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Program
The following is a tentative description of the workshop program. Times
and session topics may change. More information and the final program
will be posted here when abstract submissions have been confirmed.
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Training Course |
| 8:00 |
Session 1: Atmospheric Chemistry
Dr. Ann-Lise Norman, University of Calgary |
| 9:15 |
Session 2: Health and Air Quality
Barry Jessiman, Health Canada |
| 10:30 |
Refreshment Break |
| 11:00 |
Session 3: Statistics and Air Quality
Elton Chan, Environment Canada |
| 1:15 |
Session 4: Instrumentation and Monitoring
Tom Dann, Environment Canada |
| 2:30 |
Refreshment Break |
| 3:00 |
Session 5: Modelling
Paul Makar, Environment Canada |
| 5:00 |
Ice Breaker: Appetizers and Workshop Registration |
| 8:00 |
Introduction and Welcoming Remarks -
Gary Burke and Rachel Mintz |
| 8:15 |
Plenary: Research Supporting Policy:
Perspectives from Government and the Research Community
Guest Speaker: Phil Blagden - EC
Guest Speaker: Douw Steyn - UBC |
| 9:40 |
Refreshment Break |
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Session 1a - Understanding & Controlling
Smog Proposed Chair: Carrie Lillyman MB Auditorium |
Session 1b - Environmental Policy
& Outreach Chair: Bill Appleby Room MB 253 |
| 10:10 |
1-a-1 The 2008 Canadian Smog Science
Assessment - Carrie Lillyman, EC |
1-b-1 The Competitiveness and
Environmental Sustainability Framework: A new direction for the Government
of Canada - Michael Crowe, EC |
| 10:30 |
1-a-2 The Summer that Was - Smog
and Weather in 2005 - Fred Conway, EC |
1-b-2 Quantifying Social, Environmental
and Economic Benefits of Improved Air Quality - Michael Donohue, EC
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| 10:50 |
1-a-3 Characterizing the Spatial
Variability of NO2, SO2 and Volatile Organic Compounds in Windsor
, Ontario using Land Use Regression Models - Amanda Wheeler, HC |
1-b-3 Economic and Air Quality
Modeling Conducted under the Canada-US Emissions Cap and Trading Feasibility
Study - Kathryn Gagnon, EC |
| 11:10 |
1-a-4 Provincial Regulatory Air Quality
Dispersion Modeling Practice in Canada - Steven Sakiyama, BC Env |
1-b-4 Air Quality Education Through
Public Outreach - Myra Moore, FAP |
| 11:30 |
1-a-5 Air Quality Modeling at the National
Scale in Support of Policy Making - Veronique Bouchet, EC |
1-b-5 Clean Air Online (CAOL):
an integrated and multi-tiered website for facilitation clean air
outreach and information coordination - Franck Portalupi, EC |
| 11:50 |
1-a-6 Federal Agenda to Reduce
Emissions from Consumer and Commercial Products- Alex Cavadias, EC
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1-b-6 The Development of a Performance
Measurement System for MSC Air Quality Outreach Tools and Activities
- Sharon Jeffers, EC |
| 12:10 |
Lunch |
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Session 2a - Measurement Studies I
Chair: Frank Letchford MB Auditorium |
Session 2b - Measurement Studies II
Chair: Markus Kellerhals Room MB 253 |
| 1:10 |
2-a-1 Continuous PM 2.5 Measurements
- Tom Dann, EC |
2-b-1 Using Day of Week cycles in Ozone
and its Precursors to Identify Successful Air Quality Strategies - Jennifer
Murphy, UEA-UK |
| 1:30 |
2-a-2 Developing a spatial Sampling
Protocol for Stationary and Mobile Air Pollution Sampling - Jason
Su, UBC |
2-b-2 Long-Term Trend Analysis at Environment
Canada's CORE site at Egbert, Ontario, Canada - Elton Chan, EC |
| 1:50 |
2-a-3 Measuring Fugitive Emissions of
Methane and VOCs with Differential Absorption Lidar - Allan Chambers, ARC
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2-b-3 Analysis of Historical O3 and
PM2.5 Trends from Ambient Air Monitoring Data in Central Alberta - Warren
Kindzierski, UofA |
| 2:10 |
2-a-4 What Can We Do With Trajectories?
