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Future Air Quality with Projected Global Changes:
A Progress Review Meeting Presented by EPA Global Change STAR Grantees
For EPA Policy and Research Staff and Directors
Research Triangle Park Campus of the US EPA, Building C, Room 111a-c
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
October 27 and 28th, 2008
Draft Agenda (as of September 22, 2008)
Print Version (PDF) (2 pp, 14K, about PDF)
Monday October 27, 2008 |
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8:45 - 9:05 |
Introduction and Context by Dr. Joel Scheraga, U.S. EPA National Program Director Global Change Research |
9:05 – 9:15 |
Welcome from OAQPS RTP-VIP |
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Fire, Climate and Air Quality |
9:15 – 9:45 |
Investigation of the Effects of Changing Climate on Fires and the Consequences for U.S. Air Quality, Using a Hierarchy of Chemistry and Climate Models |
9:45 – 10:15 |
Break |
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10:15 – 10:45 |
Investigation of the Interactions between Climate Change, Biomass, Forest Fires, and Air Quality with an Integrated Modeling Approach |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Interaction of ecosystems, fires, air quality and climate change |
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Poster Session |
11:15 – 12:00 |
Posters |
12:00 – 1:15 |
Lunch |
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Air Quality Impacts of Changing Land-use and Transportation |
1:15 – 1:45 |
Regional Development, Population Trend, and Technology Change Impacts on Future Air Pollution Emissions in the San Joaquin Valley |
1:45 – 2:15 |
Advanced Modeling System for Assessing Long-Term Regional Development Patterns, Travel Behavior, Emissions, and Air Quality |
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2:15 – 2:45 |
An Integrated Framework for Estimating Long-Term Mobile Source Emissions Linking Land Use, Transportation, and Economic Behavior |
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2:45 – 3:15 |
Break |
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3:15 – 3:45 |
A Long Term Integrated Framework Linking Urban Development, Demographic Trends and Technology Changes to Stationary and Mobile Source Emissions |
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3:45 – 4:15 |
Air Quality, Emissions, Growth, and Change: A Method to Prescribe a Desirable Future |
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4:15 – 4:45 |
Policy-Maker reflections |
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Tuesday October 28, 2008 |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Introduction by Dr. Dan Costa, U.S. EPA, National Program Director Air Research Program |
Air Quality Impacts of Changing Land-use and Transportation |
9:15 – 9:45 |
Predicting the Relative Impacts of Urban Development Policies and On-Road Vehicle Technologies on Air Quality in the US: Modeling and Analysis of a Case Study in Austin, TX |
9:45 – 10:15 |
Projecting the Effects of Land Use and Technology Change on Future Air Quality in the Upper Midwestern United States |
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10:15 – 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Development and Evaluation of a Methodology for Determining Air Pollution Emissions Relative to Geophysical and Societal Changes |
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11:15 – 11:45 |
Integrating Land Use, Transportation, and Air Quality Modeling |
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11:45 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
Air quality impacts of future electricity generation |
1:00 – 1:30 |
Methodology for Assessing the Effects of Technological and Economic Changes on the Location, Timing and Ambient Air Quality Impacts of Power Sector Emissions |
Air quality impacts of future biogenic emissions |
1:30 – 2:00 |
New Biogenic VOC Emission Models |
2:00 – 2:30 |
Impacts of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) Emissions in Texas |
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Break |
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3:00 – 3:30 |
Reduced Atmospheric Methane Consumption by Temperate Forest Soils Under Elevated Atmospheric CO2: Causative Factors |
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3:30 – 4:00 |
A Coupled Measurement-Modeling Approach to Improve Biogenic Emission Estimates: Application to Future Air Quality Assessments |