AIRNow - U.S. EPA's 2008 National Air Quality Conference

U.S. EPA's 2008 National Air Quality Conference - MONDAY, Portland, Oregon

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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Registration - Salon Foyer

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Morning Refreshments/Exhibits and Posters – Salon E

8:30 am – 10:30 am
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Opening Plenary Session
Welcome, Introductions and Overview
Phil Dickerson, AIRNow Program Director, US EPA, OAQPS
Greg Green, Director, Outreach and Information Division, US EPA, OAQPS
Andrew Ginsburg, NACAA Co-President
Division Administrator, Air Quality Division, Oregon DEQ

9:00 am – 9:30 am

10 Years of AIRNow and Partner of the Year Award
Chet Wayland, US EPA
Phil Dickerson, US EPA
Special Guests

9:30 am – 10:40 am

Evaluating Effectiveness of Air Quality Action Day Programs
W. Bowman Cutter, University of California –Riverside
Douglas Noonan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew Neidell, Columbia University
Carol Mansfield, Research Triangle Institute
Susan Stone, US EPA

10:40 am – 11:10 am

BREAK

11:10am – 10:30 am

Update on the Ozone NAAQS and AQI
Chet Wayland, Director, Air Quality Assessment Division, US EPA, OAQPS

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Challenges to be Met
George Bridgers, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Lewis Weinstock, US EPA
Laura DeGuire,Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (PPT, 1.9MB)
Lori Kobza, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Panel Discussion

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

LUNCH (on your own)

COMMUNICATING AIR QUALITY AND COMMUNITIES IN MOTION
Salons A-D

Guerilla Marketing Tactics: Breaking Through the Noise
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Moderator: Stephanie Cooper,NACAA
Facilitator: Alison Davis, US EPA

Communications Tools – Adapting Available Materials
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Moderator: Laura DeGuire, Michigan

EnviroFlash – Everything You Need to Know About AQ Straight to Your Inbox
Debbie Stackhouse, US EPA (PPT, 1MB)
Anne McWilliams, US EPA, Region 1 (PPT, 860KB)
Laura DeGuire, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (PPT, 11MB)
It All Adds Up to Cleaner Air – Phase II (PPT, 3.6MB)
Laura Loges, Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission
Awareness Campaigns as Communications Tools: A Case Study of Air Quality Awareness Week 2007 (PPT, 3.3MB)
Scott Jackson, US EPA

AIR QUALITY FORECASTING, MAPPING, AND AMBIENT AIR MONITORING
Salons F,G,H,I

Cross-Cutting Issues
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Moderator: John White, US EPA

AIRNow Mapper: EPA’s New Air Quality Mapping System (PPT, 79MB)
Clint MacDonald, Sonoma Technology, Inc.
A Data Management System for Air Quality Management Agencies (PPT, 1MB)
Mark Stoelting, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
OAQPS Data Sharing Strategy (PPT, 2.7MB)
David Mintz, US EPA

Cross-Cutting Issues
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Moderator: Chris Smith, Maryland Department of the Environment

Using Visibility Observations to Estimate Particulate Concentrations (PPT, 63MB)
Bryan Lambeth, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Visualization of Ozone Pollution Transport from the Ohio River Valley into Maryland (PDF, 1.71MB)
David Krask, Maryland Department of the Environment
An Evaluation of a new Method for Measuring Low Level Vertical Temperature Structure (PPT, 6.5MB)
Mike Gilroy, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

5:30pm

ADJOURN

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