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Events for December 07, 2007
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An Air Quality Engineer in Industry
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:
Patricia G Menjivar,
Senior Environmental, Health and Safety Engineer,
Environmental, Health and Safety,
Space and Airborne Systems,
Raytheon Company,
El Segundo, CaliforniaAbstract:California's air pollution control program is one of the most effective in the world. California legislature is continuously in the forefront of newly created air quality regulations that affect not just California but the Nation. Industry in California must keep abreast of newly created regulations, such as AB32. Despite these improvements, California continues to face the nation's greatest air quality challenge. An Air Quality Engineer must work these challenges with Industry for efficient and feasible outcomes while keeping the mission to find and support alternatives or reduce hazards in order to protect the environment and its citizens. Ms. Patricia Menjivar will present her experiences as a Senior Air Quality Engineer.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Regional Earth System Modeling and Forecasting
Fri, Dec 07, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Yi Chao,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CAAbstract: It was March 5, 1950, the first computerized weather forecast was issued using the world's first-ever electronic computer known as ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer). It took just about 24 hours to make a 24-hour forecast. Today, a 7-day weather forecast takes only a few hours on today's supercomputers, and it becomes routine to check weather conditions before taking a vacation.In this talk, I will summarize the essential elements of a weather forecasting system. I will then review the current research and progress to apply the weather forecast technology in forecasting other Earth system components such as hurricane, ocean and climate. Our recent experiences in developing a forecasting system for the southern California coastal ocean will be described. The needs to refine these forecast systems ( e.g., increase the spatial resolutions from kilometers to meters down to the street level for air quality forecasting) and the associated information technology and computational challenge will be discussed.About the speaker (http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Chao/)
Dr. Yi Chao received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Princeton University in a joint graduate program with NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. After two years' postdoc research at UCLA, he joined Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology as a Research Scientist in 1993. He is now a Principal Scientist and the manager for the Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Section within the science division. His research interests include satellite oceanography with a particular focus on coastal oceans, numerical modeling and data assimilation, interdisciplinary science of Earth system science, and climate variability and change.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
