Professor David Carslaw, University of York

David has a joint position between the Department of Chemistry at the University of York where he is a Professor of Urban Air Pollution and Ricardo Energy & Environment. He has a long-term interest in the impact of road vehicle emissions on urban air quality, leading experimental and analysis work over many years that has quantified the impacts vehicles have on concentrations of NO₂ in the atmosphere. A second major focus has been the development of open-source analysis techniques to derive insights from air pollution measurements. These techniques and tools form part of the ‘openair’ R package that is widely used throughout the world. The presentation will focus on the many recent developments in the openair suite of packages including the comprehensible and easy access to vast amounts of UK air quality data, advanced methods for understanding pollutant sources, new mapping capabilities and the tools needed to ‘deweather’ air quality data.

Dr David Green, Imperial College London

Dr David Green is a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London where he leads the Aerosol Science Team. His research interests focus on the measurement of particles and gases, and their use in source apportionment and health studies. He established the air quality supersites in London, where the atmospheric chemical and physical composition is measured continuously at high time resolution. The data feeds real time public information systems and informs the national forecasting tools. Increasingly, his research focuses on specific transport environments or specific sources such as brake and tyre wear, to understand how these measurements can be used in health studies to assess the impact of particles and their different composition on health end points.

Georgina McGivern, The Camden Clean Air Initiative

Georgina McGivern co-founded The Camden Clean Air Initiative in the summer of 2022 and has been the Programme Manager ever since. Before this, Georgina worked for Project Waterfall, a charity that provides clean drinking water to coffee growing communities, as well as spending numerous hours volunteering for refugee charities. Her passion has always been within the non-profit sector and she is now turning this attention to the climate crisis.

Within the role at The Camden Clean Air Initiative, Georgina engages with the community, leads on projects, recruits partners, organises events and media, and manages a team. She is committed to making a positive difference in the community around her, and is ready to grow The Camden Clean Air Initiative across London.

Louisa Kramer, Ricardo

Sarah Horrocks, Atkins Ltd

Sarah Horrocks, Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Scientist, is the Head of Air Quality and Emissions at Atkins with over 20 years’ experience in environmental consultancy. She acts as the discipline lead on high profile client projects including in the transport, water and land development markets.  Sarah has expansive knowledge of atmospheric dispersion modelling and emissions management, having contributed to nationally significant infrastructure projects for road and rail schemes, power stations and port expansion. She has prepared and presented evidence for DCO hearings and public inquiries and was one of the authors of the IAQM guidance for assessment of impacts on ecological habitats. Most recently, Sarah has been designing multi-parameter monitoring surveys and analysing and interpreting the data collected from land remediation sites across London to inform mitigation techniques.  She is passionate about the need for good quality data in order to provide robust findings that can withstand scrutiny.

Professor Francis Pope, University of Birmingham

Professor Francis Pope is an expert on the causes and effects of air pollution, drawing together insight from a multidisciplinary perspective to understand how air pollution affects human health and how it relates to urban development. He currently has active projects in the UK, Europe, Africa, and India, through which he interacts with various stakeholders, including academics; international, government and city authorities; charities, and UN bodies. Before gaining his professorship in atmospheric science in 2018, he held a Birmingham Fellowship (2012-2017), which allowed outstanding, high potential researchers to establish world-leading research groups. His work on low-cost sensors is well known internationally.  However, successful air quality management and control not only requires measurement of air pollution levels, but it also requires information on the sources and their relative importance. This talk will focus on using low-cost sensors to deliver source apportionment at the fraction of the cost of regulatory approaches.

Philbert Chan, RSSB

Philbert Chan is the Air Quality Lead at the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) with over 15 years’ of experience in air quality. RSSB is the independent safety, standards and research body for Great Britain’s rail network. Philbert is leading and delivering collaborative research and implementation projects to identify air quality issues across the rail network and help deliver solutions to mitigate and improve air quality where possible. Key projects that are being delivered at present are the network-wide Stations Air Quality Monitoring Network (AQMN) as well as the development of Rail Air Quality Targets. Philbert has previosuly worked in the consultancy sector for over 10 years with a wide range of experience and knowledge including for example dispersion modelling, monitoring and emissions inventory.

Helen Pearce, Air Quality Consultants (part of Logika Group)

Trends in UK NOx and NO₂ concentrations: where are we 3 years on from the Covid-19 pandemic?

Helen is a Consultant with the Air Quality Consultants (AQC, part of the Logika Group).  Prior to joining AQC she was based at the University of Birmingham, completing a BSc in Geography, MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and PhD in Environmental Health & Risk Management. Her PhD was entitled: “real-time integrated modelling of transported related air pollution in urban street networks”. Additionally, she provided the air quality modelling expertise on the NERC-funded project, ‘GI4RAQ’ (Green Infrastructure for Roadside Air Quality), to quantitively assess the impacts of ‘green’ interventions in street environments.