55 Symposium--Estimating Current and Future Biomass Feedstocks

Oral Session
A10 Bioenergy and Agroindustrial Systems
The success of the bio-based energy industry will require accurate and timely assessments of available feedstock. This session is intended to present various approaches to estimating current and future supply of biomass feedstock from regional to continental scale. Topics will include field work on bioenergy crops, compilation and analysis of regional field data, and mapping of estimated yields over large regions. Additional focus will be on methods, including geostatistics, classification of remote sensing for cropland delineation, development or revision of existing plant models to estimate yields, and use of agricultural economic models to predict future adoption of biomass feedstocks.
Cosponsor(s):

A03 Agroclimatology & Agronomic Modeling, A08 Integrated Agricultural Systems, C06 Forage and Grazinglands

Monday, November 2, 2009: 9:55 AM-3:50 PM
Convention Center, Room 336, Third Floor

Presiding:
Tristram West
9:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:00 AM
Integrative Framework for Estimating Available Cellulosic Feedstocks: National Field Trials, Remote Sensing, and Economic Projections.
Tristram West, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Craig Brandt, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Chad Hellwinckel, Univ. of Tennessee; Robert Perlack, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Mark Downing, Environmental Sciences Division
10:20 AM
An Integrative Modeling Framework to Evaluate Productivity and Sustainability of Bioenergy Production Systems in the US Great Lakes Region.
Roberto Izaurralde, Joint Global Change Res. Inst. (PNNL and Univ. of Maryland); Tristram West, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Allison Thomson, Joint Global Change Res. Inst. (PNNL and Univ. of Maryland); Wilfred Post, Oak Ridge National Lab.; G. Philip Robertson, Michigan State Univ.
11:00 AM
Discussion
11:10 AM
Switchgrass Management as a Biomass and Biofuels Crop.
Donald Tyler, Univ. of Tennessee; Burton C. English, Univ. of Tennessee; James Larson, Univ. of Tennessee; Daniel Mooney, Univ. of Tennessee; Roland Roberts, Univ. of Tennessee; Marie Walsh, Univ. of Tennessee
11:50 AM
Mapping Crop Residue Cover at Field to Regional Scales.
Craig Daughtry, USDA-ARS, Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab.; Paul Doraiswamy, USDA-ARS, Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab.; E. Raymond Hunt, USDA-ARS, Hydrology & Remote Sensing Lab.; Guy Serbin, ASRC Management Services; Jerry Hatfield, USDA-ARS, Natl. Soil Tilth Lab.; M. M Crawford, Purdue Univ.; Tony Vyn, Purdue Univ.
12:10 PM
Discussion
12:20 PM
Break
2:10 PM
Multi-Scale Integrated Modeling of Sustainable Herbaceous Biomass Feedstock Production Potential in the Northeastern USA.
Peter Woodbury, Cornell Univ.; Christian Peters, Cornell Univ.; Zia Ahmed, Cornell Univ.; Jenifer Wightman, Cornell Univ.; Sharon Waltman, USDA-NRCS; Thomas Richard, Pennsylvania State Univ.
2:30 PM
Discussion
2:40 PM
Estimating Changes in Land Use Under EISA.
Chad Hellwinckel, Univ. of Tennessee; Robert Perlack, Oak Ridge National Lab.; Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Univ. of Tennessee; Tristram West, Oak Ridge National Lab.
3:00 PM
3:20 PM
General Discussion
3:50 PM
Adjourn