Category Code | Category Name |
AQ | Air Quality, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, & Associated Health Topics |
WELL | Behavior, Anxieties, and Wellness Topics in Climate Science |
BUILT | Built Environment: Buildings, Energy |
BUS | Business, Industry, & Entrepreneurship |
ART | Education & Expression of Sustainability/Global Change through Art |
EJ | Environmental & Social Justice, Policy, and Ethics |
NATSYS | Natural Systems: Water, Plants, & Soils |
TRAN | Transportation |
ZW | Zero-Waste Topics: Food, Recycling, Composting |
Time Start | Time End | Notes | Category(s) | Session | Speaker |
9:05 | 9:10 | - | - | Welcome Remarks | President Lynnette Zelezny |
9:10 | 9:15 | - | ART, WELL | Poem | Yasmin Marcelo, CSUB Student |
9:15 | 10:00 | - | WELL | Student Voices Panel: Climate Action Ideas, Anxieties, and Wellness | Student Panel (4 CSUB, 1 Stanislaus, 1 Fresno) |
10:00 | 10:10 | - | - | Faculty Sustainability Committee Remarks/ Breakout instructions |
Dr. Antje Lauer (CSUB Biology) |
10:10 | 10:40 | Breakout Room 1 | AQ, BUILT, NATSYS, TRAN, ZW | Sustainability at CSU Stanislaus (Central Valley CSU) |
Wendy Olmstead, CSU Stanislaus Sustainability Coordinator |
Breakout Room 2 | ART, WELL | Climate Change Advocacy on Stage |
Mandy Rees (CSUB Theatre) & student performers |
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10:40 | 10:50 | BREAK | - | - | - |
10:50 | 11:20 | Breakout Room 1 | AQ, BUILT | Renewable Energy Production: Device & Method/Carbon Dioxide Capturing & Sequestration: Device & Method. |
Dr. Karim Salehpoor (CSUB Physics & Engineering) |
- | - | Breakout Room 2 | AQ, BUS | Agricultural Waste Innovation Training & Internship Program |
Dr. Jeremy Woods (CSUB Management & Marketing) |
- | - | Breakout Room 3 | EJ, NATSYS | Native American Relationships with the Land |
Christina Contreras (Founder & Co-Chair, Indigenous Faculty & Staff Association), Arianne Chow- Garcia (CSUB Student, Chairwoman of Chalon Indian Council of Bakersfield) |
11:20 | 11:30 | - | - | Najeeb Darwish, ASI Dir. of Sustainability |
ASI Presentation |
11:30 | 12:00 | Breakout Room 1 | NATSYS | Restoring Endangered Bakersfield Cactus |
Dr. Ellen Cypher, Plant Ecologist, Member of CA Native Plant Society - Kern Chapter |
- | - | Breakout Room 2 | BUS, ZW | Barriers in Implementation of Circular Economy Approach with the Consumption of Wastewater |
Dr. Sumita Sarma; Dr. Mohsen Attaran (CSUB BPA) |
- | - | Breakout Room 3 | TRAN; BUILT | Embedding Sustainability in Our Infrastructure |
Margaret Cederoth, Director of Sustainability and Planning, CA High Speed Rail Authority |
12:00 | 1:00 | Lunch is not provided per virtual conference format. | Several Categories | Lunch Poster Session | - |
1:00 | 1:20 | - | AQ, BUILT, NATSYS, TRAN, ZW |
Sustainability at CSU Bakersfield | Jennifer Sanchez Biedermann |
1:20 | 1:50 | Breakout Room 1 | EJ, NATSYS | Bring Back the Kern | Matt Mayry, Bring Back the Kern |
- | - | Breakout Room 2 | ZW | Guide to Zero-Waste Events | Jennifer Sanchez Biedermann, Sarah Alame |
- | - | Breakout Room 3 | NATSYS | Ditch Your Lawn! | Monica Tudor, CA Native Plant Society |
- | - | Breakout Room 4 | EJ, NATSYS | Combined Session: "Is the County of Kern Ignoring the Drought?"/Case Study: Solar Farm Impact on Joshua Trees |
Eddie Laine, Sierra Club/Melanie Richardson |
1:50 | 2:00 | - | - | Closing Remarks | Provost Vernon Harper |