Primary Convener:
Melissa Allen Dumas, Oak Ridge National Lab

Convener:
Bhartendu Pandey, Oak Ridge National Lab
Pouya Vahmani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matei Georgescu, Arizona State University

Early Career Convener:
Ifeanyichukwu Nduka, University of Texas at Austin

Chair:
Timothy Jiang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Melissa Allen Dumas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Earth System-Energy-Human interactions occur at the most detailed level in urban environments. Highly local activity can create global effects through regionally networked and large-scale connections, while people and built infrastructures within cities are increasingly vulnerable to global stresses, population shifts, and intensifying competition over local and wider resources. Emerging scientific approaches integrating multiple urban systems and sectors, including artificial intelligence, are urgently needed to inform the complex tradeoffs facing urban areas, increase resilience to stressors, and enhance well-being. This session invites studies that advance this aim by examining coupled human-environmental-energy systems and their co-evolution using state-of-the-science modeling techniques. Relevant interdisciplinary examples include: Urban micrometeorological dynamics Urbanization/population growth Adaptation/heat mitigation in urban areas Building energy consumption and heat waste Urban heat island/extreme heat/flood/drought risks.

Index Terms
1622 Earth system modeling
1630 Impacts of global change
1632 Land cover change
1942 Machine learning

Suggested Itineraries:
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events
Machine Learning and AI
Open Science and Open Data
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering