29 JUNE 2015, MONDAY |
08:30 - 09:00 | Registration & Coffee |
09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome remark and opening address by Andrew Whittle, CENSAM Lead Principal Investigator and Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
9:05 - 11:45 | SENSOR SESSION - Session chair: George Barbastathis (MIT) |
9:05 - 9:20 | Environmental sensors for air and water pollution monitoring by Jianmin Miao, Associate Professor at School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NTU |
9:20 - 9:27 | * Norovirus aptasensor by Masaaki Kitajima, Postdoctoral Associate at SMART-CENSAM |
9:27 - 9:42 | Title to be confirmed by Dick Yue, Philip J. Solondz Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at School of Engineering, MIT |
9:42 - 9:49 | * SMART Float: An intelligent instrument for ocean monitoring by Tawfiq Taher, Senior Research Manager at SMART-CENSAM |
9:50 - 10:05 | Reducing risks in underground construction through sensing and modelling by Andrew Whittle, Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering at CEE, MIT |
10:05 - 10:45 | Coffee Break & Poster Session (40 min) |
10:45 - 11:15 | SMART Nation Vision by Steve Leonard, Executive Deputy Chairman, Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Adviser to National Research Foundation Singapore |
11:15 - 11:30 | Title to be confirmed by Shaowei Lin, Sense-making group leader in the Sense and Sense-abilities Programme, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) |
11:30 - 11:45 | Smart approaches for using portable sensors in air quality research by Erik Velasco, Research Scientist at SMART-CENSAM |
11:45 - 15:00 | WATER SESSION - Session chair: Harry Hemond (MIT) |
11:45 - 12:00 | Title to be confirmed by Janelle Thompson, Doherty Assistant Professor in Ocean Utilization at CEE, MIT |
12:00 - 12:15 | An overview of algal blooms and their impacts in Singapore marine ecosystem by Sandric Leong Chee Yew, Research Fellow at TMSI, NUS |
12.15 - 12:30 | Sensing benthic fluxes: A key to remediation of toxic sediments and assessment of greenhouse gas sources by Harry Hemond, William E. Leonhard Professor at CEE, MIT |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Poster Session (1h30min) |
14:00 - 14:30 | Crowdsourced sampling and mesoscale modeling of microbial oceans by Federico Lauro, Lead Principal Investigator of Singapore Laboratory for Integrative Microbial Ecology (S.L.I.M.E.), Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), and Associate Professor, Asian School of the Environment , NTU |
14:30 - 14:45 | Evolution of elemental Pb and Pb isotopes in the South China Sea region over the last 2 centuries by Mengli Chen, Ph.D. Student at NTU and SMART-CENSAM |
14:45 - 14:52 | * Bioavailable concentrations and sources of trace metals in Singapore coastal waters by Gonzalo Carrasco, Postdoctoral Associate at SMART-CENSAM |
14:52 - 14:59 | * Coral geochemistry approach to identify nutrient sources in Singapore marine environments by Intan Suci Nurhati, Research Scientist at SMART-CENSAM |
15:00 - 17:30 | AIR SESSION - Session chair: Prof Elfatih Eltahir (MIT) |
15:00 - 15:30 | Atmospheric chemistry of haze in Tropical Asia by Mikinori Kuwata, Nanyang Assistant Professor (NRF) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Principal Investigator in Atmospheric Chemistry at Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) |
15:30 - 15:45 | Transport and scavenging of Southeast Asia biomass burning aerosols by Hsiang He Lee, Postdoctoral Associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART-CENSAM) |
15:45 - 16:00 | Regional climate analyses over Southeast Asia by Srivatsan Vijayaraghavan, Senior Research Fellow, Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI), National University of Singapore (NUS) |
16:00 - 16:45 | Tea Break & Poster Session (45min) |
16:45 - 17:00 | Regional climate modeling over the Maritime continent by Elfatih Eltahir, Professor and Associate Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at MIT |
17:00 - 17:07 | * Investigating climate impacts of fires in South-East Asia by Benjamin Grandey, Senior Postdoctoral Associate at SMART-CENSAM |
17:07 - 17:22 | Peat swamp forest degradation and fire by Siew Chin Chua, Postdoctoral Associate at SMART-CENSAM |
17:22 - 17:29 | * Peat forest migration and tree dispersal biomechanics by Alex Cobb, Research Scientist at SMART-CENSAM |
17:30 - 17:35 | Poster Award |
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