MILAGRO Second Meeting Agenda

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Second MILAGRO Science Meeting
SRE, Mexico DF, Mexico
15-18 May, 2007
Tuesday  15th May
09:00:10:00  Opening Ceremony 
09:00-09:10 Welcome
Consejero Alejandro Estivill Castro (Director General para America del Norte, SRE)
 
09:10-09:30 Introduction
Luisa T. Molina (MIT/Molina Center)
09:30 -10:00 Opening Remarks 
Lic. Martha Delgado Peralta (Secretaria de Medio Ambiente, GDF)
M.P.P. Guillermo Velasco Rodriguez (Secretario de Medio Ambiente, Estado de Mexico)
Consejero David Wagner (Counselor for Environment, Science and Technology, US Embassy)
Dr. Adrian Fernandez (Presidente, Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, SEMARNAT)
M. en C. Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada (Secretario del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales)
10:00-10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:20 -13:00 Plenary Session 1:  Overview Presentations (Chair:  Eric Hintsa, NSF)
10:20-10:50 Overivew:  MCMA-2006
(Luisa T. Molina, MIT/MCE2; Gustavo Sosa, IMP;  Horacio Tovalin, UNAM)
 
10:50 -11:20 Overview: MIRAGE-Mex (Sasha. Madronich, NCAR;  Frank Flocke, NCAR)
 
11:20 -11:50 Overview: MAX-Mex (Jeff Gaffney, UALR; Larry Kleinman, DOE/BNL)
 
11:50-12:20 Overview: INTEX-B (Hanwant Singh, NASA; Edward Browell, NASA)
   
12:20-12:30 Air Quality Trends in Mexico Megacity (Roberto Munoz, SMA-GDF)
12:30-12:40 Key results from ARI Mobile Laboratory measurements during MCMA-2006 (Charles Kolb, ARI)
12:40-12:50 Flux measurement of trace gases, aerosols and energy in Mexico City during the MILAGRO 2006 field campaign (Brian Lamb, WSU)
12:50-13:10 Discussion
13:10-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-15:55 Plenary Session 2:  Airborne and Satellite Observations   (Chair:  Edward Browell, NASA)
14:30-14:40 Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements of Aerosols from the MILAGRO/INTEX-B Mission (John Hair, NASA)
14:40-14:50 An overview of J-31 aircraft measurements during the MILAGRO Campaign (Philip Russell, NASA)
14:50-15:00 Comparison of Airborne Sunphotometer and Satellite Sensor Retrievals of Aerosol Optical Depth during MILAGRO/INTEX-B (Jens Redemann/Philip Russell, NASA)
15:00-15:10  G-1 Trace gas and fine particle correlations and particle chemistry (John Jayne, ARI)
15:10-15:20 Emissions from forest fires near Mexico City (Peter DeCarlo, CU)
15:20-15:30 Relations between size, composition, optical properties and CCN: Airborne measurements in dust, biomass burning and pollution aerosol over North America (Yohei Shinozuka, Univ. Hawaii)
15:30-15:40 Regional and Global Megacity Impacts: A comparison of boundary layer and free troposphere aerosols over Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern North Pacific (Cameron McNaughton, Univ. Hawaii)
15:40-15:55 Discussion
15:55-17:00 Plenary Session 3:  Health Studies (Chair: Horacio Tovalin, UNAM)
15:55-16:05 Ultrafine particles concentrations at different microenvironments during MILAGRO-MCMA2006 (Horacio Tovalin, UNAM)
16:05-16:15 Serum Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress Measured During MCMA-2006 Field Campaign in Mexican Children Exposed to the Aerosol Plume Fall (Marta Patricia Sierra-Vargas, INER)
16:15-16:25 The use of passive samplers to determine levels, and exposure on children, of 1,3-butadiene and benzene in Mexico City Metropolitan Area (Bo Strandberg, Univ. Goteborg)
16:25-16:35 Oxidative Stress Markers in Adults from the Mexico City Metropolitan Area  (Rubén Marroquín, UNAM)
16:35-16:45 Oxidative Potential of PM obtained at T0 and T1: An evaluation by EPR and DNA degradation   (Raul Quintana-Belmares, INCan)
16:45-17:00 Discussion
17:00-19:00 Poster Session 1
(Refreshments will be provided)
19:30-21:30 Reception (Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico)
Wednesday 16th May
09:00:11:00  Plenary Session 4:  Gas/Photochemistry  (Chair:  Christopher Cantrell, NCAR)
09:00-09:15 Ozone Production and its Sensitivity to NOx and VOCs (Larry Kleinman, DOE/BNL)
09:15-09:30 Mexico City emissions: Mixing and photochemistry in the first few hours of the urban plume (Scott Herndon, ARI)
09:30 -09:40 Observations and Modeling of HOx Radicals during MILAGRO (Christopher Cantrell, NCAR)
09:40-09:50 VOC Measurements at T1: diurnal variations, emissions fingerprint and photochemical production (Joost de Gouw, NOAA)
09:50-10:00 HOx Measurements at T1 during MIRAGE-Mex (Greg Huey, GIT)
10:00-10:10 Analysis of ozone, NOy, and tracer data during ozone events registered at the semi-rural site of Tenango del Aire during MILAGRO (Gerardo Ruiz Suarez, UNAM)
10:10-10:20 VOCs Speciation From Steam Boiler Stacks of Industries Located in Naucalpan   (Gerardo Mejia, ITESM)
10:20-10:30 Vertical column observations of HONO, NO2, HCHO and Glyoxal during MCMA-2006: linking ground-, aircraft- and satellite-based observations (Rainer Volkamer, UCSD/MIT)
10:30-10:40 Photochemical and Lagrangian transport study of the Mexico City plume during the 2006 Megacities and their Impact on the Regional and Global Environment (MIRAGE) Period   (Daniel McKenna, NCAR)
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30  COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session 5:  Modeling   (Chair:  Agustin Garcia, UNAM)
11:30 -11:45 Basin-scale Lagrangian transport and meteorological episodes during MILAGRO (Ben de Foy, SLU/MCE2)
 
