An invitation only workshop that will focus on improving regional emission inventories is being sponsored by MARAMA, NESCAUM, NYSERDA and NARSTO. The two-day workshop will be held on November 12 -13 at The Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in Albany, New York.

The purpose of the workshop is to go beyond the traditional “emission inventory” framework to fundamentally improve spatial and temporal estimates of emissions. The goal is to use these refined estimates of emissions not only for the standard SIP‐type modeling, but also for the purposes of human exposures, for developing “micro inventories,” (inventories at a fine spatial scale), trend analysis, and for program accountability.

The workshop will start with a plenary session that will establish broad outline of main topics
we will cover. This will be followed by breakout sessions on six important areas that we
believe, need your input for improvement of estimates of emissions. The focus is on both the
improvement in activity factors as well as emission factors. The key areas for improvement
are as follows:

• Space heating firing liquid fuels
• Space heating firing biomass and wood
• Non‐road mobile sources
• On‐road mobile sources
• Emissions on High Electricity Demand Days (HEDD)
• Ammonia

We believe that we have assembled an excellent set of speakers. The format will include a series of plenary presentations followed by discussion in break‐out sessions.

Please note that this is an invitation only workshop.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Alice Lutrey via email at alutrey(at)marama.org or at 443-901-1882.

Last Updated: November 5, 2008