2008 NW-AIRQUEST Annual Meeting
WSU/Pullman, Washington |
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
1:00 pm Opening Remarks:
meeting format and agenda discussion -- Chris
Ramsdell
Session 1: Modeling
- Performance Evaluation
1:10 Analyses
relating to AIRPACT3, CMAQ, and the Emissions
Inventory -- Brian Lamb
-- Rural vs. Urban
-- First Day vs. Second Day
1:40 CMAQ and CALPUFF applied
to NPT/CwV study -- Julie Simpson and Charleston
Ramos
2:10 Is O3 at Issaquah being
suppressed by freeway NOx? -- Ranil
Dhammapala
2:40
Break
3:00 NASA ROSES project
results and status -- Farren Herron-Thorpe
3:30 Graphics products
review/discussion -- Jen Hinds and Joe
Vaughan
Session 2: Emissions
Inventory
4:00 Emissions Inventory
update status and decisions -- Sally Otterson and
Data Sharing Work Group
-- CMAQ SAPRC Air Toxics and Aerosol mechanisms
-- AIRPACT3 Toxics
List
4:45 Open Discussion
/ Wrap-up -- All
5:00 Adjourn for the
day
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Session 3: Biomass
Burning
9:00 Biomass burning
treatment in AIRPCT and ClearSky -- Joe
Vaughan
9:30 Evaluation of plume rise
modeling in AIRPACT using MISR satellite data --
Fok-Yan Leung
10:00
Break
Session 4:
Speciation
10:15 Update on
Speciation Work Group projects and discussions -- Kathy
Himes
10:45 Three-state coordination
of PM2.5 Nonattainment Area work -- Phil
Allen
11:15
Lunch
Session 5:
Monitoring
1:00 Sounders -- Mike
Gilroy
1:30 Boise special
projects 2007 & 2008 -- Bruce Louks and Rick
Hardy
-- O3 study,
Treasure Valley (Sept 2007)
-- PM2.5
study, Boise (winter 2008/2009)
2:00 LARs Mobile Air
Chemistry Lab -- Tim VanReken and Tom Jobson
2:45
Break
Session 6: Climate Change
and Air Quality
3:00 STAR Grant Second Phase
Update -- Brian Lamb
3:30 Future needs for
climate change - EPA & NW-AIRQUEST -- Rob
Elleman
Session 7:
NW-AIRQUEST Business Meeting
4:00 NW-AIRQUEST
issues and future -- Bruce Louks and Mike Gilroy
-- Budget
-- Alternative funding
-- Handling future issues jointly
4:45 Election of
NW-AIRQUEST Chairman -- Chris Ramsdell
5:00 Adjourn for the
day
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Session 8: Other
Topics
9:00 (10:00 MDT)
Western
Regional Air Partnership -- Tom Moore (via
telephone)
9:45 Open Discussion
-- All
10:00 Fairbanks, Alaska
inversion project -- Rob Elleman and Bob
Kotchenruther
10:30 Break
10:45 The Air Policy Trajectory
program at WSU/LAR -- Brian Lamb or Joe
Vaughan
11:15 Lunch
Session 9: Work Group
Break-out Sessions
12:45 Work groups meet
face-to-face to discuss future work and
interaction
2:00 Closing
comments and adjournment -- All