Training Workshop Description: This “virtual” workshop provided an opportunity to interact with and learn from MARAMA member agency monitoring program representatives as well as invited expert speakers and MARAMA air directors. Participants shared experiences meeting challenges with new air quality monitoring technology, updated data analysis and quality assurance methods, and revised regulatory requirements. Agenda
| Presentations: Links to PDF training workshop presentation files | Speaker |
| Day 1 – Tuesday, December 8 | |
| Keynote Speaker | |
| SMOG Museum:[dg columns=”5″ attachment_pg=”false” paginate=”true” ids=”8967,8969,8971,8973,8975″] | Brian Charlton |
| GAO Report | |
| [dg ids=”8900″] | Alfredo Gomez |
| ATSDR Report | |
| Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry-ATSDR | Lori Werner |
| EPA Overview | |
| EPA OAQPS AAMG Update | Kristen Benedict |
| EPA Region 2 Update | Gavin Lau |
| EPA Region 3 Update | Alice Chow |
| EPA Region 4 Update | Laura Ackerman |
| Day 2 – Wednesday, December 9 | |
| PAMS Implementation | |
| PAMS Update | Kevin Cavender |
| CAS PAMS GC vs Sanity | Charles Sarnoski |
| PAMS True NO2 Experience | Ryan Auvil |
| Unified Ceilometer Network | Ruben Delgado |
| Quality Assurance | |
| EPA OAQPS Ambient Air Monitoring Program Update | Greg Noah |
| EPA Region 3 Update | Verena Joerger |
| Program Updates | |
| AirNow Program | Phil Dickerson |
| CASTNET Update | Timothy Sharac |
| IMPROVE Network Update | Scott Copeland |
| The Role of Satellites in Monitoring | |
| Copernicus Atmosphere Satellite Service | Mark Parrington |
| AerosolWatch | Amy Huff |
| Quantifying Methane Emissions | Yuzhong Zhang |
| ACTIVATE Project | Armin Sorooshian |
| Day 3 – Thursday, December 10 | |
| Pre-Workshop | |
| Virginia’s Experience – Air Quality Forecasting | Daniel Salkovitz |
| Pointers, Ploys and Procedures | |
| Philadelphia AMS Experience – ATEC Canister Sampler | Paresh Mehta |
| Campaign Updates | |
| OWLETS-2 Update | John Sullivan |
| LISTOS – Leveraging Monitoring to Improve Modeling | Alex Karambelas |
| Gulf of Mexico – SCOAPE Cruise AQ ONG | Anne Thompson |
| Trinidad Head California Ozonesondes | Ryan Stauffer |
| 2020 Events | |
| George Washington Universtiy Covid and Air Quality | Dan Goldberg |
| NASA’s Tools to Track Air Quality | Barry Lefer |
| Saharan Dust in Texas | Weslee Copeland |
| San Francisco Wildfire Response | Duc Nguyen |