Alison Goss Eng of US Dept. of Energy to Present at GTCbio’s Inaugural Biofuels Conference on June 29-30, 2009

San Francisco, CA, March 14, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Alison Goss Eng, from the United States Department of Energy will be the featured speaker at GTCbio’s Inaugural Biofuels: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development Conference on June 28-30, 2009 in San Francisco, California.

Alison Goss Eng will deliver her featured address entitled “U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program: Integrated Research Targeting Sustainability Challenges to Promote Industry Growth” at this years Inaugural conference.

Alison Goss Eng is currently the lead for sustainability research and development programming for the Biomass and Bioenergy Program at the United States Department of Energy. She received her PhD from Purdue University in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and has a background in terrestrial ecology, hydrogeography and human impacts on water resources. She also currently serves on the Interagency Sustainability Working Group under the Federal Biomass Research and Development Board.

Alison is a member of the U.S. delegation on the Global Bioenergy Partnership’s Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Sustainability working groups, and represents the Department of Energy on the Council for Sustainable Biomass Production, a multi-stakeholder group developing biomass to biofuel sustainability principles and standards for the production of feedstocks for second-generation biorefineries. Alison is also representing the U.S. as a lead author on the bioenergy chapter of a new International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on renewable energy and climate change mitigation.

The Inaugural Biofuels: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development Conference will be held June 28-30, 2009 in San Francisco, Ca. and will include a pre conference workshop titled “How to Accelerate the Commercialization of Biofuels.” In addition the conference will also cover such topics as Environmental Sustainability, Economic Sustainability, Biomass Feedstocks and the Sustainability of New Biofuels production and innovative techniques and technologies for Biomass Conversion.

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