Course Presenters

Dr. Paolo Zannetti, QEP, is the President and Founder of EnviroComp Consulting, Inc. (www.envirocomp.com) and the non-profit EnviroComp Institute (www.envirocomp.org). Dr. Zannetti has performed studies and scientific research in environmental sciences for four decades. Dr Zannetti received his Doctoral Degree in Physics from the University of Padova, Italy and was awarded the title of Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP). His professional experience has covered: consulting work (at AeroVironment, Inc., Monrovia, California; Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc., Menlo Park, California; IBM Semea, Milan, Italy); teaching (at the University of Padova, ltaly; University of California at Berkeley; Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst, UK; Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy); research and development (at the IBM Scientific Centers of Venezia, Italy, Palo Alto, California, and Bergen, Norway; Stanford University, California; ENEL RTN, Milano, Italy); project management (at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, KISR); and expert testimony.

Dr. Zannetti’s major field of investigation and competence is air pollution. He has written more than 300 publications, including the first comprehensive book in Air Pollution Modeling, which was published in 1990. A 4-volume, multi-author, revised and expanded edition of this book has been published in the last decade under Dr. Zannetti's direction and editorial management (www.envirocomp.org/aqm).

Dr. Zannetti has studied air quality problems all over the world, often using computer models to simulate the transport and fate of atmospheric chemicals. In most of these cases, he simulated the ambient concentrations caused by the emissions using his own computer models and/or those developed and recommended by government agencies, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA).

For more information, visit: http://www.envirocomp.com/people1/zannetti.html .

Dr. Luca Delle Monache received his Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, his Master of Science in Meteorology from the San José State University, California, USA, and his Doctoral Degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. During his PhD he developed and maintained the first ever ensemble prediction system for air quality forecasting which led to several peer-reviewed publications as well as a book chapter on the topic. His expertise and research interests include also advance inversion algorithms for atmospheric releases, ensemble data assimilation, and advanced postprocessing and calibration algorithms.

After spending a few years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA, he is currently a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

For more information, visit http://www.ral.ucar.edu/staff/lucadm-staff.php

Dr. Frank Freedman, CCM, is a meteorologist, environmental scientist, and air pollution and climate change specialist. He has over 20 years of experience in numerical weather and climate modelling. His specific expertise is in “planetary boundary layer” processes in the atmosphere, the key processes in the atmosphere responsible for the exchanges of energy and moisture that drive weather and climate systems. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology from San Jose State University, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked on weather and climate model development at the U.S. National Center for Environmental Prediction, carried out air pollution consulting work at EnviroComp Consulting, Inc., and has taught courses at San Jose State University Department of Meteorology and Climate Science and Department of Chemical and Material Engineering.

His blog is: http://frankfreedman.blogspot.com/