CAQR group seminars
Time and location
For Fall 2009, group meetings are Wednesdays from 1pm to 2pm in the ME conference room unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming presentations
- 09/09/09: Ricardo Piedrahita - Source apportionment methods and results from DASH
- 10/14/09: Teresa Coons - Spatial DASH results and China Air pollution
- 11/18/09: Nick Clements - Coarse PM
- 12/09/09: Dec 9: Kim Jasch - TBD
CU Summer Lecture series in Atmospheric Chemistry
With visiting Prof. Mike Pilling from University of Leeds, UK. Lecture location and abstracts.
- June 16, 9:30am - Lecture 1. Introduction to chemical mechanisms for tropospheric oxidation
- June 17, 9:30am - Lecture 2. Determinations of rate coefficients for elementary reactions - part A
- June 18, 9:30am - Lecture 3. Determinations of rate coefficients for elementary reactions - part B
- June 19, 9:30am - Lecture 4. Chemical mechanisms and atmospheric models - part A
- June 22, 9:30am - Lecture 5. Chemical mechanisms and atmospheric models - part B
- June 23, 9:30am - Lecture 6. Evaluation of chemical mechanisms using chamber experiments
- June 24, 9:30am - Lecture7. Interactions between elementary reactions in a complex chemical mechanism
- June 25, 9:30am - Lecture 8. Emissions inventories
- June 26, 9:30am - Lecture 9. Current Issues : Do we understand tropospheric ozone as a hemispheric pollutant? Halogen chemistry: is it a coastal or open ocean phenomenon?
- June 29, 9:30am - Lecture 10. Current Issues: The HOx budget: are there missing sources for OH? What is the effect of climate change on tropospheric chemistry?
Greg Brinkman
- PhD Thesis Defense 6/12/09, 2pm, ECME 137
- ME Student of the Month for June, 2009
2009 GEARS Awards
Congratulations to many of the CAQR students who were presented awards at the 2009 GEARS Banquet on 3/12/09.
- Greg Brinkman Best Overall GEARS Presentation
- Teresa Coons Best Air Quality Presentation
- Kim Jasch Departmental Service Award and Student of the Month
- Bret P. Van Poppel Departmental Service Award and Student of the Month
- Kevin Ryan Student of the Month
CAQR group seminars
Time and location
Group meetings are from noon to 1pm in the ME conference room unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming presentations
- Groupt meetings are on hold for the summer.
Recent presentations
- 04/17/09: Mark Jarvis - "Elucidating reaction pathways of biomass pyrolysis from the top down and the bottom up."
- 03/12/09: Greg Brinkman - "Air quality
impacts of plug-in hybrid vehicle use."
note: presentaton at GEARS, 2pm in the DLC - 03/12/09: Teresa Coons - "Spatial variation and chemical speciation of fine particulate matter (PM2.5)
in Denver, CO."
note: presentaton at GEARS, 2:15pm in the DLC - 03/12/09: Nick Clements - "Disinfection of Air in the Breathing Zone to Reduce Infectious Disease Transmission."
note: presentaton at GEARS, 2:30pm in the DLC - 03/12/09: Kim Jasch - "Study of Catalytic Wall Reactions in the Combustion of Hydrogen-Rich Syngas."
note: presentaton at GEARS, 2:45pm in the DLC - 02/13/09: Kevin Ryan - "Ultraviolet control device for disinfection of air to reduce infectious disease transmission."