10th Annual Conference: Thursday, March 26, 2026 at Brigham Young University
(Remote option available for oral sessions)
Important Dates
Abstract deadline: February 13
Early registration deadline: March 18
Conference Program
9:00 AM
Welcome & Activity
(Darrell)
9:30 AM
Session 1: Exposure Assessment
(Nancy)
Comparative Assessment of Wasatch Front Pollutants: Mortality Risk and Toxicity
Norlito Ranchez Jr.
Mapping Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Two Utah Cities Using Pines Needles as Passive Samplers
Autumn Jensen
Understanding the Effect of Wildfire Smoke and HVAC Settings on Indoor Air Quality Using Networked Sensors
Fiona Hopewell
10:30 AM
Break
10:50 AM
Session 2: Atmospheric Chemistry and Meteorology
(Ryan B)
Summertime Ozone Formation in Salt Lake City Modeled During the 2024 Utah Summer Ozone Study
Carrie Womack
Urban Air Quality Coupled to Mountain and Lake Dynamics: Northern Wasatch Front Airborne Measurements in Summer 2024
Brian Carroll
Assessing Ozone Sensitivity to NOx and VOCs, Smoke, Heat, Drought, and Plant Stress in Utah and the Northern Wasatch Front
Patrick J. Reddy
11:50 AM
Lunch & Posters
1:40 PM
Session 3: Emissions and Source Characterization
(Ryan T)
Characterizing NOx Emission Uncertainties in an Urban Valley Using Ground Based Column Observations and Transport Analysis
Haley Humble
Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicle Deterioration: Impact of Vehicle Age and Emission Control Technology on NOx Emissions
Amber Allen
An Observational Framework for Constructing Ozone Isopleths from Long-Term Monitoring Data: Demonstration in Salt Lake City, Utah
Callum Flowerday
Mobile Methane and VOC Measurements in the Salt Lake Valley: Source Characterization Using Hydrocarbon Ratios
Aaron G. Meyer
3:00 PM
Break
3:20 PM
Session 4: Air Quality and Policy
(Randy)
Regulatory and Voluntary Changes Have Led to a Threefold Reduction in Methane Emissions Intensity in the Uinta Basin
Seth Lyman
Engineered Dust Mitigation at Great Salt Lake: Costs, Tradeoffs, and a Weight-of-Evidence Decision Framework
Kevin Perry
Understanding Utah’s Dust: Advancing Science for Public Health
Zachary Aanderud
4:20 PM
Poster Awards & Final Comments
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Conference Posters
Atmospheric Chemistry/Physics
1
Quantifying the Role of Atmospheric Oxidants in Mercury Oxidation Using an Environmental Chamber
2
Ozone in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Region
3
Spatial Variability of Ozone Formation Chemistry in Salt Lake City
4
Dust Attribution in the Great Salt Lake Valley
5
Utah's SNOWSCAPE 2026 Aerosol Measurements
6
Fuzzy, Genetic, Deep, Cosmetic: Machine Intelligence in Many Air Quality Applications
7
Informing O3 Production Regimes Using Long-term MAX-DOAS Measurements in Salt Lake City.
