RAIN (Rapid Air Improvement Network) is a research infrastructure grant with several research-grade equipment’s & a variety of low cost air quality sensors distributed across 6 departments at UBC. This collaborative monthly seminar series with RAIN and ARCHER (Atmospheric Research in Climate, Health and Energy Resource at UBC) members, provides a platform to get to know the available infrastructure being utilized for aerosol research on campus.
Speakers will be RAIN/ARCHER members (PhDs, postdocs, etc.) who are using the instrument for their research project. Presentations will be 20-25 min, followed by 15 min discussion. Monthly seminar will be conducted on the last Thursday of each month; 10:00 am – 11:00 am (for location, see below). Presentations will focus on describing the working concept of the instrument and its capabilities (e.g. various modes, usage, research question that can be addressed, kind of data output, etc.) and discussing datasets from ongoing or published work (done at UBC or other researchers’ work). Presentations should be kept simple and accessible as the audience will constitute of aerosol scientists but with different backgrounds e.g. chemistry, environmental science, biology, etc.
| Date | Speaker | Group | Seminar Title | Location | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan | Paul Heine/Ayomide Akande | Nadine Borduas-Dedekind | Putting the focus on the Vocus | CEME 1203 | 10-11 am |
| 1 Mar | Patrick Kirchen | Patrick Kirchen | Understanding and Reducing Urban Freight Emissions | CEME 1203 | 9-10 am |
| 30 Mar | Davi Monticelli | Naomi Zimmerman | Introducing the Portable Laboratory for Understanding human-Made Emissions (PLUME Van) | CEME 1203 | 10-11 am |
| 27 Apr | Ryan Huff | Christopher Carlsten | Cell Culture Exposure System: Exposing cell cultures to air pollution to study pollutant toxicity | CEME 1203 | 10-11 am |
| 25 May | Giang Group | Amanda Giang | Wrangling and analyzing geospatial environmental data: a survey of data sources, tools, analysis and visualization approaches | CEME 1203 | 10-11 am |
| 29 Jun | Sanyogita Manu | Adam Rysanek | Debating the accuracy and reliability of low-cost sensors for continuous indoor environmental quality monitoring | CEME 2202 | 10-11 am |
| 31 Aug | Rickey Lee | Nadine Borduas-Dedekind | Applications and development of aerosol instrumentation: Sizing up the SMPS | CEME 1203 | 10-11 am |
| 28 Sep | Julia Zaks | Allan Bertram | Measuring chemical composition of aerosol particles with the Aerodyne AMS | CEME 1203 | 10-11 am |