2011 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium NADP at the Nexus: Cross System Connections
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2011 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium NADP at the Nexus: Cross System Connections October 25-28, 2011 Providence, RI National Atmospheric Deposition Program NADP Proceedings 2011-12 NADP 2011 Technical Committee Meeting October 25-28, 2011 Providence, RI Scientific Symposium Chair Kathleen C. Weathers Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies PROCEEDINGS Prepared by Lisa A. Volk NADP Program Office Illinois State Water Survey Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois 2204 Griffith Drive Champaign,IL 61820 October 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS T cchnical Scssion 2: Thosc Othcr Compounds Ele mental Compositi o n of Washo ut Parti culates in NADP Samples by Page Instrumenta l Neutron Acti vati on Anal ysis G regory A. Wethe rb ee, U.S. Geological Survey .. .. ... ... .. 31 Agcnda - NADP Annual Mecting anti Scicntific Symposium .... .... ....... .... 1 Collection and Charaeteri zatinn of Organic Matter in NAD!' Wet 2011 NADP Sitc Opcrator Awards............ ...................... ......... .... .. .. .... ... .......... 11 and Dry Depositi on Natasha R. Goss. Uni versit y of Colorado at 13 0ulder. ... 32 Kcynotc Spcaker Day I : Evaluati ons of Meth ods lo r Mcasuring Carbonaceous Aerosol in The Interacti ve Effects o r C limate and N itroge n on Ecosystems. Human, Rain water Hea lth, and Climate Ale xa nder Torres, Uni versity o r Illinois. ..33 Jilll3aron, U.S. Geological Sur vcy/Colorado Statc Uni vers it y .... 17 Dctcrmination of I3romide in NADPINTN Wet Depositio n Samples and its Spati al and Tempo ral Correlati on with NOl1h American Mercury Wet Tcchnical Scssion I: Linkin~ Atmosphcrc to Biosphcrc Deposition Christopher Lehm ann, Lee Gree n, Tracy Dombek. and David Gay. I ~s tim a t e s of Wet Depositi o n across North America: The Cha ll enges a nd NA DP ... ... ... ..... ..... .. ............ .. .... ... .... .. ....... .. ....34 OpP0l1Llllit ies of Mergin g Data across Nations A lexandra G. Ponette-Gonzalez, Universit y of North Texas .. ... .. 23 Tcchnical Scssion 3: C ritical Loading of Ecosystems Depositi on, Rete nti on, and Loading of N itrogen to Adiro nd ack Lakes Charlie Canha m, Cary Institute n f Ecosystcm Studies.... .. .... .... 24 National Critical Load Database: A n Assessment of Atmospheri c Dcpositi on across the U.S. From Top to Bottom: Fluxes o r Nitrogen frolO the A tmosphere to the Jason Lynch, U. S. EPA. ... .. .. ...... .... ....... ..... .. .. ....37 Forest Floor in a Redwood Forest Pamela Templer. Boston Uni versity .. ................. ... ..... .......25 A Nati onal Applicati on of Critical Loads by th e U.S. fOo rest Service to Assess Atmospheric Deposition Elkcts o n Watershed Conditio n New In sights a bout th e Influence or Reactive Nitrogen Deposition o n Linda Gciser. US DA Forest Service..... ..... ........ .... ..... 38 Ecosystcm Processes Emily Elliott , Uni vers it y o rl'ittsburgh ... ...... ...... ... .............. 26 Developing the Criti cal Loads and Target Loads for Watersheds o rthe G reat Smoky Mo untain Nat ional Park Implicati ons of Alpine Warming on niogeochemical Cycling in G ree n Qin gtao Zho u, Syracuse Uni vers it y ....... ......... ...... .. .. .. ...... 39 Lakes Valley, Colo rado h ont Range, USA Rebecca T . Barnes, Hard Ccntcr for Environme nt al Po li cy . ...... ... 27 An Overview o f Recent Dcvelopme nt s in Estimating Critical Loads or Atmospheric Depositi on lo r Terrestri al Ecosystems T he 20 11 National Ac id Prccipitatio n Assessment Prog ram Report to Salim l3elyazid, l3 e1 yazid Consulting and Communication .. ... .4 0 Congress Douglas A. nUrll s. U.S. Geological Sur vey ... .... ... .. .... ..... ... ... 28 Empirical Criti cal Loads for Nitrogen lo r Ecoregions of the United States: Current and Future Linda H. Pard o. US DA Fo rest Service .... ........ .. ....... ........ ......... .41 Mapping Critical Loads of Nitrogen Deposition for Aquati c Ecosystems in the Rocky Moun ta in s, USA David W. Clow, U.S. Gcological Survey .. .. ... ........ ... .. ... ....4 2 II Keynote Speaker Day 2: Seasonal Nitrogen Deposition fludgets at Rocky Mountain National Park I3ret A. Schichtel, National Park Service, CSUlCIRA ............59 Evolution of a nctwork: How NA DP stays reliable and releva nt aller nca rly 40 years An Assessment orthe Perf()rmance ofthc Monitor for AeRosols and Pam Padgel1 . USDA Forest Service ............................. .. .. 43 Gases in the Ambient Air (MARGA): a Semi-Continuolls Method for Soluble Compounds Ian. C. Rumsey. U.S. EPA .......................................... ... 60 Technical Session 4: Ilow Much Deposition? Preliminary Results from thc CASTNET Ammonia Special Study Impact oflJpdates to the CO lllmunity Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Chri stopher Rogers, AMLC E&I , Inc.. ............ .. ... 61 Model on Predicted Deposition Donna Schwede, U.S. EPA ...... ......................... .. .. .. .. .. .49 Special Pallerns and Temporal Trend s in Mercury Wet Deposition in the Great Lakes Sources of Atmospheric Nitrogen to the Upper Susquchanna Martin R. Risch, U.S. Geological Survey .................. .. .....62 River/Chesapeake Bay Watershed with Special Reference to Ammonia Tom Butler, Cornell University/Cary Institute of Ecosystem Isoscapes or Atmospheric Nitratt:: What Do Thcy Tcll Us? Studies .... ............ .. .. ... .. ................ ... ............. ... ....... 50 Greg Michl sk i, Purduc University......... .. ... .... ...... 63 Total Deposition at Clingmans Dome, Tcnnt:ssee. in the Grcat Smoky From Air to Water: Ilg Deposition and Biogeochcmist ry in Sunapee, Nil Mountains National Park Watershcds Sclma Isil, AMEC 1': &1 Inl.:.. ............ ......... .. ....... .. ... 5 I Ewing. I-LA ., Roehuek. H.J . and Fiorillo, A.U, flates College; Weathers, K.C. and Lindsey, A.M ... Cary In sti tute of Ecosystem An Exploration of Nitrogen Total Dcposition Hudget Uncertainty ,11 the Studics; Haer. N.A ., Chikering, J. and Wil son, A., Colby Regional Scale Sawyer Coll ege: Chen, C. Y., Roebuck, 11..1 . and COllingham, Robin L. Dennis, U.S. EPA .. .......................... K.L.. Dartmouth Co llege; Maki. c.E., Richardson. D.R .........64 Developing the Aquatil.: Acidification Index (AAI) for a Combined Oxides of Sulfur and Nitrogen Secondary Air Quality Standard Technical Session 6: Global Issues and Atmospheric Deposition Richard SchefTe, U.S. EPA ........ .............. .............. ..... 52 Radioactivity in Precipitation - Methods & Obscrvations from Savannah Urban Atmospheric Environmt:nts Rivcr Site Richard Pouyat, USDA Forcst Scrvil.:c.. .. .. ........... 53 Dennis G. Jackson, Savannah River National Labon1lory .. ...... 67 Rcactor Fission Product Fallout in North American Wet-Depos ition Technical Session S: Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Deposition Samples, from the March 11 ,20 11 Fuku shima Dai-iehi In eidcnt Gregory A. Wetherbee, U. S. Geological Survey ................... .68 Temporal and Spatial Variability in Atmosphcric Ammonia Concentrations in the Westcrn United States Deposition Can l3e Biological, Too Jeff L. Collett. Colorado State University .........................57 M. Elias Dueker, Columbia University .......... ........ .. 69 Back Trajectory Analysis of Reactive Nitrogen Measu rcd Co ntinuously at Free Tropospheric Ex pol1 of East Asian Atmospheric Mercury Observed Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado at Lulin Atmospheric Background Station in Taiwan Kri sti A. Gebhart, National Park Scrvice, CSUlCIRA ...........58 Guey-Rong Sheu, National Central University .. .................70 Solar Dimming & I3rightening as Related to Airborne Particulate Maller Victoria Kelly. Ca ry In stitute of' Eeosystt:m Studies ............... 71 III IV Modeling Of Global Source Contributions to Atmospheric Mercury Equipmcnt Modernization Deposition in th e United States Matt Layden and Jeff Pribble, National Atmospheric Krish Vijayaraghavan, ENVIRON International Corporation ..... 72 Deposition Program .....................................................83 An Assessment of Long-Term Monitoring Programs in New York State Carric R. Levine and Ruth D. Yanai, SUNY College of Poster Session (arranged in alphabetica l order by first author) Environmental Science and Forestry ....................................84 NEON's Collection anu Analysis of the Atmospheric Wet Deposition Recent Updates in the CA L I-Iongyan Luo and Ht:nry Loescher, N EONI Institute of Artie and Kim Attig, Lee Green, Tracy Dombek, and Nina Gartman, A Ipine Research. University of Colorado................................85 Illinois State Water Survey .... .. ... 75 You've Determined the Critical Load: Now What? Tracking Progress at In a Changing Climate, Ilow do Projected Changes in Precipitation Rocky Mountain National Park using NADP Data Affect Wet Deposition - A GIS Approach Kristi Morris, Tamara Blet!, National Park Service; Ali sa Mast, Dave Drew Bin gham , National Park Service. ............. .. ....76 C1ow, Greg Wetherbee, Jill Baron. U.S . Gcologieal Survey; Curt Taipaie, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; NAOP CLAD's rocus Projeet - Phase I: Submission of U.S. National David Gay, NAO/' Program Ortiec: Eric Richcr, Colorado State Scale Critical Loads to the lJNECL-CC[ University......... ............ .................... .................86 Tamara Blett, National Park Service: Richard Ilacuber, Ja son Lynch, Environmental Protection Agency; Linda Pardo, Atmospheric Mercury Network (AMNet) Richard Pouyat. lJSDA Forest Scrvicc, and Tom Moore, Mark Olson. David Gay, NADP: Tim Sharac. David Schmcltz, US Western Govcrnors' Association