BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//142.1.176.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Chemical Engineering &\; Applied Chemistry X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:https://chem-eng.utoronto.ca X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-22106@chem-eng.utoronto.ca DTSTAMP:20240329T093228Z CATEGORIES: CONTACT:socaar@utoronto.ca\; https://www.socaar.utoronto.ca/ DESCRIPTION:
Upcoming SOCAAR Seminar:
\nWednesday\, January 12\, 2022
\n2:00 – 3:00PM<
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Join on MS Teams (Phone Conference ID: 317 125 206#)
\n\nProf. Naomi Zimmerman
\nAssistant Professor De partment of Mechanical Engineering University of British Columbia (UBC)
\nAir quality \, odour\, health and equity: Leveraging interdisciplinary approaches to u nderstand the impacts of cannabis cultivation in Metro Vancouver
\nIn 2018\, Canada beca me the only G7 nation to legalize cannabis for non-medical (recreational o r non-prescribed uses) and medical use at the federal level. To date\, the re are over 500 facilities with licenses to cultivate cannabis. Of these\, almost 25% are located in British Columbia\, with some of the largest cul tivation greenhouses being located or developed in the Metro Vancouver reg ion.
\nAs the num ber and size of cannabis cultivation facilities (CCFs) have grown\, so hav e odour-related complaints\; a report from March 2019 listed 326 complaint s in Metro Vancouver over a 12-month period. The odours associated with CC Fs are caused by emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)\, which ca n also increase formation of health-damaging pollutants such as ground-lev el ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM). As such\, air quality regulator s have begun exploring options to curb these emissions. In this talk\, I w ill highlight ongoing work in the Metro Vancouver region to understand CCF emissions from an interdisciplinary lens. This includes the development a nd deployment of a citizen science web application for reporting CCF odour s and observed health effects (https://www.smell-vanco uver.ca)\, modelling of odourous emissions a nd their dispersion\, and plans for real-world ambient sampling of emissio ns from CCFs using mobile monitoring. The talk will also provide a high-le vel summary of identified knowledge gaps in our understanding of the air q uality impacts of CCF facilities from the occupational to community scale.
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