[CAFÉ] Fwd: NSF-sponsored Convergence Accelerator workshop: Sustainable Systems Enabling Food Security in Extreme Environments and Food Deserts

Mon May 3 14:44:47 PDT 2021

Thanks Amy! This is excellent! NSF-sponsored Convergence Accelerator
workshop “Sustainable Systems Enabling Food Security in Extreme
Environments and Food Deserts employing a Convergence of Food, Energy,
Water and Systems”. See details below to register.

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From: Amy Litt <amy.litt at ucr.edu>
Date: Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:10 AM
Subject: Fwd: NSF-sponsored Convergence Accelerator workshop: Sustainable
Systems Enabling Food Security in Extreme Environments and Food Deserts
To: Deborah Pagliaccia <deborahp at ucr.edu>

Hi Deborah, I just got this and don't know hows many CAFE folks may have
received it as well.  It might be of interest to members. Would you be able
to forward it to the CAFE email list? Thanks,
Amy

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From: Hodges, Deidra R <drhodges at utep.edu>
Date: Sat, May 1, 2021 at 10:45 PM
Subject: NSF-sponsored Convergence Accelerator workshop: Sustainable
Systems Enabling Food Security in Extreme Environments and Food Deserts
To: amy.litt at ucr.edu <amy.litt at ucr.edu>

Dear Amy Litt,

On behalf of the organizing committee, workshop facilitators and the NSF
Convergence Accelerator team, it is our pleasure to invite you to the
NSF-sponsored Convergence Accelerator workshop *“Sustainable Systems
Enabling Food Security in Extreme Environments and Food Deserts employing a
Convergence of Food, Energy, Water and Systems”*. Some of the workshop
topics include Food Security, Sustainable Systems and Agriculture;
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Water Resources; Sustainable, Integrated
and Smart Systems; and Social Engagement, Policy, and Education. The
overall workshop objective is accelerated convergence of sustainable food
systems and food security through a facilitated convening of vested
stakeholders from academia, industry, government agencies, NGOs,
foundations and others, enabling accelerated innovation. The workshop will
be virtual with parallel and converging breakout sessions, and is scheduled
for *May 19-21, 2021*.  The results of this NSF-sponsored Convergence
Accelerator workshop will inform future investments from the National
Science Foundation for sustainable food systems and food security research
and innovation at the intersection of food, energy, water and systems.

Please register here <https://www.convergentfoodsystems.org/register> or
visit the workshop’s website <https://www.convergentfoodsystems.org/>. More
information about the NSF Convergence Accelerator program can be found here
<https://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/convergence-accelerator/>. We look forward to
your participation! Please forward this e-mail to other vested stakeholders
like yourself!

*Organizing Committee:*

·   *Deidra R. Hodges*, Associate Professor, Solar Energy
and Energy Sustainability, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

·   *Mark A. Engle*, Professor, Geochemistry and Hydrogeology, UTEP

·   *Gregory S. Schober*, Assistant Professor, Health Policy, Political and
Civil Engagement, UTEP

·   *Sreenath Chalil Madathil*, Assistant Professor, Resilient Power
Network Design and Smart and Sustainable Systems, UTEP

·   *Malynda A. Cappelle*, Associate Director, Center for Inland
Desalination Systems; Water treatment technology to address water and
energy security, UTEP

·   *Ximing Cal*, Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor,
Ven Te Chow Faculty Scholar in Water Resources and Willett Faculty
Scholar, Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

·   *Brendan O’Connor*, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Organic Semiconductors for Advanced Sensing, Energy
Harvesting, and Agriculture, North Carolina State University

·   *Victoria Finkenstadt*, National Program Leader, Division of
Agricultural Systems, Institute for Food Production and Sustainability,
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture

·   *Janie McClurkin Moore*, Assistant Professor, Biological & Agricultural
Engineering, Texas A&M

*Workshop Facilitators:*

·   *Molly Mayo*, Senior Partner, Meridian Institute

·   *Jeana Holer*, Senior Project Coordinator, Meridian Institute

·   *Annika Freudenberger*, Project Consultant

·   *Seth Blum*, Project Associate II and Ruckelshaus Fellow, Meridian
Institute

*NSF Convergence Accelerator Program Directors:*

·   *Christopher Sandford*, Program Director, Convergence Accelerator, NSF

·   *Mike Pozmantier*, Program Director, Convergence Accelerator, NSF

·   *Barbara Ransom*, Program Director, GEO, IUCRC, NSF

·   *Laura Lautz*, Program Director, EAR, HS SRS RNs, NSF

Sincerely,

Deidra

*Deidra R. Hodges*

Associate Professor

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-- 
Deborah Pagliaccia, Ph.D.
Professional Researcher, Department of  Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Managing Director, California Agriculture and Food Enterprise - CAFÉ
<http://cafe.ucr.edu/>
UCR Global Food Initiative <http://globalfood.ucr.edu/> Co-Chair
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

California Citrus Nursery Society <http://ccns.info/> CCNS Executive
Director
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