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Mark your Calendars: First STEPS Conference scheduled for May 21/22 at UC Davis

Mark your calendars: First STEPS conference scheduled for May 21/22 at UC Davis.

2007 STEPS Advisory Board Meeting to be held August 21

The first Advisory Board Meeting of the STEPS program will be held August 21, 2007

STEPS Researcher Honored With Best Paper Award at International Conference

Zhenhong (David) Lin won an award from the Scientific Committee of the 2nd World Congress of Young Scientists on Hydrogen Energy Systems for a paper he co-authored with Chien-WeiChen, Joan Ogden, and Yueyue Fan. Lin traveled to the "HYSYDAYS -2nd World Congress" in Turin, Italy, in June to accept the award. The paper, "Optimized Pathways for Regional H2 Infrastructure Transitions: A Case Study for Southern California" was deemed the best work in the strategic and socio-economic analysis session. Lin is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

STEPS Program Reserchers Play a Leading Role in Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)

The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) sets a goal to reduce the carbon intensity of California’s passenger vehicle fuels by at least 10 percent by the year 2020. This is expected to replace 20 percent of our on-road gasoline consumption with lower-carbon fuels. Heading up the UC study is Dan Sperling, of UC Davis, and Alex Farrell, of UC Berkeley. According to Dan Sperling, the LCFS “will steer energy policy and investments for many years and provide a framework that we can build on in the future.”The first LCFS report was released in May, 2007, and received substantial praise, including a letter of appreciation from Governor Schwarzenegger. STEPS researchers were part of the UC team and the group exhibited the kind of multi-disciplinary research that the STEPS program strives to achieve. STEPS researchers who contributed to the project included Mark Delucchi, Anthony Eggert, Jonathan Hughes, Bryan Jenkins, Chris Knittel, Marc Melaina, Joan Ogden, Dan Sperling, Chris Yang, and Rob Williams. Additional LCFS information can be found here:

STEPS Researcher Participating in Summer Research Program Sponsored by the US DOE

David McCollum, graduate student in Transportation Technology and Policy, has been selected to participate in the Summer 2007 Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program. This two week program is supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy and the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and is hosted by Montana State University. It brings together a group of 35 young researchers for an intensive course on carbon sequestration technology, with lectures from international experts, and site visits.

Biography: Anthony Eggert - Energy Advisor at UCDC Office

Anthony Eggert, a STEPS graduate researcher, is currently serving a short-term role as an energy policy advisor at the University of California’s Washington DC office (UCDC). In this role, he assists the UCDC team by specifically studying the 2007 Congressional energy, farm, and climate change bills, helping to identify opportunities for University of California researchers. Additionally, Mr. Eggert is serving as a Washington DC advisor to the California Governor’s office on energy and climate change federal policy.

Asilomar Advisory Board Meeting A Sucess

On August 21st, the STEPS program hosted the first advisory board meeting in collaboration with the ITS-Davis Asilomar Conference. Sponsor attendance was well above expectations resulting in a productive dialogue. If you are a current sponsor, you can now download all the event material from the Events web-page after first logging in.

STEPS Director Dan Sperling Interviewed on NPR

STEPS Director Dan Sperling Interviewed on NPR

Presentations from the "Future Transportation Energy" Primer for Policy Makers now availible on-line

Follow the link below to download the presentations from our October 15, 2007 "Future Transportation Energy" Opportunities and Challenges: A primer for Policymakers

Sponsors Only Newsletter available for download!!!

Attention Sponsors!!! Our first newsletter in the new format is available for download. To access via the web, follow the link below and you will be prompted for your secure login. Please feel free to circulate the newsletter within your companies or organizations.

UC Davis Alternative Fuels Policy Briefing

The UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis) is pleased to announce a briefing for policymakers on “Future Transportation Energy” on October 15th, at CalEPA headquarters in Sacramento (agenda attached). This briefing offers a rare opportunity to get up to speed on today’s quickly emerging climate change and energy policy issues; UC Davis’s leading scientists and policy experts are uniquely qualified to offer this seminar. Please join us for this event, designed for anyone involved in transportation, energy and climate change policy development. The presentations will provide the most up-to-date information at a general level, making the event accessible for all policymakers, regardless of their experience with energy and climate change. Topics will include transportation alternatives such as hydrogen and biomass fuels, and advanced hybrid vehicle technology. We look forward to engaging as many policy experts as possible, and the event does not require an invitation. Please feel free to distribute this announcement widely. We welcome your involvement in the event!

STEPS Welcomes 5 New Grad Students!

Five new grad students have been admitted to the program this year: Abbas Ghandi, Bryan Jungers, Sinnott Murphy, Zhu Weiyuan, and Jesse Zhang. We look forward to a great academic year. Check back soon for updated student and researcher web pages.

CARB/ITS public event to be heald at Cal EPA Biulding April 21, 2008

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January Sponsors Only Newsletter Available for Download

Our second sponsors only newsletter is available for download. Please follow the link below to view. We welcome any comments or suggestions. Note: Once again, you will need your login ID and password to access the Newsletter. If you have forgotten your password and login ID, please contact Daniel Mayers (drmayers@ucdavis.edu) for a reminder.

Date Set For 2008 STEPS Symposium & Sponsor Workshop

We are pleased to announce the second symposium of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways (STEPS) research program is to be held Tuesday, May 13, 2008 and Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at UC Davis. This invitation-only event will focus on early research results from STEPS program. The workshop is organized around two main themes: (1) Possible scenarios for implementing future fuels and vehicles and (2) assessing the status of key factors that enable them: technology, behavior, and resources.