A31M:
Emissions of Atmospheric Pollutants from Oil, Gas, and Coal Operations II Posters


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Session ID#: 53910

Session Description:
Fossil fuel combustion has a known impact on climate and air quality. Recent measurements have uncovered that supply chain activities (e.g., production, processing, storage, transportation, and distribution) may also play a large role in the life cycle climate and air quality effects of these fossil fuels. As a result, several jurisdictions have announced pledges and regulations at national and sub-national levels with the goal of reducing emissions of criteria air pollutants, toxics, and greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. However, these emissions and their subsequent impacts on air quality are often poorly understood. Recent field campaigns, new remote sensing observations, and robust emissions inventory efforts continue to transform scientific understanding of upstream activities, but the variability across estimates remains unresolved. We call for submissions that reconcile bottom-up and top-down emissions estimates, quantify air quality effects, and/or explore the life cycle climate impacts of supply chain emissions from these fossil fuel activities.
Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, United States, Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Ralf M Staebler, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
Primary Liaisons:  Scot M Miller, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States and Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, United States
Chairs:  Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, United States and Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Index Terms:

0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0478 Pollution: urban, regional and global [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Turbulent Flux Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants from a Tailings Pond in the Alberta Oil Sands (444002)
Ralf M Staebler1, Samar Moussa2, Yuan You3, Amy Leithead4, Jeremy Wentzell4, John Liggio4, Katherine Lynne Hayden4, Richard L Mittermeier4, Hayley Hung2, Maryam Moradi4, Liisa Jantunen5, Alexandra Steffen2 and Andrea Darlington4, (1)Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Environment Canada, Egbert, Canada
Coal mine methane in China: potential uses and benefits for both air quality and health (413919)
Mingyang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States, Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, United States, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States and Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Comparison of Near-Source BTEX Flux Measurements to Inventory Estimates for Upstream Oil and Natural Gas Operations and Identification of Specific BTEX Sources in the Northern Colorado Front Range. (463093)
Rachel Edie1, Anna Robertson2, Robert Alexander Field1, Jeffrey Soltis1, Gabrielle Petron3, Monica B Madronich4, Bruce H Vaughn5 and Shane M Murphy6, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States
Quantifying Regional Methane Fluxes from the U.S. Gulf Region Using Long-Transect Aircraft Observations (397705)
Zachary Barkley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Kenneth J Davis, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Thomas Lauvaux, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Alan Fried, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States and Joshua P DiGangi, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
U.S. EPA Greenhouse Gas Data on Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems (412484)
Adam Eisele, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Melissa Weitz, US Environmental Protection Agency - Washington DC, Washington, United States and Mark DeFigueiredo, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States
Methane Emissions from Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico (420506)
Alan Gorchov Negron, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Eric A Kort, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Mackenzie Lynn Smith, Scientific Aviation Inc., Boulder, CO, United States and Steve Conley, Scientific Aviation, Boulder, CO, United States
The Hidden Emissions Impact of Operational Variability of Fossil Fuel Fired Power Plants (420193)
Emre Gençer, Bentley Clinton and Francis O'sullivan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Satellite-based Methane Emission Estimates of Western Canada Using Simple Mass Balance Method and Quantifies Oil and Gas Sector Contribution (441999)
S M Nazrul Islam, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Peter L Jackson, University of Northern British Columbia, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute, Prince George, BC, Canada and Chris A McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
Characterizing Regional Methane Emissions from Episodic Sources in the Natural Gas Supply Chain (450564)
Gregory Cooney1, George G Zaimes2, Daniel J. Augustine2, Timothy J. Skone2 and James A Littlefield2, (1)National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Investigations of Impacts of VOC Emissions from Produced Water Disposal Facilities on Winter Ozone Pollution in the Uintah Basin Using Modeling Source Apportionment Techniques (448717)
Huy Tran, Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Logan, United States, Trang Tran, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Marc L Mansfield, Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Logan, UT, United States and Seth N Lyman, Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Vernal, United States
Mobile Lab Monitoring of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) near an active suburban Oil and Natural Gas Development Site in Erie, Colorado (410661)
Daniel Bon1, Jason Clay Schroder1, Gregory Harshfield2, Tami McMullin2, Gordon E Pierce2 and Allie Bamber2, (1)Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, United States, (2)Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, United States
