Conference Program

(Preliminary schedule, subject to change)

9:00 AM

Welcome (Randy)

9:10 AM

Session 1: Health Impacts and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Jaron)

DAQ update: how S4S projects have impacted policy

Ryan Bares

Linking Air Pollution Mixtures and Health Outcomes With Machine Learning

Brenna Kelly

Particles of Truth: Reflections on Utah Health and Air Pollution Studies

Arden Pope

Characterizing Basin Scale GHG Emissions in Northern Utah Using Sun Tracking Spectrometers

Aaron Meyer

10:30 AM

Break

10:50 AM

Session 2: Summertime Ozone

Initial Findings from the 2024 Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS)

Carrie Womack

Chemical Drivers of Ozone and Particulate Matter Concentrations During the Utah Summer Ozone Study

Demetrios Pagonis

Summertime Ozone Sensitivity to Biogenic VOCs in Utah

Lexie Wilson

11:50 AM

Lunch & Posters

1:20 PM

Session 3: Ozone and Ozone Precursors

Assessing Global Background Ozone Transport Pathways to the Northern Wasatch Front

Chris Emery

Insights from an Extreme Value Theory Analysis of Gasoline Vehicle High Emitter Trends

Matti Maricq

Clyfar: an unorthodox solution to unreliable Uinta Basin ozone forecasts

John Lawson

2:20 PM

Break

2:40 PM

Session 4: Particulate Matter

Long-term trends in sources of PM2.5 along the Wasatch Front

Kamaljeet Kaur

Advancing air quality forecasting in Utah with an emphasis on wildfire smoke

Derek Malia

Redefining Dust: Unexpected Long-Range Transport of Coarse Dust Aerosols

Tim Berk

What We Know and Don't Know About Great Salt Lake Dust

Kevin Perry

4:00 PM

Poster awards & adjourn

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