Desert Research Institute scientist Alan W. Gertler will receive a "Hopes for the Future" award at the 11th World Clean Air and Environment Congress in Durban, South Africa in September. Dr. Gertler, a research professor in DRI's Energy and Environmental Engineering Center, is an expert in analyzing on-road automobile emissions. His work is being honored as an important contribution that will aid efforts to reduce air pollution in the future.
The award and the congress, which is held every three years, are sponsored by the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations. Gertler will present an invited paper on his auto pollution research at the congress and chair a session of scientific discussions on the topic.
A member of DRI's research faculty since 1979, Gertler is also director of the Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.