Invited Speakers...
The following speakers will present at the conference. More speakers will be added as confirmed.
Keynote Speaker
Christopher Kennedy
Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
- Urban metabolism
Special Guest Speaker
The Honorable Ian Bowles
Secretary for Energy and Environment, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA
Plenary Speaker
Douglas M. Brugge
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Traffic pollution and human health
Linda Davies
Imperial College, London, UK
OPAL - Open Air Laboratories
Francisco Escobedo
University of Florida, USA
- Urban trees and sustainability
Roy Harrison OBE
University of Birmingham, UK
- Air quality in urban environments
Marc Imhoff
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- Gray Wave of the Great Transformation:
A Satellite View of Urbanization, Climate Change, and Food Security
Jan Kleissl
University of California, San Diego, USA
- Urban heat island mitigation
Ingo Kowarik
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Biodiversity in urban environments
Frauke Kraas
University of Cologne, Germany
- Megacities of the world
Bradley Rowe
Michigan State University, USA
- Ecoroofs (green roofs)
Yong-Guan Zhu
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Urbanization in China: Problems and prospects
Young Research Scientist Award Winners
Mark J. Potosnak
DePaul University, USA
- Urban carbon dioxide concentration and flux measurements from a building rooftop in Boston, Massachusetts
Christof Gromke
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
- Urban air quality in street canyons with avenue-like tree planting
Lina Yang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Ventilation by thermal buoyancy for better urban environment