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Date/Time:Thursday, 10 Apr 2014 from 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Location:0013 Curtiss Hall
Cost:Free
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"Life Cycle Assessment: A Tool to Inform Energy Policy," Paul Adler, USDA-ARS.

Abstract
Estimating the carbon intensity of biofuel production pathways is important in order to meet greenhouse gas targets set by government policy. Life cycle assessment methods have been used to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions associated with different crop production systems and feedstock conversion technologies. Examples of using life cycle methods to evaluate mitigation strategies, coproduct use, and abatement costs will be presented.

Bio
Paul Adler is a Research Agronomist with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service. His research focus is on the potential use of marginal croplands for biofuel production conducting research at multiple scales on the ecology and management of grasslands and life cycle assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions of a range of bioenergy crop production systems. He currently serves on the USDA Croplands/Grazing Lands Working Group to develop science-based methods and technical guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in the forest and agriculture sectors. He has led the biogeochemical modeling efforts for consideration of winter barley as an advanced fuel pathway under RFS2, providing input for EPA's Transportation and Climate Division analysis. He has served on the expert panel on Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the Council on Sustainable Biomass Production, Chesapeake Bay Commission Biofuels Advisory Panel, and as a technical advisor for the USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service under the Department of State's Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas initiative in Uruguay.