Collaborative for Air Quality Research

at the

University of Colorado Boulder

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Upcoming or Regular Events

Spring 2012 CAQR group seminars

Time and location:

For Spring 2012, group meetings are on Fridays from noon to 1pm in ME conference rooms A and B on the dates listed below.

Presentations:

  • 01/27/12: Mike Hannigan, Christine Wiedinmyer
  • 02/10/12: Hyungmin Lee, Daven Henze
  • 02/24/12: Zhen Liu
  • 03/02/12: GEARS practice talks
  • 03/23/12: Nicolas Bousserez
  • 04/06/12: ?, ?
  • 04/20/12: Nick Clements, Mingjie Xie
  • 05/04/12: Kristen Brown, ?

Other related event listings

  • CIRES, NOAA, NCAR, & University Seminars

Past Events

Fall 2011 CAQR group seminars

Presentations:

  • 09/02/11: Brian Meland, Kateryna Lapina
  • 09/16/11: Nick Clements
  • 09/23/11: Kateryna Lapina
  • 09/30/11: Rong Li, Mingjie Xie
  • 10/14/11: Glen Morrison
  • 10/28/11: Julia Luongo
  • 11/11/11: Matt Turner
  • 11/18/11: Alex Turner / Steve Vogel

Spring 2011 CAQR group seminars

Time and location:

For Spring 2011, group meetings are Tuesdays from noon to 1pm in ME conference rooms A and B.

Presentations:

  • 01/25/11: Odessa Gomez - Indoor Air Pollution in an Indigenous Highlands Community in Peru
  • 02/15/11: Brian Meland - How Particle Shape Affects the Light Scattering Properties of Mineral Dust Aerosol
  • 03/15/11: Ricardo Piedrahita
  • 03/29/11: Patrick Hayes
  • 04/12/11: Jose-Luis Jimenez
  • 04/26/11: Kristen Brown

Fall 2010 CAQR group seminars

Time and location:

For Fall 2010, group meetings are Mondays from noon to 1pm in ME conferenceroom A.

Presentations:

  • 09/13/09: Alex Turner
  • 09/20/09: Juliet Zhu
  • 10/04/09: Matt Turner
  • 10/18/09: Mohamed Eltarkawe
  • 11/01/09: Kateryna Lapina
  • 11/15/09: Beth Reed
  • 11/29/09: Hyung-Min Lee and Mingjie Xie

2010 GEARS presentations and awards

  • Ricardo Piedrahita - Source Identification of Denver-Metro Area Particulate Matter
    -Most Improved
  • Juliet Zhu - Validating NH3 Inverse Modeling Results using New NH3 Observations in the U.S.
  • Nick Clements - Coarse Particulate Mass Concentration Measurements in Northeast Colorado
    -Best Talk in Air Quality Session
  • Kim Jasch - Study of Catalytic Wall Reactions in the Combustion of Hydrogen-Rich Syngas
    -Best Talk of the Day

Fall 2009 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.

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 - Syngas combustion

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?
NOTE: times and dates subject to change. Check the link to the wiki above for the most recent updates.

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

Spring 2009 CAQR group seminars

  • 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."

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