Workshop Themes and Speakers

The Workshop will include presentations from both invited speakers and submitted abstracts. The format will include plenary sessions, and concurrent oral and poster presentations.

Workshop Themes

  1. Agricultural (both crop and animal) Air Emissions
  2. Agricultural Best Management Practices
  3. Agricultural Biomass Burning
  4. International Perspectives on Agricultural Air Quality
  5. Monitoring and Measurements
  6. Modeling Issues in Agricultural Air Quality
  7. Agricultural Air Quality and Terrestrial Ecosystems
  8. Agricultural Science Policy: Changing Global Agendas
  9. Public Policy and Agricultural Air Quality
  10. Ecosystems, Economics and Agricultural Air Quality
  11. Agricultural Air Quality as a Commodity in Environmental Trade
  12. Agricultural Air Quality Industry Perspectives

Plenary Speakers

The Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science will feature a diverse group of national and international speakers. The following speakers and topics have been confirmed:

Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Keynote Speaker

Hon. Mike Johannes, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Welcome Remarks (invited)

Professor A.F. Bouwman, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, The Netherlands, Ammonia Emissions

Professor Sagar Krupa, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Emissions Approaches and Uncertainty

Professor Guy Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory, USA, Modeling and Transport of Pollutants

Professor Candis S. Claiborn, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, USA Particulate Matter

Dr. O.T. Denmead, CSIRO, Australia, Trace Gas Emission From the Agricultural Environment

Dr. Jan Willem Erisman, Energy Research Centre, The Netherlands, Emission From Confined Animal Feeding Operations

Professor Deug-Soo Kim, Department of Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University, Korea, NOx Emissions

Dr. Soeren Pedersen, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Denmark, Agricultural Best Management Practices

Dr. Sally Shaver, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality Policies and Standards