MEETING AGENDA
Monday, September 11 | |
8:00am-1:00pm |
Self-organized meetings with MASBio TGs and Attendees Travel In |
1:00pm-4:30pm |
Field Trip, Bus/Vans depart (Hyatt) at 1pm |
Penn State Biomass Experimental Sites or Metzler Harvesting Site |
|
Metzler Facility Tour |
|
5:00pm-7:00pm |
Welcome Reception |
Brookmere Winery |
|
Tuesday September 12 | |
6:00am-9:00am |
Breakfast on your own |
9:00am-12:00pm |
General Session |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
9:00 am-9:10am |
Introduction and Welcome |
9:10am-9:20am |
YR3 Milestones and YR4-5 Plans |
9:20am-10:40am |
Cross-task Collaboration on R&D |
Feedstock Production |
|
Soil and Sustainability |
|
Biochar |
|
Value-added Bioproducts |
|
Impact Analyses |
|
10:40am-10:55am |
Break |
10:55am-11:45am |
Stakeholder Engagement |
Stakeholder Focus Groups |
|
Community Engagement |
|
Innovative education approaches for future generations |
|
11:55am-12:15pm |
Group Photo |
12:15pm-1:00pm |
Lunch (Boxed lunch provided) |
1:00pm-2:40pm |
Industry Partner and MASBio Panel Discussion |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
2:40 - 2:50 pm |
Break |
2:50pm-3:50pm |
Breakout Session I |
AgEng Seminar312 |
Stakeholders and IP Products: Identify stakeholders desired products and outcomes from the MASBio project |
AgEng Senior Capstone |
Joint and Synthesis Deliverables: Select top MASBio peer-reviewed publications synthesis papers, external dataset(s) and tools |
AgEng DryPilotPlant |
Education and Outreach Products, "Thinking Beyond the Classroom" |
4:15 pm-4:30pm |
Read-outs from the Breakout Sessions |
AgEng The Forum |
|
4:30pm-6:00pm |
MASBio Student Poster Session |
AgEng The Forum |
|
6:00pm- |
Dinner on your own |
7:00pm-9:00pm |
AB/LT/PSU Organizing Committee Dinner |
Wednesday, September 13 | |
6:00am-9:15am |
Breakfast on your own |
7:50am-8:50am |
Advisory Board/Leadership Team Meeting (Breakfast provided) |
FRB 217 |
|
9am-9:50am |
Student Panel Discussion - Undergrad and Graduate |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
10:00 AM |
Welcome |
10:00am-10:30am |
Task Group Integration Activity |
AgEng TBD |
|
10:40am-11:30am |
Breakout Session II |
AgEng 312 |
Grant Proposals, Integrated (YR4 activity) |
AgEngConfRom133 |
Business RD/Industry Partners post-MASBio (e.g. FedGov SBIR) |
AgEng Senior Capstone Room |
Undergrad and Grad Student Discussion |
11:30am-11:40am |
Break |
11:40am-12:40pm |
Student Poster Awards and Closing |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
11:40am- 11:55am |
Student Poster Awards Ceremony |
11:55am - 12:10pm |
Report Out: Breakout Session II |
12:10pm - 12:30pm |
AB Meeting Reflections |
12:30pm – 12:40 pm |
Closing |
12:45pm-1:15pm |
Lunch (Boxed lunch provided) |
1:15pm - 2:15pm |
Self-organized meetings with MASBio TGs and Travel Home |
AgEng133 |
TG7 |
MASBio Sustainable Biomass Field Workshop 2021
4 pm on Monday, April 19, 2021
The groups from Penn State, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia University will be sharing the results of their efforts to design and analyze a biochar facility for the region.
Venue: https://psu.zoom.us/j/99220371229?pwd=b3gzaUV1TWIxSDdoQXU1SnJPR3JOZz09
MASBio at WV Woodland Stewards on Tuesday Feb 9, 2020.
Dr. Shawn Grushecky, WVU Professor of Energy Land Management and MASBio lead scientist, gave a presentation about the uses of biochar for environmental restoration and the MASBio project at the WV Woodland Stewards Seminar.
