NW-AIRQUEST 2019 Annual Meeting

Tuesday, June 11th, 1:00 PM – 5:05 PM

1:00Welcome and Opening Remarks (John Tippets or Jess Byrne, IDEQ)
1:15Meeting Kickoff and Introductions (Daniel Matsche, WA Dept of Ecology)
1:35AIRPACT-5 Annual Report (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
2:20Working Groups:
1) Ventilation indices
2) Emission Inventories (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY)
3) Wildfire Modeling (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY)
4) Model Evaluation (no report)
5) Exceptional Events (Sara Strachan, IDEQ)
6) Air Sensors (Von Walden, WSU)
3:20BREAK
3:35Mortality Associated with wildfire smoke exposure in Washington State (Annie Doubleday, UW)
4:05Preliminary results of WRF-Chem urban simulations over the Spokane area (Anna Carla Fernandez, WSU)
4:35Business Meeting:
1) WSU Work Plan (Erik Saganic, PSCAA)
2) UW Work Plan (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA)
5:05Adjourn for the day

Wednesday, June 12th, 8:30 AM – 5:10 PM

8:30Reconvene
8:45Magic Valley Mystery Gas Sampling Study (Brian Himes, ID DEQ)
9:15Decadal Evaluation of a Regional Air Quality Forecast System in the PNW from 2009-2018 (Jordan Munson, WSU)
9:45Wildfires, O3 and Indoor AQ (Dan Jaffe, UW-Bothell)
10:15BREAK
10:30Trends in Source Impacts at Long-Running PM2.5 CSN Monitoring Sites in the PNW and Intermountain West (Robert Kotchenruther, EPA)
11:15Bias Correction for 24-hr Average PM2.5 AIRPACT-5 Forecasting (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
11:30Lewiston-Clarkston Formaldehyde Study, 2016-2017 (Tom Jobson, WSU)
12:00LUNCH
1:15WESTAR-WRAP regional emissions and modeling for regional haze planning and ozone transport assessment (Tom Moore, WESTAR)
1:45Update to Washington State motor vehicle emissions using MOVES (Tom Malamakal, WA ECY)
2:15Impacts of local data centers on the diesel PM2.5 emissions: Black carbon, NOx, PM2.5 measurements in Quincy, WA (Beth Friedman, WA ECY)
2:45Estimating the contribution of woodsmoke to winter-time PM2.5 levels along Utah’s Wasatch Front (Nancy Daher, Utah DAQ)
3:15BREAK
3:30Using prognostic meteorological data in support of a PSD permit application (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY)
4:00A Machine Learning Approach for Ozone Forecasting and its Application for Tri-Cities (Kai Fan, WSU)
4:30High resolution air quality modeling over India (Amit Sharma, WSU)
5:10Adjourn for the day

Thursday, June 13th, 8:30 AM – 12:00 AM

8:30Reconvene
8:45Developing a model evaluation framework for a wildfire smoke (FireWork) forecast model (Bruce Ainslie, Environment Canada)
9:15A low-cost particulate monitoring filter for monitoring across Oregon (Aaron Fellows, OR DEQ)
9:45Updates to Idaho DEQ’s Prescribed Burning Smoke Management Plan Development (Sally Hunter, ID DEQ)
10:25BREAK
10:45Work Group Discussions/Planning 2019 work
11:30Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps (Wei Zhang/Daniel Matsche)
12:00Adjourn the Annual Meeting