NW-AIRQUEST 2021 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, June 8th, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
| 12:30 | Meeting Kickoff / Introductions (Odelle Hadley/Nicole Briggs) |
| 12:50 | WSU Annual Report (Joe Vaughan, WSU) |
| 1:10 | Working Group A – Emissions Inventories (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY) |
| 1:10 | Working Group B – Wildfire Modeling (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY) |
| 1:10 | Working Group C – Model Evaluation (Joe Vaughan, WSU) |
| 1:10 | Working Group D – Small Air Monitoring Sensors (Von Walden, WSU) |
| 1:10 | Working Group E – Training and Education (Nicole Briggs, EPA R10) |
| 1:30 | Annual Work Plan Updates (Von Walden, WSU) |
| 2:00 | Machine Learning Air Forecast System (Wei Zhang, IDEQ) |
| 2:45 | BREAK |
| 3:00 | WA state DNR Burn Portal as a tool for smoke forecasts and smoke source ID (Carolyn Kelly, WA DNR) |
| 3:15 | PSCAA air sensor dashboard (Graeme Carvlin, PSCAA) |
| 3:45 | EPA Region 10 Sensor Projects (India Young, Christi Duboiski, Sarah Waldo, EPA R10) |
| 4:15 | General discussion and adjourn for the day |
Wednesday, June 9th, 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
| 8:30 | Reconvene/ Introduce NW-AIRQUEST and GB-PS IAS Committee (Odelle Hadley/Keith Jones) |
| 8:45 | Pandemic effects on Seattle Air Quality (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA) |
| 9:15 | Covid-19 related changes in Vancouver AQ (Kyle Howe, Metro Vancouver) |
| 9:45 | Changes to O3 and NOx during Covid-19 shutdowns at sites across the US (Dan Jaffe, UW) |
| 10:15 | BREAK |
| 10:30 | Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke (Carlyn Matz, Health Canada) |
| 11:00 | Smoke Alerts and outreach – Canada (Mark Kellerhals, BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy) Health and Air Quality Forecast Program – MSC, ECCC (Celine Audette, HAQFS, AQHI Lead) Metro Vancouver’s Air Quality Advisory Program (Julie Saxton, Metro Vancouver) |
| 11:30 | Smoke Alerts and outreach – USA (Janice Peterson, USFS) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH |
| 1:00 | Reconvene |
| 1:05 | 5-day smoke forecast (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY) |
| 1:30 | Air toxics and woodsmoke (Odelle Hadley, ORCAA, Beth Friedman, ECY) |
| 2:00 | Future wildfire scenarios (Crystal Raymond, Climate Impacts Group, UW) |
| 2:30 | BREAK |
| 2:45 | Explicit modeling of NOx – O3 photochemistry in fresh wildfire plumes (Qiaoyun Peng, UW) |
| 3:15 | Agency procedures for forecasting and issuing air quality advisories and burn bans: WA (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY) |
| 3:30 | Agency procedures for forecasting and issuing air quality advisories and burn bans: OR (Anthony Barnack, ODEQ) |
| 3:45 | Agency procedures for forecasting and issuing air quality advisories and burn bans: ID (Jacob Wolf, IDEQ) |
| 4:00 | Adjourn for the day |
Thursday, June 10th, 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
| 8:30 | Reconvene (Odelle Hadley/Nicole Briggs) |
| 8:45 | CTUIR CASTNET National Tribal Forum 2021 (Caleb Minthorn, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation) |
| 9:15 | Port air quality study (Mahshid Etesamifard, WSU) |
| 9:45 | New chair introduction/ OR non-road diesel survey (Svetlana Lazarev, ODEQ) |
| 10:15 | BREAK |
| 10:30 | AIRPACT training review (Joe Vaughan, WSU) |
| 11:00 | Wrap-up, Chair Passing, To Do List Review, Next Steps (Odelle Hadley/Nicole Briggs) |
| 11:30 | Adjourn the Annual Meeting |