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Volume 7 - Issue 06 Monthly Newsletter - June 2006
 
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A&WMA's 99th Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Lakes Environmental Software will be exhibiting at the Air & Waste Management Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition.  This year’s exhibition will take place from June 20 to 23 in New Orleans, LA.  Lakes Environmental will be demonstrating their wide range of air dispersion modeling, risk assessment, and emissions inventory software.

Don’t forget to visit us at booth #420 to enter into a draw to win a free copy of our ISC-AERMOD View software.

We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

For further information about the A&WMA 99th Annual Meeting and Conference, please visit the A&WMA website at www.awma.org.

ISC-AERMOD View Version 5.3 Just Released!

Lakes Environmental is proud to announce the release of ISC-AERMOD View Version 5.3 on June 14, 2006. Some of the features in this new version include the ability to enter source and building parameters in Metric or English units, a tool to auto-calculate area source emissions in g/s-m2 from an emission given in g/s, and seamless downloading of free US DEM terrain files from WebGIS. For an extensive list of all the changes and new options to ISC-AERMOD View, please see our the latest release notes.

If you are currently in maintenance and did not receive an email regarding the update, please contact us at support@weblakes.com.

If you are a user of ISC-AERMOD View but are no longer in maintenance, contact us at info@weblakes.com for appropriate pricing information for your maintenance renewal.

Global Meteorological Data Available from Lakes Environmental Software

Lakes Environmental Software is now preparing global meteorological data for the CALPUFF, AERMOD, and ISCS air dispersion models.  Data is created using the MM5 model and further processed to be compatible with the above mentioned models.

The use of gridded meteorological data in the AERMOD model was the topic of much discussion at the recent A&WMA Specialty Conference in Denver, Colorado.  Lakes Environmental is very excited about this as we have recently entered into a sub-contract with MACTEC to work on gridded met data in order to fulfill contract needs with the U.S. EPA.

Lakes Environmental to Offer IRAP-h View Course!

Lakes Environmental is considering offering a course on the basics of risk assessment (as per the 2005 Final US EPA-OSW HHRA Protocol) and the IRAP-h View software package.  If you are interested in taking such a course, likely to be offered in Dallas, Texas, please contact us at info@weblakes.com.
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Upcoming Courses

We’ve set a number of training dates for 2006, with additional courses to be announced.  Please contact us at training@weblakes.com for international or customized training needs.

AERMOD & ISCST3 Courses

Sep. 14-15, 2006 Montreal, Québec Outline Register
Sep. 21-22, 2006 Denver, Colorado Outline Register
Oct. 12-13, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts Outline Register
Nov. 16-17, 2006 Orlando, Florida Outline Register

CALPUFF Courses

Dates to be Announced Outline Register
For more information on these courses, such as registration information and course outlines, please visit our website: https://www.weblakes.com/courses.html.

Customized Courses

Lakes Environmental offers a variety of on-site, customized courses for all of your air dispersion modeling needs.  For information on pricing and availability, please email us at training@weblakes.com.
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News From Our Partners

ArguSoft - Germany, Austria and Switzerland

www.argusoft.de

AUSTAL View Workshop in Kassel, May 30-31, 2006

ArguSoft conducted a workshop on AUSTAL View on May 30-31, 2006 in Kassel, Germany for more than 30 customers.  It was the rerun of the successful November 2005 Workshop with another 40 participants.  Some of the themes from this workshop included: frequent user errors and solutions, project modeling tips, meteorological and terrain data products, and building creation from aerial stereo photos.  A guest referee from a State Environmental Agency presented a guideline on how to consider terrain features in AUSTAL2000 runs according to the given national guidelines.

For more information about ArguSoft GmbH & Co. KG, please visit the website at http://www.argusoft.de.

AUSTAL View Workshop for Austrian Agencies, Vienna, June 14, 2006

ArguSoft presented AUSTAL View in a one day workshop for the Austrian Federal State Environmental Agencies.  The Austrian Committee on air quality management and air pollutant dispersion is considering the selection of AUSTAL2000 as the reference model to fulfill the European standard in air dispersion modeling.  As a result, they are looking for a user-friendly interface to manage the permitting projects.  AUSTAL View is already in use for this purpose at two of the related agencies.

An internationalized version of the numerical core AUSTAL2000 may become more probable under these circumstances.  ArguSoft is supporting this development.

Addlink Software Cientifico - Spain & Portugal

www.addlink.es

Spectacular Fire at Barcelona Hectic Port

Submitted by Marta Balletbo-Coll, Marketing y Comunicaciones Manager
Barcelona’s Port is known for its tremendous and diversified activity: from American Luxury cruisers to intense commercial traffic with China not to mention the touristy ships showing an impressive view of the city skyline from the sea.

