• Ken Moore, Mayor, City of Franklin, Tennessee
• Liyao Zou, Deputy Director, Bureau of International Cooperation, NSF of China
• Jim Jones, Program Director, National Science Foundation (US)
• Bill Brown, Dean, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA)

• Frank Loeffler, Governor’s Chair Professor, University of Tennessee/UTIA/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Symposium Chair)
• Bojie Fu, Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Virginia Dale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
“Environmental Challenges and Opportunities in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus”

Bojie Fu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Ecosystem Service Trade-off: Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems”

Klaus Hubacek, University of Maryland
“Local to Global: Economic and Environmental Trade-offs of the Food-Energy-Water-Ecosystem Nexus”

Chao Wang, Hohai University, China
“The Influence of Anthropogenic Disturbances caused by River-Cascade Hydropower Development on Environmental Functions”

• Welcome: Jai Templeton, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Agriculture
• Speaker: Laura Palombi, National Sanitary Foundation International (NSF International)
  “The Importance of Standards for Managing Interconnected Supply Chain Risks”

Model developments, refinements, uncertainty, and scalable implementation in the food production, distribution, use and waste chain

• Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State Univ—“Modeling Farmer Decisions under Uncertainty in Linked Natural & Socioeconomic Systems”
• Yan Zhu, Nanjing Agricultural University—“Model-based Prediction of Regional Productivity in Rice and Wheat Crops of China”
• Laureline Josset, Columbia University—“Simulating and Optimizing FEWs across Continental US at the county scale”
• Hui Lu, Tsinghua University—“Simulation of Future Hydrologic Process by a Distributed Model and Climate Projections”

Chairs: Charles Sims (University of Tennessee) & Yan Zhu (Nanjing Agricultural University)

Implications of future food, feed and bio-feedstock production from degraded, fallow and non-arable lands

• Whendee Silver, University of California, Berkeley—“Climate Mitigation Potential across the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: The Role of Organic Waste Management”
• Jie Bao, East China University of Science & Technology—“Sustainable Feedstock Supply from Overloaded Land and Economic Conversion Technology for Biofuels Production in China”
• Jingchun Tang, Nankai University—Biochar: Role in Water Cleaning, Food Security, and Energy Recovery”
• Esther Parish, Oak Ridge National Laboratory—“Development of an Indicator Approach to Assessing Bioenergy Sustainability”

Chairs: Yuanhui Zhang (University of Illinois) & Julie Carrier (University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture)

Best practices and technology needs for sustainable food production in the built and urban environment

• Ming Xu, University of Michigan—“Urban Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: A Material and Energy Flow Perspective”
• Jun Bi, Nanjing University—“Managing Regional Health Risk from FEW Perspectives”
• Brad Gaolach, Washington State University—“Promoting Urban Food, Energy, and Water Resource Resilience via the Regional Food System”
• Douglas Hayes, University of Tennessee—“Biodegradable Plastic Mulches: Water Control for Specialty Crops”

Chairs: Brad Gaolach (Washington State University) & Jun Bi (Nanjing University)

Nutrient control and resource utilization and the need for scalable precision production

• George Garden, TDEC—“Level of Appreciation of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in Tennessee Today”
• Xiaohu Dai, Tongji University—“Bioenergy and Resource Recovery from Sewage Sludge”
• Bill Batchelor, Auburn University—“Trade-offs between Food Production, Water Use, and N Leaching in China”
• Qiang He, University of Tennessee—“Integrated Application of Bauxite Residue in the Control of Air and Water Pollution”

Chairs: Andy Binford (Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation) & Xiaohu Dai (Tongji University)

Cost and efficiency of water and wastewater reuse and reclamation in safe food production

• Tong Zhang, University of Hong Kong—“Anaerobic Digestion as an Effective Strategy to Control ARGs in Animal Waste from Livestock and Recover Energy”
• Shuming Liu, Tsinghua University—“Understanding the Water-Energy Nexus in Urban Water Systems in China”
• Hongwen Sun, Nankai University—“Plants Can be an Important Exposure Pathway for Human Beings to Organic Chemicals”
• Wei Zhang, Michigan State University—“Pharmaceutical Residues in Treated Wastewater and Impact on Food Crops”

Chairs: David White (University of Tennessee) & Tong Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)

