Advanced BioFuels USA

Reason for concern: 3.8 billion people (49% of the global population) still rely on traditional energy sources to support household needs such as cooking, heating, and lighting. Due to this, household air pollution is a top-ten risk factor for global morbidity and mortality.

This webinar will provide a summary of research findings from STAR Grant RD83543801 “Quantifying the climate, air quality and health benefits of improved cookstoves: An integrated laboratory, field and modeling study” and related, ongoing research at Colorado State University.

The study featured a unique approach to integrate multi-level laboratory and field emissions testing and exposure monitoring that fed into indoor exposure and global air quality and climate models. Field measurements were conducted, with the support of local partners, in China, India, Kenya, and Honduras. Join us to gain insights on the implications of study results to improve air quality management decisions and climate evaluation.

Webinar participation is free. For the webinar, a high-speed internet connection is required. Please note that the webinar technology allows attendees to listen to audio through their computer or by phone. Additional log-in information will be provided upon registration.

Register today for the January 14th webinar

Date and Time: January 14, 2021 – 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)/Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST)

For more information on this webinar, please contact: erhs_ashes@mail.colostate.edu   READ MORE

Meet our presenters:

Dr. John Volckens is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Energy Development and Health at Colorado State University (CSU). He holds affiliate appointments in Environmental Health, Biomedical Engineering, the Colorado School of Public Health, and the CSU Energy Institute. His research interests involve air quality, exposure science, and air pollution-related disease. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Vermont and MS, PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received postdoctoral training at the U.S. EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC. At CSU, he has pioneered the development of several new pollution sensor technologies, which have been deployed for public health research in over 30 different countries and as far away as the International Space Station. He is a co-founder of Access Sensor Technologies, a company started through his research collaborations at Colorado State University and receives grant funding from the US EPA, NIH, CDC, and NASA.

Dr. Jeff Pierce is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. His group works to understand the climate and health impacts of global air pollution using measurements, satellite data, and models. Their research has a particular focus on pollution from combustion sources from wildfires to cookstoves. His group has worked to refine and compare health-effect estimates from indoor and outdoor air pollution from cookstoves as well as estimating the health and climate effects of outdoor waste combustion. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Dr. Kelsey Bilsback is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Colorado State University. Her work focuses on energy conversion technology and policy, with an emphasis on cookstoves emissions, exposures, and climate/health impacts. During her PhD, she pioneered the development of the Firepower Sweep Test and helped lead field campaigns to evaluate cookstove emissions in Uganda, India, China, and Honduras. As a postdoc, she uses global chemical-transport models to examine the air quality, health, and climate impacts of solid-fuel use and energy transition policies. Kelsey has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University and a BA in Physics from Boston University.   READ MORE