PNWIS 2007 Presentations

Wednesday, October 17
PNWIS 2007 Plenary Session, Tamarack & Ponderosa Ballrooms
1:00pm – 1:30pm    Conference Opening Remarks The Honorable C.L. “Butch” Otter, Governor 1:30pm – 2:30pm Plenary Speaker: Viability of Terrestrial and Geological CO2 Sequestration Technologies John Talbott. Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership
2:30pm – 3:00pm   Break
Student Program Northstar	Powering the Future Liberty	Monitoring & Measurements Delamar
3:00pm – 4:30pm Student Program Chair: Steve Rybolt (Port of Seattle) 3:00pm – 3:30pm Career Panel 3:30pm - 3:45pm Value of Professional Certification 3:45pm - 4:00pm What Employers Want  4:00pm – 4:30pm Speed Networking	3:00pm – 4:30pm Powering the Northwest Chair: Eric Hansen (Geomatrix) Overview of the Idaho Energy Complex (Nuclear power facility with ethanol production), Bruneau, Don Gillispie (Alternate Energy Holdings) Comparison of Current Fossil Fuel Power Generation Techniques (Coal IGCC and Natural Gas) Eric Hansen, (Geomatrix) Overview of Power CountyEnergy Center Tom Hornyak, Scott Vanderau (Southeast Idaho Energy) Advanced (Coal-to-Liquids and Nitrogen Fertilizers Plant). Wind Energy Development in PNWIS Country: The State of the Technology – Who, What, Where, Why, When. Kirk Stopenhagen (Vorticity Consulting)	3:00pm – 4:30pm Monitoring & Measurements Chair: Sucha Parmar (AA&C) Living with the Changes to the Instrumental Method. Bob Davis (Airgas) Overcoming Challenges during Source Testing of a Batch Electric Arc Furnace Process. Agata McIntyre, Melissa McAfee (PSCAA), Bart Kale (Nucor Steel Seattle) Development of a New Method for Sampling and Analysis of Amines. Sucha S. Parmar, Kristia Parker, Marcus Hueppe (Atmospheric Analysis and Consulting) Characterization of TRU Mixed Waste at the Hanford Site. Patrick Wicks, M.E. Lakes, R.J. Swan (Fluor Hanford Waste Services)

Thursday, October 18
Air Modeling & Monitoring Northstar	Waste & Wastewater Management Liberty	Air Emissions Delamar	Sustainability Cinnabar
8:30am – 10:00am Atmospheric Mercury and Toxics Deposition Chair: Rick Hardy (IDEQ) Atmospheric Deposition as a Potential Source of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) to the WillametteRiver, Oregon (USA). Bruce Hope (Oregon DEQ) Atmospheric Mercury Deposition in southern Idaho Snowpacks.  Sara Strachan (Idaho DEQ) Atmospheric Mercury near Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir in Southern Idaho.  Mike Abbott Peter Martian, Jeffrey EinersonIdaho National Laboratory) and Che-Jen Lin (Lamar University) ( Wet Deposition in the Salmon Falls Creek Watershed (Mercury).  Rick Hardy, Carl Brown, Clyde Lay, Jen Wester (Idaho DEQ)	8:30am – 10:00am Water and Wastewater Management at Dairies, Feedlots, and Fish Farms Chair: Marc Beutel (WSU) Evaluation of Alum Treatment for Jameson Lake Jillian Churchill, Marc Beutel Inflows.  (WSU) Effects of Pure Oxygen Gas on Ammonia Removal in Surface Flow Treatment Wetlands. Huckleberry Palmer, Marc Beutel (WSU) Enhanced Remediation of Organic Pesticides in a Batch-mode Operated Reciprocating Surface-water Constructed Wetland Mesocosms: The Case of Chlorpyrifos. Seyoum YamiGebramariam, Marc Beutel (WSU) Enhancing Aquaculture Fish Production, Water Usage and Water Quality using Oxygenation. Marc Beutel (WSU), Scott LaPatra (Clear Springs Foods)	8:30am – 10:00am Emissions Inventories Chair: Stephen Coe (Woodgrain Millwork) Northwest Perspectives on Maritime Air Quality. Sarah Flagg (Port of Seattle) 2005 Emission Inventory and Graphic User Interface for Point Sources. Chris Ramsdell (Idaho DEQ) Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Verification, and Climate Registries. Estee LaFrenz (Kleinfelder)  Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and the Forest Products Industry. Eric Albright (Geomatrix)	8:30am – 10:00am Green Design Chair: Kim Marcus (URS) Green Roofs and Stormwater Kim Marcus (URS) Management. Airports and the Environment: Green? Steve Rybolt (Port of Seattle) Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials: Environmental Benefits and Challenges. Kumar Ganesan (Montana Tech)
