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2015 CPANS Conference & AGM
May 26, 2015 @ 8:00 am - May 27, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
The 2015 CPANS Conference was held in Edmonton, AB May 26 and May 27. Click HERE for the 2015 conference program with the presentation slides included in the conference schedule below.
Day 1 – Wednesday, May 26 2015
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:10 |
Kim O’Neill – CPANS President Welcoming & Opening Remarks |
| Session 1 | |
| Session Chair: Sunny Cho | |
| 9:10 – 9:35 |
Shannon White – AESRD Biodiversity Management Frameworks for Alberta’s Land Use Planning Regions: From mammals to mites. ( Download PDF ) |
| 9:35 – 10:00 |
Alberto Pereira – Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Quantification of Naphthenic Acids in Water Samples: Challenges from complex matrix? ( Download PDF ) |
| 10:00 – 10:25 |
Lisa Brown – City of Edmonton Application of Electronic Odour Monitoring to Edmonton Waste Management Centre. ( Download PDF ) |
| 10:25 – 10:55 | Networking Break & Poster Presentation and Open Exhibition (Aurora Room) |
| Session 2 | |
| Session Chair: Allan Legge | |
| 10:55 – 11:20 |
David Chadder – RWDI Air Inc. Future Odour Enforcement and Role of Regulations in Alberta. ( Download PDF ) |
| 11:20 – 11:45 |
Md. Aynul Bari – U. of Alberta Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Levels of BTEX and Petroleum Tracer Compounds in Edmonton Homes. ( Download PDF ) |
| 11:45 – 12:10 |
Ray Yang – Levelton Consultants Ltd. Approaches to Developing Meteorological Restrictions for Non-Routine Sour Gas Flaring Management Using the Risk Based Criteria. ( Download PDF ) |
| 12:10 – 13:10 |
Kim O’Neill – CPANS Lunch & CPANS AGM (Maple Leaf Room) |
| Session 3 | |
| Session Chair: Piotr Staniaszek | |
| 13:10 – 13:35 |
Hamid Namsechi – AESRD A Strategic-level Discussion of Air Policy Development in Alberta. ( Download PDF ) |
| 13:35 – 14:00 |
Ron Chapman – RDWI Air Inc. Determining Forecast Skill in a Numerical Weather Model: Case Study – WRF NWP Results Compared Against the WBEA Air Monitoring Network. ( Download PDF ) |
| 14:00 – 14:25 |
Yayne Aklilu – AESRD Ambient Hydrocarbon Concentration near Cold Heavy Oil Production Area in Northern Alberta. ( Download PDF ) |
| 14:25 – 14:50 | Networking Break & Poster Presentation and Open Exhibition (Aurora Room) |
| Session 4 | |
| Session Chair: Kim O’Neill | |
| 14:50 – 15:15 |
Kurt J. Hansen – Green Inc. QA/QC of Data Used for SGER GHG Emission Compliance and Offset Project Reporting. ( Download PDF ) |
| 15:15 – 15:40 |
Craig Vatcher – Novus Environmental Novel Approaches to Integrated Environmental Monitoring and Management. ( Download PDF ) |
| 15:40 – 16:05 |
Longdong Zhang – U. of Alberta OP-FTIR: a Versatile and Powerful Technology for Measuring Multiple Gaseous Compounds. ( Download PDF ) |
| 16:05 – 17:00 |
Student Poster Competition/Evaluation Tour the Poster Presentation & Exhibition Room (Aurora Room) |
| 17:00 – 19:00 |
Kim O’Neill – CPANS President Networking Mixer & Poster Competition Awards Ceremony (Maple Leaf Room) |
Day 2 – Thursday, May 27 2015
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:10 |
Sunny Cho – Conference Chair Second Day Opening of the Conference |
| 9:10 – 10:00 |
Jay Nagendran – AEMERA Keynote Presentation: Our Environment. ( Download PDF ) |
| Session 5 | |
| Session Chair: Bob Myrick | |
| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Bob Myrick – AEMERA LAEMERA – A new era for air monitoring in Alberta. ( Download PDF ) |
| 10:20 – 10:45 | Networking Break & Poster Presentation and Open Exhibition (Aurora Room) |
| 10:45 – 11:10 |
Long Fu – AEMERA An Innovative Approach for Environmental Data Visualization. ( Download PDF ) |
| 11:10 – 11:35 |
Thompson Nunifu – AEMERA High Resolution Air Mapping Tool for the Oil Sands Region in Alberta. ( Download PDF ) |
| 11:35 – 12:00 |
Quamrul Huda & Zheng Yang – AEMERA Remote Sensing of CH4 under controlled release by Differential Absorption Light Detection and Ranging (DiAL). ( Download PDF ) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| Session 6 | |
| Session Chair: David Chadder | |
| 13:00 – 13:25 |
Peter Fortna – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions The McMurray Métis’ Cumulative Effects Management Strategy ( Download PDF ) |
| 13:25 – 13:50 |
Jean Birks – Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Characterizing the Organic Composition of Snow and Surface Water Across the Athabasca Region. ( Download PDF ) |
| 13:50 – 14:15 |
Kelly Munkittrick – COSIA COSIA’s Approach for Analyzing Regional Cumulative Effects Data. ( Download PDF ) |
| 14:15 – 14:40 |
Roger Ord – SNC-Lavalin Inc. Automatic Monitoring Systems: SAM, PEMS, CEMS. ( Download PDF ) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Networking Break & Poster Presentation and Open Exhibition (Aurora Room) |
| Session 7 | |
| Session Chair: Yayne Akililu | |
| 15:00 – 15:25 |
Christian Reuten – RWDI Air Inc. Comparison of Measurements: A Bayesian Approach. ( Download PDF ) |
| 15:25 – 15:50 |
Nicole Pysh – Royal Roads University Exploring the Factors that Influence Environmental Performance at Alberta’s Kraft Pulp Mills. ( Download PDF ) |
| 15:50 – 16:15 |
Hebaallah Marey – U. of Alberta Impact of Alberta Forest Fires on Air Quality Based on AERONET and Multiple Satellite Data Sets. ( Download PDF ) |
| 16:15 – 16:30 |
Sunny Cho – Conference Chair Conference Wrap-up |