Newsletter
Fifth Workshop on Air Pollution
Ixtapan de la Sal, Estado de México
January 21-24, 2002
The report for the Fifth Workshop on Air Pollution is being distributed via downloadable PDF. To download the file, just click on the link below and the file will download to your hard disk and open in Adobe Acrobat.
Below are links to the PowerPoint presentations (these files require Internet Explorer to display properly):
Plenary I: Implementation of PROAIRE 2001-2010: Opportunities and Challenges
- Automobile Technology Improvement Commitment for the Decade (Nemesio Ruiz)
- Programa de Gas Natural Comprimido para el Transporte Público de Pasajeros en la ZMVM (ECOMEX)
- Emission Reduction from Federal Intercity Buses (Diesel) (Eugenio Paci)
- Programa de Sustitución de Microbuses por Autobuses (Aaron Mastache)
- Design of the Taxi Fleet Renewal Program (Luz Elena González)
Plenary II: Panel Discussion on PROAIRE 2001-2010
- National Action Program on Environmental Health: Emphasis on Air Pollution (Carlos Santos-Burgoa)
Plenary Session III: Energy, Air Quality, and Climate Change
- Energy and the Environment: Historical Evolution and Perspectives (Francisco Barnés)
- The Federal District Strategies Concerning Climate Change (Oscar Vázquez)
- U.S.-Mexico Cooperation on Global Climate Change (Lawrence Sperling)
Plenary Session IV: Health Impacts of Air Pollution
- Study of Diesel Exposure and Lung Cancer in the US Trucking Industry (Thomas Smith)
- Estudio Metropolitano para evaluar efectos crónicos de la contaminación en Escolares (Gustavo Olaiz)
- Toxicological Studies of Particulate Matter in Mexico City (Álvaro Osornio)
- PM2.5 Exposure in Susceptible Populations in the MCMA: What have we learned and where are we heading? (Fernando Holguin)
Plenary Session V: Impact of Transportation and Urban Development on Air Quality and Mobility
- Overview of the Vehicle Emissions Research of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) (Alberto Ayala)
- Recent Development in the Integrated Transportation Program of the Government of Federal District: 2002-2006 (Victor Hugo Páramo)
- Avances en los Programas de Desarrollo del Transporte en el Estado de México (Ignacio Sanchez)
- New Mexican I&M Standards Focus on QA/QC (John Rogers)
- Policy Options to Reduce Mobile Source Emissions and Congestion: The Delhi Case (T. R. Lakshmanan and William P. Anderson)
- Representing the Transportation/Environmental System in Mexico City as a CLIOS (Complex, Large-Scale, Integrated, Open System) (Joseph Sussman)
Plenary VI: Emissions Inventory, Atmospheric Measurements and Modeling
- Results of Mobile Laboratory Measurements of Urban Emissions Sources and Airborne Pollution Distributions in Boston and New York City (Charles Kolb)
- The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC): Inventory Development Work in Mexico (Paul Miller)
- Progress on the MCMA Emissions Inventory, 1998 (Rocio Reyes and Jorge Sarmiento)
- Some numerical experiments for atmospheric circulation in the MCMA (Víctor O. Magaña Rueda)
- Status of the Air Quality Monitoring in Mexico City (Rafael Ramos-Villegas)
- Status of the Air Quality Monitoring in Mexico City (Francisco Hernandez and Andres Aguilar)
Plenary Session VII: Wrap-up Session
- Environmental Regulation & Technology Innovation/ Implementation (Applicability of Lessons Learned Elsewhere) (Praveen Amar)
- Atmospheric Science Working Group Breakout Session Report
- Integrated Scenario Analysis & Strategies Working Group (Luis Arturo Rivas)
- Report from the Breakout Session on Transportation and Urban Planning
- Opportunities in Environmental Education and Outreach (Luisa Molina, Gerardo Mejia, and Amelia Garza)
- The Research and Development Network on Air Quality in Large Cities (La Red)
Breakout Session A: Atmospheric Science Working Group
- Measurement and Receptor Modeling for VOC Apportionment in Mexico City (Elizabeth Vega)
- Modeling Ozone Chemistry in the MCMA: Are Hydrocarbon Emissions Underestimated? (Jason West and Miguel Zavala) (MIT Modeling)
- Application of the Multiscale Climatic and Chemistry Model to the Central Region of Mexico (Arón Jazcilevich, Agustín García, and Luis Gerardo Ruiz).
- Adjusting Ozone Trends for Meteorology in the MCMA (Pablo Cicero-Fernandez)
- Differences Between Two Methods for PM10 Sampling in Mexico City (Armando Retama and Margarita Castillejos)
- Mexico City’s Aerosol Cycle: Recent Results and Future Studies (Darrel Baumgardner, Telma Castro, and Graciela Raga)
- An Uncertainty Rule for Suspended Particles? (Gerardo Ruiz Suarez)
- Investigación para el Desarrollo de Combustibles de Bajo Impacto Ambiental (d.888) (Jorge Gasca Ramirez)
- Enhanced Lightning Activity Around the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (Rafael Navarro, Renyi Zhang, and Richard E. Orville)
Breakout Session B: Transportation and Urban Planning Working Group
- Determinacion de Emisiones Vehiculares con Empleo de Sensor Remoto en la ZMVM (Gabriel Lopez Vidal)
- La Cultura Del Mantenimiento Y La Conciencia Ecológica
Breakout Session C: Health Effects Working Group
- Health Effects of Air Pollution on Patients with Ischemic Cardiopathy in Mexico City (Horacio Riojas Rodríguez, José Antonio Escamilla, Cejudo Jesús Antonio González Hermosillo, Leonora Rojas Bracho, Mayte Vallejo Allende, and José Luis Texcalac)
- Air pollution, socioeconomic conditions and daily mortality in Mexico City (Marie O'Neill)
- Maps (Marie O'Neill)
- Comparative Risk Assessment of Toxic Air Pollutants in Mexico City (Paulina Serrano)
- The Economic Value of Reducing Health Risks in MCMA (Jim Hammit and María Ibarrarán)
- Value of Information Analysis: A Tool for Considering Research Priorities in Mexico City (Miriam Zuk)
Breakout Session D: Integrated Scenario Analysis and Strategies Working Group
- Strategies for Megacity Management: The Case of the MCMA, part 1 (Luis Arturo Rivas Tovar)
- Strategies for Megacity Management: The Case of the MCMA, part 2 (Luis Arturo Rivas)
