Agenda KCAC

 

Tuesday March 22, 2005

Facilitator: Jill Engel-Cox, Battelle Memorial Institute

 

8:30 am      1.0      Welcome and Introductions

                                - Ann McMillan, IAQAB/Jill Engel-Cox, Battelle Memorial Institute

 

8:50 am      2.0      Update and Progress since 1st KCAC/PSD Workshop, Feb 23-24, 2004

                                Session Chair: Kathy Tonnessen, US National Park Service

 

8:55 am                 2.1 Summary of Main Findings from 1st KCAC/PSD

                                Ann McMillan, Environment Canada (attachment 1)

 

9:15 am               2.2 Development of Canada’s National Guidance Document on Continuous Improvement and Keeping Clean Areas Clean, Peggy Farnsworth, Environment Canada

                               

9:40 am                 2.3 Update on Co-operative Initiatives: Co-location of Fine Particulate Monitors

                                Marc Pitchford, NOAA (attachment 3)

 

10:05 am               Question and Answers

 

10:15 am                               BREAK

 

10:30 am     3.0    Use of Remote Sensing Techniques in Monitoring and Modelling of Continental and

                                Global Transport of Fine Particulates and Ozone

                                Session Chair: Rich Poirot, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources

 

10:35 am               3.1 International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation

(ICARTT) - An Overview, Jim Meagher, NOAA (attachment 5)

 

11:00 am               3.2 Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications (IDEA) program

                                Jim Szykman, US EPA (attachment 6)

 

11:25 am               3.3 The Use of Remote Sensing for Air Quality Forecasting

                                Ray Hoff, University of Maryland, Baltimore Co (attachment 7)

 

11:50 am               3.4 Event-based Modelling, Louis-Philipe Crevier/Keith Puckett, Environment Canada

 

12:15 pm               Questions and Answers

 

12:25 pm                               LUNCH

 

1:30 pm      4.0      Review of U.S. and Canadian Fine PM Networks and Transboundary Applications

                                Session Chair: Marc Pitchford, NOAA

 

1:35 pm                 4.1 Update on Evolution of National Fine PM Monitoring Networks

                                Tom Dann, Environment Canada, Rich Scheffe, US EPA (attachment 9) (attachment 10)

 

2:25 pm                 4.2 Scientific Approaches

                                4.2.1 Source Attribution Modelling under the US IMPROVE Program

                                Tom Moore, Western Regional Air Partnership (attachment 11)

 

2:50 pm                                 BREAK 

 

3:05 pm                 4.2.2 IMPROVE and the Regional Haze Rule – Further Developments

                                Bill Malm, US National Park Service (attachment 12)

 

3:30 pm                 4.2.3 Transboundary PM Transport in Mid-Continent North America

                                Bill Hume, Environment Canada (attachment 13)

 

3:55 pm                 Questions and Answers/Closing

 

4:15 pm                                 END OF DAY ONE

 

Wednesday March 23, 2005

 

9:00 am      5.0      Development and Communication of Information on Air Quality

Session Chair: Randy Piercey, Dept. of Environment and Local Government, New Brunswick

 

9:05 am                 5.1 National Approaches to AQ Forecasting

5.1.1 NOAA-EPA National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Initial Implementation, Progress and Plans, Paula Davidson, NOAA (attachment 14)

 

9:30 am                 5.1.2 Canada’s National Air Quality Forecast Program, Mike Howe, Environment Canada (attachment 15)

 

10:00 am               5.2 Health-based National Air Quality Indices, Phil Blagden, Environment Canada (attachment 16)

 

10:30 am                               BREAK

 

10:45 am               5.3 Ontario’s Experiences with Air Quality Indices, Outreach and Communication

                                Ellen Vansteenburgh/Dave Yap, Ontario MOE (attachment 17)

 

11:25 am               5.4 Ozone Health Advisory and Webcams, John Ray, US National Park Service (attachment 18)

 

11:45 am                               Questions and Answers    

 

12 noon                                  LUNCH

 

1:15 pm      6.0      Moving Forward – Panel Session – Jill Engel-Cox, Kathy Tonnessen, Rich Poirot,

Marc Pitchford, Randy Piercey, Ann McMillan, Tom Dann and Keith Puckett

 

                Please refer overleaf for the goals of the Panel Discussion

 

3:15 pm      7.0      Closing Remarks

 

3:45 pm                                 ADJOURN