Agenda

Thursday Nov. 13, 2014

8:30 a.m. 

Mike Koerber, Associate Director for Policy, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
Welcome

Dan Costa, National Program Director, Air, Climate, & Energy Research Program,
EPA Office of Research and Development
EPA Air, Climate, & Energy Research

8:45 a.m.

Tami Bond, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linking Regional Aerosol Emission Changes with Multiple Impact Measures through Direct and Cloud-Related Forcing Estimates (PDF) (71 pp, 11 MB)

9:30 a.m.

Greg Carmichael, University of Iowa
Constraining Urban-To-Global Scale Estimates of Black Carbon Distributions, Sources, Regional Climate Impacts, and Co-Benefit Metrics with Advanced Coupled Dynamic - Chemical Transport - Adjoint Models (PDF) (65 pp, 15.75 MB)

10:15 a.m.

Break

10:35 a.m.

Annmarie Carlton, Rutgers University
Improved Prediction of the Vertical Profile of Atmospheric Black Carbon: Development and Evaluation of WRF-CMAQ (PDF) (43 pp, 6.83 MB)

11:20 a.m.

Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Particle-Resolved Simulations for Quantifying Black Carbon Climate Impact and Model Uncertainty (PDF) (38 pp, 17.8 MB)

12:05 p.m.

Erika Sasser, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
How Does Black Carbon Research Impact Policy Decisions? (PDF) (8 pp, 144 K)

12:35 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m.

Spyros Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University
Black Carbon, Air Quality and Climate: From the Local to the Global Scale (PDF) (53 pp, 14 MB)

2:15 p.m.

Jamie Schauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Development of a Quantitative Accounting Framework for Black Carbon and Brown Carbon from Emissions Inventory to Impacts (PDF) (35 pp, 14 MB)

3:00 p.m.

Rich Baldauf, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Mobile Sources, Black Carbon, and Policy

3:20 p.m.

Break

3:50 p.m. 

Akua Asa-Awuku, University of California, Riverside
Understanding the Hygroscopic Properties of Black Carbon/Organic Carbon Mixing States: Connecting Climate and Health Impacts of Anthropogenic Aerosol (PDF) (79 pp, 8.34 MB)

4:30 p.m.

Tom Long, EPA Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment
Climate and EPA’s Multipollutant Assessment Efforts (PDF) (12 pp, 654 K)

4:50 p.m. 

Tiffany Yelverton, EPA Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory
Including BC in the SPECIATE Database: User Needs and Data Standards - Presentation and Discussion

5:15 p.m.

Conclude Day 1

6:30 p.m.

Optional Group Dinner

Friday Nov. 14, 2014

8:45 a.m.

Bryan Bloomer, EPA Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Research
Welcome Back

9:00 a.m.

Jesse Kroll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigating the Effects of Atmospheric Aging on the Radiative Properties and Climate Impacts of Black Carbon Aerosol (PDF) (33 pp, 1.66 MB)

9:45 a.m.

Amara Holder, EPA Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory
Black Carbon Source Emissions and the Impacts of Different Measurement Methods

10:05 a.m.

Break

10:25 a.m.

Sarah Doherty, University of Washington
BC and Other Light-Absorbing Impurities in North American Great Plains Snow: Sources, Impacts, and a Comparison with North China Snow (PDF) (59 pp, 5.5 MB)

11:10 a.m.

Marcus Sarofim, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Atmospheric Programs
Black Carbon and Arctic Policy (PDF) (14 pp, 1.82 MB)

11:30 a.m.

Rufus Edwards, University of California, Irvine
Characterization of Emissions from Small, Variable Solid Fuel Combustion Sources For Determining Global Emissions and Climate Impact (PDF) (37 pp, 6.8 MB)

12:15 p.m.

Alan Vette, Acting Deputy Director for Climate, Air, Climate, & Energy Research Program, EPA Office of Research and Development,
Closing Comments

12:30 p.m.  

Lunch and Adjourn