A11L:
Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I

Session ID#: 2494

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3010 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Randal S Martin, Utah State Univ, Logan, United States and Peter F DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Balitmore, United States
Primary Convener:  Randal S Martin, Utah State Univ, Logan, United States
Co-conveners:  Carsten Warneke, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Shao-Meng Li, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada and Peter F DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Balitmore, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carsten Warneke, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0368 Troposphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Airborne Measurements of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta (Invited) (4216)
John Liggio1, Katherine Lynne Hayden2, Peter Liu1, Amy Leithead1, Samar G. Moussa3, Ralf M Staebler2, Mark Gordon1, Jason O'brien2 and Shao-Meng Li2, (1)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Environment Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
Using Co-Emitted Species to Identify Natural Gas Emission Vectors (Invited) (5096)
Scott C. Herndon1, Tara Irene Yacovitch2, Joseph R Roscioli1, Cody R Floerchinger2, Walter B Knighton3, James Douglas Goetz4, Peter F DeCarlo5, Austin Mitchell6, Daniel S Tkacik6, R Subramanian6, Allen L Robinson6, David M Martinez7, Laurie Williams7, Daniel Zimmerle8 and Anthony Marchese7, (1)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (2)Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, MA, United States, (3)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Balitmore, United States, (6)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States
Reconciling Airborne Basin Scale Methane Flux Estimates with Ground Based Quantification of Methane and VOC Emissions from Well Pads. (6352)
Robert Alexander Field1, Jeffrey Soltis1, Dustin Snare1, Rachel Edie1 and Shane M Murphy2, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States
Emissions from Natural Gas Operations in the Marcellus Scale Formation: In Situ and and Remote Sensing (12919)
Russell R Dickerson1, Xinrong Ren1, Anne W Thompson2, Ross J Salawitch3, Paul B Shepson4, John Philip Burrows FRS5, Sayantan Sahu6 and Debra E Kollonige7, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), Bremen, Germany, (6)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (7)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States
Primary emissions and secondary formation of volatile organic compounds from natural gas production in five major U.S. shale plays (28526)
Jessica Gilman1, Brian M Lerner2, Carsten Warneke3, Martin Graus4, Rui Lui4,5, Abigail Koss6, Bin Yuan7, Shane M Murphy8, Sergio Luiz Alvarez9, Barry L Lefer10, Kyung-Eun Min11, Steven S Brown12, Dr. James Roberts, PhD1, Hans Dieter Osthoff13, Courtney Dyan Hatch14, Jeff Peischl15, Thomas B Ryerson16 and Joost A de Gouw17, (1)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NOAA Boulder, Guangzhou, China, (8)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States, (9)University of Houston, Houston, United States, (10)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (11)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)University of Calgary, Chemistry, Calgary, AB, Canada, (14)Hendrix College, Chemistry, Conway, AR, United States, (15)NOAA ESRL, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Scientific Aviation, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, United States
Air Quality Impacts of Oil and Gas Operations in the Northern Colorado Front Range (24968)
Dr. Detlev Helmig1, Chelsea R Thompson1, Hueber Jacques1, Kate Smith2 and Reed M Terrell1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, CSL, Boulder, United States
Airborne Ethane Observations over the Barnett and Bakken Shale Formations: Quantification of Ethane Fluxes and Attribution of Methane Emissions (22633)
Mackenzie Lynn Smith1, Eric A Kort2, Anna Karion3, Colm Sweeney3, Jeff Peischl4 and Thomas B Ryerson5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Scientific Aviation, Boulder, CO, United States
Black Carbon Emissions from Associated Natural Gas Flaring (27023)
Cheryl Weyant1, Paul B Shepson2, R Subramanian3, Maria O. L. Cambaliza4, David C Mccabe5, Ellen K Baum5, Dana Caulton6, Alexie M. F. Heimburger4 and Tami C Bond7, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (4)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)Clean Air Task Force, Takoma Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States, (7)Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States