Fire Emissions Joint Forum: Meetings & Calls

Fire Emissions Joint Forum Meeting
December 8-9, 2004, Las Vegas, NV

Meeting Notes: PDF or DOC
Meeting Attendees: PDF or DOC

Interactive Agenda
(with documents & presentation links)

Meeting Objective: To further the work of the Fire Emissions Joint Forum through agenda items intended for Information Exchange, Information Update, Work Underway – Information Update, Discussion, Decision, and Approval, and Task Initiation.

*December 8, 2004*
8:00 AM	Introductions and Agenda PDF or DOC
8:15 AM	FEJF Status (Pete Lahm / Darla Potter / Mark Fitch) Information Exchange -Co-Chair, Members and Vacancies -WRAP Board Meeting Download: Guidance for Categorizing Natural vs anthropogenic Fire Emissions PDF or DOC
8:30 AM	Natural & Anthropogenic Guidance (Bob Habeck / Deb Wolfe) Work Underway – Requiring Approval -Task Team Development -Directed Outreach / Targeted Review Results -FEJF Approval
9:00 AM	Phase I Emission Inventory and Continuing Tasks (Air Sciences Inc.) Work Underway – Information Update & Discussion -Natural / Anthropogenic Assignments – Final Methodology & Results -Essential Documentation Download: Phase I Wrap-Up Part 1 PDF or PPT (Phase I emission inventory and continuing tasks. Project status and work uderway including Wildland Fire Use and Natural/Anthropogenic Assignments.)
9:45 AM	Break
10:00 AM	Phase I EI and Continuing Tasks continued (Air Sciences Inc.) Work Underway – Information Update & Discussion -Rangeland Burning on Private Lands – Technical Approach & EI Development Download: Phase I Wrap-Up Part 2 PDF or PPT (Phase I EI and continuing tasks, continued. Rangeland burning technical approach and EI development.)
10:30 AM	Sensitivity Model Run Results (Gail Tonnesson / Tom Moore) Work Underway – Information Update & Discussion Download: Plan For Model Sensitivity Runs For Fire PDF Download: Approach For Categorizing Natural And Anthropogenic For Wrap Phase I Fire Emission Inventory PDF Download: WRAP/RMC Fire Sensitivity Modeling Project PDF or PPT Download: Example Stacked Bar Time-Series Plot PDF Download: Modeling Sensitivity Runs for Fire Emissions White Paper PDF or DOC
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM	FETM Project (Pete Lahm) Work Underway - Information Update -Draft Report Comments
1:15 PM	Phase II Emission Inventory and Continuing Tasks (Air Sciences Inc.) Work Underway - Information Update & Discussion -Technical Refinements - Large Fire & Fire Complex Identification -Wildfire and Rx Fire QC Packets (States, Tribes, FLMs) Download: Phase II Project PDF or PPT (Phase II EI and continuing tasks. Large fire refinements and duplicate checking. Wildand burning QC packets to States, Tribes, and FLMs.)
2:30 PM	Break
2:45 PM	Wyoming Agricultural Burning EI Development (James Scarborough) Information Exchange Download: Wyoming Agricultural Burning EI Development PDF or PPT
3:00 PM	Utah Agricultural Burning Survey (Dave Strohm) Information Exchange Download: Utah Ag. Emissions Inventory PDF or PPT
3:15 PM	Phase II EI and Continuing Tasks continued (Air Sciences Inc.) Work Underway - Information Update & Discussion -Agricultural Burning - Integration of QC Responses to QC Outreach -NIF Format for Phase II Deliverables -Fire Plume Characteristics Update -Next steps Download: Phase II Project Part 2 PDF or PPT (Phase II EI and continuing tasks, continued. Integration of QC responses to Ag burning QC packets; National Inventory Format (NIF) of Phase II EI data; update on work on assigning plume characteristics to fire events in the EI in preparation for modeling.)
5:00 PM	End Day One

*December 9, 2004*
8:00 AM	Emissions Task Team: Phase III & IV RFP (Mark Fitch / Tom Moore) Work Underway - Information Update & Discussion
8:45 AM	EDMS Update (David Holoman & Steve Boone, Pechan / Tom Moore / Mark Fitch / Pete Lahm) Work Underway - Information Update -Technical Memorandum Comments -Next Steps Proposal & Costs Download: WRAP EDMS Presentation PDF or PPS Download: Suggested Data Input and Data Flows for the WRAP EDMS Fire Module PDF or DOC Download: WRAP EDMS 2005 PHASE II Tasks Cost Estimate PDF
9:45 AM	Break
10:00 AM	Next Two Meetings Schedule -Suggested Meeting Locations -Suggested Meeting Topics, Including Speakers or Field Trips
10:15 AM	ERT Task Team Technical Tool Development (Dave Randall / Mark Fitch) Work Underway - Information Update, Discussion & Decision -Recap of work/calls to date -Approach to get work done -Technical materials developed to date -Next Steps Download: Emission Reduction Techniques (ERTs) PDF or PPT (Emission Reduction Techniques Task Team update - work underway, presentation and status of development of draft ERT technical tool.)
11:15 AM	Inter-RPO Wildfire Emission Inventory (Air Sciences Inc.) Work Underway - Information Update -How/Why the Inter-RPO project fits into what the FEJF and WRAP are doing
11:45 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM	EDMS continued (Tom Moore / Mark Fitch / Pete Lahm) Work Underway - Discussion & Decision -Next Steps -Funding
1:45 PM	Regional Coordination of Smoke Management Programs (Deb Wolfe) Task Initiation -Task Team Formation Download: Task Team Formation for Regional Coordination of Smoke Management Programs PDF or DOC
2:00 PM	Attribution of Haze Project (Mark Pitchford / Tom Moore) Information Update -Causes of Haze Project -Modeling -Emissions -IMPROVE Apportionment -Gateway Report / Webpage Download: Attribution of Haze Report Status PPT or PDF Download: Causes of Haze Assessment Update PDF or PPT Download: Attribution of Haze Report (Phase I) PDF or DOC
2:45 PM	Workplan Status Information Exchange -Smoke Management Technical and Policy Workshop -Sensitivity Runs Phase II: Regional & Mesoscale -Regional Modeling Center Support
3:00 PM	Meeting End

Detailed Location & Lodging Information:

Embassy Suites Hotel Convention Center
3600 Paradise Road
Las Vegas, NV 89109
T: (702) 893-8000 or (800) 362-2779
F: (702) 893-0708

A room block has been reserved at the Embassy Suites Hotel Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the nights of December 7 - 8. Guest room rates are $122, which includes a full cooked to order breakfast and an evening reception. For reservations at the Embassy Suites please call before November 7 and reference "WRAP" in order to receive this contracted rate.

Embassy Suites does not provide shuttle service to/from the airport. Taxi service is approx. $10 each way or there are several shuttle companies located outside baggage claim that service all the hotels.