NW-AIRQUEST 2015 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, June 24th, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM
1:00 | Welcome provided by Environmental Solutions Division Administrator (Wendy Wiles) |
1:10 | Meeting Kickoff and Introductions (Rick Hardy/Jeffrey Stocum) |
1:15 | 1) NW Airquest 101: How did we get here? (Rick Hardy) 2) State of the Model (Brian Lamb) 3) BlueSky Modeling (Farren Herron-Thorpe) 4) ClearSky updates (Joe Vaughan) |
2:45 | Working Groups: 1) Ventilation indices (Robert Elleman) 2) Emission Inventories (Sally Otterson) 3) Model Evaluation (Drew Polley) 4) Exceptional Events (Rick Hardy) |
3:45 | BREAK |
4:00 | Working Groups continued |
4:30 | Business Meeting: 1) WSU Work Plan (Rick Hardy) 2) Project management – LRAPA (Jerry B or Nasser) 3) NW-AIRQUEST chair rotation (Rick Hardy) |
5:30 | Adjourn for the day |
Thursday, June 25th, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday, June 26th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
8:30 | Forest health and the benefits of a 4/3 km domain expansion into Oregon (Rick Graw) |
9:30 | Portland State University local studies: 1) Assessing potential of Portland’s Urban Forest in mitigating local air pollution (Meenakshi Rao); 2) High-resolution AQ modeling framework at PSU (Rodrigo Gonzales-Abraham); 3) Characterizing the roadside atmospheric environment of an urban arterial (Christine Kendrick) |
10:15 | BREAK |
10:30 | Summary from the Western Modeling Workshop (CANCELLED) (Tom Moore) |
11:00 | NOx source-receptor regions within the Lower Fraser Valley BC during high ozone summertime days (Bruce Ainslie) |
11:20 | PM2.5 speciation data without a speciation monitor – EPA and Idaho’s experience with Pinehurst Idaho (Bob Kotchenruther) |
11:50 | Idaho’s Crop Residue Burning Forecast Tool (Wei Zhang, Rick Hardy) |
12:20 | Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps (Jeffrey Stocum) |
12:30 | Adjourn the Annual Meeting |