We are excited to announce our 2nd plenary keynote for #CMASconf2023! Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer (Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer), CIRES Associate Director for Science and Research Professor at CU Boulder 🦬, will present on "Current challenges and opportunities in modeling wildfire emissions" #airquality

If you are using HPC for your air quality assessments, see new guidance from CMAS Center on using cloud computing to run #CMAQ. 2023 Annual Conf in Chapel Hill will also have a half-day hands-on tutorial on how to configure and run CMAQ on a cloud instance. Advanced Regn reqd

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

Look out for the winner of this year's most engaged Community User from the #CMAS Community to be announced on Wednesday during the lunchtime celebration at the #CMASconf2023

Thanks to Earthworks for a nice panel discussion today on this topic of #OilandGas, #AirQuality and #Health

Seen at #COP28 in Dubai. But didn’t see any brave soul venture into the pods though to experience poor #AirQuality

First Ministerial event at COP bringing health into the center of #Climate discussions. 123 countries ready to sign health declaration with call to prioritize #humanhealth in action against climate change . $1B funds announced to invest against #climatehealth risks #COP28UAE #WHO

Energy transition accelerator at #COP28UAE . 117 countries committing to triple #renewableenergy and double #energyefficiency by 2030 +1 when Mexico joined in the middle of the summit

Heard at #COP28UAE Only 4 countries in the world have #water as Constitutional right .. courtesy President of Slovenia

Summit on #Methane and other non-CO2 GHGs. Powerful remarks by 2 of the largest Methane emitters - US Envoy John Kerry and China Envoy on stage #COP28UAE along with Pres of Nigeria and COP28 Pres. 50 countries endorsed global cooling pledge by reducing Methane. UAE pledging $100M

Spl Pres Envoy John Kerry at #Methane summit #COP28UAE “new sense of energy here.. no pun intended”, “ when best scientists unanimously tell us that we are on the brink of tipping point”, “can hear what MotherNature & Science tells us..not politics, not ideology, got to act now”

For the last 17 years, Neasha Graves has provided information and resources to educate communities about environmental health hazards. Read more about her remarkable career 🔽 ie.unc.edu/news/outreach-…

See recent paper on #spatiotemporal trends in #PM25, while also noting that the #chemical composition of PM2.5 has changed quite a bit. Great work led by Bin Cheng who showed this variation by US region

Good to talk to USA Today about changes in air quality trends in the U.S. and the role of wildfires. Nice interactive resource to check for your county. UNC Institute for the Environment As wildfire smoke chokes LA, see how many-bad air days your county had usatoday.com/story/news/inv… via @usatoday