Monday, November 12, 2018
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am – Registration (Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- 9:00 am – 10:15 am – Introductory Remarks – Moderators: Olga L. Mayol-Bracero (U. of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras) and Juan Carlos Antuña (GOAC - Cuba)
- Welcome and Opening Remarks – Olga L. Mayol-Bracero
- UPR-RP Department of Enviromental Science – Elizabeth Dvorsky
- International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) – Michel Grutter
- IGAC Americas Working Group – Marcos Andrade (UMSA, Bolivia)
- The Caribbean Aerosol Health Network (CAHN) – Olga L. Mayol-Bracero
- WMO SAG Aerosols and SAG Reactive Gases – Paolo Laj and Detlev Helmig
- Logistics – Olga L. Mayol-Bracero
- 10:15 am – 10:30 am – Coffee Break
- 10:30 am – 11:00 am
- Motivation of the training school, objectives, and structure of the meeting – Olga L. Mayol-Bracero (U. of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras)
- Overview of Aerosols and Reactive Gases Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean – Néstor Rojas (U. Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá)
- 11:00am – 12:00pm – Plenary – Quantifying the Health Effects of Air Pollution Globally – Jason West (U. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch (Breakfast area at the lobby)
COURSE #1: Reactive Gases (Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Introduction to Tropospheric Reactive Gases – Michel Grutter (UNAM – México)
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Measurements of Reactive Gases (O3, CO, NOx, VOCs) – Detlev Helmig (U. of Colorado – Boulder)
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Coffee Break
- 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Quality Control of Trace Gases Observations - Martin Steinbacher (EMPA, Switzerland) (remote connection)
- 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Reactive Gases Studies and Opportunities in the LAC Region – Moderator: Michel Grutter (UNAM – México)
- WMO Reactive Gases Programs and what they have in LAC – Rainer Steinbrecher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Germany) (remote connection)
- NASA’s PANDORA – Bob Swap (NASA GSFC – Maryland)
- The GeoCarb satellite mission – Sean Crowell (U. of Oklahoma) (remote connection)
- 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – IGAC AWG Working-Dinner
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
COURSE #2: Atmospheric particles in the troposphere (Part I) (Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am – Introduction to Tropospheric Aerosols – Graciela Raga (UNAM – México)
- 9:00 am – 10:30 am – General Definitions & Particle Diameter – Ali Wiedensohler (TROPOS – Germany)
- 10:30 am – 11:00 am – Coffee Break
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Mechanical Properties & Filter – Ali Wiedensohler (TROPOS – Germany) & Jean-Philippe Putaud (Joint Research Center – Italy)
- 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch (Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm – Artifact-free Sampling & Online Mass Monitors – Jean-Philippe Putaud (Joint Research Center – Italy)
- 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm – Coffee Break
- 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm – General Sampling Considerations – Alfred Wiedensohler (TROPOS – Germany)
- 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Aerosol Studies and Opportunities in the LAC Region (10-min max each) – Moderator: Juan Carlos Antuña
- WMO Aerosol Programs and what they have in LAC – Paolo Laj (WMO SAG Aerosols)
- AERONET in Latin America and the Caribbean – David Giles (NASA GSFC – Maryland)
- MPLNET measurements in the LAC region – Elsworth (Judd) Welton (NASA GSFC – Maryland)
- The Caribbean Aerosol Health Network – Joe Prospero (U. of Miami) (remote connection)
- SDS-WAS Pan-American Node – Andrea Sealy (CIMH – Barbados)
- Improving Health through Early Warning of Air Quality Events – Pablo Méndez-Lázaro (UPR-MSC – Puerto Rico)
- LALINET – Eduardo Landulfo (IPEN/CNEN-SP – Brazil) (remote connection)
- Research uses of broadband aerosol optical depth – Juan Carlos Antuña (GOAC, Cuba)
- 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Poster Session
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
- 8:00 am – 9:30 am – Observing the changing atmosphere from the ground: requirements for global networks for short-lived atmospheric species – Paolo Laj (WMO SAG Aerosols)
- 9:30 am – 9:45 am – Coffee Break
- 9:45 am – 11:15 am – Data Submission Procedures WMO NILU EBAS – Ann Marie Fjæraa (Norwegian Institute for Air Research – Norway) (remote connection)
- 11:15 am – 12:30 pm – Data Analysis Training – Marco Pandolfi (Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research – Spain)
- 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch (Breakfast area at the lobby)
- 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm – Data Analysis Training – Marco Pandolfi (Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research – Spain)
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Coffee Break
- 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Collaborative Proposals RG and Aerosols – Néstor Rojas (U. Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá)
Thursday, November 15, 2018
- 8:30 am – 10:00 am – Breakout Session #1 – Néstor Rojas, Graciela Raga and Paolo Laj (First everybody meets at Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- Group #1: Students (Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- Group #2: Researchers and others (Suite TBA)
- 10:00 am – 10:30 am – Coffee Break
- 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – Breakout session #2 (Group #1 and Group #2 in Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch (Breakfast area at the lobby)
Course #2 Atmospheric Particles in the Troposphere (Part II) (Vistamar Penthouse Room)
- 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm– Particle Counter & Particle Size Spectrometer – Ali Wiedensohler (TROPOS – Germany)
- 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm – Coffee Break
- 3:45 pm – 6:00 pm – Aerosol Mass Closure – Jean-Philippe Putaud (Joint Research Center – Italy)
Parallel to the 2nd part of the Aerosol Course, we will have the CAHN Meeting for the CAHN team
- 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Caribbean Aerosols Health Network (CAHN) Business Meeting (Lobby Meeting Room)
- 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – WMO SDS WAS Pan-American Node Working-Dinner (per invitation)
Friday, November 16, 2018
- 9:00 am – 3:00 pm – Field Trip to Cape San Juan Atmospheric Observatory (CSJAO) and Installation os NASA's PANDORA Instrument at CSJAO
- Departure time from Hotel Lobby at 9:00 am
- 6:30 – 9:00 pm – Dinner and Music (Swimming Pool area)