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| Sep. 13, 2009 |
Mr. Carlos Abraham Ochoa Moya, a Ph.D. student from Prof. Darrel Baumgardner's group at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is visiting AQFL on a collaborative project during Sept. 13-Oct. 2. |
| August 15 - Sep 2, 2009 |
Three new members joined AQFL for their MS and PhD studies. These include Pranav Jampan (MS), Liuchun Yang (PhD), and Priya Pillai (PhD). |
| August 15, 2009 |
Five members from AQFL submitted abstracts for presentation at the 12th conference on Atmospheric Chemistry of the 2010 AMS Annual Meeting, January 17-21, 2010, Atlanta, GA that is being organized by Dr. Zhang. These include Mike Burr, Kai Wang, Yaosheng Chen, Xiaohuan Liu, Dr. Roger Chuang and Dr. Zhang. |
| July 29, 2010 |
Abstracts submitted by six members from AQFL for presentation at the 8th annual CMAS meeting, October 19-21, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC were accepted. These members include Mike Burr, Xinyi Dong, Kai Wang, Kristen Olsen, Dr. Roger Chuang, and Dr. Zhang. |
| July 7, 2009 |
Abstracts submitted by two members from AQFL for presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of AAAR, October 26-30, 2009, Minneapolis, MN were accepted. These members include Drs. Xu and Zhang. |
| July 1 - August 9, 2009 |
Mr. Bin Zhao, a senior undergraduate student from Tsinghua University visited AQFL under the NCSU-Tsinghua University Visiting Scholar Program and conducted research on evaluation of a real-time air quality forecasting modeling system developed by AQFL. Bin gave an oral presentation at the 2009 NCSU Symposium on the Summer Research Experience, Raleigh, NC. See Photos: -Bin's summer research presentation. -Bin's farewell dinner. |
| June 17-26, 2009 |
Dr. Zhang gave an invited presentation at the joint workshop of EMEP’s Task Force on Measurements and Modeling (TFMM) and the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), Paris, France. She also gave an oral presentation at the Goldschmidt 2009, Davos, Switzerland. She met several colleagues including Drs. Greg Carmichael, YinNan Li, and Jian Wang and had a great time. See photos taken with her colleagues. |
| June 4 - July 7, 2009 |
Dr. Zhang visited several universities/research organizations in China and France to give 6 invited seminars/training lectures and discuss potential collaborations. These include Tsinghua University (See photo), Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center, and the University of Paris. She met the Director of Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB), Mr. Quan Zhang, and the Chief for Division of International Cooperation and Science and Technology of Shanghai EPB, Ms. Jue Wang. (See photo) She has been appointed by the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center as an international adviser for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Ambient Air Quality Monitoring & Development of Air Pollution Forecasting System. See photos taken at the training workshop organized by the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center. (See photos). She also met Dr. Ping Liu and her Dean to discuss collaborations and helped her to resolve several issues that a new faculty member would have to face. In France, Dr. Zhang visited her former supervisor, Dr. Christian Seigneur and visited his research center in Paris. She was treated with a delicious snail dinner in a very well-known restaurant in Paris. |
| May 29, 2009 |
Kristen Olsen has graduated with her master's degree and has completed her work at N.C. State. Kristen is moving to Virginia where she will begin her career with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. Congratulations and good luck to Kristen. |
| May 18-22, 2009 |
Dr. Zhang gave three oral presentations at the 30th NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application, San Francisco, CA. She also visited AER, Inc. that has been relocated in San Francisco and met several former colleagues including Dr. Prakash Karamchandani, Mr. Krish Vijayaraghavan, and Dr. Betty Bun. She also visited Dr. Mark Jacobson at Stanford University to discuss existing projects and future collaborations. See photos. |
| May 2, 2009 |
The AQFL is now posting real time air quality forecasts for PM2.5, PM10, and Ozone for the southeastern United States. Forecasts can be seen here. |
| April 1, 2009 |
Xiaohuan Liu and Shuhui Cheng have completed their stay at N.C. State as visiting scholars, and have returned to china to continue their studies. Best wishes to Xiaohuan and Shuhui. |
March 18, 2009 |
Joshua Hemperly gave a poster presentation titled The Evaluation
of the Global Weather Research and Forecasting (GWRF) Model with
Surface-Based and Remotely-Sensed Observations at the 4th Annual NC State
University Graduate Research Symposium. See photo. |
| March 13, 2009 |
Kristen Olsen passed her M.S. Oral exam entitled entitled Fine Scale
Modeling of Agricultural Air Quality over the Southeastern United
States: Application and Evaluation of Two Air Quality Models. |
| Feb. 20, 2009 |
