Following on from the meeting held on in December 2020, it was suggested that we hold some workshops within C-CAPS with the aim of fostering collaboration between the range of disciplines. This series of workshops will be the C-CAPS expert series, and we are delighted to hold the first in the series on the subject of Air Quality Research in C-CAPS next Fri the 5th Feb at 2:30pm. We will use the workshop as a chance to discuss research and funding opportunities. We will also be taking suggestions for topics for the next workshop in the series to be held next month.
First session
Date and time: February 16, 2021 at 13:00-14:30 CET
Topics and scheduled speakers
Chaired by Richard Peltier
The European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative aims to realise the full potential of the long-term global Earth Observation archives that ESA, together with its member states, has established over the past 30 years. This workshop focuses on the generation and exploitation of CCI’s multi-decadal time series of harmonised and consistent ozone data suitable to assess long-term changes in total ozone, as well as its vertical distribution.
16-17 March 2021; 2 half-day virtual sessions via Webex
Workshop summary: Identify strategies to monitor African atmospheric composition to better quantify pollutant and greenhouse gases surface fluxes and atmospheric fate. The overarching goal is to shape pollutant and greenhouse gases abatement strategies to mitigate climate change with improved air quality.
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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.