- Jacinthe Racine, EC |
2-b-4 An Assessment of Elevated
Smog Conditions in Ontario during 2003-2005 - David Yap, MOE |
| 2:30 |
Refreshment Break |
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Session 3a - Ammonia Research Proposed
Chair: Veronique Bouchet MB Auditorium |
Session 3b - Modelling Studies I Proposed
Chair: Gary Burke Room MB 253 |
| 3:00 |
3-a-1 Development of the 2008
Agricultural Ammonia Science Assessment - Kathleen Buset, EC |
3-b-1 Simulation of Mock Urban
Setting Test Using Finite Element dispersion Code - Jalal Abedi, UofC
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| 3:20 |
3-a-2 An Overview of the Lethbridge,
Alberta NH3 Study - Katherine Hayden, EC |
3-b-2 Modeling Residential Indoor
Ambient Pollution at the Regional Scale - Perry Hystad, UVic |
| 3:40 |
3-a-3 Air Quality Monitoring in
the Vicinity of a Large-Scale Hog Farm - Kevin Warren, PAMZ |
3-b-3 Improved Processing System
and Underlying Databases for the Calculation of Mobile and Biogenic
Emissions of Criteria Air Contaminants at High Resolution over Eastern
Canada - Gilles Morneau, EC |
| 4:00 |
Poster Session Room MB
251 |
| 5:30 |
Workshop ends for the day |
| 8:30 |
Introduction to Day 2 - Corinna Watt |
| 8:45 |
Plenary: Air Quality and Health
Guest Speaker : Sheldon Roth, UofC |
| 9:50 |
Refreshment Break |
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Session 4a - AQ & Human Health
Chair: Claude Chamberland MB Auditorium |
Session 4b - Forecasting Air Quality
Chair: Brian Wiens Room MB 253 |
| 10:20 |
4-a-1 Results from Public Opinion Research
Done to Support the Development of a Health Risk Based Air Quality Index
(AQHI) - Sharon Jeffers, EC |
4-b-1 NOAA-EPA's US National Air
Quality Forecast Capability: Progress and Plans - Paula Davidson,
NOAA |
| 10:40 |
4-a-2 Clearing the Air: Pilot of a New
Air Quality Health Index in the Thompson-Okanogan Valleys - Paul Hasselback,
BC IHA |
4-b-2 Development and Implementation
of a New MSC Operational Air Quality Forecasting Modelling System
(AQFM) to Replace CHRONOS in 2007 - Sylvain Ménard , EC |
| 11:00 |
4-a-3 An Innovative Methodology of assessing
Personal Exposure to Common Air Contaminants - Jonathan Robb, AENV |
4-b-3 A New Approach for the Verification
of Air Quality Forecasting Models Using A.I. Methods - Hugo Landry,
EC |
| 11:20 |
4-a-4 Simulating Risk of Exposure
to Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Urban and Suburban Working and
Non-Working Populations - Eleanor Setton, UVic |
4-b-4 An Automated Statistical
Model to Forecast the Air Quality Health Index for Southern Interior
Communities of British Columbia - Jon Wang, EC |
| 11:40 |
4-a-5 A Tale of Two Cities: Comparing
Land Use & Traffic Related Pollution Exposure Models in Seattle
and Vancouver - Carlos Silva, UBC |
4-b-5 Combining Scientific Knowledge
on Long-Range Transport and Real-Time Meteorological Forecasts to
Efficiently Sample Pesticides in the Atmosphere - Jianmin Ma, EC |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 5a - Modelling Studies II
Chair: Lawrence Cheng MB Auditorium |
Session 5b - PM & Ozone Measurements
Chair: Monique Lapalme Room MB 253 |
| 1:00 |
5-a-1 Global Simulations with
GEM-AQ for Model Evaluation - Lori Neary, York U |
5-b-1 Characterization of PM 2.5
and Ozone Levels and Trends in Eastern Canada Using Trajectory Cluster
- Dennis Herod, EC |
| 1:20 |
5-a-2 Ongoing Development of a
Multi-User GIS-Based Emission Inventory Tool - Wayne Boulton , RWDI
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5-b-2 An investigation of meso-scale
circulation regimes in the Lower Fraser Valley , B.C. on days with