Dynamic fugitive methane leaks monitoring on natural gas well pads (441517)
Levente Klein1, Ted van Kessel1, Hendrik Hamann2 and Ramachandran Muralidhar3, (1)IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, United States, (2)IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, United States, (3)IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, United States
Measurements toward better methane emission factors from industrial and commercial natural gas meters (450083)
Christopher W Moore, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States and Kristine Wiley, Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL, United States
Methane and Non-methane Hydrocarbon Emissions from Natural Gas Well Pad Soils (350107)
Seth N Lyman1, Huy Tran2, Richard L Bowers3, Marc L Mansfield1 and Ann P Smith3, (1)Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Logan, United States, (3)GSI Environmental Inc., Austin, TX, United States
Detecting and Characterizing Natural Gas Leaks from Single-Family Homes in Northern California (457795)
Eric Lebel1, Harmony Lu2, Robert B Jackson1 and Simone Speizer3, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Satellite detection of rapid fuel shift in electricity generation over the eastern United States (2012-2017) (460958)
Binyu Wang, IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, Kai Yang, UMD, College Park, MD, United States and Daniel Tong, George Mason University, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences, Fairfax, United States
Volatile Organic Compounds from Oil and Gas Operations in Colorado’s Northern Front Range (440065)
Samuel Rossabi1, Jacques Hueber2, Brendan Blanchard3 and Dr. Detlev Helmig2, (1)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Boulder A.I.R., Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States
Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Natural Gas Fired Power Plants (436427)
Kristian Daniel Hajny, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States, Paul B Shepson, Purdue University, Departments of Chemistry, and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Cody R Floerchinger, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Joe Rudek, Environmental Defense Fund New York, New York, NY, United States, Andrew A Stuff, Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Robert Kaeser, Purdue University, School of Aviation and Transportation Technology, West Lafayette, United States and Brian H Stirm, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Degradation of Buried Crude Oil in a Florida Sandy Beach (467591)
Markus H Huettel, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Alireza Merikhi, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Joel E Kostka, Do Not Wish to Give out, Atlanta, United States
Effects of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Pipelines and Implications for Detection Systems (441167)
Bridget Anne Ulrich, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Melissa Mitton, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, United States, Arsineh Hecobian, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Kathleen M Smits, Southern Methodist University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dallas, TX, United States
Emissions measurements downwind of offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico (434977)
Tara Irene Yacovitch1, Conner Daube2, Daniel Zavala-Araiza3 and Scott C. Herndon2, (1)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, United States, (2)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund, International Scientist, Climate and Energy Program, Austin, United States
Fugitive methane emissions from an onshore natural gas basin (431423)
Ian Boothroyd, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
Investigation of Ozone Production from Natural Gas and Oil Well Methane Emissions with Three Mobile Atmospheric Sampling Platforms (435992)
Elizabeth Bridgwater1, Fry Intia1, Deanna Donohoue1 and Steven A Hovan2, (1)Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, United States, (2)Indiana Univ Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, United States
Mapping Ozone and Methane in Western Pennsylvania around Natural Gas Wells (435901)
Fry Intia, Elizabeth Bridgwater and Deanna Donohoue, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, United States
Source term estimation and spatial variation prediction using Gaussian process regression (467580)
Jiajun Gu1, Bo Yang2 and Max Zhang2, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
The Intersection Between U.S. Energy Economics and Ethane-to-Methane Ratios in Constraining Methane Emissions from the Natural Gas Sector (413477)
Ariana L Tribby, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexander J. Turner, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Paul O Wennberg, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
Tracking changes in air pollution and gas flaring activity over Mexico’s offshore oil and gas production cluster using satellite observations from 2005-2017 (468162)
Ritesh Gautam, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, Yuzhong Zhang, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China and Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Estimates of Federal Lands Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sequestration: 2005-2014 (344813)
Matthew D Merrill1, Benjamin M Sleeter2, Philip A. Freeman3, Jinxun Liu4, Peter D Warwick1 and Bradley Reed5, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center, Reston, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Tacoma, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Energy & Minerals (GEM) Science Center, Reston, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, United States, (5)USGS Land Change Science Program, Reston, United States
Comparative Study on Carbon Emission Reduction Effects of River Ecological Revetment and Structural Revetment (347168)
Yuanhui Yu1, Xiao Weihua2, Yicheng Wang1, Hejia Wang1 and Ya Huang1, (1)China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Department of Water Resources, Beijing, China

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