10:00am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 12:00pm Air Modeling: CMAQ Chair: Joe Vaughan (WSU) Pacific NorthwestAtmospheric Deposition.  Matthew Porter (WSU, SLR International) Regional Modeling of Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Mercury Incorporation of Satellite Data for Improving AIRPACT.  Joe Vaughan, Farren Thorpe, George Mount, Brian Lamb (WSU) Idaho Airshed Definition. Yayi Dong (Idaho DEQ) Mobile Source Emission Inventories using TDM2SMOKE. Wei Zhang (Idaho DEQ)	10:30am – 12:00pm Brownfields Programs Chair: Andy MorkKleinfelder Winners Circle: Brownfields Grants Panel: Scot Oliver (Capital City Development Corporation) Dennis Cannon (Caldwell Redevelopment) Rick Cummins (IdahoState Parks & Recreation) Don Outram (Sage Community Resources) Aaron Scheff (Idaho DEQ) Application of Risk-Based Decisionmaking at Brownfield Sites in Idaho. Bruce Wicherski and Aaron Scheff (Idaho DEQ) Real-Time Subsurface Characterization Methods, U.S. EPA Brownfields Petroleum Assessment Grant, City of Caldwell Indian Creek Project (Idaho). Andrew Provant (Kleinfelder)	10:30am – 12:00pm Agricultural Air Emissions Chair: Ron Sheffield (U of Idaho) Air Emissions from a Dairy Wastewater Storage Pond, Manure Processing Area, and Composting Yard in Southcentral Idaho.  Ron Sheffield (U of Idaho) Mario de Haro Marti (U of Idaho, CAFO Environmental Extension) Continuous EmissionsMeasurement FollowingLand Application: A Field Trial Using UV-DOAS Monitoring Coupled with Backward Lagranian Stochastic Modeling.  Ron Sheffield, Md ZakirHossain (U of Idaho)  Emissions of Nitrous Oxide and Ammonia from Potato and Corn Fields in Central Washington.  Mary Capiral, Shelley Pressley, Brian Rumberg, Brian Lamb, George Mount (WSU)	10:30am – 12:00pm Sustainability Chair: Kathi Futornick (URS) Revolutionary Global Warming Solutions. Anna Carter (Montana Tech) Air Pollution Mitigation and Co-Benefits for Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Joanna Ekrem (Graduate Intern, EPA Region 10) The Impact of European Directives on the United States: International Environmental Compliance for Products.  Kathi Futornick (URS)

Thursday, October 18
12:00 noon – 1:30pm  President’s Luncheon                                 Tamarack & Ponderosa Ballrooms
Air Modeling & Monitoring Northstar	Waste & Wastewater Management Liberty	Air Modeling & Monitoring Delamar	Air Quality/Public Health Cinnabar
1:30pm – 3:00pm Air Modeling: ISC/AERMOD Chair: Clint Bowman (WADOE) Different Schemes for Processing Land-Use Data for the AERMOD Dispersion Model. Bart Brashers and Kyle Heitkamp (Geomatrix)  Effects of Using MM5 Data in the AERMOD Dispersion Model. Kyle Heitkamp (Geomatrix)  Dispersion Model Validation for a Natural Gas Compression Facility in Complex Terrain. Peter D. Reid (Jacques Whitford AXYS, Ltd) AQ Modeling. Clint Bowman (WADOE)	1:30pm – 3:00pm Municipal Solid Waste Mgmt & Strategic Planning Chair: Stephen Gerritson  (EnterpriseSeattle) Toward a Comprehensive Waste Policy. Stephen Gerritson (EnterpriseSeattle) Estimating and Comparing Net Emissions for Waste Landfilling and Waste Conversion Technologies. Kirk Winges, Kyle Heitkamp, Lyn Tober (Geomatrix)	1:30pm – 3:00pm Source Apportionment, Monitoring & Measurement Chair: Tony Ward (U of Montana) PM2.5 Receptor Modeling in Greater Vancouver (South Burnaby and Abbotsford), British Columbia, 2002-2005. Stephanie Meyn (Environment Canada) Results of the 2006/2007 Western Montana PM2.5 Source Apportionment Studies. Tony Ward (U of Montana) A PM Forecasting Model – DSL PM2.5 Model. Yayi Dong (Idaho DEQ) PSD Source Apportionment: Emission Inventory for the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Margaret Hofacker and Rebecca Picchioni (Bison Engineering)	1:30pm – 3:00pm Indoor Air Quality Chair: Brad Harr (Summit Environmental)   Warm Homes, Clean Air: Cooperation, Partnership and Commitment to Helping a Community (wood stove changeout). Kim Metzler and Sally Markos (Lane Reqional Air Protection Agency, Oregon) S The Effect of Wood Stove Change Out on Levels of Chemical Tracers for Wood Smoke in Homes. Megan Bergauff (U of Montana) S Air Toxics under the Big Sky: Residential Air Toxics Monitoring. Heidi Underberg (U of Montana)   Bioaerosol Problems in Damp Buildings. Brad Harr (Summit Environmental)
3:00pm – 3:30pm Break
