dollar weather disasters in the US. Often these events contribute to damages to the energy infrastructures and subsequent power disruptions. These events also underscore the need to improve energy resilience given our dependency on energy for daily activities. This talk will highlight science and policy activities undergoing in the Dept. of Energy to address energy efficiency and resilience. Bio: Bandana Kar is an AAAS Science, Technology and Policy Fellow for Building Decarbonization in the Building Technologies Office, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Dept. of Energy. She is a Geographic Information Scientist who conducts research in energy and community resilience from the perspective of changing built environment and climate. The Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings with a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in environment and energy issues. For more information about the Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum visit the forum’s website: https://bakercenter.utk.edu/research/energy-and-environment/<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbakercenter.utk.edu%2Fresearch%2Fenergy-and-environment%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cnnagle%40utk.edu%7C897d701ea41c47dee43b08db00da2fd8%7C515813d9717d45dd9eca9aa19c09d6f9%7C0%7C0%7C638104709502861623%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=BAkJcREaKympo5aaXgJlUaDrxU5YjtL0erhYsXy3jbI%3D&reserved=0>. Nicholas N Nagle Professor & Head of Geography & Sustainability Faculty Director, Intercollegiate Data Science Minor 304C Burchfiel Geography Building Department of Geography & Sustainability<https://geography.utk.edu> University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville, TN 37996 Phone: 865-974-6035 Schedule an appointment: www.calendly.com/nnagle<http://www.calendly.com/nnagle> On Feb 2, 2023 at 7:57 AM -0500, Tran, Liem <[log in to unmask]>, wrote: Dear all, I hope we all are doing fine during this wet day. As a reminder, we will have the first colloquium of Spring 2023 this afternoon. Details are listed below (as well as in the attached flyer). It will be in the Nursing Education Building (NEB) 302. Thank you very much! UrbanPop: A Spatial Microsimulation Framework for Exploring Demographic Influences on Human Dynamics Speaker: Joe Tuccillo, PhD, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023 | Time: 4:05-5:20 PM Auditorium: Nursing Education Building (NEB) 302 (open to the public) Abstract: Human dynamics models, which address how people live, move, and interact, are critical to promote effective and equitable public service delivery, develop policy interventions, and provide responses to natural and technological hazards at the neighborhood and community scales. The UrbanPop spatial microsimulation framework developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) supports human dynamics modeling by generating high-fidelity representations of individual demographics during the nighttime and daytime using synthetic populations derived from public-use American Community Survey (ACS) data. In this talk, Dr. Tuccillo will provide a survey of research highlights from various applications of UrbanPop, including estimating social vulnerability, understanding healthcare access among underserved populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and assessing environmental justice issues related to urban extreme heat events. Additionally, Dr. Tuccillo will discuss efforts to develop Likeness, a new Python software stack for UrbanPop designed to increase the framework’s reproducibility for a variety of research aims, as well as expand modeling capabilities to real-world transportation networks and building occupancy characteristics. ________________________________________ Liem Tran, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Geography Professor, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education University of Tennessee at Knoxville Tel: 865-974-6034; Fax: 865-974-6025 Email: [log in to unmask] ________________________________________ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To review the archives of CLUBGGY or Join/Leave the list go to: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/clubggy.html