STAR Black Carbon's Role in Global to Local Scale Climate and Air Energy Progress Review Meeting
Title: | STAR Black Carbon's Role in Global to Local Scale Climate and Air Energy Progress Review Meeting |
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Date: | Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, 8:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. EST |
Location: | EPA in Research Triangle Park, Auditorium C111 and Online Webinar |
Purpose: |
Please join us for a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) progress review meeting on research projects from the Request for Applications (RFA) Black Carbon's Role in Global to Local Scale Climate and Air Energy. Registration is free and open to the public. STAR grantees and EPA scientists will discuss progress on their projects on black carbon, which contributes to human health impacts, visibility degradation and climate change. These projects focus on various aspects of the black carbon issue, such as better accounting for its emissions, tracking its climate-relevant properties as it ages in the atmosphere, and better representing its ability to impact formation of cloud droplets. This RFA supports the National Program, Air, Climate and Energy (ACE) Research Program, which explores transdisciplinary research, and addresses the complex global change and air quality issues that we face today. Even with the improvement of air quality, many continue to suffer from cardiovascular disease, asthma and other health problems that result from air pollution. One of ACE's research goals is to assess human and ecosystem exposures and effects caused by air pollutants and climate change. ACE research also aims to provide data and tools that can help prevent and reduce air pollutant emissions in ways that are sustainable, innovative and cost-effective. For more details on the STAR grants, please see: Black Carbon's Role in Global to Local Scale Climate and Air Quality. Featured Speakers: Greg Carmichael, University of Iowa Tami Bond, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ann Marie Carlton, Rutgers University Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spyros Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University Jamie Schauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jesse Kroll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Akua Asa-Awuku, University of California, Riverside Rufus Edwards, University of California, Irvine Sarah Doherty, University of Washington |
Contact: |
Wil Wilson (wilson.wil@epa.gov); 703-347-0425 |
Agenda with Presentations: |
U.S. EPA STAR Black Carbon Progress Review November 13 - 14, 2014 |