Due to the COVID-19 virus, the conference will be virtual again this year and split into two half-days.
5th Annual conference: Wednesday afternoon,
March 24, 2021
Thursday morning, March
25, 2021
Registration deadline: March 20, 2021.
Abstract
Deadline: March 1, 2021.
Conference Schedule is TBD.
The conference will be hosted via Zoom. Zoom link will be emailed to
registrants.
You can download the 2021 Conference Flyer.
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Welcome and Q&A by
Kim Shelley, Executive Director, Utah Department of
Environmental Quality Prior to her appointment on January 5, 2021, she served as the deputy director and has held other critical roles within the department for nearly 20 years. An engineer by training, she has a thorough understanding of the environmental programs that the Utah Department of Environmental Quality administers and a commitment to its mission to safeguard and improve Utah’s air, land and water through balanced regulation. |
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Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Chantel Sloan. Dr. Chantel Sloan is an associate professor in the Department of Public Health at Brigham Young University (BYU). Dr. Chantel Sloan joined the faculty at BYU after completing a postdoctoral program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She received her Doctorate from Dartmouth College, and her bachelor's degree from BYU-Hawaii. Dr. Sloan has researched a variety of topics in respiratory health, genetics and applications in Medical Geography. Dr. Sloan studies the epidemiology of influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) using different health administration databases. She is also interested in the impact of air pollution on respiratory health and susceptibility to viral infections. She will speaking on the interaction between air pollution and infectious respiratory diseases. |
The conference is virtual this year. All registered attendees will receive an email the day before with links for Zoom meetings. The links will include the main meeting and a specific link for each poster.
The subject of this conference is air science. Topic areas include atmospheric chemistry, health impacts, meteorology, emissions, modeling, and public policy. While this conference specializes in topics associated with air quality issues important to Utah and the Intermountain West, presentations on air quality topics that are related in some way will also be considered.
There are no parallel sessions. Oral presentations should be understandable, at least in part, to air scientists from all fields. A major goal of this conference is the crosspollination of ideas between fields of study. The oral talks are 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions and change over to the next talk.
Poster session details are still being worked out but will probably be posted on this website with sessions in Zoom Breakout Rooms.
This conference is made possible by the generous financial support of the following organizations:
Air Quality outreach program by the University of Utah and Dr. Kerry Kelly where children build air quality sensors with (augmented) Lego bricks.
Drone based air quality measurements being made by Dr. Kerry Kelly's research group at the University of Utah.
Dr. Seth Lyman's air quality research group measuring the air in the Uinta Basin no matter the conditions. Dr. Lyman is with Utah State University, Vernal.