We have organized a workshop in January 9-12 2012, involving leading scientists and local policymakers to evaluate the present situation and act towards the design of an integrated observing system to assess and forecast air quality in and aroundgrowing South American urban centers. This activity marks the closure of a fiveyear project sponsored by the Inter American Institute on Global ChangeResearch that tackled South American Emissions Megacities and Climate (SAEMC, CRN 2017). It is also a regional activity promoted and sponsored by theinternational Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP),and by the World Meteorological Organization, Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) and Urban Research Meteorology and Environment (GURME).

 

For further information click here .

 

Another contribution of Pablo Saide representing  SAEMC, this time on Iowa News .

 

Also we have another contribution, now we have SAEMC on TV Online: Link .

SAEMC researchers met in Buenos Aires with decision makers and explored with IAI managers the possible continuation of the project.

For more see Wiki.

Closing meeting,

Buenos Aires (May 19-21 2010)

 

Last week, we held our closing meeting in downtown Buenos Aires, the first South American mega city. This meeting had still another intensive schedule with plenty of stuff to be told and thought about. In addition to our growing team, many decision makers and colleagues from Buenos Aires attended the meeting on Thursday morning. It was a time of evaluation of the work achieved, and a lot of new energy for assuming new challenges, and a few pending tasks. By Friday evening we were exhausted but greatly satisfied, and hopeful. Here you can find a summary of what has been achieved so far as well as new ideas as this team has grown and evolved. In the coming weeks you will read more papers, new projects, new scientists and engineers getting their degrees and a growing communication with policy makers.

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Presentation:“Emission from South America M-Cities“ from Laura Gallardo

in  “Global aerosol source and sink processes” session chaired by Tami Bond & Ben Jonhson

at Goldschmidt™2009 – “Challenges to Our Volatile Planet”

June 21-26 in Davos, Switzerland: program

CIMPA-UNESCO-CHINA research School – Data Assimilation for Geophysical Fluids

 

CIMPA gives some scholarships. It is in China from 3 to May 14, 2010.
Postulation until 28 February 2010. For more informations see http://www.cimpa-icpam.org/spip.php?article209

 

CONICYT Post-doc scholarships

Energy Use & Emissions in a Co-Benefit World
18-21 May 2009 at IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/rains/meetings/Harmonizing/Main.html
Supported by:
Atmospheric Composition Change, The European Network of Excellence (ACCENT), Clean Air Task Force/Climate Works (US), and United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)

Two back to back workshops to discuss harmonization and better understanding of data and assumptions used in estimating regional and global emissions from transportation, small industrial sources, and residential combustion. Although the workshops are independent and associated with two different projects, they have a lot in common (mostly the same problems) and therefore organized one after each other allowing interested participants to join both.

Check and Register at   http://www.geiacenter.org/