Societal and economic acceptance of new technology, management practices and hidden cost transfers

• Julie Padowski, Washington State University—“Increasing Resilience Across the Food, Energy, and Water Sectors in the Columbia River Basin”
• Huanguang Qiu, Renmin University of China—“Balancing Water Resource Conservation and Food Security in China”
• David Griffith, University of Idaho—“Social Aspects of FEWS in Snake River Basin”
• Mingzhou Jin, University of Tennessee—

Chairs: Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee & Huanguang Qiu (Remin University of China)

Model developments, refinements, uncertainty, and scalable implementation in the food production, distribution, use and waste chain

• John Antle, Oregon State University—“Next Generation Agricultural System Models for FEWS”
• Liem Tran, University of Tennessee—“Exploring Ways for Integration of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus Research with Life Cycle Assessment”
• Michelle Ho, Columbia University—“Modeling Hydroclimate Uncertainty using Paleoclimate Streamflow to Inform FEWS”
• Ying Zhang, Johns Hopkins University—“Modeling the Intersections of FEWS in Climate-Vulnerable Ethiopia: Small-Scale Irrigation”

Chairs: Charles Sims (University of Tennessee) & Yan Zhu (Nanjing Agricultural University)

Implications of future food, feed and bio-feedstock production from degraded, fallow and non-arable lands

• Keith Kline, Oak Ridge National Laboratory—“Food AND Fuel: When does land matter?"
• Jingkuan Wang, Shenyang Agricultural University—“Crop Residues Resource in China: Utilization, Potential, and Challenges”
• Xiaohan Yang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory—“Genetic Improvement of Crop Water-Use Efficiency for Sustainable Production of Food and Biofuels on Degraded and Non-Arable Lands”
• Shihui Yang, Hubei University—“Economic Lignocellulosic Biofuel Production”

Chairs: Yuanhui Zhang (University of Illinois) & Julie Carrier (University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture)

Best practices and technology needs for sustainable food production in the built and urban environment

• Elena Irwin, Ohio State University—“Human Adaptations in Food, Energy and Water Systems”
• Qichang Yang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences—“Current Status and Development Prospect of the Protected Horticulture in China”
• Brian Leib, University of Tennessee—“Rainwater Harvesting and Energy Management in High Tunnels”
• Zhiting Tian, Virginia Tech—“Thermoelectric Energy Conversion”

Chairs: Brad Gaolach (Washington State University) & Jun Bi (Nanjing University)

Nutrient control and resource utilization and the need for scalable precision production

• Sean Schaefer, University of Tennessee—“Sustainable Agricultural Practices at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems”
• Boqiang Qin, Chinese Academy of Sciences—“Ten Year Efforts in Eutrophication Control of Large Shallow Lake Taihu, China”
• Guodi Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences—“Pollution Risk of Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants to Soils and Crops after Sewage Sludge Land Application”
• Yuguang Zhou, China Agricultural University—“Animal Waste Treatment and Utilization: Securing the Environment and Food Production”

Chairs: Andy Binford (Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation) & Xiaohu Dai (Tongji University)

Cost and efficiency of water and wastewater reuse and reclamation in safe food production

• Bernard Engle, Purdue University—“Opportunities to Capture Urban Stormwater Runoff for Food Production”
• Bin Chen, Beijing Normal University—“Urban Water Resource Management in Metabolism-Nexus Perspective”
• Steven Ripp, University of Tennessee—“Water and Wastewater Reuse: Water Quality Issues”
• Ke Xu, Nanjing University—“New Technology of Advanced Treatment and Reuse of Industrial Waste Water”

Chairs: David White (University of Tennessee) & Tong Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)

Societal and economic acceptance of new technology, management practices and hidden cost transfers

• Nada Assaf-Anid, New York Institute of Technology—"Societal and Economic Acceptance of New Technology, Management Practices and Hidden Cost Transfers"
• Lixiao Zhang, Beijing Normal University—“Food-Energy-Water Nexus for Urban Sustainability: Conceptual Framework and Real Challenges”
• Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee—“The Southeast’s Water Footprint and LCA: An Application using Multiregional IO Technology”
• Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory—“Improving the Representation of Human-Earth System Interactions”

Chairs: Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee & Huanguang Qiu (Remin University of China)