A11L:
Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Randal S Martin, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States and Peter F DeCarlo, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Randal S Martin, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Co-conveners:  Carsten Warneke, NOAA Chemical Sciences Div., Boulder, CO, United States, Shao-Meng Li, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada and Peter F DeCarlo, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Carsten Warneke, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Airborne Measurements of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta
John Liggio, Katherine Hayden, Peter Liu, Amy Leithead, Samar G. Moussa, Ralf M Staebler, Mark Gordon, Jason O'brien and Shao-Meng Li, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
8:15 AM
 
Using Co-Emitted Species to Identify Natural Gas Emission Vectors
Scott C. Herndon1, Tara Irene Yacovitch1, Joseph R Roscioli1, Cody R Floerchinger1, Walter B Knighton2, James Douglas Goetz3, Peter F DeCarlo3, Austin Mitchell4, Daniel S Tkacik4, R Subramanian4, Allen L Robinson4, David M Martinez5, Laurie Williams5, Dan Zimmerle5 and Anthony Marchese5, (1)Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, MA, United States, (2)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (3)Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (4)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
8:30 AM
 
Reconciling Airborne Basin Scale Methane Flux Estimates with Ground Based Quantification of Methane and VOC Emissions from Well Pads.
Robert Alexander Field, Jeffrey Soltis, Dustin Snare, Rachel Edie and Shane M Murphy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
8:45 AM
 
Emissions from Natural Gas Operations in the Marcellus Scale Formation: In Situ and and Remote Sensing
Russell R Dickerson1, Xinrong Ren1, Anne M Thompson2, Ross J Salawitch3, Paul B Shepson4, John Philip Burrows5, Sayantan Sahu3 and Debra E Kollonige6, (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, MD, United States, (4)Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
9:00 AM
 
Primary emissions and secondary formation of volatile organic compounds from natural gas production in five major U.S. shale plays
Jessica Gilman1, Brian M Lerner2, Carsten Warneke3, Martin Graus4, Rui Lui1,4, Abigail Koss5, Bin Yuan3, Shane M Murphy6, Sergio Luiz Alvarez7, Barry L Lefer8, Kyung-Eun Min9, Steven S Brown10, James M Roberts11, Hans Dieter Osthoff12, Courtney Dyan Hatch13, Jeff Peischl14, Thomas B Ryerson15 and Joost A De Gouw16, (1)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA, Earth System Research La, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (7)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (8)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (9)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Calgary, Chemistry, Calgary, AB, Canada, (13)Hendrix College, Conway, AR, United States, (14)NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)NOAA Chemical Sciences Divisio, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
9:15 AM
 
Air Quality Impacts of Oil and Gas Operations in the Northern Colorado Front Range
Detlev Helmig, Chelsea R Thompson, Jacques Hueber, Katie Rose Smith and Reed M Terrell, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
9:30 AM
 
Airborne Ethane Observations over the Barnett and Bakken Shale Formations: Quantification of Ethane Fluxes and Attribution of Methane Emissions
Mackenzie Lynn Smith1, Eric A Kort1, Anna Karion2, Colm Sweeney2, Jeff Peischl3 and Thomas B Ryerson4, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA Chemical Sciences Divisio, Boulder, CO, United States
9:45 AM
 
Black Carbon Emissions from Associated Natural Gas Flaring
Cheryl Weyant1, Paul B Shepson2, R Subramanian3, Maria Obiminda 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 Univ, 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)Purdue University, Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (7)Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
 
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