NW-AIRQUEST 2018 Annual Meeting

Tuesday, June 12th, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1:00Welcome and Opening Remarks (Craig Kenworthy, Executive Director, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency)
1:15Meeting Kickoff and Introductions (Erik Saganic/Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA)
1:35AIRPACT-5 Annual Report (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
2:20Working Groups:
1) Ventilation indices (Robert Elleman, EPA)
2) Emission Inventories (Farren Herron-Thorpe/Sally Otterson, WA ECY)
3) Model Evaluation (no report)
4) Exceptional Events (Sara Strachan, IDEQ)
5) Wildfire Modeling (smoke-model comparison) (Erik Saganic, PSCAA)
3:25BREAK
3:40UW ACT study: Air pollution, the aging brain, and Alzheimer’s Disease (Lianne Sheppard, UW)
4:10UW MOV-UP Study: Mobile Observations of Ultrafine Particles near Sea-Tac Airport (Edmund Seto, UW)
4:40Business Meeting:
1) WSU Work Plan (Paul Rossow, Ecology)
2) UW Work Plan (Rob Elleman, EPA)
5:10Adjourn for the day

Wednesday, June 13th, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM

8:15Reconvene
8:30Fire SOA and mirror AIRPACT WRF-Chem (Yunha Lee, WSU)
9:00AIRPACT-Fire updates (Vikram Ravi, WSU)
9:30DDM TCOPS updates (Mahshid Etesamifard, WSU)
10:00BREAK
10:15Urbanova 1.33km (Jordan Munson, WSU)
10:45HYSPLIT-MOSAIC vs AIRPACT (Kai Fan, WSU)
11:15CENSE health risk advisory app (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
12:00LUNCH
1:30WRF-urban modeling over Mexico City (Ana Carla Fernandez Valdez, WSU)
2:00Ozone modeling study over the Tri-Cities region: Part 1 – Meteorological Modeling & Analysis (Tes Ghidey, WA ECY)
2:30Updates to background concentrations lookup tool (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY)
3:00BREAK
3:15Prelim Seattle near-road air toxics results (Erik Saganic, PSCAA)
3:45Prelim PMF and modeling results from the Seattle near-road air toxics study (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA)
4:15Oregon Air Toxics – Tales for the EI (Brandy Albertson/JR Giska, ODEQ)
5:30Adjourn for the day

Thursday, June 14th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 AM

8:30Wildfire smoke and PM2.5 trends on the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Caleb Minthorn, CTUIR)
9:00Impacts of the 2017 wildfires on O3 around the PNW (Dan Jaffe, UW-Bothell)
9:30ECCC’s forest fire model FireWork new configurations and user survey results (Bruce Ainslie, ECCC)
10:00MMIF processed WRF data for AERMOD case study: North ID mountain terrain (Tom Swain, IDEQ)
10:30BREAK
11:00Mobile monitoring lending library and Purple Air monitor assessment (Graeme Carvlin, PSCAA)
11:30Work Group Discussions / Planning 2018 work
12:00Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps (Erik Saganic, Phil Swartzendruber, Paul Rossow)
12:30Adjourn the Annual Meeting