NW-AIRQUEST 2015 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, June 24th, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1:00Welcome provided by Environmental Solutions Division Administrator (Wendy Wiles)
1:10Meeting Kickoff and Introductions (Rick Hardy/Jeffrey Stocum)
1:151) 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)
2:45Working Groups:
1) Ventilation indices (Robert Elleman)
2) Emission Inventories (Sally Otterson)
3) Model Evaluation (Drew Polley)
4) Exceptional Events (Rick Hardy)
3:45BREAK
4:00Working Groups continued
4:30Business Meeting:
1) WSU Work Plan (Rick Hardy)
2) Project management – LRAPA (Jerry B or Nasser)
3) NW-AIRQUEST chair rotation (Rick Hardy)
5:30Adjourn for the day

Thursday, June 25th, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

8:30Tying it all together: Oregon PATS overview (Sarah Armitage)
8:40Washington County, Oregon Woodstove Survey and Air Toxics (Chris Swab)
9:10Monitoring heavy metals with moss in Portland (Sarah Jovan, Geoffrey Donovan)
9:55BREAK
10:10Meteorological correlations with PM2.5 and trend analysis (Mark Green)
10:55A simple conceptual model for Winter PM2.5 episodes in western mountains and the historical record it reveals (Rick Hardy, Yayi Dong, Brady Johnson)
11:15Oregon PM2.5 prevention plan areas (Larry Calkins)
11:40AIRPACT-5 discussion (Brian Lamb)
12:10Potential AIRPACT applications for ozone planning (Clint Bowman)
12:40LUNCH
1:55Swan Island meteorological monitoring for nuisance odors (Evan Bing);
Oregon nuisance odor strategy (Anthony Barnack)
2:25WA SO2 modeling/monitoring analysis and the flux curtain (Clint Bowman)
2:55BREAK
3:15Ozone inter-annual variability (Dan Jaffe)
4:00The effects of recent marine vessel fuel sulfur regulations at reducing PM2.5 impacts from ships along the U.S. west coast (Bob Kotchenruther)
4:302014 Seattle Chinatown-International District Near-Road Mini-Study (Phil Swartzendruber)
4:50Updates on new studies at WSU (Brian Lamb)
5:00Extra cushion time
5:30Adjourn for the day

Friday, June 26th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

8:30Forest health and the benefits of a 4/3 km domain expansion into Oregon (Rick Graw)
9:30Portland 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)
10:15BREAK
10:30Summary from the Western Modeling Workshop (CANCELLED) (Tom Moore)
11:00NOx source-receptor regions within the Lower Fraser Valley BC during high ozone summertime days (Bruce Ainslie)
11:20PM2.5 speciation data without a speciation monitor – EPA and Idaho’s experience with Pinehurst Idaho (Bob Kotchenruther)
11:50Idaho’s Crop Residue Burning Forecast Tool (Wei Zhang, Rick Hardy)
12:20Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps (Jeffrey Stocum)
12:30Adjourn the Annual Meeting