2020-2021 SOCAAR Seminar Series

If you're interested in viewing any of the seminar videos listed on this page, please email Natalie Leung (natalieyl.leung@utoronto.ca) to request access to the video link.

May 12, 2021

Dr. Joshua Apte, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Topic: Think globally, breathe locally: measuring inequity in air pollution from the global to neighborhood scales

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March 3, 2021

Dr. Thomas Preston, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Department of Chemistry, McGill University

Topic: Optical trapping and spectroscopy of single aerosol particles

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February 3, 2021

Dr. Vishal Verma, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Topic: Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter - An assessment of the relative contributions from various aerosol components and their emission sources

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January 13, 2021

Dr. Christopher Carlsten, MD, Professor, Division Head Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Topic: A Controlled Human Exposure Model to Understand Health Effects of Depleting Particles from TRAP

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December 2, 2020

Dr. Eric Lavigne, Senior Epidemiologist, Air Health Science Division, Health Canada
Sara Zapata-Marin, PhD candidate, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University

Topic: Spatiotemporal variations in aeroallergens in the City of Toronto

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November 4, 2020

Dr. Jenna Ditto, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto

Topic: Leveraging Non-Targeted Tandem Mass Spectrometry to Track the Evolution of Complex Multiphase Mixtures in the Atmosphere

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October 7, 2020

Dr. Laura Minet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth Sciences and Civil & Mineral Engineering
University of Toronto

Topic: How Can We Minimize Population Exposure to Air Pollution?

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