Welcome to the inaugural Intensive Workshop on Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry (IWAEC)! This workshop will take place over Zoom from July 12–16, 2021.
This 4-day workshop is designed to improve the breadth and depth of knowledge for graduate students in important research areas in environmental and atmospheric chemistry. The workshop seeks to develop the molecular-level chemical understanding of each of these topics, and demonstrate how concepts and approaches from chemistry along with other disciplines are necessary to properly understand environmental chemical systems. Participants from non-chemistry backgrounds are welcome to attend if they are interested in better understanding environmental and atmospheric chemistry at the molecular chemical mechanism level. A combination of lectures, readings, interactive problem-solving, and discussions will introduce students to the fundamentals in four major topics in environmental and atmospheric chemistry, as well as the links between them:
Monday: Gas phase chemistry
Tuesday: Multiphase and heterogeneous processes
Wednesday: Global and regional modelling
Thursday: Nucleation and particle formation
After taking this workshop, we hope that participants will:
Have a greater appreciation for research areas outside of their focus
Better understand research articles and presentations on a range of topics
Have a better understanding of how their research fits into the broader picture
Know where important resources can be found
Identify the key role that chemistry and its molecular-level perspectives and approaches contribute to current research in these topics
Have an appreciation of the wide range of disciplines that are necessary to support and compliment atmospheric and environmental chemistry research
Have established a peer network
Please register using this form by July 6th.
More information regarding this Workshop will be posted on this website in early July. If you have any questions please contact the co-organizers Tara Kahan (tara.kahan@usask.ca) & Ryan Sullivan (rsullivan@cmu.edu).