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 \nTuesday\, August 31\, 2010 10-11 a.m. (Golden\, Colo..)\; RSF Room 344
  (San Juan A) Noon-1 p.m. (Washington\, D.C.)\nThere is an increasing rea
 lization that a transition from the current petroleum-dependent U.S. socie
 ty to one fueled by alternative energy sources may contribute to a sustain
 able future. With a goal to reduce U.S. oil dependence\, environmental imp
 acts\, and congestion\, a number of alternative energy supply\, distributi
 on\, and end-use transportation systems\, technologies and policies are be
 ing explored. However\, it is still uncertain when and what combination of
  these sources and technologies will emerge as possible alternatives. Give
 n the nonlinear nature of such systems across geographic scales\, assessin
 g the effectiveness of possible planning strategies and discovering their 
 unanticipated consequences require modeling and simulation that use the fi
 nest local-level data\, processes\, and societal response and observe the 
 behavior of the system over large spatial and temporal scales. Increasing 
 abundance of geographic data and the emergence of volunteered geographic i
 nformation — coupled with leading capabilities in high performance geosp
 atial computing — provide a unique opportunity to design\, develop\, and
  test such simulation-based experimental frameworks. This capability enabl
 es evaluation of alternative energy strategies through scenario-based anal
 ysis and visualization of the consequences.Budhendra Bhaduri\, of Oak Ridg
 e National Laboratory\, will highlight such geographic data-driven modelin
 g\, analysis\, and discovery that is part of ongoing activities at Oak Rid
 ge National Laboratory.\nBudhendra Bhaduri is the leader of the Geographi
 c Information Science and Technology (GIST) group at the Oak Ridge Nationa
 l Laboratory (ORNL) and a founding member of the U.S. Department of Energy
 's Geospatial Sciences Steering Committee. His primary responsibilities in
 clude conceiving\, designing\, and implementing innovative geocomputationa
 l methods to solve a variety of national and global problems involving pop
 ulation dynamics modeling\, natural resource studies\, transportation mode
 ling\, critical infrastructure protection\, and disaster management. He is
  a principal member of the LandScan Global and LandScan USA population mod
 eling programs at ORNL\, which\, in 2006 won a prestigious R&amp\;D 100 aw
 ard as one of the top 100 global technologies serving society. Bhaduri rec
 eived his Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Purdue University. 
 He has a master's degree from Kent State University\, and a M.Sc. and a B.
 Sc. from University of Calcutta\, India.\n
LOCATION:Washington\,DC
SUMMARY:Understanding the Changing World of Energy through Geographic Data
 -Driven Modeling\, Analysis\, and Discovery
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