Jai Xing finished his work at AQFL and returned to China to continue his career. Best wishes to Jai. |
Jan. 11-15, 2009 |
Ying Pan won best student oral presentation at the 89th annual AMS meeting for her presentation titled Sensitivity of gaseous and aerosol predictions to aerosol treatments in three-dimensional atmospheric models. Xinyu Wen also gave an oral presentation titled CCN predictions from Global WRF/Chem: Sensitivity to activation parameterizations, gas-phase mechanisms, and aerosol modules. Xiaohuan Liu won best student poster presentation for her poster titled Simulating Air Quality in the Southeastern U. S.: Process Analysis and Responses to Future-Year Emissions. |
| Oct. 24, 2008 |
Xiaohuan Liu gave a poster presentation at the 27th annual AAAR conference titled The Impact of Emission Redudctions on Future Air Quality over North Carolina. |
| Oct. 6-8, 2008 |
Kristen Olsen and Joshua Hemperly gave oral presentations at the 7th annual CMAS conference. Kristen's presentation was titled Impact of Reduced Nitrogen on Air Quality: Fine Scale
Simulation, Evaluation, and Sensitivity Study. Joshua's presentation was titled Retrospective
Aplication and Evaluation of the Global Weather Research and Forecasting (GWRF) System. Xioahuan Liu gave a poster presentation titled Simulating Aerosol Mass and Size Distributions over California Using CMAQ-MADRID. Yaosheng Chen gave a poster presentation titled Application of WRF/Chem over China and Intercomparison with MM5/CMAQ. Ying Pan also gave a poster presentation titled Impact of gas-phase chemistry on WRF/Chem predictions of O3 and PM2.5: mechanism implementation and comparative evaluation. Pictures from the conference can be seen here.
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| Aug. 18, 2008 |
Two group members recently graduated and went back to China to continue their career: Ping Liu and Shaojun Zhang. Here are the photos after the group dinner (Pic 1) and Shaojun's graduation presentation (Pic 2). Best wishes to them. |
| July 06, 2008 |
Dr. Zhang, Xinyu and Xiaoming attended the 9th WRF workshop in Boulder, CO. in the week of June 23 - 27, 2008. They presented 3 posters:
Zhang, Y., et al., 2008, Updates on the Development and Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID.
Wen, X.-Y., et al., 2008, Using Global WRF/Chem to Study Climate-Chemistry Interactions.
Hu, X.-M., et al., 2008, Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID with Updated Emissions to the July 2004 New England Air Quality Study Episode.
See photo 1, photo 2, photo 3 |
| June 13, 2008 |
Dr. Zhang published a review paper entitled “Online coupled meteorology and chemistry models: history, current status, and outlook” on Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry. This paper ranks the first in the most commented papers by Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Discussion since its first publication in 2001, with a total of 18 comments during the 8-week online open discussions. More details can be found at http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/most_commented_papers.html |
| May 31, 2008 |
The A&WMA Student Chapter at North Carolina State
University has been awarded the Third Place Student Chapter award. Evelyn Frazier is the president of the A&WMA student chapter. Several AQFL group members are the member of the student chapter and contribute to the chapter. |
| May 8, 2008 |
Xiaoming Hu passed his Ph.D. Oral Exam, entitled "Development and Application of a Research-Grade Air Quality Forecasting System." |
| May 2, 2008 |
Ping Liu passed her Ph.D. Oral Exam, entitled "Three-Dimensional Modeling of Ozone and Particulate Matter: Application, Evaluation, and Model Improvement." |
| April 17-18, 2008 |
Dr. Yang Zhang gave a keynote presentation on Coupled Regional Climate and Air Quality Modeling: History, Current Status, and Challenges, at the International Workshop on Regional and Urban Air Quality in Yangtze River Delta Region, April 17-18, Shanghai, China (see photos taken at the workshop). |
| April 16, 2008 |
Dr. Yang Zhang visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University on April 16. She introduced past and ongoing research at AQFL and explored potential collaborations with Prof. Yanqing Wu, Dean of School of Environmental Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (see photos taken at Jiao Tong Univ.) and Prof. Jianmin Chen, Chairman, the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering at Fudan University (see photos taken at Fudan Univ.) |
| April 15, 2008 |
Dr. Yang Zhang gave an invited lecture on next Generation AQ/Met Coupled and AQ Forecasting Model: WRF/Chem, at the Training Courses on CMAQ/BenMAP/Emission Trading, April 15, 2008, Shanghai, China. |
| April 1, 2008 |
Dr. Yang Zhang organized a tour to Duke Forest Research Site. A total of 15 people including 3 faculty members and 12 students from NCSU attended this tour. Dr. John Walker of U.S. EPA and Mr. Robert Nettles of U.S. DOE/BNL hosted our visit (see photos taken during the tour) |
| March 19, 2008 |
