NW-AIRQUEST 2011 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, June 1st, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM
| 1:00 | Welcome, introductions, agenda and logistics (Joe Vaughan/Brian Lamb, WSU) |
| 1:20 | NW-AIRQUEST Budget Discussion (Rob Elleman, Bruce Louks, Jeff Johnston, Phil Allen, and others) |
| 1:50 | Update on the status of the revised Charter (Wes Risher, Rob Elleman) |
| 2:10 | WRAP v2.0 – An Update on the Activities of the Western Regional Air Partnership (Bob Kotchenruther, EPA) |
| 2:40 | Permitting data centers: statistical approach to intermittent sources (Clint Bowman, Ecology) |
| 3:10 | BREAK |
| 3:40 | Phil’s survey of burning behavior vs. temperature (aka “log your log”) (Erik Saganic, PSCAA) |
| 4:20 | Recent study looking at new approaches to diesel particulate matter source apportionment (Erik Saganic, PSCAA) |
| 4:50 | PM2.5 Carbon Measurements in EPA Region 10 (Bob Kotchenruther, EPA) |
| 5:30 | Adjourn for the day |
Thursday, June 2nd, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
| 8:30 | Welcome remarks from Howard Grimes, WSU Dean of Graduate School |
| 8:35 | WSU climate change study (Rodrigo Gonzales, WSU/LAR) WSU dust modeling study (Serena Chung, WSU/LAR) WSU pollen study (Serena Chung, WSU/LAR) |
| 9:30 | Boise data analysis and modeling (WSU and IDEQ) |
| 10:00 | BREAK |
| 10:20 | AIRPACT & ClearSKY: current status and future plans (~2 hours) — Satellite Work at WSU/LAR (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WSU/LAR ) — AIRPACT-3 Annual Report and Status (Joe Vaughan , WSU/LAR) w/ Status of SMARTFIRE for Wildfire Processing for AIRPACT-n — ClearSKY Annual Report and Status (Joe Vaughan, WSU/LAR) — AIRPACT-4 preliminary results (Brian Lamb, WSU/LAR) — BioEarth Project — REACCH Project — Complex Terrain Winds Study |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
| 1:30 | Identification of UTLS and fire influence on Ozone in AQ data (Dr. Dan Jaffe, Professor Univ Washington-Bothell) |
| 2:30 | Ecological deposition workgroup (Tonnie Cummings, NPS) – presentation via GoToMeeting |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
| 3:30 | Western Canada version of the BlueSky system (Steve Sakiyama, BC Ministry of Environment (the provincial agency) – presentation via GoToMeeting |
| 4:00 | What is going on at Environment Canada? (Andrew Teakles, Env. Canada) – presentation via GoToMeeting |
| 4:30 | Potential Role of Secondary Organic Aerosols to PM2.5 in Klamath Falls Oregon (Kelley Barsanti, Portland State Univ; Serena Chung, WSU; and Abdullah Mahmud, Portland State Univ) |
| 5:00 | Open discussion and wrap up |
| 5:30 | Adjourn for the day |
Friday, June 3rd, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
| 8:00 | Portland Air Toxics Study update (Phil Allen, ODEQ) |
| 8:30 | Classification And Regression Tree (CART) – air quality forecasting in the Treasure Valley (Yayi Dong, IDEQ) |
| 9:00 | Status of the Near-road NO2 Monitoring Pilot Study (Bruce Louks, IDEQ) |
| 9:30 | BREAK |
| 10:00 | Development of local MOVES inputs in the Treasure Valley (co-presenting – Jennifer Cole and Wei Zhang, IDEQ) |
| 10:30 | Nitrate in Columbia River (Ranil Dhammapala, WA Ecology) |
| 11:00 | Source Apportionment of Aerosols at Rural IMPROVE Monitoring Locations Throughout the Pacific Northwest (Bob Kotchenruther, EPA) |
| 11:30 | Potential WSU monitoring study |
| 12:00 | Adjourn the Annual Meeting |