2004 National Air Quality Conference: Your Forecast to Breathe By - Monday

Monday, February 23, 2004

8:00am - 9:00am

8:15am - 8:45am  

Real Time Demonstration of Air Quality "FORECASTER" Software

9:00am - 9:30am

Welcome, Introductions, and Overview

Chet Wayland, AIRNow Program Director,Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. EPA

Welcome to Baltimore

Kendl P. Philbrick, Acting Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment

9:30am - 10:00am

Air Pollution and Public Health:  A Look Ahead

Moderator: Susan Stone, U.S. EPA

Why Do We Color the Days?

Janice Nolen, Director of National Policy, American Lung Association

10:00am - 10:15am  

10:15am - 11:00am

Air Pollution and Public Health:  A Look Ahead (Continued)

Moderator: Susan Stone, U.S. EPA

Air Pollution Health Effects:  What We Know & What We Think We Know

Dr. Robert Devlin, U.S. EPA

11:00am - 11:30am

Keynote Address

Jeffrey Holmstead, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. EPA

11:30am - 1:00pm

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Reporting the Air Quality Story:  What Works

Moderator: Alison Davis, U.S. EPA

The Weather Channel - New Products

Jen Carfagno, The Weather Channel

Air Quality and USA Today

Lynne Perri, USA Today

Local Media - How to get Air Quality on Air and In Print

Howard Libit, The Sun, Baltimore

Lexy Hickok, ABC-2, Baltimore

3:00pm - 3:30pm

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Navigating the Media Minefield

Instructor:  Bobbie Lawrie, Craddock Communications, Inc.

10 Steps to Successful Interviews

Instructor:  Bobbie Lawrie, Craddock Communications, Inc.

5:00pm - 5:30pm

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Particle Pollution Forecasting: An Initial Performance Evaluation for Charlotte

Scott Jackson, North Carolina Division of Air Quality

Satellite Data for the Air Quality Forecaster

PDF (100 KB)

Attachment: Satellite Sensors that Detect Air Quality

Leslie O. Belsma
The Aerospace Corporation

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