AECOM’s air quality and climate change experts are featured chairs, panelists and presenters at the annual Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Conference in Calgary, Alberta from June 24 to 27, 2024.

A&WMA is a non-profit, non-partisan professional air and waste management organization with members in 65 countries that includes environmental and management professionals from government, industry, consulting, legal and advocacy organizations as well as academia.

With the conference theme “Emissions Reductions for Sustainable Energy Futures”, our team of scientists and engineers will discuss critical air and waste management topics along with other environmental issues impacting the industry including the oil and gas, mining, and power generation sectors.

See below for the full schedule of AECOM’s presentations and chairing sessions:

Tuesday, June 25

SessionScheduleSpeakers
Effect of Regeneration Parameters on Heel Formation During Adsorption-Desorption of VOCs Over Honeycomb Zeolite Adsorbents (Student Poster #10)10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Sina Esfandiar Pour
Air Dispersion Modeling: Case Studies, Issues, Applications, Advances, and Guidance (Part 1)1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Platform
Platform Chair:
Mary Kaplan
Application of the Area Meander Option in AERMOD for Construction Health Risk Assessments2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Mary Kaplan

Co-Author:
Christopher Warren
Emission Estimates from Passive Monitoring Data2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Presentation
Location: Glen 209
Primary Author:
Youssef M. Taha (Parsons)

Co-Authors:
Mike Sanborn, Sina Pour & Randy Rudolph
Quantifying Emissions from a Small Oil Sands Demonstration Pit Lake4:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Youssef M. Taha (Parsons)

Co-Authors:
Ignacio Gallardo, Ahmad Kia, Mark Modrak, Sina Pour & Randy Rudolph

Wednesday, June 26

SessionScheduleSpeakers
Corporate Response to Carbon Disclosure Mandates8:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Panel
Panelist:
Jennifer Routhier
Recent Events at Government Facilities8:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Platform
Platform Chair:
Roger Wayson
Emissions and Dispersion from Rocket Launches8:00 a.m. – 8:20 a.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Roger Wayson
Managing State Toxic Lists and Pollutant Reporting at Enterprise Level8:20 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Julie Wallace

Co-Author:
Roger Wayson
Air Force Oil Analysis Failure Root Cause8:40 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
David Sanders

Co-Author:
Roger Wayson
Organizational Decarbonization in Support of a Systemic Energy Transition10:10 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Panel
Panel Chair:
Jennifer Routhier

Panelist:
Elizabeth Logan
Vehicle Emission Inventories and Measurements10:10 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Platform
Platform Chair:
Roger Wayson
Modeling the Effect of Structural Parameters of Honeycomb Adsorbents on VOC Adsorption10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Sina Esfandiar Pour

Co-Authors:
Alireza Haghighat Mamaghani (University of Alberta, Zaher Hashisho (University of Alberta), David Crompton (Ford Motor Company), Hilda Arellano (Ford Motor Company), & James Anderson (Ford Motor Company)
Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Strategies1:30 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Platform
Platform Chair:
Roger Wayson
Air Permitting Developments and Case Studies3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Platform
Platform Co-Chair:
Piotr Staniaszek
Defining Scope 3 Reporting Boundaries in Complex Value Chains3:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Bryan Jang

Co-Authors:
Jennifer Routhier & Elizabeth Logan
Navigating the Transition to Financial-level Quality ESG Data4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Presentation
Primary Author:
Elizabeth Logan

Co-Author:
Bryan Jang

Thursday, June 27

SessionScheduleSpeakers
Guideline on Air Quality Models Revisions – AERMOD Options10:10 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Panel
Panelist:
Roger Wayson

We have extensive experience developing innovative strategies and solutions for a broad range of air quality permitting and compliance issues including, greenhouse gases, regional haze, transportation congestion and mercury emissions.

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