Presentations

Plenary Speaker

Jason West
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quantifying the Health Effects of Air Pollution Globally

Lecturers

Martin Steinbacher
Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland


Quality Control of Trace Gases Observations

Graciela Raga
Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera, UNAM, Mexico


Introduction to Tropospheric Aerosols

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

Filter-Based Absorption Photometers

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

Particle Filter

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

General Definitions & Particle Diameters

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

General Sampling Considerations

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

Particle Mass Concentration Measurements

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

Mechanical Properties

Alfred (Ali) WiedensohlerDepartment Experimental Aerosol & Cloud Microphysics, Germany

Particle Counter & Mobility Particle Size Spectrometer

Jean-Philippe PutaudJoint Research Centre of the European Commission in the Air and Climate Unit

Mechanical Properties

Jean-Philippe PutaudJoint Research Centre of the European Commission in the Air and Climate Unit

Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosol: Mass Closure

Jean-Philippe PutaudJoint Research Centre of the European Commission in the Air and Climate Unit

Artifacts Related to the Determination of Particulate Matter Mass Concentration and Chemical Composition

Paolo LajChair of the GAW/WMO Scientific Advisory Group Aerosol; Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS, Institut des Géosciences pour l’Environnement, Grenoble, France; University of Helsinki, INAR – Institute for atmospheric and Earth system research, Helsinki, Finland

Observing the Changing atmosphere from the ground: Requirements for Global Networks for Short-lived Atmospheric Species

Ann Marie FjæraaNILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research

Data Submission Procedures WMO NILU EBAS

Marco PandolfiInstitute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Data Analysis Training

Olga Mayol-BraceroUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus

SAMLAC Motivation, Goals and Structure

Detlev HelmigArctic Research at the University of Colorado

The Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Reactive Gases Measurement Networ

Rainer SteinbrecherKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

WMO Reactive Gases Programs and what they have in LAC

Robert SwapNASA Laboratory for Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics

Ground-Based Passive UV-vis Remote Sensing of Air Quality: Setting the Stage for Satellite Validation and Enhanced Environmental Monitoring for Latin America and the Caribbean

Sean CrowellUniversity of Oklahoma

The GeoStationary Carbon Observatory

David GilesNASA Airborne Science Program

AERONET in Latin America and the Caribbean

Joseph ProsperoUniversity of Miami, Florida; CAHN

Some Thoughts & Current Status of University of Miami Activities

Andrea SealyCaribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Barbados

SDS-WAS Pan-American Node

Pablo Méndez-LázaroUniversity of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, Environmental Health Department

Improving Health through Early Warning of Air Quality Events

Eduardo LandulfoInstituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares

LALINET

Jens LautenbachThe Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico

Opportunities at the Space and Atmospheric Science group of the Arecibo Observatory