exceedance level ozone concentrations - Bruce Ainslie, UBC |
| 1:40 |
5-a-3 Climate Change and Air Quality:
Global to Regional-Scale Effects - David Plummer, EC |
5-b-3 PM2.5 Receptor Modelling in Golden,
British Columbia, 2004-2006 - Mark Graham, BC Env |
| 2:00 |
5-a-4 A preliminary assessment
of air pollution impacts in northeast British Columbia - Judi Krzyzanowski
, UBC |
5-b-4 Fine Particulate Matter
in Atlantic Canada - Climatology and Characterization - David Waugh,
EC |
| 2:20 |
Refreshment Break |
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Session 6a - Modelling Studies III
Chair: Warren Kindzierski MB Auditorium |
Session 6b - Local Effects Measurements
Chair: David Waugh Room MB 253 |
| 2:50 |
6-a-1 Recent Developments in Acid
Deposition Modelling in Canada - Michael Moran, EC |
6-b-1 Lake Breeze Effects on Air
Quality in Southern Ontario - Hong Lin, EC |
| 3:10 |
6-a-2 2002-annual simulation with
AURAMS - Sophie Cousineau, EC |
6-b-2 Air Quality Measurements
During Sour Gas Flaring Events in Southern Alberta - Ann-Lise Norman,
UofC |
| 3:30 |
6-a-3 AURAMS model response to
changes in anthropogenic emissions: February 2005 major smog episode
simulations - Nedka Pentcheva and Gilles Morneau, EC |
6-b-3 Air Quality in Northern
Saskatchewan : A Field Study to Understanding Trans-Boundary Acidic
Emissions - Imran Maqsood, SERM |
| 3:50 |
6-a-4 Application of A Unified
Regional Air Quality Modeling System to the Great Lake Air Quality
Study - Hong Lin, EC |
6-b-4 Agrichemicals in the Canadian
Atmosphere: First Results from the Canadian Atmospheric Network for
Currently Used Pesticides (CANCUP) - Yuan Yao , EC |
| 4:10 |
6-a-5 UMOS - Air Quality - Richard Verret, EC |
6-b-5 A Field Study of Ground-level Ozone in the Sea-to-Sky Corridor (Vancouver-Whistler-Pemberton) of British Columbia and the Implications for Airshed Management -Stephanie K. Meyn, BC Env |
| 6:00 |
Banquet: Banff Centre FR
345 Guest Speaker: Dave Fox - Air Quality Issues in Northern Canada
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| 8:15 |
Introduction to Day 3 - Frank Letchford |
| 8:30 |
Plenary: Air Quality Field Studies:
Current and Future Plans
Guest Speaker: Jeffrey Brook - EC |
| 9:15 |
Refreshment Break |
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Session 7a - PrAIRie 2005 Chair: Kristina
Friesen MB Auditorium |
Session 7b - Modelling Studies IV
Chair: Mike Bisauga Room MB 253 |
| 9:45 |
7-a-1 Primary and Secondary Contributions
to Organic Aerosols: Preliminary Results from the PrAIRie 2005 Field Study
- Craig Stroud, EC |
7-b-1 Status of Tropospheric Data
Assimilation of Air Pollutants at MSC - Richard Menard, EC |
| 10:05 |
7-a-2 Real-Time Air Quality Forecast
Products in Support of PrAIRie 2005 - Stephane Gaudreault, EC |
7-b-2 Chemical-Dynamical Coupling
in Data Assimilation - Richard Menard, EC |
| 10:25 |
7-a-3 cancelled |
7-b-3 A Synoptic Climatological
Approach to Assess Climate Change Impacts on Air Quality in South
Central Canada - Chad Shouquan Cheng, EC |
| 10:45 |
7-a-4 Operational Forecasts of
air Quality and Weather in Support of PrAIRie 2005 - Brian Wiens,
EC |
7-b-4 The Determination of Canada-Wide
Standard Achievement for Fine Particulate Matter - Model Scenarios
for Atlantic Canada - Colleen Farrell, EC |
| 11:05 |
7-a-5 A Comparison Between AURAMS
Runs Using Operational and Parallel (Heat Island) Versions of GEM
During PrAIRie 2005 - Paul Makar, EC |
7-b-5 Modeling of Regional aerosols
Using AURAMS During the ICARTT Campaign in Summer 2004 - Wanmin Gong,
EC |
| 11:25 |
