AIRNow - U.S. EPA's 2007 National Air Quality Conferences

U.S. EPA's 2007 National Air Quality Conferences - MONDAY

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2007

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Registration - Harbour Ballroom Foyer

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Morning Refreshments/Exhibits and Posters – Harbour II, III, & IV Ballroom

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Opening Plenary Session
Welcome, Introductions and Overview
Phil Dickerson, AIRNow Program Director, US EPA
Colleen Cripps, Deputy Administrator, Nevada DEP
Cory Chadwick, Director, Hamilton County DOES

9:00 am – 9:20 am

Breathe Easy
Jeff Prather, Ombudsman, Florida DEP

Keynote Introduction
Chet Wayland, US EPA

9:00 am – 9:30 am

Keynote Address
Stephen D. Page, Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, US EPA

9:30 am – 10:00 am

BREAK

10:00am – 10:30 am

Environmental Programs at the Walt Disney World Resort
Armando Rodriguez, Director, Environmental Affairs, Walt Disney World Co.

10:30am – 11:15am

Potential Revisions to the AQI for PM_2.5
Chet Wayland, US EPA
Susan Stone, US EPA

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

LUNCH (on your own)

COMMUNICATING AIR QUALITY
AND COMMUNITIES IN MOTION

Harrington East & West Ballroom

AIR QUALITY FORECASTING, MAPPING,
AND MONITORING

Castle Harbour Ballroom

And Now for Something Entirely Different
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Case Studies
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Moderator: Lorelei Elkins, North Carolina Air Awareness

Clean the Air for Kids!
Carol Lewis, Charlotte, NC
PPT 5.96MB

Converting an Ozone Action Days Program into a Year-Round Air Quality Outreach Program: The New York Experience
John Zamurs, New York State DOT
Michael Grant, ICF International
PPT 1MB

Breathe: The Clean Air Brand
Matt Stull and Susan Furlong, Louisville, KY
PPT 17.8MB

Improving Air Quality Outreach in the State of Sao Paulo
Carlos I.V. Lacava, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PPT 9.74MB

Life Is a Breath of Fresh Air: Educational Outreach Program
Pat Mitchell and Voris Williams, Alabama Partners for Clean Air

Q&A (20 minutes)

Moderator: George Bridgers, North Carolina Division of Air Quality

Local Ozone Forecasting and the NOx SIP
Call Rule
Bill Ryan, Pennsylvania State University
PPT 1.4MB

Difficulty in Forecasting Local Scale Events in
Multi-day Ozone Episodes
Bill Murphey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
PPT 3.84MB

Saharan Dust Event Impacts on Florida Particulate Concentrations
Tammy Eagan, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
PPT 3.45MB

Seeing Air Pollution via the SE HazeCam
Cary Gentry, Forsyth County Environmental
Affairs Department
PPT 2.36MB

Serious Air Quality Issues Resulting from Severe
Weather in the Puget Sound
Mike Gilroy, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
PPT 2.3MB

Impacts of Local Emissions on PM_2.5 Mass Concentration in Birmingham, Alabama
Charles Blanchard, PacBell
PPT 2.86MB

Q&A (20 minutes)

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm BREAK

Sharing Your Message – and Your Program!
3:30pm – 5:00pm

Data Analysis in Support of
Air Quality Forecasting
3:30pm – 5:00pm

Moderator: Jean Kelly, Louisiana DEQ

The Medium and the Message: Air Quality Health Advisories
Pat Sullivan and Curt Goeller, Oklahoma
PPT 3.43MB

Ever Have a Press Event and No Press Came?
Press Events 101
Kathleen Brockett and Sherry Godlewski,
New Hampshire
PPT 11.6MB

Darrington Outreach: A Community-run Wood
Stove Trade-out Project
Mike Shultz, Seattle, WA
PPT 3.84MB

Getting the Message Out is Tough
Darin Mann, Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality
PPT 49.6MB

Q&A (30 minutes)

Moderator: Anne McWilliams, US EPA

Air Quality Case Study Analysis using AIRNowTech
Alan Chan, Sonoma Technology, Inc.
PPT 16MB

Missouri River Valley Air Toxics Trends on Tribal Lands
Leland Grooms, US EPA
PPT 4.06MB

Role of Weather Conditions Leading to Major Winter PM Episode. Case study
Jacques Rousseau, Environment Canada
PPT 32.1MB

PM_2.5 Data: AirNow Versus FRM:
Mark Schmidt, US EPA
PPT 1.4MB

Q&A (30 minutes)

5:00 pm ADJOURN

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Cash Bar Reception/Exhibit Hour/Poster Session
Harbour II,III & IV Ballroom

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This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 27, 2007.

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