NW-AIRQUEST 2016 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, June 15th, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1:00Welcome provided by WSU Department Head (Hampton)
1:05Meeting Kickoff and Introductions (Jeffrey Stocum, OR DEQ)
1:35State of the Model (AIRPACT-5, ClearSky) (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
2:35Working Groups:
1) Ventilation indices (Robert Elleman, EPA)
2) Emission Inventories (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY)
3) Model Evaluation (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY)
4) Exceptional Events (Sara Strachan, IDEQ)
3:35BREAK
3:50Working Groups continued
Woodstove forecasting web hosting
4:10Discussion of Background Concentrations Tool (Rick Hardy/Ranil Dhammapala facilitating)
4:30Business Meeting:
1) WSU Work Plan (Jeffrey Stocum/Brian Lamb)
2) UW Work Plan (Rob Elleman, EPA)
5:30Adjourn for the day

Thursday, June 16th, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

8:15Reconvene
8:30Oregon woodstove emissions allocation (Chris Swab/Phil Allen)
9:00Development of an activity-based marine emissions inventory over the Georgia Basin (Bruce Ainslie)
9:30An Aermod SIP Application in Complex Terrain (Rick Hardy/Wei Zhang)
10:00BREAK
10:15WRAP modeling and Work plan (Tom Moore)
11:00Estimating wildfire impacts on ambient ozone and PM2.5 concentrations in western Canada (Bruce Ainslie)
11:30A Monte-Carlo method for summing modeled and background concentrations (Ranil Dhammapala)
12:00PM Evaluation in AIRPACT (Vikram Ravi)
Summer 2012
Winter 2012-2013
Prescribed fire re-runs
12:30LUNCH
1:30Lewiston-Clarkston Valley Formaldehyde Study (Julie Simpson, Tom Jobson, Rong Li)
2:00Reactive Nitrogen Monitoring in Columbia Gorge (Jacinda Mainord)
2:20Examining the effect on the urban forest on NO2 deposition and Ozone concentrations (Meenakshi Rao)
2:40Fine resolution AQ modeling for the NW (Rodrigo Gonzalez Abraham)
3:00BREAK
3:15Modeling dry scrubber stacks as buoyant line sources in AERMOD (Ranil Dhammapala)
3:45Cushion for seminar
4:00WSU Guest Seminar (Thomas Foken)
5:15Adjourn for the day

Friday, June 17th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 AM

8:30Black carbon deposition due to wildland fires (Serena Chung)
9:00Washington’s Kennewick Ozone Monitoring (Ranil Dhammapala)
9:30Oregon’s Hermiston Ozone Monitoring (Phil Allen/Larry Calkins/Caleb Minthorn)
10:00WRF-SmartFire (Joe Vaughan)
10:20BREAK
10:40Indoor Air Quality (Brian Lamb)
11:00PM and Climate (Yunha Lee)
11:30N Budget (Tsengel Nergui)
12:00Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps (Jeffrey Stocum, OR DEQ)
12:30Adjourn the Annual Meeting