Panel Discussion: Piecing the Puzzle
- Putting it all together
Moderator - Bill Appleby MB Auditorium |
| 12:30 |
Workshop Wrap-Up and Door
Prize Draw |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Abstract |
Author |
Title |
| 1 |
4 |
Markus Kellerhals, EC |
Measurements of Ambient Benzene Concentrations near Glycol
Dehydrators in Alberta |
| 2 |
9 |
Jianmin Ma, EC |
Can a single short-term episodic long range transport
event skew the estimates of annual deposition of toxic substances to the
Great Lakes |
| 3 |
28 |
Katherine Wolbert, UBC |
The Border Air Quality Study |
| 4 |
34 |
Chad Shouquan Cheng, EC |
Differential and Combined Impacts of Air Pollution and
Extreme Temperatures on Human Mortality in South-Central Canada |
| 5 |
36 |
Wayne Boulton, RWDI |
Modelling Toxic Air Contaminants from Ethanol Blend Fuels
in Canada using a Modified SAPRC-99 Chemical Mechanism in CMAQ |
| 6 |
40 |
Alexander Kallaur, EC |
An Online Chemical Interface System in GEM |
| 7 |
41 |
Mourad Sassi, EC |
Processing the Canadian National Emissions Inventory with
SMOKE |
| 8 |
47 |
Jacques Rousseau, EC |
Understanding the role of weather conditions leading to
major winter particle pollution episode. Case study, January 31 to February
8, 2005 over Quebec region |
| 9 |
55 |
Sean Perry, EC |
Mathematical model approaches to forecasting winter PM2.5
in Saint John , NB |
| 10 |
62 |
Mark Graham, BC Env |
PM coarse Monitoring and Modelling in Golden, BC |
| 11 |
64 |
Robert McLaren, York U |
Spectroscopic Studies of Polluted Marine Air Masses in
the Strait of Georgia |
| 12 |
70 |
Lisa Phinney, DalU |
Internally-mixed Organics and Influences on Cloud Condensation
Nuclei Concentrations Over the North Pacific Ocean |
| 13 |
72 |
Kristina Friesen, EC |
7Be as a Tracer of Stratospheric Contribution
to Ground Level Ozone at Harlech , Alberta |
| 14 |
78 |
James Sloan, UW |
Modelling the Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport of Toxic
Semi-Volatile Materials in North America |
| 15 |
79 |
Fred Conway, EC |
Ozone and Ozone Precursor Trends in Canada , 1994-2003
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| 16 |
82 |
Brian Stocks, OLA |
Fine Particulate Matter in Atlantic Canada - Climatology
Effects and Characterization |
| 17 |
65 |
Ka-Hing Yau, Lakes Env |
A Regional Air Quality Assessment with CALPUFF Modeling
on a Grid Computing Platform |
| 18 |
84 |
Randy Rudolph, AMEC |
Aircraft Observation of Biogenic Emissions in Canadian's
Oilsands Region |
| 19 |
85 |
Martina Krieger and Nadine Valentijn, AENV |
Cumulative Environmental Management Association Trace
Metals and Air Contaminants Working Group and NOxSO2 Management Working
Group |
- AENV - Alberta Environment
- AMEC - Amec Earth & Environmental
- ARC - Alberta Research Council
- BC Env - B.C. Ministry of the Environment
- BC IHA - B.C. Interior Health Authority
- DalU - Dalhousie University
- EC - Environment Canada
- FAP - Fort Air Partnership
- HC - Health Canada
- Lakes Env - Lakes Environmental
- MOE - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
- NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- OLA - Ontario Lung Association
- PAMZ - Parkland Airshed Management Zone
- RWDI - Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc.
- SERM - Saskatchewan Environment
- UBC - University of British Columbia
- UEA-UK - University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
- UofA - University of Alberta
- UofC - University of Calgary
- UVic - University of Victoria
- UW - University of Waterloo
- York U - York University
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