{"673918":{"#nid":"673918","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hirsch Presents to National Academies Workshop","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scre.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003ECenter for Sustainable Communities Research and Education\u003C\/a\u003E (SCoRE) senior director, Jennifer Hirsch, presented a paper to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop, Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two-day workshop was organized by the National Academies\u2019 divisions of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Boards on Environmental Change and Society and Energy and Environmental Systems. The workshop sought to \u201clay the foundation for a national interdisciplinary social sciences research program to support an efficient and equitable clean energy transition in the industrial sector.\u201d Sponsors included the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. It built on the National Academies 2023 publication, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/our-work\/accelerating-decarbonization-in-the-united-states-technology-policy-and-societal-dimensions\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHirsch\u2019s paper, \u201cThe Crucial Role of Just Process for Equitable Industrial Decarbonization: An Action Research Agenda for Carbon Management and Other Emerging Technologies,\u201d was one of four commissioned by the National Academies. Lead author Hirsch collaborated with five co-authors from across the country. Workshop proceedings will be published in early summer, 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe and four of her co-authors serve as Community Benefit Plan (CBP) leads on Direct Air Capture Hub or CarbonSafe projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, and Hirsch and SCoRE are the CBP leads for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sseb.org\/sseb-and-partners-to-establish-southeast-direct-air-capture-hub\/\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003ESoutheast Direct Air Capture Hub\u003C\/a\u003E, led by the Southern States Energy Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESCoRE is a new center at Georgia Tech that grew out of the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain. Established in August 2023 within the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS), its mission is to engage faculty, students, and staff in long-term, strategic research and education collaborations with community partners, focusing on sustainability in the Atlanta region, the state of Georgia, and the Southeast. Its key research partners are the sustainability cluster of IRIs, including BBISS, the Strategic Energy Institute, and the Renewable Bioproducts Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorkshop materials are available on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/41881_02-2024_developing-and-assessing-ideas-for-social-and-behavioral-research-to-speed-efficient-and-equitable-industrial-decarbonization-a-workshop\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003Eworkshop website\u003C\/a\u003E. Hirsch\u2019s paper can be found \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/documents\/embed\/link\/LF2255DA3DD1C41C0A42D3BEF0989ACAECE3053A6A9B\/file\/DF5F159E0D15E4C4589386276C5F167ADB63713FA639?noSaveAs=1\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E and her PowerPoint presentation is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/event\/docs\/D4EB1098CFF9B207749637EFF0F17331E50B7E3DFC30?noSaveAs=1\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. Her recorded presentation can be found within \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vimeo.com\/917982306\u0022 target=\u0022\u201d_blank\u201d\u0022\u003Ethis video\u003C\/a\u003E at time stamp 59:30.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE) senior director, Jennifer Hirsch, presented a paper to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop, Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jennifer Hirsch presented a paper to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop, Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2024-04-02 16:45:34","changed_gmt":"2024-12-12 15:22:25","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673590":{"id":"673590","type":"image","title":"Jennifer Hirsch.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPortrait of Dr. Jennifer Hirsch\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1712076087","gmt_created":"2024-04-02 16:41:27","changed":"1712076087","gmt_changed":"2024-04-02 16:41:27","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Jennifer Hirsch","file":{"fid":"257006","name":"Jennifer Hirsch.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/02\/Jennifer%20Hirsch.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/02\/Jennifer%20Hirsch.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77068,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/02\/Jennifer%20Hirsch.jpg?itok=tpUv3YQ8"}}},"media_ids":["673590"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187577","name":"NASEM"},{"id":"173705","name":"Dr. Jennifer Hirsch"},{"id":"193071","name":"Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education"},{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"},{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Communications Program Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}