NW-AIRQUEST 2014 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, June 18th, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1:00 | Welcome (Tiffany Floyd, Administrator, Air Quality Division, IDEQ) |
1:15 | AIRPACT-4 Updates: 1) State of the Model (Brian Lamb, WSU) 2) BlueSky Modeling (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY) 3) ClearSky Updates (Farren Herron-Thorpe/Joe Vaughan) 4) AP4 Performance for Speciated PM2.5 (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY) |
2:40 | Ozone enhancement in Western U.S. wildfire plumes at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory: The role of NOx (Pao Baylon, UW Bothell) |
3:00 | Predictive Services and the 2014 Fire Outlook (Ed Delgado, National Program Manager, Predictive Services, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise) |
3:35 | Atmospheric Mercury Deposition and Impacts in the PNW (Bob Brunette, Eurofins Frontier Global Sciences, Inc.) |
3:55 | PNW Contaminants Workgroup – Report, web page, interactive map (Tonnie Cummings, National Park Service) |
4:15 | BioEarth: Summary of 2014 Atmospheric Issues Stakeholder Workshop (Brian Lamb, WSU) |
4:30 | Panel Discussion: Agency issues and needs in the 5 – 10 year time frame (WA ECY, ODEQ, IDEQ, Regional Air Agencies/Tribal Representatives) Representative from each agency to discuss the technical issues they each see facing their agency in the 5 – 10 year timeframe. A 5-10 minute overview statement by each panelist followed by panel/open discussion. |
Thursday, June 19th, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
8:30 | Boundary Condition Tracers in AIRPACT (Joe Vaughan, WSU) (related gif animations) |
8:50 | The Long Draw Haboob (Brian Lamb, WSU) |
9:10 | Interpollutant Trading Ratios from AIRPACT (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY) |
9:30 | Background concentrations Webmap tool (Sara Strachan, IDEQ) |
9:45 | Black Carbon from Fires (Serena Chung, WSU) |
10:20 | YAWNS – Yakima Air Wintertime Nitrate Study (Tom Jobson, WSU) |
10:40 | Near Roadway Studies (Sara Harrold, with Erik Saganić, and Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA) 1) Overview of near-road pollution and health 2) Lessons learned with microsensors 3) Mobile and temporary monitoring in a winter intensive campaign |
12:00 | Working Lunch – Future directions and funding opportunities (group discussion) |
1:15 | AIRPACT Working Groups: 1) Ventilation Indices: Graphics to add/drop (Rob Elleman) 2) Update from the RMC June 5 meeting (Rob Elleman) 3) AgBurn Outlook Graphic (Rob Elleman) 4) The Deep Stable Layer Graphic (Yayi Dong, IDEQ) 5) Inversion/cold/low wind speedspeed Graphic (Sara Harrold, PSCAA) |
2:25 | AIRPACT Working Group (Emissions): 1) Emissions Inventories updates (Sally Otterson) 2) AIRPACT emissions reporting project (Farren Herron-Thorpe, Wa ECY) 3) Temperature-adjusted wood stove emissions (Joe Vaughan, WSU) |
3:25 | AIRPACT Working Group (Emissions continued): 1) The Next Steps in the MOVES/AIRPACT Integration (Wei Zhang/Jen Cole, Idaho DEQ) 2) Discussion: Is there a mechanism for getting short term changes into AIRPACT-4? 3) Additional workgroup discussion and summary |
4:10 | AIRPACT Working Group: Model Evaluation (Alfredo Arroyo, WSU) |
4:50 | Business meeting: 1) Finalizing WSU work plan and contract 2) Project management – handoff to LRAPA — Bruce Louks 3) NW-AIRQUEST Chair rotation plan/schedule |
Friday, June 20th, 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
8:30 | Incident Model Update for Oil Train Emergencies (Rick Hardy, IDEQ) |
8:50 | Trends in Yakima Speciation Data (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY / Bob Kotchenruther, EPA R10) |
9:10 | Mobile Monitoring for Site Evaluation in Vancouver, WA (Jill Schulte, WA ECY) |
9:30 | A Dynamic Model Evaluation of the AURAMS Photochemical Model for Visual Air Quality Policy Work in the Lower Fraser Valley, B.C. (Bruce Ainslie, Env. Canada) |
9:50 | An analysis of TEOM and particle counter performance and implications for coal-train observations and future monitoring (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA) |
10:35 | Lakeview PM2.5 Advance (Phil Allen, ODEQ) |
10:55 | Pinehurst NAA Designation Decision Support Tool (Rick Hardy, IDEQ) |
11:15 | Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps |
12:00 | Adjourn the Annual Meeting |