KasparDaellenbach

[ICIMOD @icimod]

As smog so thick you can see it from space continues to smother our region, ICIMOD is sharing expert perspectives on the impacts and solutions to the air crisis. This film, recorded earlier this year in our Kathmandu headquarters, focusses on the links between pollution, health, and poverty.

While 90% of the world’s population breathe polluted air, the highest exposures and health impacts are in low- and middle-income countries.

And within these countries, it is the poorest who will be hardest hit:

🔹Those working outside and or nearest to sources of emissions such as street vendors, traffic police, day labourers, waste-sector workers;
The rural poor who cannot afford to switch from cooking and heating with biomass and coal stoves.
🔹The disproportionate exposures to pollution such populations face can cost these communities their health, and then their livelihoods, hugely compounding and deepening existing social vulnerabilities.

This film features the voices of global and regional experts in the public health impacts of air pollution:

🔹Jill Baumgartner, , Professor, McGill University, Canada
🔹Pallavi Pant, Head of Global Health, Health Effects Institute, USA
🔹Om Kurmi, Associate Professor, Coventry University, UK
🔹Narayan Babu Dhital, Assistant Professor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
🔹Michal Krzyzanowski, Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK

The moral case for action on the air crisis is incontrovertible. "The smog we can see from space right now is destroying our lungs, our hearts, our brains, it is hammering our hospitals, and our economies and accelerating the loss of our frozen water stores," says Pema Gyamtsho, Director General of ICIMOD, who earlier this year convened a major science-policy dialogue on the issue with key regional stakeholders in Thimphu, Bhutan. "We need an air pollution revolution in our region, and ICIMOD is standing by to support diverse stakeholders – from science to policy to industry – to bring about urgently needed change."

For more on ICIMOD’s work on air pollution go to: https://t.co/niFu4i0WYO

To learn about the situation on the ground right now and the public health event go to: https://t.co/GDrVjIkZmg

#AirPollution #SouthAsia @HEISoGA @FCDOGovUK

[Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) @PSI_LAC]

Join us in congratulating Kaspar Daellenbach on getting tenured. ✅ @KasparDaellenb1

Here's to continued success and inspiring work ahead! 🎉 #Tenure #AcademicExcellence

[PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psich_en]

In an international study, PSI researchers find that air pollution in Beijing originates outside of the city. https://t.co/BfQSd0zIop

[KasparDaellenbach @KasparDaellenb1]

What are you gonna show?

[KasparDaellenbach @KasparDaellenb1]

The European Aerosol Conference is approaching and we are finalizing our posters and presentations!
Here’s what you can see from the Aerosol and Health group @LAC @PSI. @EAC2024

[KasparDaellenbach @KasparDaellenb1]

Stubble fires have a huge impact on air quality in North India: Yufang Hao shows how he tracked the fires.@SwissDevCoop
“From Flames to Haze: A Molecular Perspective on Tracing Organic Aerosols from Punjab’s Fields to New Delhi’s Air”
12:00-12:15 30.08.2024 : Duetto 1

[Gary Fuller @DrGaryFuller]

New research reveals that Beijing’s air pollution often starts outside the city.

A lesson here that #airpollution does not start (or stop!) at city or national boundaries.

Piece by me. Research by Kaspar Dällenbach @psich_en, @PSI_LAC et al

https://t.co/Zt7DKKw1H8

[Lubna Dada  @DadaLubna]

Air pollution knows no national borders, and cross-border collaboration and awareness are essential to reducing overall pollutant concentrations.

Check out the full story 📰

@DrGaryFuller @KasparDaellenb1 @PSI_LAC @guardianeco

[Lubna Dada  @DadaLubna]

Did you know that smog in Beijing 🇨🇳often originates from sources outside the city, fueled by chemical processing along the way💨?

Check our findings out 📢 @NatureGeosci

https://t.co/uKilofRYu6

@KasparDaellenb1 @MarkkuKulmala1 @AtmosFede
@PSI_LAC @INAR_fin @NpfPanda @al_vogel

[Nature Geoscience @NatureGeosci]

Article: A substantial amount of secondary organic aerosols in Beijing are from emissions originating outside of the city

@KasparDaellenb1 @MarkkuKulmala1 @AtmosFede @al_vogel @DadaLubna @PSI_LAC @INAR_fin @NpfPanda

https://t.co/QAeDuaDew8

[SMASH MSCA @SMASH_MSCA]

#SMASH #postdoc @Marta_Via_ has just returned from her secondment at @PSI_LAC's Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry🇨🇭 Under the mentorship of @Kaspar_Daellenb1, she trained in Bayesian Autocorrelation Matrix Factorization.

Can't wait to see how this enhances her research!

[KasparDaellenbach @KasparDaellenb1]

The harmfulness of particulate air pollution in India is mostly driven by combustion activities 🔥

Thanks to @snsf_ch @SwissDevCoop for funding our research and sciences not only in Europe but also in locations which need it most 👏

[Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) @PSI_LAC]

🚨 People in India suffer from extreme air pollution

Here, together with local colleagues, we identify and quantify the most harmful particulate air pollution sources ⬇️

@NatureComms @psich_en @IITKanpur @ImadElHaddad4 @AndrePrevot1111 @KasparDaellenb1

https://t.co/nu9iyBFJeD