Sunday, June 20, 2010 |
| 18.00 |
Registration & Opening Reception |
| 20.00 |
Close |
Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| 08.30 |
Opening Remarks |
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Conference Chair:
William J. Manning, University of Massachusetts, USA
Gert-Jan Geraeds, Elsevier, The Netherlands
Bryan Glascock, City of Boston, USA
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| 09.00 |
Welcoming Remarks |
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The Honorable Ian Bowles, Secretary for Energy and Environment, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA |
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Urban Environment |
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Keynote Address |
| 09.30 |
Urban metabolism: History, insights and applications |
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Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto, Canada |
| 10.10 |
Refreshment Break |
| 10.30 |
Invited Speaker
Megacities of the world |
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Frauke Kraas, Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| 11.00 |
Invited Speaker
Urbanization in China: Problems and prospects |
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Yong-Guan Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC |
| 11.30 |
Invited Speaker
Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity and conservation |
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Ingo Kowarik, Technical University of Berlin, Germany |
| 12.00 |
Heavy metal pollution: bioindication of trace metals – from smaller to megacities |
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Bernd Markert, Haren, Germany |
| 12.15 |
Effects of diesel exhaust on urban wild plant species |
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Nigel Bell, Imperial College London, UK |
| 12.30 |
Lunch |
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Poster Session 1 |
| 14.00 |
Invited Speaker
Current issues in urban air quality |
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Roy M. Harrison, OBE, University of Birmingham, UK |
| 14.30 |
Air Toxics and New Urbanism: Cause for Pause? |
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Robert Patterson, The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| 14.45 |
Young Research Scientist Award Speaker
Urban carbon dioxide concentration and flux measurements from a building rooftop in Boston, Massachusetts |
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Mark J. PotosnakDePaul UniversityUSA |
| 15.15 |
Young Research Scientist Award Speaker
Urban air quality in street canyons with avenue-like tree planting |
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Christof Gromke, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland |
| 15.45 |
Concentrations, Emissions and Fate of Legacy and Current Use/Production POPs from Toronto, Canada |
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Miriam Diamond, University of Toronto, Canada |
| 16.00 |
Urban Emissions of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) to the Air: A comparison of Cities in North America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe |
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Bojan Gasic, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 16.15 |
Towards Assessing our PBDE Footprint: Estimating an Urban Emission Source Strength of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers |
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Claudia Moeckel, Lancaster University, UK |
| 16.30 |
Refreshment Break |
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Poster Session 1 Continued |
| 18.00 |
Close |
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 |
| 08.00 |
Source, concentration, distribution, and deposition of mercury in urban atmosphere |
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Julia Lu, Ryerson University, Canada |
| 08.15 |
Source apportionment of airborne lead based upon Pb isotopes in Haikou and Sanya, Hainan Island, China: a tropical coastal urban environment |
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Bo Zhang, China University of Geosciences, China |
| 08.30 |
Anatomy of an Urban River: A Case Study of Boston's Muddy River |
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Ferdi Hellweger, Northeastern University, USA |
| 08.45 |
Sources of PAHs to Urban Lakes in the United States |
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Peter Van Metre, US Geological Survey, USA |
| 09.00 |
Biochemical and Molecular Biomarkers of Dreissena polymorpha for Evaluation of Pollution Impacted Urban Watercourses |
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Claudia Wiegand, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
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Human Health |
| 09.15 |
Invited Speaker
Pollution and health effects near highways: The CAFEH study |
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Douglas M. Brugge, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA |
| 09.45 |
An Application of QUIC to Traffic in an Urban Setting |
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John Spengler, EER Harvard School of Public Health, USA |
| 10.00 |
Refreshment Break |
| 10.20 |
Transportation planning tools for public health scientists: An illustrated methodology to assess traffic-related exposures |
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Christine Rioux, Tufts University, USA |
| 10.35 |
Mobility models to assess a person's exposure to urban air pollutants |
