Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:13:41 -0800 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: The CoolCalifornia City Challenge: A Statewide Program to Enable Low Carbon Communities (WEBCAST) From: rding@arb.ca.gov “The CoolCalifornia City Challenge: A Statewide Program to Enable Low Carbon Communities”. “Presentations are available for downloading!” Daniel M. Kammen, Ph.D., and Chris M. Jones, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/kammen2/kammen2.htm Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:30 pm, PST (WEBCAST) Coastal Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California This presentation will highlight the programmatic development and research findings of the CoolCalifornia City Challenge ("The Challenge"), a statewide competition among California cities to motivate residents to reduce household carbon footprints and build more vibrant, sustainable communities. The Challenge uses techniques common to behavior incentivized programs, including comparative feedback, local messengers, social networks, goal setting, persuasive messaging, incentives, and competition to recruit and motivate participants. Participants earn points for engagement with the program, such as tracking household energy consumption and motor vehicle emissions, inviting friends to join, uploading stories, completing a research survey, and for actually reducing their carbon footprint by lowering emissions from household energy use and vehicle travel. Every point earned by households counts toward their city's ranking on the statewide scoreboard. At the end of the program (which lasted one year in 2013 and six months in 2014) the city with the most points is named "Coolest California City" by the California Air Resources Board. The two runners up are each named "Cool California City." The Challenge is sponsored by Energy Upgrade California, which last year distributed $100,000 among cities based on the level of participation by residents in each community. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/kammen2/kammen2.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm For “external” users please check the external webcast calendar at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 For “internal” users please check the internal webcast calendar at: http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Tabetha Willmon at (916) 322-4357 or Tabetha.Willmon@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. 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For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:26:35 -0800 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: How Air Movement Makes Comfort Energy-Efficient From: tclarksj@arb.ca.gov “How Air Movement Makes Comfort Energy-Efficient”. Edward Arens, Ph.D., and Hui Zhang, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, March 24, 2015 1:00 pm, PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California Air movement can cool a person indoors in a similar manner as lowering the temperature, but needs only a tiny fraction of the energy. New fans of 1-8 watts producing 0.6 to 1 m/s (1.5 to 2 mph) air movement near each of a building's occupants can offset a 6ºF (3K) increase in indoor air temperature, while actually improving the occupant's comfort and perceived air quality. Increasing the indoor temperature reduces a building's total HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) energy about 5% per degree F, or 10% per degree C, and even more in climate zones where the indoor temperature allows natural ventilation or evaporative cooling systems to be used instead of compressor-based cooling. Across US climates, air movement permits year-round HVAC energy reductions averaging 1000 watts per occupant. The energy reductions possible from improved fan use exceeds that of many other current technological improvement to buildings. The opportunities for new design approaches and new fan products are considerable. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/arens/arens.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm For “external” users please check the external webcast calendar at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 For “internal” users please check the internal webcast calendar at: http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Ash Lashgari, Ph.D. at (916) 323-1506 or klashgar@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. 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Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:06:17 -0700 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: How Air Movement Makes Comfort Energy-Efficient From: lquattro@arb.ca.gov “How Air Movement Makes Comfort Energy-Efficient”. “Presentation is available for downloading!” Edward Arens, Ph.D., and Hui Zhang, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Tuesday, March 24, 2015 1:00 pm, PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California Air movement can cool a person indoors in a similar manner as lowering the temperature, but needs only a tiny fraction of the energy. New fans of 1-8 watts producing 0.6 to 1 m/s (1.5 to 2 mph) air movement near each of a building's occupants can offset a 6ºF (3K) increase in indoor air temperature, while actually improving the occupant's comfort and perceived air quality. Increasing the indoor temperature reduces a building's total HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) energy about 5% per degree F, or 10% per degree C, and even more in climate zones where the indoor temperature allows natural ventilation or evaporative cooling systems to be used instead of compressor-based cooling. Across US climates, air movement permits year-round HVAC energy reductions averaging 1000 watts per occupant. The energy reductions possible from improved fan use exceeds that of many other current technological improvement to buildings. The opportunities for new design approaches and new fan products are considerable. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/arens/arens.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm For “external” users please check the external webcast calendar at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 For “internal” users please check the internal webcast calendar at: http://epanet.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Ash Lashgari, Ph.D. at (916) 323-1506 or Ash.Lashgari@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. 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Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 14:45:18 -0700 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: Deriving Roof Albedo for Seven California Cities Using Remote Sensing From: rding@arb.ca.gov Deriving Roof Albedo for Seven California Cities Using Remote Sensing. George Ban-Weiss Ph.D., University of Southern California, Ronnen Levinson, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Jordan Woods, University of California, Berkeley Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:30 pm, PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California Cool roofs reflect sunlight and therefore can reduce cooling energy use in buildings. Further, since roofs typically cover about 20-25% of a city, widespread deployment of cool roofs could mitigate the urban heat island effect and partially counter urban temperature increases associated with global scale climate change. The magnitude of these potential benefits for a given city depends on the increase in albedo that can be achieved using reflective roofs. Assessing this increase requires knowledge of roof albedo at the city scale, which until now has been hindered by a lack of reflectance data with sufficient spatial coverage, spatial resolution, and spectral detail. