Fire Emissions Joint Forum: National Fire Emissions Technical Workshop

National Fire Emissions Technical Work Shop
May 4-6, 2004, New Orleans, LA
Sponsored by: EPA, USDA Forest Service, WRAP and CENRAP

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TUESDAY, May 4, 2004
8:00 - 8:10	PL1: Welcome and Introductions
8:10 - 8:40	PL2: Context for the meeting P. Lahm - National Fire Emissions Technical Workshop T. Pace - Issues and Goals for the National Fire Emissions Workshop S. Sandberg - Expectations
8:40 - 9:00	PL3: Format of the meeting
9:00 - 9:45	PL4: Fire Emissions & Air Quality Planning–Highlights of RPO Approaches M. Janssen - Highlights of the RPO Approaches to Fire Inventory Development
9:45 - 10:00	BREAK
10:00 - 11:00	PL5: Fire Activity: Education/Overview; Including Event Characterization P. Fields - Agricultural Burning Activity Data in the WRAP Region P. Lahm - Fire Projections J. Scarborough - Remote Sensing and GIS S. Wimmer - National Fire Activity Tracking
11:00 - 12:00	PL6: Fire Emissions & Fuel Consumption – Education/Overview R. Babbit - Missoula Fire Chemistry Research Work Unit S. Ferguson - Atmosphere and Fire Interactions Research and Engineering D. McKenzie, R. Ottmar - Fuels and Emissions S. Sandberg - Emissions and Consumption Overview
12:05 - 1:30	LUNCH
1:30 - 2:00	Track 1: Fire Activity		Track 2: Fuel Consumption and Emissions
	T1/PL1: Required Data Elements (Spatial & Temporal Resolution & DQO's ) S. Ferguson - Fire Activity Tracking Wrap-Up		T2/PL1: Emission Calculation Techniques and Inventory Format T. Pace - Current and Future WLF Emission Calculations and EPA/RPO Submission Issues
2:00 - 3:00	T1/PL2: National Fire Activity Databases & Options S. Ferguson - Fire Activity Tracking (cntd) Wrap-Up		T2/B1: Fuel Characterization J. Key-Long - Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project D. McKenzie - Mapping Fuels Using the FCCS System R. Ottmar - Fuel Characteristics R. Ottmar - Healthy Forest Initiative and Maintaining Air Quality Wrap-Up	T2/B2: Emission Factors R. Babbit, B. Battye - Emission Factors for Fire Wrap-Up
3:00 - 3:15	BREAK
3:15 - 4:15	T1/PL2: National Fire Activity Databases & Options (continued) (see above)	T1/B1: IMPROVE, Tracer and Source Apportionment Studies W. Malm - Is It ---- Or Is It Smoke? Wrap-Up	T2/B1: Fuel Characterization (continued) (see above)	T2/B2: Emission Factors (continued) (see above)
4:15 - 4:45	BREAK (Group leaders & track facilitators prepare conclusion slides)
4:45 - 5:25	PL7: Technical Wrap-up B. Battye - Emission Factors Wrap-Up S. Ferguson - National Fire Activity Databases & Options Wrap-Up S. Ferguson - Fire Activity Tracking Wrap-Up W. Malm - IMPROVE., Tracer and Source Apportionment Studies Wrap-Up R. Ottmar - Fuel Characterization Wrap-Up

