Fire Emissions Joint Forum: Meetings & Calls

Fire Emissions Joint Forum Meeting
June 7-8, 2005, Denver, CO

Meeting Notes PDF or DOC
Attendance List PDF

Meeting Logistics

Interactive Agenda

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

*June 7 , 2005*
8:00 AM	Introductions and Agenda PDF or DOC
8:15 AM	FEJF Status (Darla Potter / Mark Fitch) Information Exchange Members, Co-Chairs Planning Team Meeting WRAP Board Meeting EPA Open Burning Workgroup
8:45 AM	Task Status: Phase II EI and FETM Project (Darla Potter / Mark Fitch) Task Finalization
9:00 AM	Fire Environment Working Team (Paul Schlobohm) Information Exchange Presentation: PDF or PPT (with transitions)
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Phase III & IV Emissions Inventories (Air Sciences) PDF Work Underway – Information Update & Discussion
11:15 AM	Inter-RPO National Wildfire Emissions Inventory (Air Sciences) PDF Work Underway – Information Update & Discussion
12:00 PM	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 PM	Next Two Meetings Schedule Suggested Meeting Topics, Including Speakers or Field Trips Monthly Conference Calls
1:15 PM	Natural / Anthropogenic Guidance Task Finalization
2:15 PM	Break
2:30 PM	Model Assessment Tasks (Mark Fitch/Gail Tonnesson/Tom Moore) PDF Work Underway – Information Update & Discussion Sensitivity Runs Phase II: Regional & Mesoscale Emissions Inventory Plume Rise PDF
4:00 PM	Using Satellite-Based Products to Enhance Existing Area Burned Data (Amber Soja) Information Exchange Presentation: PDF Handout: PDF Paper: Estimatng Fire Emissions and Disparities in Boreal Siberia (1998-2002) PDF
5:00 PM	End Day One

*June 8 , 2005* (Breakout Sessions)
8:00 AM	Regional Coordination Task Team Breakout Session (Deb Wolfe) Guidance for Coordinating Smoke Management Programs PDF or DOC	ERT Task Team Breakout Session (Mark Fitch)
10:00 AM	Break	Break
10:15 AM	RCTT Breakout Session cont.	FTS Task Team Breakout Session (Mark Fitch)
12:00 PM	Lunch (on your own)	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 PM	RCTT Breakout Session cont.	Adjourn to Regional Haze Data Analysis Workshop
3:00 PM	Adjorn

June 8, 2005 Regional Haze Data Analysis Workshop
Haze Workshop / National RPO Tech Meeting Agenda: PDF or DOC
8:00 AM	Welcome, agenda review, & introductions (Marc Pitchford)
8:20 AM	Draft results of IMPROVE Aerosol Extinction Algorithm Assessment Project (includes break) (Bill Malm) Draft Report: Review of the IMPROVE Equation for Estimating Ambient Light Extinction Coefficients
11:00 AM	Open Discussion (Marc Pitchford )
12:00 PM	Lunch (on your own)
1:20 PM	Draft Results of the Inter-RPO Natural Haze Levels Sensitivity Analysis project (includes break) (Ivar Tombach) Critical Evaluation of Current Approach for Estimating Natural Conditions PDF Descriptive Analysis PDF (5.4 MB)
4:00 PM	Open Discussion (Rich Poirot)
5:00 PM	Effect of Revisions to IMPROVE Equation and EPA's Defaults on Satisfying 2018 Reasonable Progress Goals using Latest VISTAS' Modeling Results (John Jansen, Southern Company) Presentation: PDF
5:30 PM	End Workshop - Adjourn for the day.
*June 9-10, 2005 National RPO Technical Meeting*
June 9, 2005 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM June 10, 2005 8:30 AM – Noon Meeting Agenda: PDF or DOC The HTML agenda is at: http://www.cleanairinfo.com/rponational/agenda.htm