Kerri Pratt is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 2009. From 2010-2013, she was a US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow and US National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Polar Regions Research in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University.
Néstor Y. Rojas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogota since 2006. He graduated from the same university with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1996. After graduation, he worked for two years in a malting plant and in an environmental NGO. Then, he obtained a Ph.D at the Department of Fuel and Energy of the University of Leeds in the UK (2002). Back in Colombia, he worked at Universidad de Los Andes for 3.5 years before his current position.
Yugo Kanaya is a Principal Researcher/Deputy Director of Earth Surface System Research Center (ESS) of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Tokyo and joined JAMSTEC in 2000. He started his career with developing a laser-induced fluorescence instrument measuring OH/HO2 radicals, which was then applied to field observations, testing tropospheric photochemistry theory to reveal importance of halogen chemistry and heterogeneous loss of HO2 on aerosol surfaces.
Rebecca Garland is currently an extraordinary lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Previously, she was a Principal Researcher in the Climate and Air Quality Modelling Group at the Council for Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR), South Africa where she led the air quality research in the group, which focuses on improving the understanding of air quality and atmospheric science in southern Africa. Her research interests includes understanding air quality and climate change linkages, and their impacts at an urban to regional scale.
IGAC 2021 Going Virtual
ANNOUNCMENT: IGAC 2021 Conference Moves to Virtual Format
IGAC has always been an inclusive scientific community with an emphasis on collaborations within the international community. We believe that the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19’s containment and ongoing international travel restrictions would make an in-person conference less inclusive than a virtual conference.
What: The second phase of the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR-II) was announced during the TOAR-II Quickstart Event on September 16, 2020. We are now inviting the research community to attend a workshop with four 2-hour online sessions in early 2021 to develop the science questions and analyses that will form the foundation of the assessment report. This will be an interactive event with several breakout sessions and feedback opportunities.
AMIGO and Covid-19 workshop November 3rd
Dear colleagues,
We would like invite all of you to the workshop organized by AMIGO (Analysis of eMIssions usinG Observations) of the IGAC (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry) project.
The title of the workshop is: Changes in atmospheric composition during the Covid-19 lockdowns
The workshop will be held online via zoom on November 3rd at
8:00 a.m., U.S. Mountain time, i.e. 3:00 p.m. UTC / GMT;
4:00 p.m. in Paris/Berlin/Madrid; 8:30 p.m. in Delhi; and
11:00 p.m. in Beijing.
Langley DeWitt is an atmospheric chemist with a global perspective, whose research has spanned three continents, two oceans, two planets, and a couple eons of time. For her Ph.D. work in Analytical and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA she performed laboratory experiments to form and analyze aerosols relevant to the early Earth and Titan.