3:30pm – 5:00pm Air Modeling: CALPUFF Chair: Bart BrashersGeomatrix)  S High Resolution CALPUFF Modeling in Complex Terrain. Charleston Ramos, Joe Vaughan, Brian Lamb (WSU) Idaho’s BART Analysis System. Wei Zhang (Idaho DEQ) MM5 Modeling for BART in Alaska. Bart Brashers (Geomatrix) Air Release Incident Modeling Capability. Rick Hardy (Idaho DEQ)	3:30pm – 5:00pm Environmental Remediation Chair: Kim Marcus (URS) Comparisons of Silica Polyamine Composites and Crosslinked Polystyrenes for Environmental Remediation and the Metals Processing Industry. Edward Rosenberg, Jessica Wood, Onn Wong, Brianne Cross, and Mark Hughes (U of Montana) An Evaluation of Two Common Treatment Technologies for Reducing the Formation of Methylmercury at the Sediment-Water Interface in Freshwater Lakes. Stephen Dent, Marc Beutel (WSU) Arsenic & Selenium Recovery from Aqueous Systems Using Nano-Porous Silica Polyamine Composites. Varadharajan Kailasam (U of Montana) S Resource Recovery from Flooded Underground Mine Workings – Butte, Montana. Keri Petritz, Chris Gammons, Suzzan Nordwick, MarckZaluski, Norma Lewis, Ken Manchester (Montana Tech)	3:30pm – 5:00pm Air Permitting Process and Case Studies Chair: Cheryl Robinson (IDEQ) Emissions Impossible – The UDOT Quarry Permitting Case Study. Estee Lafrenz, Mark Hooyer (Kleinfelder) Washington State Experience with Ethanol Permitting. Robin Priddy (Benton CAA) General Orders: Implementation of a New Air Quality Permitting Scheme. Lynnette Haller (WADOE) Idaho’s Air Permit Streamlining Initiative. Cheryl Robinson (Idaho DEQ)	3:30pm – 5:00pm Air Quality Management Chair: Warren McCormick (B.C. Ministry of Environment) Airshed Management Strategies: The Treasure Valley Air Quality Council. Dale Stephenson (Boise State Univ) Emissions Comparison: Idaho Sugar Beet Processing Facilities vs. Other Emissions Sources. Dean DeLorey (The Amalgamated Sugar Company) Visibility – Exploring Management Options in British Columbia. Eric Taylor. (B.C. Ministry of Environment) Canada’s New Air Quality Health Index and the BC Experience. Warren McCormick (B.C. Ministry of Environment)

Friday, October 19, 2007
Student Challenge Northstar	Waste Management & Environmental Compliance Liberty	Air Emissions and Permitting Cinnabar	Air Monitoring & Measurements Cinnabar
8:30am – 10:00am Student Environmental Challenge Session EC Problem 2007 Scents and Sensibility EEMT Consultants E3 Essence Consulting Revision Consultants Pungent Sound Consulting	8:30am – 10:00am Environmental Compliance Chair: Steve Nelson (Coal Creek Environmental) Control of Creosoting Emissions and Odors from a Wood Treatment Facility. Merlyn Hough (Lane Regional Air Protection Agency) Air Crimes: EPA Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Government and They Really Are Here to Help. Mark Asmundson and Toby Allen (Northwest Clean Air Agency)	8:30am – 10:00am Permitting Process and Case Studies Chair: Cheryl Robinson (Idaho DEQ) Permitting Gas Exploration Wells in Washington. Jay Willenberg (CH2M Hill) Tires as Fuel for Cement Production – New Emission Factors. Steve Van Slyke (Puget Sound Clean Air Agency) Paving our Way from the 2006 Emission Factors: Concrete Batch Plant Permitting. Beth Fifield Hodgson (Spring Environmental) Streamlined Permitting: Concrete Batch Plants. Cheryl Robinson (Idaho DEQ)	8:30am –10:00am Large Fire Impacts on Air Quality Chair: Tony Ward (U of Montana) Using the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework in Decision Support for Landscape-scale Prescribed Burn Operations. Miriam Rorig, Robert Solomon, Candace Krull, and Janice Peterson (USDAForest Service, PNW Research Station) Recommendations from the 2007 International Biomass Smoke Health Effects Conference. Tony Ward (U of Montana) The Impact of Agricultural Burning on Air Contaminant Concentrations near the Idaho-British Columbia Border. Stephanie Meyn (Environment Canada) Topic: Forest Fires Bob Humphries (Levelton Fires. Engineering)
10:00am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 12:00pm Student Environmental Challenge Session	10:30am – 12:00pm Advanced Remediation Techniques Chair: Joan Cloonan (Idaho DEQ Board) Phytoremediation: Irrigation of Tree Stands with Recovered Groundwater Containing 1,4-Dioxane. Ari Ferro (URS) and Carl E. Tammi (PWS, ENSR) Remedial Systems in the Boise Area.  Jim Kuchera (URS) Monitored Natural Attenuation – Selection and Case Study.  Kim Marcus (URS)	10:30am – 12:00pm Practical Implications of EPA’s Vacation of MACT Standards Chair: Krista McIntyre (Stoel- Rives) Panel: Madonna Narvaez (EPA X) Martin Bauer (Idaho DEQ) Krista McIntyre (Stoel-Rives) Susan Somers (Potlatch Corporation)	10:30am –11:30am   OPEN
12:00 noon – 2:00pm  Awards Luncheon                                   Tamarack & Ponderosa Ballrooms