WEDNESDAY, May 5, 2004
8:30 - 9:00	Track 1: Fire Activity		Track 2: Fuel Consumption and Emissions
	T1/PL3: Data Quality & Augmentation J. Scarborough - Remote Sensing and GIS		T2/PL2: Fire Emissions Modeling Systems S. Sandberg - Fire Emissions Modeling Systems
9:00 - 10:15	T1/B2: Remote Sensing P. Gong - Remote Sensing of Fire with AVHRR and Landsat W. Hao - Fire Monitoring and Air Quality Forecasting Using NASA Terra and Aqua Satellite Data	T1/B3: Agricultural Fire Tracking D. Coe - Development of Emission Inventories of Planned Burning Activities in the CENRAP P. Fields - Agricultural Burning Activity Data in the WRAP Region Wrap-Up	T2/B3: Fuel Consumption & Fire Emissions Models R. Ottmar - Fuel Consumption and Emissions - Consume 3.0 E. Reinhardt - FOFEM 5 S. Sandberg - Fire Emission Production Simulator (formerly EPM) Wrap-Up	T2/B4: Other Air Quality Model Input Needs G. Achtemeier - Injecting Smoke into CMAQ - An Approach to the Problems of Time Variance and Vertical Distribution S. Goodrick - Modeling Emissions from Wildfires M. Janssen - Midwest RPO Chemical Transport Emissions Modeling Y. Liu - Point vs. Area Fires and Vertical Distribution of Smoke in CMAQ J. McQueen - Fire Weather Support from NCEP: Selectable Runs of Nonhydrostatic Mesocale Model T. Pierce - Integrating BlueSky into the CMAQ/SMOKE Modeling System G. Tonnesson - WRAP Emissions Processing of Fire Sources Wrap-Up
10:15 - 10:30	BREAK
10:30 - 11:30	T1/B4: GIS Methods for Data Augmentation J. Scarborough - Remote Sensing and GIS Wrap-Up	T1/B5: Agricultural Emission Factors and Estimation D. Coe - Development of Emission Inventories of Planned Burning Activities in the CENRAP P. Fields - Agricultural Burning Activity Data in the WRAP Region	T2/B3: Fuel Consumption & Fire Emissions Models (continued) (see above)	T2/B4: Other Air Quality Model Input Needs (continued) (see above)
11:30 - 12:15	T1/PL4: Projection of Future Fire Activity/Emissions P. Lahm - Fire Projections D. Randall - 2018 WRAP Projections - Methodology G. Stella - VISTAS Wildland and Prescribed Fire Forecasts Wrap-Up		T2/B3: Fuel Consumption & Fire Emissions Models (continued) (see above)	T2/B4: Other Air Quality Model Input Needs (continued) (see above)
12:15 - 1:30	LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00	T1/PL4: Projection of Future Fire Activity/Emissions (continued)		T2/B5: Quality Assurance of the Emissions Modeling Process S. Ferguson - Quality Assurance of Emissions Modeling Process Wrap-Up	T2/B4: Other Air Quality Model Input Needs (continued) (see above)
3:00 - 3:15	BREAK
3:15 - 4:15	PL8: Canada & Mexico : Available Data and Emission Estimation Techniques E. Alvarado - Canada and Mexico's Available Data and Emission Estimate Techniques for Wildfires and Agricultural Burning M. DesLauriers - Canadian Emissions Inventory for Forest Fires and Prescribed Burning F. Arenas - Wildfire Information in Mexico National Wildfire Control Center CENCIF D. Lavoue - Canadian Wildfires Emission Modeling
4:15 - 5:15	PL9: Day Two Technical Wrap-up G. Achtemeier - Other Air Quality Modeling Input Needs Wrap-Up S. Ferguson - Quality Assurance of the Emissions Modeling Process Wrap-Up P. Lahm -Projections Wrap-Up R. Ottmar - Fuel Consumption and Fire Emissions Models Wrap-Up J. Scarborough - Remote Sensing Wrap-Up A. Sharp - Agricultural Fire Tracking Wrap-Up

THURSDAY, May 6, 2004
8:00 - 8:40	PL10: Emission Reduction Techniques—Overview of Technical and Policy Issues P. Lahm - Emission Reduction Techniques R. Ottmar - Emission Reduction Techniques M. Ziolko - Oregon's Tracking of Emissions Reduction Techniques
8:45 - 10:15	Track 1: Fire Activity		Track 2: Fuel Consumption and Emissions
	T1/B7: Canada & Mexico (Continued) E. Alvarado - Carbon Emissions from Spring 1998 Fires in Tropical Mexico P. Fields - Estimating Wildfire and Agricultural Burning Emissions for the Mexico NEI Wrap-Up	T1/B6: ERT's & Smoke Management Plans–How to Characterize SMP & Other Policy Changes in Activity Forecasts (Note: There are no electronic presentations for this session.) Wrap-Up	T2/B6: ERT's - How to Reflect in the EI Process R. Ottmar - Emission Reduction Techniques M. Ziolko - Emission Reduction Techniques Wrap-Up
10:15 - 10:45	BREAK
10:45 - 12:30	PL11: Workshop Wrap-Up P. Lahm - ERT Technical Wrap-Up R. Ottmar - Emission Reduction Techniques - How to Reflect in the Emissions Inventory Process Wrap-Up Canadian and Mexican Fire Emissions Wrap-Up National Fire Emissions Workshop Wrap-Up