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Uew Schlink, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany |
| 10.50 |
Modeling spatial and temporal variation in the distribution of highway-generated air pollution in a residential urban neighborhood |
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Allison St. Vincent, Tufts University, USA |
| 11.05 |
Spatial and temporal variability in urban fine particulate matter concentrations |
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Jonathan Levy, Harvard School of Public Health, USA |
| 11.20 |
Modeling spatial patterns of traffic-related air pollutants in complex urban terrain |
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Leonard Zwack, Harvard School of Public Health, USA |
| 11.35 |
Interaction of Traffic Dynamics and Urban Street Design on Cyclists' Exposure to Ultrafine Particles in Transportation Microenvironments |
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Ashley Haire, Portland State University, USA |
| 11.50 |
Local effects of street closure on airborne particulate concentration and cytokine induction |
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Thomas Whitlow, Cornell University, USA |
| 12.05 |
Urban enhanced mortality during heat waves in Berlin (Germany) |
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Wilfried R. Endlicher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| 12.20 |
Lunch |
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Poster Session 2 |
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Sustainability and Quality of Life |
| 14.00 |
Invited Speaker
Gray wave of the great transformation: A satellite view of urbanization, climate change, and food security |
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Marc L. Imhoff, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA |
| 14.30 |
The Mitigation of Urban Heat Island: A GIS-based Solar Radiation Analysis ad Its Applications in Town Planning |
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Siqing Chen, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 14.45 |
Linking urban landscapes and urban heat islands using remotely sensed techniques and in situ measurements |
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Thomas Houet, GEODE UMR5602 CNRS, France |
| 15.00 |
Invited Speaker
Increasing building energy efficiency through artificial turf and rooftop photovoltaic systems |
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Jan Kleissl, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 15.30 |
Zoning for Health? Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing Urban Health via A Comprehensive Zoning Rewrite |
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Amelia Greiner, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA |
| 15.45 |
Multi-scaled analysis of water resource ability to tackle heat island in Japanese megalopolis |
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Tadanobu Nakayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan |
| 16.00 |
Modeling the life cycle implications of urban green infrastructure development |
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Sabrina Spatari, Drexel University, USA |
| 16.15 |
Young Research Scientist Award Speaker
City ventilation by thermal buoyancy for better urban environment |
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Lina Yang, The University of Hong Kong, PRC |
| 16.45 |
Refreshment Break |
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Poster Session 2 Continued |
| 18.00 |
Close |
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| 08.00 |
Invited Speaker
The efficacy of trees in improving urban environmental quality: The pros and cons |
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Francisco J. Escobedo, University of Florida, USA |
| 08.30 |
Urban Forestry and State Implementation Plans: The Tree Ozone Index |
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Jim Simpson, USDA-Forest Service PSW Research Station, USA |
| 08.45 |
Quantifying Air Quality Improvement by Urban Parks: A Case Study in Shanghai, China |
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Shan Yin, Shanghai Tiao Tong University, PRC |
| 09.00 |
Carbon Sequestration and Distribution in Urban Green Spaces in Shanghai, China |
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Wen-Hua Wang, Shanghai Tiao Tong University, PRC |
| 09.15 |
Carbon Savings Resulting from the Cooling Effects of Green Parks: A Case Study in Beijing |
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Wen-Qi Lin, Tsinghua University, PRC |
| 09.30 |
Invited Speaker
The potential of green roofs to provide ecosystems services |
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Bradley Rowe, Michigan State University, USA |
| 10.00 |
Positive Effects of Vegetation: Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Green Roofs |
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Tiziana Susca, Polytechnic of Bari and Columbia University, USA |
| 10.15 |
Effects of Biochar-Amended Soil on the Water Quality of Greenroof Runoff |
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Graig Spolek, Portland State University, USA |
| 10.30 |
Refreshment Break |
| 10.50 |
Invited Speaker
OPAL: A community-driven environmental research programme |
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Linda Davies, Imperial College, London, UK |
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Summation and Recommendations |
| 11.20 |
Summation and Recommendations |
| 12.15 |
Closing Remarks |
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William J. Manning, University of Massachusetts, USA |
