Max2
11-12-2003, 12:07
Per chi è appassionato di aeronautica, di nuove tecnologie ed energie rinnovabili, da non perdere nel pomeriggio di oggi .. a FIRENZE, questa conferenza:
p.s.: Paul MacCready è il padre dell'aereo "solare" !!!
THE NEXT 100 YEARS OF AVIATION: FLYING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
Can Aviation Contribute to a Better Environment?
A crescendo of controversy about aviation’s increasing contribution to air pollution and global warming is forcing an international debate and the first attempts to implement limits on air transport’s environmental impact. Due to its glamorous image and its essential role in international mobility, air transport has managed, for the most part, to stay off the sustainability radar screen. Improvements in technology are expected to be wiped out by the growth in air traffic. As aviation is facing pressure from the world community to be accountable for its disproportionate contribution to global climate change and its environmentally unsustainable trends, this conference will focus on short term solutions and long term visions toward the concept of sustainable aviation. It will also focus on an immediate contribution of aviation in improving the current understanding of atmospheric environmental problems and its potential to provide world wide reliable data while educating the international community on the issues of air quality and cleaner fuels.
9:00 Registration
9:20 Welcome address
9:30 FIRST SESSION
Aviation’s Environmental Impact: Identification of Problems and Potential Solutions
1. Impact and Trends of Aircraft Emissions
Volker Grewe
Scientist
Institut for Atmospheric Physics,
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
2. Transforming the U.S. Air Transportation System - Strengthening the Economy and Protecting the Environment
Andres Zellweger
Associate Provost for Graduate Programs and Research
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Currently, special assistant for aviation to the Associate Administrator for Aerospace Technology at NASA, USA
3. Aviation’s Environmental Impact: Will the US and EU Approach Collide, or is a Resolution Achievable? An Analysis of Legal Accountability and an Outlook from an Aviation Lawyer and Pilot
Ben Harvie, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Aviation Law, Baylor University
Attorney at Law
Novelli, Harvie & Huzinec, P.C. Houston, Texas USA
Break
11:00 SECOND SESSION
Short Range Strategies: The Biofuels Alternative
1. Sustainability and Biofuels: Worldwide Potential
Sergio Trindade
President, S E2 T International, Ltd. , USA
Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Science and Technology
2. Political Realities of Biofuels Implementation – What are the Drivers?
William Holmberg
Chairman of the Board of the New Uses Council, USA
3. Biofuels in Aviation: Technical and Economic issues
Max Shauck
Chairman, Baylor Institute for Air Science, Baylor University, USA
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 THIRD SESSION
Aviation Contribution to a Better Environment: Aircraft to monitor the Global Air Quality
1. Necessity for Reliable Data Worldwide
Volker Mohnen
Director, Quality Assurance/Science Activity Center, WMO-Global Atmosphere Watch, USA
2. Historical Perspective of Air Pollution Sampling from Aircraft
Don Blumenthal
Chief Executive Officer, Sonoma Technology Inc., USA
3. Global Observations of the Atmosphere by Passenger Aircraft
Andreas Volz-Thomas
Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre II: Troposphäre
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
4 Small Sampling Aircraft Powered by Biofuels
Max Shauck
Chairman, Baylor Institute for Air Science, Baylor University, USA
5 Very Small Aircraft for Environmental Research
Wolfgang Junkermann
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research,
IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Break
16:00 FOURTH SESSION
Long Range Strategies: Dare to Imagine!
1. A View from The Father of Human Powered Flight (An Active Pessimist) on Sustainable Transportation
Paul MacCready
Chairman of the Board of AeroVironment, USA
2. A Bird’s Eye View from a Former Astronaut (An Active Optimist) on Sustainable Systems
Wubbo Ockels
Professor, ASSET chair, AeroSpace Sustainable Engineering and Technology
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Former Astronaut and Head of the European Space Agency Education Office
Closure of the Workshop
[B]
p.s.: Paul MacCready è il padre dell'aereo "solare" !!!
THE NEXT 100 YEARS OF AVIATION: FLYING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
Can Aviation Contribute to a Better Environment?
A crescendo of controversy about aviation’s increasing contribution to air pollution and global warming is forcing an international debate and the first attempts to implement limits on air transport’s environmental impact. Due to its glamorous image and its essential role in international mobility, air transport has managed, for the most part, to stay off the sustainability radar screen. Improvements in technology are expected to be wiped out by the growth in air traffic. As aviation is facing pressure from the world community to be accountable for its disproportionate contribution to global climate change and its environmentally unsustainable trends, this conference will focus on short term solutions and long term visions toward the concept of sustainable aviation. It will also focus on an immediate contribution of aviation in improving the current understanding of atmospheric environmental problems and its potential to provide world wide reliable data while educating the international community on the issues of air quality and cleaner fuels.
9:00 Registration
9:20 Welcome address
9:30 FIRST SESSION
Aviation’s Environmental Impact: Identification of Problems and Potential Solutions
1. Impact and Trends of Aircraft Emissions
Volker Grewe
Scientist
Institut for Atmospheric Physics,
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
2. Transforming the U.S. Air Transportation System - Strengthening the Economy and Protecting the Environment
Andres Zellweger
Associate Provost for Graduate Programs and Research
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Currently, special assistant for aviation to the Associate Administrator for Aerospace Technology at NASA, USA
3. Aviation’s Environmental Impact: Will the US and EU Approach Collide, or is a Resolution Achievable? An Analysis of Legal Accountability and an Outlook from an Aviation Lawyer and Pilot
Ben Harvie, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Aviation Law, Baylor University
Attorney at Law
Novelli, Harvie & Huzinec, P.C. Houston, Texas USA
Break
11:00 SECOND SESSION
Short Range Strategies: The Biofuels Alternative
1. Sustainability and Biofuels: Worldwide Potential
Sergio Trindade
President, S E2 T International, Ltd. , USA
Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Science and Technology
2. Political Realities of Biofuels Implementation – What are the Drivers?
William Holmberg
Chairman of the Board of the New Uses Council, USA
3. Biofuels in Aviation: Technical and Economic issues
Max Shauck
Chairman, Baylor Institute for Air Science, Baylor University, USA
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 THIRD SESSION
Aviation Contribution to a Better Environment: Aircraft to monitor the Global Air Quality
1. Necessity for Reliable Data Worldwide
Volker Mohnen
Director, Quality Assurance/Science Activity Center, WMO-Global Atmosphere Watch, USA
2. Historical Perspective of Air Pollution Sampling from Aircraft
Don Blumenthal
Chief Executive Officer, Sonoma Technology Inc., USA
3. Global Observations of the Atmosphere by Passenger Aircraft
Andreas Volz-Thomas
Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre II: Troposphäre
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
4 Small Sampling Aircraft Powered by Biofuels
Max Shauck
Chairman, Baylor Institute for Air Science, Baylor University, USA
5 Very Small Aircraft for Environmental Research
Wolfgang Junkermann
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research,
IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Break
16:00 FOURTH SESSION
Long Range Strategies: Dare to Imagine!
1. A View from The Father of Human Powered Flight (An Active Pessimist) on Sustainable Transportation
Paul MacCready
Chairman of the Board of AeroVironment, USA
2. A Bird’s Eye View from a Former Astronaut (An Active Optimist) on Sustainable Systems
Wubbo Ockels
Professor, ASSET chair, AeroSpace Sustainable Engineering and Technology
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Former Astronaut and Head of the European Space Agency Education Office
Closure of the Workshop
[B]