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June 20-23, 2023 Olivia Ciaravino attended the RISE 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston, MA and gave a presentation:. 

Ciaravino, O., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y., 2025, Evaluation of Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting over the Eastern U.S., poster presentation at Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship 2025 Expo, April 11, 2025, Boston, MA, USA

See photos taken at RISE 2025.
April, 2025 Welcome new Postdoc joining CASCADE's research group: Kiyeon Kim
August 20, 2024 Welcome new PhD students joining CASCADE's research group:Naushin Tabassum and Sahabi Mahmud
June 26, 2024 Dr. Daniel Schuch, Ying Wang, Yiyue Yang attended the WRF/MPAS Users Workshop 2024 in Boulder, CO. Each of them gave a presentation:. 

Yiyue Yang, Yang Zhang, Ying Wang, 2024, Multi-scale Modeling of Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases over Greater Boston, Part I: Evaluation of Regional to Local Predictions Using Surface and Satellite Data, oral presentation at the session of Chemistry Applications, the WRF/MPAS Users Workshop 2024, June 26, 2024 Boulder, CO, USA.

Ying Wang, Yang Zhang, Yiyue Yang, Lijiao Wang, Haris Koutsopoulos, 2024, Multi-scale Modeling of Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases over Greater Boston, Part II: Sensitivity of Street-level Predictions to On-road Emissions from Traffic Activity Data, oral presentation at the session of Chemistry Applications, the WRF/MPAS Users Workshop 2024, June 26, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA.

Daniel Schuch, Yang Zhang and Kiarash Farzad, Multi-Scale Modeling of Meteorology and Air Quality over Southwest Asia, poster presentation in the WRF/MPAS Users Workshop 2024, June 26, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA.

Sept 1, 2023 Welcome new PhD student joining CASCADE's research group:Saadat Shahidi
July 1, 2023 Welcome new postdocs joining CASCADE's research group:Drs. Thibaud Sarica and Khanh Do
June 29, 2023 Air quality measurement training in The JJ Wilbur Company, Inc.
June 20-23, 2023 Dr. Daniel Schuch, Dr. Yang Zhang, Eeshan Basu, Ying Wang, Kiarash Farzad, Yiyue Yang attended the AEESP Meeting in Northeastern University Boston, MA. Each of them gave a presentation:. 

Zhang, Y., X.-Y., Chen, 2023, Health and Economic Impacts of Future Energy Transition Scenarios over the Contiguous U.S., oral presentation at the session of Air: Quality and Exposure/the AEESP 2023 Meeting, June 21, 2023 Boston, MA, USA.

Basu, E., K., Wang, D., Schuch, X.-Y., Chen, Y., Zhang, 2023, Multiyear and Multiscale Application of WRF-GHG over the Contiguous U.S., poster presentation at the the AEESP 2023 Meeting, June 21, 2023, Boston, MA, USA.

Farzad, K., Y., Zhang, K., Wang, X.-Y., Chen, D., Goldberg, 2023, Statistical Downscaling of Coarse-Resolution PM2.5 Predictions from a 3-D Air Quality Model to 1-km over the Contiguous United States, poster presentation at the the AEESP 2023 Meeting, June 21, 2023, Boston, MA, USA.

Schuch, D., Y., Zhang, S., Lbarra-Espinosa, M. de F., Andrade, M. E. G., Calderon, and M. L., Bell, 2023, Multi-Year Simulation of O3 and PM2.5 using WRF-Chem over the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, poster presentation at the AEESP 2023 Meeting, June 22, 2023, Boston, MA, USA.

Wang, Y, Y., Zhang, Y., Kim, L., Lugon, K, Sartelet, S., Lbarra-Espinosa, 2023, Evaluation of Street-level PM2.5 Predictions Using WRF-CHEM and MUNICH-SSH Models in Baltimore, United States, poster presentation at the AEESP 2023 Meeting, June 21, 2023, Boston, MA, USA.

Yang, Y.-Y., L.-B., Zhang, Y., Zhang, 2023, Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting: Impact of Emissions and Chemical Boundary Conditions, poster presentation at the AEESP 2023 Meeting, June 22, 2023, Boston, MA, USA.

See photos taken at AEESP2023.
June 6, 2023 & June 21, 2023 Dr. Yang Zhang was interviewed by Northeastern Global News. (Click here) (Click here).
February 1, 2023 Postdoctoral researcher position available in CASCADE research lab. (Click here).
Jan 9, 2023 Libo Zhang attended the 103th AMS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. gave a poster presentation:. 

Zhang, L, K. Duan, Y. Zhang, G. Sun and X. Liang, 2023, Ecohydrological Responses to Climate Change and Air Pollution Control in the United States, poster presentation at Session of Hydrology, January 8-10, Denver, CO, USA.
June 8, 2022 Welcome two vistors from Brazil: Drs. Dirceu Luis Herdies and Jayant Pendharkar
September 9, 2022 Welcome new members joining CASCADE's research group: Saeed Tavakhsh (PhD student), Yiyue Yang (PhD student)
September 9, 2021 Welcome new members joining CASCADE's research group: Kiarash Farzad (PhD student), Yiyue Yang (Master student), Hugh Rennie (Undergraduate student)
September 9, 2020 Welcome new members joining CASCADE's research group: Eeshan Basu (PhD student), Ying Wang (PhD student), and Alyssa Santiago (Undergraduate student and UPLIFT (Undergraduate Program for Leaders In Future Transformation) scholar Click here).
August 25, 2020 Air Quality and Human Health: Decreasing the Climate Penalty Through Pollution Control. (Click here).

In a new paper published in Nature Climate Change titled, �Weakening Aerosol Direct Radiative Effects Mitigate Climate Penalty On Chinese Air Quality,� Dr. Yang Zhang and her former visiting scholar and paper lead author Dr. Chaopeng Hong study how changes in Chinese government policies towards air pollution will affect human health.
August 5, 2020 Dr. Daniel Schuch published his journal paper entitled "Short-Term Responses of Air Quality to Changes in Emissions under the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 Scenario over Brazil" in Atmosphere journal, congratulations! (Click here).
March 26, 2020 Research Reveals Air Pollution Costs US Estimated $1B a Year in Perennial Crop Yield. (Click here).

Dr. Yang Zhang co-authored a paper titled �Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California,� recently published in Nature Food.
January 12-16, 2020 Drs. Kai Wang, Xaioyang Chen, and Yang Zhang attended the 100th AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Each of them gave a presentation:. 

Wang, K., Y. Zhang, P. Doraiswamy, and S.-H. Cho, 2020, Fine-scale Air Quality Modeling over Denver Area in the U.S.: Model Evaluation and Sensitivity Simulations, poster presentation at the 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/the 100th AMS Annual Meeting, January 12-16, Boston, MA, USA.

Chen X.-Y., Y. Zhang, D. Tong, P. Lee, Youhua Tang, Havala Pye, Benjamin Murphy, and Daiwen Kang, 2020, Coupling CMAQv5.3 with FV3 and its Intercomparison with FV3-CMAQv5.0.2 for the Next Generation of the National Air Quality Forecasting Capability, poster presentation at the 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/the 100th AMS Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, Boston, MA, USA.

Zhang, Y., X.-Y. Chen, K. Wang, D. Tong, P. Lee, H. Pye, B. Murphy, and D.-W. Kang, 2020, Evaluation of Offline-Coupled FV3GFS-CMAQ over the U.S. In Support Of The Next Generation of The National Air Quality Forecast Capability, oral presentation at the 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/the 100th AMS Annual Meeting, January 12-16, Boston, MA, USA.

See photos taken at AMS2020.
January 2, 2020  the Clean Air, Smart City, And Digital Earth (CASCADE) research lab was established. The founding members include Yang Zhang (Professor and Distinguished Fellow), Kai Wang (Associate Research Scientist), Xiaoyang Chen (Postdoctoral Research Associate), Daniel Schuch (Postdoctoral Research Associate), Libo Zhang (PhD student), and Mohammad Niknejad.