TF HTAP Workshop:
Focusing on Eastern Europe, Central Asia,
and the Arctic
Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1 to 3 April 2009
FINAL AGENDA
Wednesday, 1 April |
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| Welcome and Overview | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome from SRI Atmosphere | Andrey Nedre, Director SRI Atmosphere |
| 9:20 | Introduction to the LRTAP Convention and this Workshop | André Zuber and Terry Keating, Co-Chairs TF HTAP |
| Status of Emissions Inventories in EECCA Countries | Chair: Chris Dore, Chair TFEIP | |
| 9:50 | CEIP and Emissions Information under the LRTAP Convention (Table) | Katarina Mareckova, EMEP CEIP |
| 10:10 | EECCA and SEE countries in global emission inventories | Suvi Monni and John van Aardenne, JRC IES |
| 10:30 | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 11:00 | Emissions Inventories of the Russian Federation (Presentation 1) (Presentation 2) | Radiy Shatilov, SRI Atmosphere |
| 11:20 | Emissions Inventories of Belarus | Sergey Kakareka, Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use & Ecology, Belarus |
| 11:40 | Emissions Inventories of Ukraine | Nadiia Ovchynnikova, Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine |
| 12:00 | Emissions Inventories of Kyrgystan | Tatyana Shmeleva, State Agency of Environmental Protection and Forestry of the Kyrgyz Republic |
| 12:20 | Lunch & Poster Viewing | |
| Status of Emissions Inventories and Projections in EECCA Countries | Chair: Andrey Nedre | |
| 14:00 | Emissions Inventories of Kazakhstan | Valentina Idrissova, Kazakh Research Institute for Ecology and Climate |
| 14:20 | Lessons from CAPACT in Kazakhstan (Table) | Irina Yeserkepova, Kazakh Research Institute for Ecology and Climate |
| 14:40 | CIAM and Emissions Projections under the LRTAP Convention | Janusz Cofala , EMEP CIAM |
| 15:00 | Russian Experience with GAINS | Irina Morozova, SRI Atmosphere |
| 15:20 | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| Sources of Arctic Pollution | Chair: Simon Wilson (invited) | |
| 15:50 | Spatial Allocations of Emissions: Lessons from AMAP Hg Inventory | Frits Steenhuisen, Arctic Centre, University of Groningen |
| 16:10 | Agricultural Burning | Savitri Garivait, JGSEE-KMUTT |
| 16:30 | The Universe of Inverse Modeling to Estimate Emissions | Frank Dentener, JRC/IES |
| 16:50 | Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment | Jim Corbett, Univ of Delaware, USA |
| 17:10 | POPs Emissions Under the Stockholm Convention | Katarina Magulova, POPs Secretariat |
| 17:30 | Discussion of Findings and Recommendations | |
| Thursday, 2 April | ||
| Air Pollutants in the Arctic | Chair: Lars-Otto Reiersen | |
| 8:30 | EMEP Measurements in the EECCA Region and the EMEP Measurement Strategy | Wenche Aas, NILU-EMEP CCC |
| 8:50 | Some Observations of Transport in Central Asia | Greg Carmichael, Univ of Iowa |
| 9:00 | AMAP Efforts on Short Lived Climate Forcing Agents and Other Air Pollutants | Simon Wilson/Lars-Otto Reiersen, AMAP |
| 9:20 | Observations of Arctic Air Pollution | David Hofmann, NOAA |
| 9:40 | Overview of POLARCAT and Preliminary Findings | John Burkhart, NILU |
| 10:10 | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 11:00 | Assessment of PM pollution from European sources to the Arctic with the EMEP (regional) model | Svetlana Tsyro, EMEP MSC-W |
| 11:20 | Modelling of Short Lived Forcing Agents and their Arctic Impacts | Dorothy Koch, Columbia University/NASA GISS |
| 11:40 | Identification of trends and variability of climate-related aerosol components in the Canadian High Arctic: 1981 to 2007 | Sunling Gong, Env Canada |
| 12:00 | Lunch & Poster Viewing | |
| Assessment of POPs Transport | Chair: Sergey Dutchak/Ivan Holoubek | |
| 13:30 | What is needed for HTAP 2010 Assessment? | Sergey Dutchak, EMEP MSC E |
| 13:50 | Stockholm Convention Global Monitoring Plan | Ramon Guardans, MARM |
| 14:10 | Observed Long-Term Atmospheric Trends at AMAP Sites | Hayley Hung, Environment Canada |
| 14:30 | Update on GAPs and Making Inferences from Long Term Trends | Tom Harner, Environment Canada |
| 14:50 | Update on RECETOX and Results of Coordination Meeting on 3/31 | Ivan Holoubek, Jana Klanova, RECETOX |
| 15:10 | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 15:40 | Overview of TFHTAP POP model intercomparison study | Alexy Gusev, EMEP MSCE |
| 16:00 | Global source-receptor modelling of POPs using BERT-Global (Video 1) (Video 2) | Matthew MacLeod, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 16:20 | Deriving global source-receptor relationships for POPs: how does a box model perform? | Anne Hollander, RIVM |
| 16:40 | Definition, calculation and measurement of overall persistence in the environment (Pov) and long-range trasport potential (LRTP) of chemicals | Dik van de Meent, RIVM |
| 17:00 | Future Arctic Emission Scenarios: Interplay of Climate Change & Economic Development | Paul Bartlett, St Peter's College & CUNY |
| 17:20 | Discussion of Future HTAP Experiments and Analyses | Sergey Dutchak and Victor Shatalov |
| Friday, 3 April | ||
| Assessment of Mercury Transport | Chair: Nicola Pirrone/Oleg Travnikov | |
| 8:30 | What is needed for HTAP 2010 Assessment? | Nicola Pirrone, CNR, Italy |
| 8:50 | Emissions Estimates Produced by UNEP Hg T&F Research Partnership | Nicola Pirrone, CNR, Italy |
| 9:10 | Emissions Estimates and Projections Produced by AMAP for UNEP | Jozef Pacyna, NILU |
| 9:30 | Discussion of Emissions Inventory and Future Projection Issues | |
| 9:50 | Break & Poster Viewing | |
| 10:20 | An overview of the TF HTAP/AMAP/UNEP Hg intercomparison | Oleg Travnikov, EMEP MSCE |
| 10:40 | HTAP/AMAP Modeling Analysis | Ashu Dastoor, Env Canada |
| 11:00 | Trans Pacific Transport of Mercury | Jerry Lin, Lamar University |
| 11:20 | Fate of Mercury Deposited to N. Pacific | Elsie Sunderland, Harvard University |
| 11:40 | ECHMERIT - An online Coulpled Hg Model | Nicila Pirrone, CNR, Italy |
| 12:00 | Lunch & Poster Viewing | |
| 13:00 | Overview of Available Observations and Future Plans | Ralf Ebinghaus, GKSS |
| 13:20 | Discussion of Future HTAP Experiments and Analyses | Nicola Pirrone and Oleg Travnikov |
| 13:40 | Workshop Closing | Terry Keating and André Zuber |
| 14:30 | Cultural Event | |