NWAQ/NRMC Quarterly Meeting – 2022 February 3

Meeting Notes

NW-AIRQUEST Meeting, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, PDT

9:00Introductions (Svetlana Lazarev, OR DEQ)
9:10AIRPACT Update (Von Walden, WSU)
9:25Preliminary work on smoke taint of grapes at Wenatchee and Yakima vineyards (Ana Carla Fernandez-Valdes, WSU)
9:45Development of Significant Emission Thresholds (SETs) for Oregon’s Short Term NAAQS Program (Kristen Martin, ODEQ)
10:05BREAK
10:15Methodological Challenges in Assessing Environmental Burdens and Benefits (Owen Rudloff, ODEQ)
10:45Update on IDEQ Machine learning Air Quality Forecasting Tool ( Wei Zhang, IDEQ)
11:15Behavioral changes and a warming climate flip seasonal PM2.5 maximums on the Olympic Peninsula (Odelle Hadley, ORCAA)
11:30Ethylene Oxides in Western Washington (Beth Friedman, Ecology)
11:50Wrap-up (Svetlana Lazarev, OR DEQ)

NRMC Meeting, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, PDT

1:00Introductions (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA)
1:10System Status and Development (Cliff Mass, UW)
2:00Retrieving, Processing, and Displaying Ceilometer Data (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA)
2:30NRMC Business: potential new members/subscribers (Phil Swartzendruber, PSCAA)
3:00Wrap-up