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Princeton-PKU Student/Young Scientist Workshop on Air Pollution and Climate

by Wenkai Liang

05/05/2015

May 9th, 2015
Location: E-Quad E219, Princeton University
Sponsored by Prof. Tong Zhu, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University (PKU)
Organized by Princeton University China Energy Group
Note: * indicates PKU alumni

Keynote Speaker (9:00am - 9:30am)

Prof. Tong Zhu, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Princeton Global Scholar

Session I: Climate-related research (9:30am – 11:20am)

Guofang Miao*. Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
Could forested wetlands be treated as upland forests in global carbon dynamics? – A case study in a coastal forested wetland in southeastern USA

Yue Qin*. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Climate implications of China’s natural gas supply choices

Zhong Zheng. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Fluid injection into a confined porous reservoir -- implications to geological CO2 sequestration

Hang Deng*. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Accounting for the leakage risk of geologic CO2 storage and its impacts on climate mitigation and the global energy system

Break

Session II: Air pollution I - Interactions with climate (11:30am – 12:30pm)

Mingjin Tang*. Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
Gas-aerosol-cloud-climate interaction: Linking physical chemistry to the roles of aerosol particles in air quality and climate change

Wei Peng*. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Potential benefits of long-distance electricity transmission for air quality and climate

Lunch

Session III: Air pollution II - Atmospheric Chemistry (1:30pm – 3:00pm)

Yue Zhang*. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Changing shapes and implied viscosities of suspended submicron particles

Yingjun Liu*. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Isoprene photochemistry: connecting laboratory and field studies

Chunxiang Ye*. Worthworth Center, New York
Rapid recycling of reactive nitrogen: HONO and NOx

Break

Session IV: Air pollution III - Emissions, modeling and impacts (3:10pm – 4:40pm)

Lei Tao. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Mobile mapping of urban emissions in Beijing and North China Plain

Yixin Guo*. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Evaluation of intercontinental transport of ozone pollutant in CTM, using fully-tag, tagged-N, and sensitivity study

Jicheng Gong*. Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
The application of biomarkers to investigate the health effects of ambient air pollution on human