Dr. Edwin Tso spoke on indoor air quality on RTHK programme (in Chinese 《日常8點半》(民生l消閒)) . The importance and maintenance of indoor air quality were discussed by Dr. Tso and the hosts.
《日常8點半》(民生l消閒)
Mr. Elvis Au, Deputy Director of Environmental Protection Department of HKSAR Government, delivered a colloquium for the SEE community on 19 September 2018. At the colloquium, Mr. Au provided with the students and faculty members an overview of the major environmental challenges facing Hong Kong and the opportunities such challenges open up.
The team of Miss Zhou Yujing, Miss Xiao Lingran, Mr. Wan Ho Ching and Mr. Choi Lai Yun, (three second-year-undergraduates and one third-year-undergraduate majoring in Energy Science and Engineering) won Second Prize in “Technology Innovation” at the 11th Competition of National University Student Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving & Emission Reduction held on 9 August 2018.
Pollutant concentrations are halved by about 17 m from the road edge! So is the latest finding by Prof. Peter Brimblecombe and his group. The pollutant gradient can be described using an analytical dispersion equation that allows for dispersion along the wind direction.
Congratulations to Miss XING Yang (PhD student) who has won the Best Paper award and Emerging Air Quality Professionals Achievers Award on the 23rd International Clean Air and Environment Conference in Brisbane on her paper titled “Dispersion of Traffic Derived Air Pollutants into Urban Parks”. The PhD student is supervised by Prof. Peter Brimblecombe.
Professor Peter Brimblecombe with two of his recent books on air pollution. As a world renowned expert in the field of air pollution, Professor Brimblecombe worked on Killer Smog: London, England with a New York based writer, Joyce L. Markovics.