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/ban-weiss/ban-weiss.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm Webcast: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Ash Lashgari, Ph.D., at (916) 323-1506 or Ash.Lashgari@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. 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Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:23:03 -0700 Subject: arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: Evaluation of Regional Isoprene Emission Estimates in California Based on Direct Airborne Flux Measurements From: rding@arb.ca.gov “Evaluation of Regional Isoprene Emission Estimates in California Based on Direct Airborne Flux Measurements”. Allen H. Goldstein, Ph.D., and Pawel K. Misztal, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Friday, June 12, 2015 10:00 a.m., PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California Accurately modeled Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (BVOC) emissions are an essential input to atmospheric chemistry simulations of ozone and particle formation. BVOC emission models originate from leaf and branch level measurements with scaling to regional or larger spatial levels based on vegetation landcover data derived Basal Emission Factors (BEFs), but they generally lack validation by regional scale measurements. We directly assess isoprene emission-factor databases for BVOC emission models by deriving BEFs from direct airborne fluxes aggregated at 2 km resolution and averaged spatially over ecoregions covering ~10,000 km of California. Ecoregion averaged BEFs from the landcover used by the Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN) v. 2.1 BVOC emission model agreed within 10% (r²=0.82) with measured BEFs, with few discrepancies (either overestimation or underestimation). For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/goldstein3/goldstein3.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm Webcast: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Ash Lashgari, Ph.D., at (916) 323-1506 or Ash.Lashgari@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. 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Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 15:24:22 -0700 Subject: arbcombo -- Thursday ARB Research Seminar: Deriving Roof Albedo for Seven California Cities Using Remote Sensing From: tclarksj@arb.ca.gov “Deriving Roof Albedo for Seven California Cities Using Remote Sensing”. “Presentation is available for downloading” George Ban-Weiss Ph.D., University of Southern California, Ronnen Levinson, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Jordan Woods, University of California, Berkeley Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:30 pm, PDT (WEBCAST) Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California Cool roofs reflect sunlight and therefore can reduce cooling energy use in buildings. Further, since roofs typically cover about 20-25% of a city, widespread deployment of cool roofs could mitigate the urban heat island effect and partially counter urban temperature increases associated with global scale climate change. The magnitude of these potential benefits for a given city depends on the increase in albedo that can be achieved using reflective roofs. Assessing this increase requires knowledge of roof albedo at the city scale, which until now has been hindered by a lack of reflectance data with sufficient spatial coverage, spatial resolution, and spectral detail. For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/ban-weiss/ban-weiss.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm Webcast: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Ash Lashgari, Ph.D., at (916) 323-1506 or Ash.Lashgari@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. 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Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ====================================================================== Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:07:13 -0700 Subject: arbcombo -- Friday - ARB Research Seminar: Evaluation of Regional Isoprene Emission Estimates in California Based on Direct Airborne Flux Measurements From: tclarksj@arb.ca.gov “Evaluation of Regional Isoprene Emission Estimates in California Based on Direct Airborne Flux Measurements”. “Presentation is available for downloading” Allen H. Goldstein, Ph.D., and Pawel K. Misztal, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Friday, June 12, 2015 10:00 a.m., PDT (WEBCAST) Coastal Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California Accurately modeled Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (BVOC) emissions are an essential input to atmospheric chemistry simulations of ozone and particle formation. BVOC emission models originate from leaf and branch level measurements with scaling to regional or larger spatial levels based on vegetation landcover data derived Basal Emission Factors (BEFs), but they generally lack validation by regional scale measurements. We directly assess isoprene emission-factor databases for BVOC emission models by deriving BEFs from direct airborne fluxes aggregated at 2 km resolution and averaged spatially over ecoregions covering ~10,000 km of California. Ecoregion averaged BEFs from the landcover used by the Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN) v. 2.1 BVOC emission model agreed within 10% (r²=0.82) with measured BEFs, with few discrepancies (either overestimation or underestimation). For more go to the announcement at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/goldstein3/goldstein3.htm Main menu: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm Webcast: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1 Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation to: coastalrm@calepa.ca.gov For more information on this seminar presentation please contact: Ash Lashgari, Ph.D., at (916) 323-1506 or Ash.Lashgari@arb.ca.gov For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please contact: Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov To receive notices for upcoming Seminars please go to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and sign up for the seminars list serve. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: ab32publichealth, cc, ceqa, climatechampions, cool-cars, localaction, research, seminars. ====================================================================== You are subscribed to one of the lists aggregated to make this particular ARB combination listserve broadcast. To UNSUBSCRIBE: Please go to http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv.php and enter your email address and click on the button "Display Email Lists." To unsubscribe, please click inside the appropriate box to uncheck it and go to the bottom of the screen to submit your request. You will receive an automatic email message confirming that you have successfully unsubscribed. Also, please read our listserve disclaimer at http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/disclaim.htm . The energy challenge facing California is real. Every Californian needs to take immediate action to reduce energy consumption. For a list of simple ways you can reduce demand and cut your energy costs, visit the Flex Alert website at www.flexalert.org . ======================================================================