MASBio at National Biochar Week, December 7 - 11, 2020!
MASBio is one of several partners supporting the 5-day program, "Biochar in the Real World- Why Biochar?"
- US Biochar Initiative & Governmental Programs & Funding. Monday, December 7th
- Biochar Market Strategy. Tuesday, December 8th
- Green Space/Landscaping/Urban Use and more Remediation. Wednesday, December 9th
- Agriculture & Forestry. Thursday, December 10th
- Biochar- A Gamechanger for the New “Carbon-Negative Economy” -Current & Future Markets. Friday, December 11th
MASBio members, John Vance (Research Associate, West Virginia University), Nate Anderson (Research Forester with the US Forest Service at Rocky Mountain Research Station), and Jingxin Wang (Project Director and Professor at West Virginia University), presented on the harvesting and collection of logging residue, the production process of forest biomass biochar, and the MASBio project, the consortium partners and the project's objectives.
MASBio project kicks off it's first meeting on August 20, 2020!
MASBio is sponsored by:
- United States Department of Agriculture
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- West Virginia University
- ESF
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Penn State
- USDA
- UAS
- Virginia Tech
- West Virginia State University
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
MEETING AGENDA
Monday, September 11 | |
8:00am-1:00pm |
Self-organized meetings with MASBio TGs and Attendees Travel In |
1:00pm-4:30pm |
Field Trip, Bus/Vans depart (Hyatt) at 1pm |
Penn State Biomass Experimental Sites or Metzler Harvesting Site |
|
Metzler Facility Tour |
|
5:00pm-7:00pm |
Welcome Reception |
Brookmere Winery |
|
Tuesday September 12 | |
6:00am-9:00am |
Breakfast on your own |
9:00am-12:00pm |
General Session |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
9:00 am-9:10am |
Introduction and Welcome |
9:10am-9:20am |
YR3 Milestones and YR4-5 Plans |
9:20am-10:40am |
Cross-task Collaboration on R&D |
Feedstock Production |
|
Soil and Sustainability |
|
Biochar |
|
Value-added Bioproducts |
|
Impact Analyses |
|
10:40am-10:55am |
Break |
10:55am-11:45am |
Stakeholder Engagement |
Stakeholder Focus Groups |
|
Community Engagement |
|
Innovative education approaches for future generations |
|
11:55am-12:15pm |
Group Photo |
12:15pm-1:00pm |
Lunch (Boxed lunch provided) |
1:00pm-2:40pm |
Industry Partner and MASBio Panel Discussion |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
2:40 - 2:50 pm |
Break |
2:50pm-3:50pm |
Breakout Session I |
AgEng Seminar312 |
Stakeholders and IP Products: Identify stakeholders desired products and outcomes from the MASBio project |
AgEng Senior Capstone |
Joint and Synthesis Deliverables: Select top MASBio peer-reviewed publications synthesis papers, external dataset(s) and tools |
AgEng DryPilotPlant |
Education and Outreach Products, "Thinking Beyond the Classroom" |
4:15 pm-4:30pm |
Read-outs from the Breakout Sessions |
AgEng The Forum |
|
4:30pm-6:00pm |
MASBio Student Poster Session |
AgEng The Forum |
|
6:00pm- |
Dinner on your own |
7:00pm-9:00pm |
AB/LT/PSU Organizing Committee Dinner |
Wednesday, September 13 | |
6:00am-9:15am |
Breakfast on your own |
7:50am-8:50am |
Advisory Board/Leadership Team Meeting (Breakfast provided) |
FRB 217 |
|
9am-9:50am |
Student Panel Discussion - Undergrad and Graduate |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
10:00 AM |
Welcome |
10:00am-10:30am |
Task Group Integration Activity |
AgEng TBD |
|
