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<div style="margin:0px">Here is a reminder that we have a<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_mark45ma4kt44" style="margin:0px">MET</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_mark1u4tn42ja" style="margin:0px">seminar</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>at
3:30 PM on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2021. The related information can be found in the following and the attached flyer. </div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Speaker</b>: Dr. Alexandra Karambelas, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management</div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Title</b>:<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Modeling to inform decision-making about the persistent ozone pollution problem in
the LISTOS region</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Abstract</b>: <span style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Ambient air pollution in the United States has been improving since the passing of the Clean
Air Act in 1970, with increasingly stringent standards leading to cleaner air. However, the NYC metropolitan area and surrounding regions of Connecticut, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, home to nearly 23 million people, persistently exceed both past
and recently revised federal health-based air quality standards for ground-level ozone (O3). In addition, urban residents can be exposed to higher levels of health damaging fine particle and air toxic pollutants concentrated at “hot-spots” in close proximity
to high-density traffic and other local air pollution sources. The Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) was launched in the summer of 2018 to better understand the complex chemistry and transport of pollution in the region, with a special focus
on Long Island Sound (LIS) where a land-sea breeze feature often leads to the highest ozone concentrations occurring along the Connecticut shoreline. LISTOS involved a number of state and federal agencies along with university research groups in a multi-faceted
coordinated campaign, with measurements obtained on land, in air, at sea, and from space. We use the coupled Weather Research and Forecasting and Community Mulit-scale Air Quality (WRF-CMAQ) model at a 1.33 km by 1.33 km resolution over the LISTOS region to
simulate urban-scale air quality and improve our understanding of the production and transport of O3 and its precursors in the region. We test meteorological model parameters to optimize model performance for NYC and LIS, and we leverage observations gathered
during the 2018 LISTOS field campaign for spatiotemporal model evaluation. In ongoing collaborations with LISTOS participants, we conduct sensitivity simulations to understand and evaluate changes in source contributions to O3pollution in the LIS over time
and under polluted conditions. With ongoing LISTOS research, we can continue to support decision-making to reduce future O3 air pollution problems for the people in the LISTOS region.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Time</b>: 3:30 PM, Apr. 8, 2021</div>
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<span style="margin:0px"><b>Zoom Meeting</b>:<span style="margin:0px"> <a href="https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93408670445?pwd=SWlrNzE3L1JHbWxudEh3dkZsalJtdz09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;outline:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93408670445?pwd=SWlrNzE3L1JHbWxudEh3dkZsalJtdz09</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">We will start the zoom meeting site to meet the speaker at 3:00 PM. It is also noted a post-<span class="x_mark1u4tn42ja" style="margin:0px">seminar</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>student-speaker
session will start immediately after the<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span class="x_mark1u4tn42ja" style="margin:0px">seminar</span>.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Cheers,</div>
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<span style="margin:0px;color:black;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Zhaohua</span></div>
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