U.S. EPA's 2006 National Air Quality Conferences - WEDNESDAY

Air Quality Tools
Moderator: John E. White (U.S. EPA)

• FX-Net Forecasting Tool - Demonstration and Updates
  Sher Schranz and Jebb Stewart (NOAA/Forecast Systems Laboratory), Bryan Lambeth (Texas CEQ)

• Three Dimensional Air Quality System
  Jill A. Engel-Cox, (Battelle Memorial Institute)

The Asphalt Jungle
Moderator: Alice Collingwood (Seattle, WA)

• Urban Trees - Strategies to Improve Air Quality and Human Health
  Gary G. Allen (Center for Chesapeake Communities)

• Low Maintenance Landscaping
  Cyntha Lee (Louisville, KY)

• Toward a More Sustainable Kansas City
  James Joerke (Mid-America Regional Council)

• SEQL: Sustainable Environmental Quality of Life
  Rebecca Yarbrough (Centralina Council of Governments) and Jeff Clark (U.S. EPA)

• Safe Route to Schools ( SRTS)
  Kathy Daniel and Victoria Martinez (FHWA)

Update on Proposed Monitoring Rule Revisions and on the National Strategy
Moderator: Ron Stockett (Missouri DNR) and Tom Tamanini (Hillsborough County, FL)

• National Ambient Monitoring Update
  Tim Hanley (U.S. EPA/OAQPS)

• National Ambient Monitoring Update
  Tim Hanley and Monitoring Group Staff

• The Next Monitoring Strategy
  Rich Scheffe (U.S. EPA/OAQPS)

• Plans for a Speciated Ambient Mercury Monitoring Network
  Kevin Cavender (U.S. EPA/OAQPS)

Techniques for Evaluating Forecasting Performances
Moderator : Anne McWilliams (U.S. EPA, Region 1)

• AIRNow Forecast Verification Program
  Neal Conatser (Sonoma Technology, Inc.)

• Performance of a Meteorological and Air Quality Prediction System for Two-High Ozone Episodes in the Los Angeles Basin
  Michael D. McAtee (The Aerospace Corporation)

• Air Quality Forecasting of East Texas and Houston in Summer 2005
  Daewon Byun (University of Houston)

“I Did That,” and You Can Too
Moderator: Susan Bullard (U.S. EPA)

• Drive Clean Across Texas
  Brian Bochner (Texas Transportation Institute)

• Air Victoria - Keep it Clean
  Joni Brown ( Victoria, TX)

• Establishing Parking Benefit Districts
  Katie Larsen (City of Austin)

• XRT - Extraordinary Road Trip - A Transportation and Air Quality Edutainment Experience
  Reggie Korthals (Northwestern Indiana RPC), Betsy Tracy (Illinois DOT),
  Sara Burr and Lis Olsen ( Wisconsin)

Monitoring and Analysis of Particulate Matter
Moderator: Lewis Weinstock (U.S. EPA) and Ron Stockett (Missouri DNR)

• Monitoring Fire and Smoke From Space for Wildfire Impacts
  Charles Ichoku (NASA/GSFC)

• Comparing Performance of PM2.5 Separators During Dust Events
  Bryan Lambeth (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)

• Temperature Dynamic Algorithms Convert TEOM Concentrations to FRM-Like Values
  Ron Stockett (Missouri DNR)

2:15pm - 3:00 pm

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