10:40am-11:30am |
Breakout Session II |
AgEng 312 |
Grant Proposals, Integrated (YR4 activity) |
AgEngConfRom133 |
Business RD/Industry Partners post-MASBio (e.g. FedGov SBIR) |
AgEng Senior Capstone Room |
Undergrad and Grad Student Discussion |
11:30am-11:40am |
Break |
11:40am-12:40pm |
Student Poster Awards and Closing |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
11:40am- 11:55am |
Student Poster Awards Ceremony |
11:55am - 12:10pm |
Report Out: Breakout Session II |
12:10pm - 12:30pm |
AB Meeting Reflections |
12:30pm – 12:40 pm |
Closing |
12:45pm-1:15pm |
Lunch (Boxed lunch provided) |
1:15pm - 2:15pm |
Self-organized meetings with MASBio TGs and Travel Home |
AgEng133 |
TG7 |
MEETING AGENDA
Monday, September 11 | |
8:00am-1:00pm |
Self-organized meetings with MASBio TGs and Attendees Travel In |
1:00pm-4:30pm |
Field Trip, Bus/Vans depart (Hyatt) at 1pm |
Penn State Biomass Experimental Sites or Metzler Harvesting Site |
|
Metzler Facility Tour |
|
5:00pm-7:00pm |
Welcome Reception |
Brookmere Winery |
|
Tuesday September 12 | |
6:00am-9:00am |
Breakfast on your own |
9:00am-12:00pm |
General Session |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
9:00 am-9:10am |
Introduction and Welcome |
9:10am-9:20am |
YR3 Milestones and YR4-5 Plans |
9:20am-10:40am |
Cross-task Collaboration on R&D |
Feedstock Production |
|
Soil and Sustainability |
|
Biochar |
|
Value-added Bioproducts |
|
Impact Analyses |
|
10:40am-10:55am |
Break |
10:55am-11:45am |
Stakeholder Engagement |
Stakeholder Focus Groups |
|
Community Engagement |
|
Innovative education approaches for future generations |
|
11:55am-12:15pm |
Group Photo |
12:15pm-1:00pm |
Lunch (Boxed lunch provided) |
1:00pm-2:40pm |
Industry Partner and MASBio Panel Discussion |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
2:40 - 2:50 pm |
Break |
2:50pm-3:50pm |
Breakout Session I |
AgEng Seminar312 |
Stakeholders and IP Products: Identify stakeholders desired products and outcomes from the MASBio project |
AgEng Senior Capstone |
Joint and Synthesis Deliverables: Select top MASBio peer-reviewed publications synthesis papers, external dataset(s) and tools |
AgEng DryPilotPlant |
Education and Outreach Products, "Thinking Beyond the Classroom" |
4:15 pm-4:30pm |
Read-outs from the Breakout Sessions |
AgEng The Forum |
|
4:30pm-6:00pm |
MASBio Student Poster Session |
AgEng The Forum |
|
6:00pm- |
Dinner on your own |
7:00pm-9:00pm |
AB/LT/PSU Organizing Committee Dinner |
Wednesday, September 13 | |
6:00am-9:15am |
Breakfast on your own |
7:50am-8:50am |
Advisory Board/Leadership Team Meeting (Breakfast provided) |
FRB 217 |
|
9am-9:50am |
Student Panel Discussion - Undergrad and Graduate |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
10:00 AM |
Welcome |
10:00am-10:30am |
Task Group Integration Activity |
AgEng TBD |
|
10:40am-11:30am |
Breakout Session II |
AgEng 312 |
Grant Proposals, Integrated (YR4 activity) |
AgEngConfRom133 |
Business RD/Industry Partners post-MASBio (e.g. FedGov SBIR) |
AgEng Senior Capstone Room |
Undergrad and Grad Student Discussion |
11:30am-11:40am |
Break |
11:40am-12:40pm |
Student Poster Awards and Closing |
AgEng Seminar312 |
|
11:40am- 11:55am |
Student Poster Awards Ceremony |
11:55am - 12:10pm |
Report Out: Breakout Session II |
12:10pm - 12:30pm |
AB Meeting Reflections |
12:30pm – 12:40 pm |
Closing |
12:45pm-1:15pm |
Lunch (Boxed lunch provided) |
1:15pm - 2:15pm |
Self-organized meetings with MASBio TGs and Travel Home |
AgEng133 |
TG7 |