Chair's Air Pollution Seminar Series - Archive for 2009

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The Chair of the Air Resources Board, is pleased to announce "The Chair's Air Pollution Seminar Series". Presentations from leading scientists will focus on the health impacts of air pollution, personal exposure, emission sources, atmospheric formation, and innovative control technologies.

Seminars are given at the Cal/EPA Building in Sacramento and the Haagen-Smit Laboratory in El Monte and are open to the public.

You can sign up for the Seminars List Serve which will provide automatic notices of upcoming presentations.

Katy Wolf, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Research and Technical Assistance, Glendale, California Innovative Laser Stripping Technology for Reducing VOC's, Toxics and Particulates Wednesday, December 16, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 1,654 KB (pdf)

Michael Zhang, Ph.D., and Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Ph.D., University of California, Davis What Happens When a Freeway is Closed for Repairs? (Results from the Fix I-5, 2008) Tuesday, December 8, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 9,029 KB (pdf) Presentation 1,006 KB (pdf)

Craig Witty, President, O-Sage Power Equipment, LLP, Illinois Orbital Scythe Electric Mower Prototype Development and Testing Monday, November 23, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 8,887 KB (pdf) Video 303,035 KB (FLV)

Shane D. Mayor, Ph.D., California State University, Chico Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) at California State University, Chico Tuesday, June 23, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 8,875 KB (pdf)

Frank Raes, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology Tackling Air Pollution and Climate Change: A Bumpy Road Towards the Common Good Wednesday, June 10, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 6,919 KB (pdf)

Jon A. Krosnick, Ph.D., Stanford University What Americans Really Think About Climate Change Tuesday, May 26, 2009	[announcement]	Support Documentation 1)188 KB (pdf) 2) 347 KB (pdf) 3) 122 KB (pdf)

Robert A. Harley, Ph.D.,University of California, Berkeley On-Road Measurement of Light-Duty Gasoline and Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicle Emissions Friday, May 8, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 10,954 KB (pdf)

Dennis Chojnacki,Gas Technology Institute, Illinois Field Demonstration of Prototype Super Boiler Tuesday, May 5, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 1,252 KB (pdf)

Dane Jones, Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Development of an Improved VOC Analysis Method for Architectural Coatings Monday, April 20, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 8,885 KB (pdf)

Klaus Hubacek, Ph.D., University of Leeds, United Kingdom Towards a 'New Deal' in Climate Policy! (A Consumption-Based Approach for Mitigation of GHG Emissions) Wednesday, April 8, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 5,804 KB (pdf)

Harvey Jeffries, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Influence of Highly Variable Spatial and Temporal VOC Emissions in Houston Texas on 1-hr and 8-hr Ozone SIP Modeling Tuesday, March 24, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 9,218 KB (pdf)

Daniel Sperling, Ph.D., Board Member, Air Resources Board and University of California, Davis Two Billion Cars! (Is this Sustainable?) Thursday, March 19, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 1,335 KB (pdf)

Alex Spataru,President, The ADEPT Group, Inc., California Maximuxs ^TM SFI - Measuement & Reduction of LP Gas Outrage Gauge Emissions (Averting Unnecessary Propane Emissions Into the Atmosphere) Thursday, March 19, 2009, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 8,530 KB (pdf) Video 49,357 KB (wmv)

Matthias Fripp, Ph.D.,Oxford University, United Kingdom Optimal Investment in Wind and Solar Power in California, 2010-2025 Tuesday, February 17, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 989 KB (pdf)

John M. E. Storey, Ph.D.,Oak Ridge National Laboratory Impacts of Advanced Combustion, Fuels and Aftertreatment Technologies on Diesel PM Emissions: a Ten-Year Retrospective Wednesday, February 11, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 8,726 KB (pdf)

Rick Baker, Eastern Research Group, Inc., Austin, Texas Characterization of the Off-road Equipment Population Thursday, January 29, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 298 KB (pdf)

Susanne Moser, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz and Susanne Moser Research & Consulting The Hard Work of Making It Easy: Facilitating Climate-Smart Behavior Tuesday, January 13, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 2,814 KB (pdf)

John Girman,U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA’s Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation Study (BASE): What Have We Learned? Thursday, January 8, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 2,921 KB (pdf)

Thomas E. McKone, Ph.D.,University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Indoor Pollutant Emissions from Electronic Office Equipment Wednesday, January 7, 2009	[announcement]	Presentation 2,483 KB (pdf)

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