Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: The Known and Unknown in Geoengineering
Discussion Leader: Oliver Morton (The Economist, United Kingdom)
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Opening Remarks
7:55 pm - 8:25 pm
Ken Caldeira (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
"What We Know About Geoengineering"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"What We Don't Know About Geoengineering"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Stratospheric Chemistry
Discussion Leader: Donald Wuebbles (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
David Fahey (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, USA)
"Messing with Stratospheric Chemistry: What’s At Stake"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Simone Tilmes (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
"Impact of Sulfate Aerosol Geoengineering on Stratospheric Ozone"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Frank Keutsch (Harvard University, USA)
"Stratospheric Solar Radiation Management Beyond Sulfate"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Trude Storelvmo (Yale University, USA) and Kate Ricke (University of California, San Diego, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Stratospheric Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Owen Toon (University of Colorado, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Ulrike Niemeier (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
"Stratospheric Sulfur
Injections - Uncertainties, Limits and Impacts"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Michael Mills (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
"Stratospheric Dynamical Responses to Stratospheric SO2 Injections"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Marine Cloud Brightening
Discussion Leader: Olivier Boucher (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Graham Feingold (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA)
"What Process-Level Understanding of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Has Taught Us About the Potential for Successful Marine Cloud Brightening"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
James Haywood (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
"Marine Cloud Brightening: Modelling and Observations from Natural Analogues"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Philip Rasch (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
"Attempts to Tease Out the Mechanisms Responsible for Large Scale Climate Responses to Marine Cloud Brightening"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cirrus Thinning
Discussion Leader: David Mitchell (Desert Research Institute, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Eric Jensen (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
"Cirrus Susceptibility to Changes in Ice Nuclei: Physical Processes, Model Uncertainties, and Measurement Needs"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Ulrike Lohmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Cirrus Seeding: Understanding the
Complicated Little Sister of Stratospheric Geoengineering"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Agriculture, Hydrological, and Ecosystem Impacts
Discussion Leader: Helene Muri (University of Oslo, Norway)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Lili Xia (Rutgers University, USA)
"Stratospheric Aerosol Impacts on Agriculture and Air Pollution"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
John Moore (Beijing Normal University, China)
"Sea Level Rise Under Geoengineering"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Gabriel Vecchi (Princeton University, USA)
"SRM Experiments with a High-Resolution Climate Model: Global, Regional and Extreme Event Impacts"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Uncertainty, Feedback, and Attribution
Discussion Leader: Mark Lawrence (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Piers Forster (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
"Comparing Different Geoengineering Schemes with Mitigation - Effectiveness and Side Effects"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Ben Kravitz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
"Geoengineering as a Design Problem"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Economics and Impact Assessment
Discussion Leader: Michael MacCracken (Climate Institute, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Gernot Wagner (Harvard University, USA)
"Feedbacks Between Solar Geoengineering and Mitigation
Decisions"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Kate Ricke (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"A Portfolio
Approach to Geoengineering Technology Assessment"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Juan Moreno-Cruz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Integrating Assessment Models of Climate Engineering: Brief History and a Look Ahead"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Engineering Aspects and Outdoor Experimentation
Discussion Leader: Riley Duren (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA)
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm
Thomas Ackerman (University of Washington, USA)
"Proposed Outdoor Experiments in Monterey Bay"
6:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 7:10 pm
John Dykema (Harvard University, USA)
"A Critical Survey of Small-Scale Outdoor Experiments to Test Climate Engineering Risk and Efficacy"
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure