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CEE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Smoke, Satellites, and Storage Bins: AER’s Research in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases
February 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
FreeThe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the second event in our Lunch & Learn Seminar Series.
This event will feature Matthew Alvarado of AER, discussing “Smoke, Satellites, and Storage Bins: AER’s Research in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases.”
If you are planning to attend, please RSVP for this event so we may get a proper headcount and share it with your colleagues and post-docs who you think may be interested. Details on how to attend will be sent to those who RSVP.
About Lunch & Learn:
This bimonthly seminar series focuses on convergent research, bringing together Northeastern colleagues and collaborators to think big/bold, explore ideas that build cooperation and foster transformative innovation within CEE and across disciplines beyond CEE.
Below, you may find participation information. This event is virtual via Microsoft Teams- RSVP to receive the link. Please contact Professor Yang Zhang (ya.zhang@northeastern.edu) with any questions.
Topic: CEE Lunch & Learn:
Smoke, Satellites, and Storage Bins: AER’s Research in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases
Time: February 12, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (Boston)
This talk will discuss three topics from AER’s recent and on-going research into air quality and greenhouse gases. First we will discuss the efforts at AER to improve our ability to model the impacts of biomass burning on ozone and PM2.5, with a focus on the chemistry that takes place within the smoke after emission. We will then discuss the use of satellite observations in air quality studies and monitoring, including work at AER to better constrain sources of ammonia, carbon dioxide, and methane. Finally, we will discuss a recent consulting project where we looked into the physics and chemistry of smoke from fires at eclectic storage facilities and made recommendations for how to model the impacts for planning and emergency response purposes. We will also discuss how AER has partnered with universities, national labs, and other organizations in pursuing these research topics.