The spectacle given on May 26th wasn’t on see-sight but on a gigantic plume and atmospheric contamination covering all city sky when a Port Storehouse building filled with Potash was set up on fire.  The fire was originated when a rubber conveyor (cinta transportadora) took fire.  The Port emergency Plan Level 2 was enacted - this level doesn’t contemplate communicating the Fire to the citizenship-. Nevertheless some people felt sourness in the mouth as well as itching in the throat and eyes irritations.

Only a day before this environmental tragedy, Dr. Jesse L. Thé, from Lakes Environmental, gave a 4 hour lecture on Air Dispersion Modelling (ADM) and Environmental Risk Assessment to a crowded auditorium in Madrid and Barcelona.  For most of the seminar attendees, the spectacular pictures of the Barcelona fire published by the press were a vivid illustration of Dr. Thé lectures which were followed with high interest by academia, regulators and industry members.  In fact, the satisfaction among attendants run so high that talks have already started on setting up new series of lectures on air dispersion models ISC-AERMOD and CALPUFF this upcoming fall.  Participation to these courses is open to all interested professionals and scholars in Europe.
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Don’t Forget: Submit Your Modeling Tips Now!

We are currently accepting submissions for the Monthly Modeling Tip which appears in our newsletters.  If you have a modeling tip that may benefit a variety of people, please send it to us at support@weblakes.com.   Your name and the name of your organization will appear below the tip providing you with greater exposure.
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This Month's Articles

EU Emissions Trading Scheme Delivers First Verified Emissions Data for Installations
The European Commission today released the 2005 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions data and compliance status of more than 9,400 installations covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. For four Member States – Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and Poland – no information has been received as their emission allowance registries are not yet operational. The Emissions Trading Scheme enables greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector and energy-intensive industrial plants to be cut at least cost to the economy.
https://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/612&
format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
California Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on Proposed Biodefense Lab
An appeals court hears arguments Tuesday about whether the government should be allowed to open a laboratory in California to test lethal agents including HIV, plague and anthrax in simulations of terrorist attacks.
https://enn.com/today.html?id=10657
Indian Air 'Unfit to Breathe'
A survey of air quality in India has claimed that millions of people are exposed to levels of toxic gases up to a staggering 35,000 times higher than would be considered safe in developed countries.
https://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=11564&channel=0
Capturing “Real World” Aircraft Emissions
The days of watching a black plume of smoke burst out as commercial aircraft take off are long gone. Still, public fears about toxic air pollution being sprayed across nearby communities remain. While studies focusing on NOx have measured and quantified emissions at high altitude, very few studies have looked at emissions from operating airplanes on the ground.
https://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/may/science/cc_idling.html
Exporting Pollution
In March, Mother Nature offered a surprising twist on spring's colorful bounty: Yellow snow blanketed the busy streets of Seoul, and creamy red snowflakes caused panicked residents of eastern Russia to flood their nearest police stations. The culprit was neither an exploding factory or an act of sabotage, or anything else in the immediate area. The strange weather patterns resulted from a mixing of local snowstorms with dust and sand from China's Gobi Desert, which had been thrust into the air by cyclones before traveling east.
https://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/05/exporting_pollution.php
Canada: Info-Smog Now Serving 7.2 Million Quebeckers all Year Round
Environment Canada, in collaboration with the Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks (MSDEP), the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services and its regional Public Health officials (including the City of Montreal), for the thirteenth consecutive year, is renewing the Info-Smog program for air quality.
https://www.portofentry.com/site/root/resources/industry_news/3846.html
Blair Pledges "Green" Targets
The government, under fire for missing its own targets on combating global warming, set itself a new goal, pledging to ensure that within six years its own offices would not add to the climate crisis.
https://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=866112006
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Conferences & Tradeshows

Here are a few Conferences and Tradeshows coming up in the next few months:
Jun 20-22, 2006 2006 mwin Annual Conference
more info
Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
Jun 20-23, 2006 Visit us at: A&WMA Annual Conference & Exhibition
more info
New Orleans, LA, USA
Jul 17-19, 2006 Indoor Environmental Quality: Problems, Research and Solutions
more info
Durham, NC, USA
Jul 12-14, 2006 4th CIWEM Annual Conference
more info
St James' Park, Newcastle, UK
Sep 27-29, 2006 CASA Science Symposium on Nitrogen
more info
Lake Louise Alberta Canada
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About This Newsletter

This newsletter contains information gleaned from various sources on the web, with complete links to the sources cited.  Organizations cited are in no way affiliated with Lakes Environmental Software.

Lakes Environmental Software is a leading environmental IT company which offers a complete line of air dispersion modeling, risk assessment, emissions inventory, and emergency release software as well as training and custom software services.  With satisfied users located around the globe, Lakes Environmental Software will continue to revolutionize the environmental software field.

For more information please visit our website at: www.WebLakes.com.  You may also contact us by phone at (519) 746-5995 or by fax at (519) 746-0793.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.  You can e-mail the editor at: newsletter@weblakes.com
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