Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015 from 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm |
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| Location: | 1344 Howe Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | http://iowaepscor.org/energypolicyseminars |
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| Phone: | 515-294-6998 |
| Channel: | Research |
| Categories: | Lectures Live Green |
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Abstract
California has among the world's most ambitious climate policy goals. New and innovative market-based strategies, guided by technical research, are being tested to achieve the most cost-effective reductions. Anthy Alexiades of the California Air Resources Board will give an overview of California's multi-pronged strategies and delve into the design of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which uses a life-cycle emissions approach to tackle the state's largest source of emissions: transportation sector. Low-carbon biofuels from the Midwest have been a critical source for compliance but as life-cycle based regulations shift demand toward lower impact fuels, what opportunities exist in Iowa to remain competitive in the transportation fuel market of tomorrow?
Bio
Anthy Alexiades is a graduate student at the University of California Davis who works on life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting of renewable energy systems and bio-based products. Formerly, she was Product Development Associate II for Ceres, Inc. at Thousand Oaks, CA, and worked on a team to design, automate, and validate a lab-scale process to measure the conversion efficiency of cellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars. She trained to conduct full wet chemical analysis of plant tissue and helped develop a method for distinguishing various sugars in sweet sorghum. She learned multivariate analysis and helped build models correlating near infrared spectra with composition data for rapid chemical analysis.