Assistant Manager of Climate Protection Section
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Savannah, GA
Dr. Idania Zamora is the assistant manager of the Climate Protection section of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Through her doctoral research at Stanford University, she gained a deep understanding of the science, impacts, and urgency of climate change. Her doctoral thesis focused on the role of organic aerosols in climate change. As a senior consultant in the Air Group at Ramboll (formerly ENVIRON), she regularly delivered technical expertise and analyses to clients in the areas of climate protection, air quality, energy, and sustainability.
In her seven years at the Air District, she’s worked in the Rule Development, Meteorology and Measurements, and Climate Protection teams. While in Rule Development, Dr. Zamora was part of the development team for several rules addressing climate pollutants including regulations to limit methane emissions from significant methane releases, organic material handling, composting operations, and hydrogen production, and to establish facility-wide greenhouse gas emission limits and carbon intensity limits for the refinery sector. She led the Methane Strategy, a coordination framework for all the methane quantification and emissions reduction efforts throughout the agency. As Acting Meteorology and Measurements Director, she worked with the Division’s managers to streamline the response to the worst California wildfires to date while still fulfilling regular air monitoring and technical duties. Over the last few years, Dr. Zamora has worked on the development and implementation of a strategy to reduce fluorinated gases in the Bay Area region and has led several efforts to promote a sustainable organic waste sector. Recently, she wrote a proposal that was awarded one of five $2M grants from the California Attorney General's Office to expand a pilot program driving climate, air quality and health outcomes for asthma patients and disadvantaged communities across the Bay Area and is overseeing the program.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
1:30pm – 3:30pm PT
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