Conference Program
 
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

June 17-22, 2001
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

Chair:
Stanley P. Sander

Vice Chair:
Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts

Financial support from the following organizations and agencies is gratefully acknowledged:

  • Gordon Research Conferences
  • Institute for Global Change Research
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration
  • National Science Foundation
  • U. S. Department of Energy

SUNDAY, JUNE 17
2:00-11:00 p. m. Arrival & Registration
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:15 Welcome
Satellite Measurements of the Troposphere
7:30 p. m. Introduction by Discussion Leader A. Thompson
7:45R. Kahn
Assessing the Strengths and Limitation of New Space-borne Aerosol Measurement Techniques
8:25Discussion
8:40J. Drummond
Measurements of Tropospheric Composition: Current Capabilities and Future Hopes
9:20Discussion
9:40-11:00Reception
MONDAY, JUNE 18
7:30-8:30 a. m. Breakfast
Tropospheric Aerosols
8:45 a. m.Introduction by Discussion Leader C. O'Dowd
9:00P. Buseck
Individual Aerosol Particles from Biomass Burning
9:40 Discussion
9:55Conference photo followed by coffee break
10:30 Y. Rudich
Toward an Understanding of the Chemistry of Organic Aerosols -a Laboratory Perspective
11:10 Discussion
11:25 P. McMurry
Novel Techniques for Characterizing the Physical and Chemical Properties of Ultrafine Diesel Particulate Emissions
12:05 Discussion
12:30 Lunch / Put up posters for Poster Session I
4:30-6:00Poster Sesssion I
6:00 p. m.Dinner
Snowpack Chemistry/ Arctic and Antarctic Boundary Layer
7:30 Introduction by Discussion Leader R. Honrath
7:45 P. Shepson
Studies of the Interaction of Carbonyl Compounds with Snow, and the Impact on Arctic Boundary Layer Photochemistry
8:25Discussion
8:40 J. McConnell
Speculations on Halogen Chemistry in the Troposphere, from Polar Surface Chemistry to Hydrogenated CFCs
9:20Discussion
TUESDAY, JUNE 19
7:30-8:30 a. m. Breakfast
Stratospheric Chemistry and Dynamics – Chemistry in the Polar Regions
9:00 Introduction by Discussion Leader B. Toon
9:15A. Tabazadeh
Volcanoes, Polar Clouds and Arctic Ozone
9:55 Discussion
10:10 Coffee Break
10:40D. Fahey
The Causes and Effects of Denitrification in the Arctic Stratosphere
11:20 Discussion
11:35 M. Chipperfield
Ozone Depletion in the Polar Lower Stratosphere – Past, Present and Future
12:15 Discussion
12:30Lunch / Put up posters for Poster Session II
4:30-6:00 Poster Sesssion II
6:00 p. m. Dinner
Stratospheric Chemistry and Dynamics – Water Vapor Transport
7:30 Introduction by Discussion Leader:E. Moyer
7:45K. Rosenlof
Global Transport Features Deduced from Stratospheric Water Vapor Observations
8:25Discussion
8:40 S. Sherwood
Recent Progress on Stratospheric Water Vapor
9:20 Discussion / Take down posters from Poster Session I by end of day.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
7:30-8:30 a. m. Breakfast
Crossroads of Laboratory and Theory in Atmospheric Kinetics
9:00 Introduction by Discussion Leader P. Wine
9:15 D. Golden
Perfection, the Enemy of Good:Rate Constants for Atmospheric Modeling
9:55Discussion
10:20 Coffee Break
10:40 N. Donahue
What forms the Potential Energy Surface, What Happens on it, and Why We Should Care:Case Studies in Barrier Height Control and Chemical Activation
11:20 Discussion
11:35D. Worsnop
Gas-Aerosol Interactions:Resolving Surface and Bulk Chemistry, Reaction and Diffusion
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch / Put up posters for Poster Session III
4:30-6:00 Poster Session III
6:00 Dinner
Climate and Chemistry – Sun/ Earth Interactions
7:30 Business Meeting
8:00 Introduction by Discussion Leader C. Jackman
8:15 D. Siskind
Solar/ Terrestrial Coupling:Upper Atmospheric Nitric Oxide, Stratospheric Ozone
8:25 Discussion
9:10 L. Hood
Effects of Solar UV Variability on the Stratosphere
9:50 Discussion
THURSDAY, JUNE 21
7:30-8:30 a. m. Breakfast
Global Tropospheric Chemistry
9:00 Introduction by Discussion Leader J. Logan
9:15D. Blake
Using NMHC and Halocarbon Concentrations to Estimate Removal Processes
9:55 Discussion
10:10 Coffee Break
10:40 H. Levy II
Global and Regional Budgets for Tropospheric Ozone
11:20 Discussion
11:35 R. Derwent
Tropospheric Chemistry and Global Climate Change
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
6:00 Dinner
Urban/ Regional-Scale Chemistry
7:30Introduction by Discussion Leader B. Croes
7:45 S. Paulson
OH Radicals, Hydroperoxides, Acids, Alkenes and Ozone
8:25 Discussion
8:40 T. Russell
Regional Transport and Chemistry and the Impacts on Ozone and PM
9:20 Discussion / Take down posters by end of day

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