Innovative Project Grants for Divisional Enhancement Sponsored by the Council Committee on Divisional Activities (DAC)
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[email protected] Date: 2 February 2014
Status
Final
Division Name: Environmental Chemistry Project Title: Intersociety Initiative to Address Air Quality at the Interface of Megacity and Agricultural Areas Start Date: (DD/MM/YY) 1 May 2013 Completion Date: (DD/MM/YY) 31Dec 2013 Division Chair: Tracy Williamson Division Project Contact: (name, email) George Cobb;
[email protected] Funding Received from DAC: $ 7500 Other Funding Received: $2650 Project Assessment: The division of Environmental Chemistry and the Agrochemical Division of ACS collaborated with the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry to organize a symposium of international speakers to continue scientific discourse surrounding the topic of Atmospheric Processes at the Interface of Mega-Cities and Agricultural Areas. Speakers represented industrial, academic and government sectors in a symposium at the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN. Presentations were made by students, early career professionals, and established scientists. Topics of presentations included processes near Mexico City, Miami, Buenos Aires, as well as monitoring approaches at boundary layers and in the tropospheric across continental South America.
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[email protected] The session received funds from the DAC-IPG pool, both co-sponsoring divisions, the Committee for Environmental Improvement, and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Funds were used primarily for speaker registration and partial travel reimbursement. Speakers also shared lunch with organizers from ENVR and AGRO. Government travel restrictions and global economic climate prevented many planned participants, including students from presenting in the session. Even so, the session encompassed one full day. Discussions among speakers and audience members continued during the lunch break and after the symposium. Several of the speakers participated in Division social activities and were able to engage the broader membership through those events. Describe the impact of these funds on the Division (if applicable): This project provided the opportunity of ENVR and AGRO to strengthening cooperative programming. The topic is noted by NSF as a topic of emerging concern and inclusion of this symposium places ACS at the forefront of atmospheric science. The established scientists who spoke in the symposium interacted with students and young professionals attending the symposium. This was an opportunity for the agrochemicals community and atmospheric environmental chemists to interact at a high level and to strengthen communications for possible pursuits of NSF funding for future workshops or research collaborations. Also, EVNR has a student exchange program with SETAC, and AGRO has engaged reciprocal symposia with SETAC. Both of these relationships as well as the strong cooperative spirit that has developed between AGRO and ENVR allow us to pursue significant cooperative interactions. The symposium was the first trilateral cooperation among our organizations and has solidified the cooperative engagement of all three units. It is hoped that continued collaborations can lead to a stand-alone special topic meeting.
