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Atmospheric Chemistry

Gordon Research Conference

July 24 - 29, 2011
Chairs Kristie A. Boering and Jonathan Abbatt
Vice Chairs Steven S. Brown and Yinon Rudich
Mount Snow
89 Grand Summit Way
West Dover, Vermont, United States
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Conference Description

As is the tradition for this conference, the program will include a range of topics and new developments broadly covering the field of atmospheric chemistry. The conference will provide a forum for discussion of both urban and regional chemistry and global tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry. The goal is to bring together scientists working in the laboratory, in the field, and on simulations to provoke discussion towards improving our understanding of the processes that control the composition of the atmosphere. The conference will be preceded by the eleventh biennial ACCESS (Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists) colloquium to be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York.

Conference Program

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmAtmospheric Chemistry, Global Change, and Public Policy
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion Leader: Michael McElroy (Harvard U)
"Introduction"
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm A.R. Ravishankara (NOAA)
"Interlinks in environmental issues, policies, and associated atmospheric sciences"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm Gavin Schmidt (NASA GISS)
"How Earth System Models are going to save the world"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmShort-lived Constituents and Climate
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Nadine Unger (Yale U)
"Introduction"
9:15 am - 9:45 am Arlene Fiore (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab)
"Air pollutants: Drivers or riders on the climate change express?"
9:45 am -10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am Group Photo
10:20 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Dominick Spracklen (U Leeds)
"Interactions between vegetation, aerosol and climate"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:30 am Poster Presentations I ("One-Minute Madness", Last names L-R)
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session Last names L-Z
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:10 pmNew Discoveries in Atmospheric Halogen Chemistry
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Roland von Glasow (U East Anglia)
"Introduction"
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm Joel Thornton (U Washington)
"Chlorine activation by N2O5 in expected and unexpected locations: New insights and old challenges"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm Ross Salawitch (U Maryland)
"Atmospheric bromine and the impact on ozone"
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:30 amNew Discoveries in Atmospheric Halogen Chemistry (cont'd)
Discussion Leader: Roland von Glasow (U East Anglia)
9:00 am - 9:30 am John Plane (U Leeds)
"Iodine chemistry in the marine boundary layer: How much does it matter?"
9:30 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 10:20 am Poster Presentations II ("One-Minute Madness", Last names S-Z)
10:20 am - 10:50 am Coffee Break
10:50 am - 12:30 pmBoundary Layer Processes: From Fluxes to Chemistry
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion Leader: Steven Brown (NOAA Earth System Research Lab)
"Introduction"
11:00 am - 11:30 am Jennifer Murphy (U Toronto)
"Links between the surface-atmosphere exchange and gas-particle partitioning of ammonia"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Paul Shepson (Purdue U)
"Working towards an improved ability to quantitatively determine urban area-wide fluxes of greenhouse gases, or Going to the Dump"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Last names L-Z)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:00 pmBoundary Layer Processes: From Fluxes to Chemistry (cont'd)
Discussion Leader: Steven Brown (NOAA Earth System Research Lab)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Jochen Stutz (UCLA)
"Atmospheric chemistry in stable boundary layers"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Paul Wennberg (Caltech)
"On the oxidation of isoprene in the limit [NO] → 0"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmWater Isotopes: From the Surface Through the Stratosphere
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: David Fahey (NOAA Earth System Research Lab)
"Introduction"
9:10 am - 9:40 am Inez Fung (UC Berkeley)
"Isotopic view of water recycling"
9:40 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break
10:15 am - 10:45 am Thomas Röckmann (U Utrecht)
"Remote sensing measurements of stratospheric water vapor isotopologues: Opportunities and difficulties"
10:45 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 11:30 am Steve Sherwood (U New South Wales)
"Is there long-range vertical transport in tropospheric convection?"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Poster Presentations III ("One-Minute Madness" Last names A-F)
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Last names A-K)
6:00 pmDinner
7:15 pm - 7:45 pmBusiness Meeting
Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair
7:45 pm - 9:20 pmIndoor Air Quality
7:45 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion Leader: Yael Dubowski (Technion/Israel Institute of Technology)
"Introduction"
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm Charles Weschler (U Medicine Dentistry NJ; Rutgers U)
"Atmospheric chemistry: It does not cease and desist indoors"
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:20 pm Poster Presentations IV ("One-Minute Madness", Last names G-K)
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmAerosols: Composition, Processes, and Impacts
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Yinon Rudich (Weizmann Institute)
"Introduction"
9:10 am - 9:40 am Thomas Koop (Bielefeld U)
"A new phase: Amorphous solid states in organic aerosol particles"
9:40 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am Suzanne Paulson (UCLA)
"Aerosols and reactive oxygen species"
10:25 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Rodney Weber (Georgia Tech)
"A comparison of SOA formation in Atlanta and Los Angeles and the formation of soluble brown carbon"
11:30 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Colette Heald (Colorado State U)
"Pinning down the global organic aerosol budget"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Last names A-K)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:00 pmAerosols: Composition, Processes, and Impacts (cont'd)
Discussion Leader: Yinon Rudich (Weizmann Institute)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Paul DeMott (Colorado State U)
"Insights into the roles of different aerosol types as ice nuclei"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm Ulrike Lohmann (ETH-Zurich)
"Effects of aerosols on clouds and climate"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

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