Kristen Olsen presented at the 2008 Graduate Student Research Symposium held at the McKimmon Center on NC State's Campus. Her poster presentation was entitled "Fine-scale Modeling of Air Quality Using Two Air Quality Models over the Southeastern United States." View a couple of the photos here. |
| March 10, 2008 |
Ying Pan received the Second Place Student Poster Presentation and Dr. Xinyu Wen received the
Best student oral presentation award for his talk entitled "Climate change in China and its relationship with air quality during the past 130 years: model simulations and correlation with satellite observations"
at the 88th AMS Annual Meeting, 20-24 Jan., in New Orleans, LA.. |
| February 19, 2008 |
Ping Liu presented for the February meeting of the RTP Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) at the USEPA in Research Triange Park. Her talk was entitled "Development and Application of A
Computationally-Efficient
MADRID 2 for Simulating Secondary Organic Aerosol." |
| February 5, 2008 |
Dr. David Sands, Prof. of Montana State University and Dr. Cindy Morris of INRA in Avignon France, were the presenter for a Special Seminar hosted by Dr. Yang Zhang. Their topic was titled, "The microbes in the air, their ability to nucleate ice crystals, and their possible roles in meteorological events." The seminar extended beyond the presentation, leading into discussions of future collaborations and project directions. |
| Janauary 20-24, 2008 |
Three Air Quality Forecasting Lab members attended the 88th Annual AMS meeting in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Zhang had 2 oral presentations entitled "Simulating Effects of Aerosols on Regional Climate Using WRF/Chem" and "Some Preliminary Results from the Development of Global WRF/Chem", Dr. Wen had an oral presentation entitled "Climate Change in China and Its Relationship with Air Quality During the Past 130 Years: Model Simulations and Correlation with Satellite Observations", and Ying Pan had a poster presentation entitled "Sensitivity of Gaseous and Aerosol Predictions to Gas-Phase Chemical Mechanisms." View the photos here. |
| January 20-24, 2008 |
Dr. Xinyu Wen and Ying Pan both received the NASA/Tropospheric Chemistry Program Travel Award to attend the 88th AMS Annual Meeting, 20-24 Jan., in New Orleans, LA.
Please see the photo of the travel award recipients. |
| January 16, 2008 |
Dr. Jiming Hao, Professor and Dean of the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, a prestigious member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, visited and gave a seminar at NCSU. His talk was on Introduction of Research Programs on Air Pollution and Control in Tsinghua University. Colleagues from NCSU and EPA joined the roundtable to discuss the environmental issues in China and how to address the challenges. All AQFL members had a group meeting with Prof. Hao after the seminar. View the photos here. |
| November 20, 2007 |
The Air Quality Forecasting Lab has two new post-doctoral positions available, which are on Air Quality/Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling
and Agricultural Air Quality Modeling. For more information, please see http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/aqforecasting/post_docs.html. |
| October 5, 2007 |
Prof. Kebin He from Tsinghua University gave a seminar titled "Regional Air Pollution Complex in City Clusters of China", and Mr. Satoru Chatani from Japan Petroleum Energy Center gave a seminar titled "Multi-scale Air Quality Study in Japan Clean Air Program (JCAP)" in MEAS, hosted by Dr. Yang Zhang and A&WMA NCSU Student Chapter. All AQFL members had a group meeting with the guest speakers before the seminar. View the photos here. |
| October 1-3, 2007 |
Five Air Quality Forecasting Lab members including a former member attended the 6th Annual CMAS meeting in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Zhang's talk was titled, "Simulating Climate-Chemistry-Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Feedbacks in WRF/Chem: Model Development and Initial Application". Our Alumni, Chris Misenis's talk was titled, "An Examination of WRF/Chem: Physical Schemes, Nesting Options, and Grid Resolutions". Xiaoming Hu and Ping Liu gave the poster presentations on their research, and Evelyn Frazier is the co-author of Xiaoming's work. Xiaoming's poster was titled, "Evaluation of WRF/Chem-MADRID with the July 2004 New England Air Quality Study Episode", and Ping's poster was titled, "Development and Application of A Computationally-Efficient MADRID 2 for Simulating Secondary Organic Aerosol". |
| September 17-21, 2007 |
Dr. Zhang was invited as lecturer for the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) summer school of Joining transport and chemistry in air pollution modeling at different scales in Castro Marina (Lecce), Italy. |
| August 17, 2007 |
Jie Chen gave an oral presentation at the Zhejiang University undergraduate summer intern research symposium. View the photos here. |
| August 16, 2007 |
Prof. C. Russell Philbrick from Penn State University gave a seminar titled "Visualizing Concepts in Atmospheric Dynamics" in MEAS, hosted by Dr. Yang Zhang. |
| July 26, 2007 |
