• The Modelling SIG Workshop will explore:

  • How to deal with rapid change in meteorology for air dispersion modelling?

  Following, an introduction to the Draft Meteorology Modelling GPG will be overviewed.

  The workshop will wrap up with a discussion of the benefits or problems with a Federal Air Quality Body in Australia.

Abate with your Mate’

This is an interactive workshop which will introduce decarbonisation approaches at high level and challenge participants to consider decarbonisation pathways and associated trade-offs.

Participants will work in groups, choosing one of three base cases of global emissions sources, and discussing potential reduction pathways and key considerations.

Groups will report back their ideas and findings to the room, maybe even come up with something new!

The workshop facilitator will then update everyone on where each industry they have looked at currently stands regarding decarbonisation direction.  So come along to abate with your mate (don’t wait!).

Beyond the heart and lungs: exploring the spectrum of health impacts from air pollution.

Air pollution is the world’s single greatest environmental cause of preventable disease and premature death with health impacts extending far beyond the most commonly cited effects on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. The systemic impacts of air pollution throughout the human body produce myriad health conditions via complex causal mechanisms and interactions between the environment, individual vulnerability and genetic predisposition. This plenary brings together health researchers exploring the lesser known, yet often significant, health conditions associated with air pollution. These can include the impacts of air pollution on bone health, diabetes, cancer, brain health, reproductive health, and eye health. Presentations will summarise the epidemiological links between these conditions and various types of air pollution, their aetiology, and what emerging research (including their own) can teach us about these impacts and how to reduce them.

Presented in partnership with:

The workshop will include the following presentations:

• Introduction and exploration of the mechanisms in the body for alternative impacts from air pollution | Prof Graeme Zosky
• Reproduction and air pollution | Prof Camille Rayne-Greenow
• Diabetes and Pregnancy | Dr Shannon Melody
• Discussion | Prof Fay Johnston
• Brain Health and air pollution | Prof Anthony White
• Ultrafine particles (UFPs) and the brain | Prof Lidia Morawska
• Air pollution and educational outcomes | Mr Richard Martino
• Discussion | Prof Graeme Zosky
• Cancer and pollution | A/Prof Peter Franklin
• Bone health and air pollution | Mr Deren Pillay
• Impacts of air pollution and eye health | Dr Suki Jaiswal
• Discussion and close symposium | Prof Fay Johnston

Speaker Biography

‘Air Quality Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities’

1. Point source sampling (stack testing)
   –  How to accelerate an improvement in air quality in Australia | Matthew Heskin | Ektimo
   –  Measurement of isocyanates by CTM-036 and measuring point source emissions with FTIR | Gary Hall | Trinity Consultants Australia
   –  Challenges with PFAS sampling |David Arbuckle | Assured Environmental
   –  PFAS sampling and the importance of sampling plans | Jason Choi | EPA VIC
   –  Sampling in NSW | Graham Edwards | EPA NSW
2. The measurement of ambient air and fugitive emissions
   –  Variations in real time PM Monitors | Paul Thomson | Thomson Environmental Systems Pty Ltd
   –  Use case of low-cost sensors – implementation in mining/resources | Dusan Ilic | University of Newcastle
   –  Instrumentation and methods for real-time monitoring of heavy metals in airborne dust |  Chris White | AECOM
   –  Directional dust measurement | Andrew Martin | Trinity Consultants Australia
   –  Ambient air monitoring – new changes to Australian standards (TBC) | Liam Sutton | Benchmark Monitoring
   –  Particle speciation (TBC) | Hamesh Patel | Mote Ltd

“What have we learnt about biomass smoke from sensor networks”

1.  Low-cost sensor segment

• Adelaide Hill winter woodsmoke program
  Mohammad Iqbal | EPA SA, Aus
• EPA Victoria’s Regional Sensor Network
  Paul Torre | (EPA Vic, Aus
• Diversifying the Queensland air monitoring network
  Stuart Ryan | DES Qld, Aus
• MOTE’s use of low-cost sensors
  Hamesh Patel | Mote, NZ
• NIWA’s sensor programs (TBC)
  Guy Coulsen | NIWA, NZ
• Comparison of use of Clarity Monitor networks in the Mount Maunganui and Rotorua Airsheds
  Elsa Weir | BOPRC, NZ

2.  Outdoor burning

• Bushfire hazard-reduction burning in Northeast Victoria
  Paul Torre | EPA Vic, Aus
• Modelling long-range smoke movement
  Martin Cope | CSIRO, Aus
• Outdoor Burning after Cyclone Gabrielle (TBC)
  Jeremy Kidd | HBRC, NZ
• Topic TBC
  Kelly Richards | Glenorchy City Council, Tas
• Minimising smoke in small-scale waste removal burns
  John Innis | EPA Tas, Aus
• Fire pits, braziers, pizza ovens – are they a problem, and how do we approach it?
  Elsa Weir | BOPRC, NZ

3. Business Meeting