11:45-12:00 Evaluation of a Three-Dimensional Chemical Transport Model (PMCAMx) in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (Spyros Pandis, CMU/Univ Patras)
 
11:00-12:15 Predictions of Aerosols Downwind of Mexico City using a Fully-Coupled Meteorology-Chemistry-Aerosol Model (Jerome Fast, DOE/PNNL)
 
12:15-12:25 Ozone Evolution in the Mexico City Plumes during the MIRAGE-MEX Field Campaign (Xuexii Tie, NCAR)
 
12:25-12:35 Model Sensitivity Analysis of Ozone to Mobile Emissions in the MCMA  (Miguel Zavala, MIT/MCE2)
12:35-12:45 Impact of Mexico City on Regional Air Quality (Louisa Emmons, NCAR)
12:45-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-17:00 Plenary Session 6:  Aerosol Chemistry, Microphysics and Optical Properties (Chair:  Stephen Schwartz, DOE/BNL)
14:30-14:45 Composition, Sources, and Transformation Processes of Aerosols observed in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (Douglas Worsnop, ARI)
14;45-15:00 Chemical Characterization of Ambient Aerosols: Primary, Secondary, and Biomass Burning Contributions to Organic Aerosols in Mexico City in 2003 and 2006  (Dara Salcedo, UAEM and Jose Luis Jimenez, CU)
15:00-15:10 Carbonaceous Aerosol Processing in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (Timothy Onasch, ARI)
15:10-15:20 Source apportionment of fine organic aerosol in Mexico City during the MILAGRO Experiment 2006 (James Schauer, Univ Wisconsin)
15:20-15:30 The mixing state as it relates to optical and microphysical properties of aerosols during MILAGRO 2006 (Kim Prather, UCSD)
15:30-15:40 Wavelength Dependence of Aerosol Absorption in Mexico City (Nancy Marley, UALR)
15:40-15:50 Some Aspects of Inorganic Fine Particles (PM1, PM2.5) at T1 during MIRAGE/MILAGRO Study (Mireya Moya, UNAM)
15:50-16:00 Measuring Water-Aerosol Interactions Downwind of Mexico City: Inferences about Chemical Composition and Aging of Ambient Aerosol (Athanasios Nenes, GIT)
16:00-16:10 Aerosol Light Absorption and Scattering at Four Sites in and Near Mexico City: Comparison with Las Vegas, Nevada, USA  (Pat Arnott, DRI)
16:10-16:20 The T1-T2 study: evolution of aerosol properties downwind of Mexico City, with emphasis on black carbon specific absorption (James Barnard, DOE/PNNL)
16:20-16:30 Sub-micron particle characterization downwind the Tula industrial area (Eugenio Gonzales Avalos, IMP)
16:30-17:00 Discussion
17:00-19:00 Poster Session  2
(Refreshment will be provided)
Thursday 17th May
09:00-10:00 Plenary Session 7:  Air Quality, Climate Change and Long-range Transport                       
09:00-09:25 Policy Implications of Air Quality Research and Co-benefit to Climate Change  (Adrian Fernandez, INE/SEMARNAT)
09:25-09:45 Trans-Pacific transport of pollution from Asia to North America (James Crawford, NASA)
09:45-09:55 Charge to Breakout Sessions
10:00 -17:00 Breakout Sessions
10:00-11:00 Breakout Session 1
WG1: Near Field Chemistry                                                                                   
(Co-Chairs:  Rainer Volkamer, Scott Herndon, Joost de Gouw, Gustavo Sosa)
WG2: Meteorology, Transport and Modeling
( Co-Chairs: Jerome Fast, Ben de Foy,  Aron Jazcilevich,  Xuexi Tie)
WG3: Aerosol Optical Properties and Radiative Effects
(Co-Chairs: Philip Russell, Nancy Marley, Yohei Shinozuka, Manvendra Dubey)
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 Breakout Session 1 (Cont)
13:00-14:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:30-17:00 Breakout Session 2
WG4: Mid- and Far-field Chemistry                                                                       
 (Co-Chairs: Peter Daum, Hanwant Singh, James Crawford, Gregory Huey)
WG5: Aerosol Chemistry and Microphysics
(Co-Chairs: Jose-Luis Jimenez, John Jayne, Spyros Pandis, Beatriz Cardenas, Elizabeth Vega)
WG6:  Emissions                                                                                                    
 (Co-Chairs: Brian Lamb, Charles Kolb,  Louisa Emmons, Miguel Zavala)
17:00-19:00 Poster Session 3
(Refreshments will be provided)
19:30-22:30 MILAGRO Documentary Premiere and Reception
Location:  Palacio de la  Autonomia
                (Lic. Primo Verdad #2, Centro Historico)
Friday 18th May
09:00-11:00 Plenary Session 8:  Reports from Working Groups
09:00-09:30 WG1
09:30-10:00 WG2
10:00-10:30 WG3
10:30-11:00 WG4
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 Plenary Session 8 (cont)
11:30-12:00 WG5
12:00-12:30 WG6
12:30-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:30 LUNCH  BREAK
14:30-16:30 Plenary Session 9:  Wrap-up Session
Identify key findings and remaining issues
Identify gaps and needs and new work
Identify potential publication lists
Other issues
Next step
16:30 ADJOURN
16:30-19:00 Refreshments will be provided.
Remove posters.
The meeting areas will be available for teams and groups to discuss collaborative work, publications, reports, etc.