清华大学清洁能源讲坛系列报告（三十八）（CLEAN ENERGY FORUM）

Title：Air Quality Impacts and Insights: International Research Developments inMonitoring, Modelling and Mitigation

Reporter：Roderic Jones

Time：3:30pm, Nov. 20, 2017（Monday）

Place：Lecture Hall, Department of Thermal Engineering

Abstract：

In this presentation we will describe the use of low-cost sensors for measuring air quality. We will show how coupling measurements from low-cost sensors to appropriate analysis techniques can provide important insights into both the chemistry and the physics of the atmosphere. And then show how sensors deployed as networks can provide additional information for source attribution, and that when this is coupled to appropriate computer models they can be the basis for a validated predictive tool for interventions. We will then show some observations from the ongoing APHH collaborative campaign in Beijing involving UK and Chinese scientists. In the final part of the presentation we will show how personal monitoring using portable sensors can provide important constraints on the exposure and hence dose of patients within cohorts, providing one essential component for establishing causal links between exposure to high levels of air pollution and health effects. Finally, we outline some potentially important future research directions.

Brief Biography：

Roderic Jones is Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

He obtained his first degree in Physics at the University of Oxford before obtaining a D. Phil. in Atmospheric Physics, again at the University of Oxford. He spent five years at the UK Meteorological Office where he was involved, inter alia, with studies of the Antarctic ozone hole, before joining the Department of Chemistry in Cambridge in 1990.

He currently runs an active research group where his research interests are in atmospheric physics and chemistry, extending from local air quality/pollution to regional and global photochemical processes and to global climate change. A particular interest of his research team is the development and exploitation of novel observational techniques and the interpretation of observations using computer models, and in recent years he has pioneered the use of low cost sensors for air quality monitoring and exposure-health studies.

He is also a Fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge where he teaches undergraduate physical chemistry.