Fire Workgroup

Collaborative Wiki Main Page

Inventory Collaborative Google Drive Link

Members

Co-leads: Jeff Vukovich (USEPA), Tom Moore (WRAP)

Tesh Rao (USEPA), Ariel Holway-Jones (Alabama DEM), Carlos Mancilla (New York DEC), Cindy Hollenberg (New Mexico), Di Tian (GADNR), Tao Zeng (GADNR), Doug Boyer (TCEQ), Greg Mortensen (Utah), Jayson Prentice (Kansas), Nicholle Worland (NJ DEP), Randy Strait (NC DENR), Rebecca Simpson (Colorado), Rhonda Payne (Montana), Rob Leteff (Wyoming), Sylvia Vanderspek (CARB), Vanessa Crandell-Beck (Alaska), Farren Herron-Thorpe (Washington ECY), Gail Tonnesen (USEPA), Debbie Miller (National Park Service), Lance Avey (USEPA), Joel Karmazyn (Utah), Klaus Scott (CARB), Kevin Briggs (Colorado), Trent Wickman (US Forest Service), Mary Fauci, (Nez Perce Tribe), Matt Mavko (Air Sciences), Rebecca Matichuk (USEPA), Will Stone(USEPA)

Coordination Committee Meetings

Kickoff Meeting: Thursday March 1, 2018 1PM Eastern

March 1, 2018

Attendees

Co-leads: Jeff Vukovich (USEPA), Tom Moore (WRAP)

Agenda

• IntroductionsIntroductions, roll call – name, daily job responsibilities with respect to fire and smoke issues, agency
• set up regular meeting times for workgroup
• suggest first Thursday of month at 1PM ET (like today)
• build agenda for monthly calls based on a 60-min. duration

• Collaboration mission: Develop a year 2016 Emissions Modeling Platform
• http://vibe.cira.colostate.edu/wiki/wiki/9169

• Review draft Charge Document for the Workgroup
• Fires Workgroup Charge Document (draft dated March 1, 2018)
• Discuss timeframe for review and edits, finalize on next call

• Using the 2016 EMP Wiki and Google document folders
• Fire Workgroup wiki page
• http://vibe.cira.colostate.edu/wiki/wiki/9175
• Google Drive Fire Workgroup Folder
• https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14e4iqUv64z1eC71BHyYPaj09I-kt1MBW

• Draft 2016 fire inventory summary (alpha version)
• ftp://newftp.epa.gov/Air/emismod/2016/alpha/2016fd/emissions/
• Overview data, suggestions for quality control / assurance
• Discuss timeframe for review and edits

• Draft 2016 fire inventory technical memo (alpha version)
• Fires Tech Memo Document (draft dated Feb 22, 2018)
• Discuss timeframe for review and edits

• Agenda items for future calls
• Closure on Charge doc
• Milestones for Fire Workgroup
• “stable” modules and complete activity data for using BlueSky framework to prepare historic and future projection fire EIs
• Discussion on how to define scope and desired improvements for beta version of 2016 fire inventory
• Key Needparameterizations of fire activity data (consumption, fuel loadings, acres and piles, plume rise, speciation profiles, others)
• Estimating future fire emissions to setbound upair regularquality meetingplanning times for workgroup
• Suggest First Thursday of month at 1PM ET (like today)projections

Minutes/Notes

Action Items

Next Call: TBD