8
Investigating Chemical Mechanism Influences on Ozone Production in the Northern Wasatch Front
9
Quantifying VOC Interference in Atmospheric Hg⁰ Oxidation Experiments Using Thermal Desorption GC–MS
Emissions Sources/Inventory
10
Greenhouse Gas Analysis of the Little Cottonwood Canyon Transportation Scenarios
11
A Fuel-Based Emissions Inventory for Heavy Duty Vehicles in Utah
12
Analyzing Trends in Snowpack Composition Within Park City Resort
13
Impact of Holiday Fireworks on PM2.5 Concentrations in Utah
14
Characterizing Western U.S. Dust Movement by Mass Flux and Particle Size
15
Improving MEGAN Soil NOx Estimates for the Wasatch Front by Updating BDSNP and Adding HONO
Indoor Air Quality, Health Impacts, and Public Policy
16
Wildfire Infiltration into Salt Lake Valley Childcare Centers
17
Characterizing Indoor PM2.5 and PM10 in Utah K–12 Schools: Spatial, Temporal, and Occupancy-Driven Patterns
18
Applying Machine Learning and Raman Spectroscopy to Human Lung Cells Exposed to Diesel Exhaust to Understand Induced Oxidative Stress
19
Air Quality: Science for Solutions Participants' 2025 Random Survey Results
20
The Effect of Personalized Monitoring Results on Home Occupants' Perceptions of Air Pollution Health Risk
21
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Indoor Radon in Schools and Their Relationship with Ventilation and Meteorological Indicators
22
Size, Cytopathic Effects, and Prevalence of Influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV in Healthcare Settings
Meteorology
23
Climatology of Central Utah's Sevier Valley
24
Forecasting Pyrocumulonimbus Events for NASA's Upcoming 2026/2027 INSPYRE Field Campaign
25
Temperature Inversions and Avalanche Conditions in the Central Wasatch
26
Meteorological Influences in Rising Summer Surface Ozone in Salt Lake City, Utah
27
Western U.S. Wildfire Smoke Transport Impacts on PM2.5 Concentrations in Northern Utah
28
Summer Temperature Extremes and Wildfire-Driven PM2.5 in the Western United States: A Comparative Case Study of 2004 and 2021
Modeling
29
Exploring Spatiotemporal Trends in Wildfire Activity and the Drivers of Increasing Plume Rise Heights Across California
30
A User-Friendly Tool for Estimating Great Salt Lake Dust Exposure for Communities Across Northern Utah
31
Developing a Machine Learning Model for Wilfitr Groeth Prediction
33
Evaluating Numerical Wildfire Smoke Forecasts Across Utah
34
High-Resolution Modeling of Predicted Wind Velocities for Utah Dust Emissions
35
Identifying inaccurate soil classifications for urban dust sources through Google Earth and NLCD
36
Developing Novel Approaches to Estimating Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 Exposure in the Western U.S.
37
Evolving Wildland fire Smoke Impacts in Utah: A Long-term Analysis of PM₂.₅ Trends and Smoke Attribution
38
A Reusable U.S. Air Quality Shapelet Library for High Temporal Resolution Exposure Pattern Discovery
39
High-Resolution Dust Emission Modeling over Northwestern Utah Using WRF–WindNinja Downscaling
Monitoring/Measurements
40
Ambient Particulate Matter Levels on High School Athletic Fields in Utah: Implications from a One-Year Monitoring Study
41
Richfield, UT Air Quality Measurements 2025
42
Design and Deployment of Arduino-Based Xpod Sensor Networks for Multi-Pollutant Characterization at Navajo Technical University
43
Evaluating Low-cost Sensors for Identifying High-emitting Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles
44
Neighborhood-Scale Characterization of Particulate Matter Exposure in the Salt Lake Valley using A Network of Citizen-Hosted Low-Cost PM Sensors
45
Local Air Quality Impacts of the Monroe Canyon Fire 2025
46
Ephraim Utah Air Quality Measurements 2025
47
The Effects of Air Pollution on Soil Quality in Salt Lake City
48
Cavity-Enhanced Ozone Instrument in the Far UV
49
Measurements of Solar Flux Using a Custom Spectral Radiometer
50
Snowfall Effects on PM2.5 and PM10 in the Salt Lake Valley
51
Quantifying Methane in the Salt Lake Valley: Inversion Sensitivity and Error Characterization
52
Rural vs. Urban Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations in Utah
53
Ozone Variations Along the Wasatch Front and Cache Valley
54
Targeted Spatial and Seasonal Assessment of PFAS in a Snowmelt-Dominated River–Reservoir System in Utah
55
Detecting Dust-Dominated Periods and Correcting PM2.5 Using Only Plantower PMS Sensor Data
56
COVID Alterations of Firework Pollution
57
Community-driven Sensor Metadata Approaches for Exposure Health Informatics
58
Vertically Resolved Temperature and Particulate Measurements in Richfield, UT
59
Harder than it looks: Developing methods for calibration of gas-phase formaldehyde
60
Heavy-Duty Diesel Emissions Monitoring Using Low-Cost Sensors
61
Understanding Alphasense OPC-N3 Sensor Aging and PM10 Measurement Reliability
62
PM2.5 Correlation with the Moisture in the Air and Ground
63
Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10) Concentrations in Communities near the Great Salt Lake During Summer 2024
64
Modular, Low-Cost, On-Road Emissions Measurement System with ML Calibration