Evelyn Frazier gave a poster presentation on the 1st AGEP Bridging Annual Symposium. View the photos here. |
| July 26, 2007 |
The Air Quality Forecasting Lab has a post-doctoral position available, which is on Organic Aerosol-Climate Modeling. For more information, please see http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/aqforecasting/post_docs.html. |
| June 23-July 5 , 2007 |
Xiaoming Hu visited National University of Mexico (also called UNAM), Mexico City. He worked with Drs. Baumgardner, Graciela, Diana and Master student Carlos to set up WRF/Chem simulation for the Salina Cruz case. During his visit, he had a meeting with Drs. Baumgardner, Jazcilevich, Garcia to know their ongoing research. Xiaoming also gave an informal seminar titled "Model Development and Initial Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID" |
| June 11-July 5, 2007 |
Dr. Yang Zhang visited several universities/research organizations including Shan Dong University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and National Climate Center in China. During her visit, she gave five seminars on various topics and discussed areas of potential collaboration with Chinese colleagues. |
| 11-15 June 2007 |
Xiaoming Hu attended the 8th Annual WRF User’s Workshop , Boulder, CO. He gave a talk titled "Gas/Particle Mass Transfer Treatments in WRF/Chem-MADRID: Development, Application, and Evaluation" |
| June 8, 2007 |
Chris Misenis, an MS graduate of AQFL, has successfully landed a job at North Carolina Division of Air Quality. He will start as a Meteorologist on July 9, 2007. |
| May 10, 2007 |
Mr. Wenxin Yu from Peking University will join AQFL as a visiting post-D researcher after he obtains a PhD degree in Atmospheric Sciences in July 2007. He will start at NCSU on August 1, 2007. |
| 14-16 May 2007 |
Kai Wang, a Ph.D. student in AQFL, attended the 10th International
Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality
(ASAAQ), Hong Kong, China. His talk was titled, "A Mechanistic Examination
of Asian Pollution Export: Process Analysis, Sensitivity Simulation, and
Satellite Data Utilization" |
| April 28, 2007 |
Dr. Yongxin Zhang from Los Alamos National Laboratory accepted the post-D researcher position at AQFL. He will join AQFL on Sept. 15, 2007. |
| April 15, 2007 |
Srinath Krishnan, an MS graduate of AQFL, has been offered a PhD position with a full RA by Yale University, starting summer, 2007. |
| April 13, 2007 |
Ms. Ying Pan, an MS graduate from Peking University, has accepted AQFL's offer as a PhD student. She will join AQFL in early August, 2007. |
| April 10, 2007 |
Ms. Evelyn Frazier, a BS graduate from MEAS, NCSU, has accepted AQFL's offer as an MS student. She has also been accepted by NCSU's Bridging Program and will start on May 29.
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| April 5, 2007 |
Dr. Litao Wang, an Air Quality modeler at Tsinghua University, will visit NCSU and work on an EPA-sponsored project on modeling of air quality in China during the period of June 6-Nov. 5. |
| March 30, 2007 |
Ashley Queen, an MS graduate of AQFL, has successfully landed a job at Trinity Consultants, Dallas, TX. She will start her position as an Environmental Consultant on June 4, 2007. |
| April 23, 2007 |
Evelyn Frazier received the following awards: SAAPAMS 1st Award for Dedication and Service, Senior and Senior Service Awards, and the PEACE Leadership Award. |
| March 20, 2007 |
Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President of National Academy of Sciences, and world-recognized expert on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change, visited NCSU and MEAS faculty and graduate students to discuss atmospheric chemistry and climate research. Dr. Zhang and Mr. Xiaoming Hu represented the Air Quality Forecasting Lab and attended the lunch meeting. |
| March 19, 2007 |
For her presentation at the 87th Annual AMS meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Ashley Queen was awarded a first place prize for student presentations. She was awarded a certificate and cash prize. |
| February 19, 2007 |
Dr. Jose Fuentes, distinguished professor in the the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, visited NCSU and the AQFL. His seminar was titled, "Emissions, Turbulent Transport, and Chemistry of Photogenic Hydrocarbons." |
| January 29, 2007 |
Dr. Bruce Doddridge, head of NASA's Chemistry and Dynamics Branch gave a seminar at NCSU and also visited members of the Air Quality Forecasting Lab. View the photo here. |
| January 14-18, 2007 |
Two Air Quality Forecasting Lab members attended the 87th Annual AMS meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Zhang and Ashley Queen both presented research, with Dr. Zhang also presenting research on behalf of Ping Liu. Dr. Zhang's talk was titled, "Assessment of Long-Term Impacts of Regional Climate Changes on Air Quality." Ashleys presentation was titled, "Examining the Sensitivity of Meteorology and Chemical Predictions to Explicit Microphysics Schemes." Ping's presentation was titled, "Simulating Secondary Organic Aerosol: Accurary versus Computational Efficiency." |
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