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Volume 7 - Issue 05 |
Monthly Newsletter - May 2006 |
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News & Events
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A&WMA 99th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
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Lakes Environmental Software will be exhibiting at the Air & Waste Management
Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition. This year’s exhibition
will take place on June 20-23 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lakes Environmental
will be demonstrating its wide range of air dispersion
modeling and risk assessment 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. |
Lakes Environmental to Present Paper at the Air Pollution 2006 Conference in the UK |
Lakes Environmental’s president and founder, Dr. Jesse Thé, will be attending
the Air Pollution 2006 conference being held in The New Forest,
UK on May 22 – 24, 2006. Dr. Thé will be
presenting the paper “A Distributed Computing Solution for CALPUFF” which
introduces HIVE Grid, a supercomputing solution developed by
Lakes Environmental. The presentation will be held on Monday,
May 22nd at 12:40pm.
HIVE Grid is an intranet system that takes advantage of the unused processing cycles of all your
organization's computers and substantially reduces wasted computer processing power. For more
information about the HIVE Grid Supercomputing Solution, please contact us at info@weblakes.com.
Dr. Yau, co-author of this paper, is our senior meteorologist responsible
for advanced R&D in atmospheric science modeling.
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Global Meteorological Data Now Available from Lakes Environmental
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Lakes Environmental Software has recently begun preparing global
meteorological data for the CALPUFF, AERMOD, ISCST3,
and ISC-PRIME 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 (April 2006). 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.
For pricing and other information related to this new service, please contact our sales team by emailing
info@weblakes.com.
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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 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 training@weblakes.com.
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AF&PA Workshops on US EPA MACT Rules
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The American Forest & Paper Association will hold workshops for EPA's
MACT rules for industrial boilers and for plywood and composite wood
products. These workshops will review important compliance issues
for the 2 rules. The workshop dates are June 28 & 29 in Charleston
and September 25 & 26 in Portland. For further information,
please e-mail glynn_rountree@afandpa.org.
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Upcoming Courses
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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.
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AERMOD & ISCST3 Courses |
June 5-6, 2006 |
Los Angeles, California |
Sep. 14-15, 2006 |
Montreal, Québec |
Sep. 21-22, 2006 |
Denver, Colorado |
Oct. 12-13, 2006 |
Boston, Massachusetts |
Nov. 16-17, 2006 |
Orlando, Florida |
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CALPUFF Courses |
Jun. 7-9, 2006 |
Los Angeles, California |
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For more information on these courses, such as registration information and course outlines,
please visit our website:
https://www.weblakes.com/courses.html.
Free One Day Seminars in Spain Lakes Environmental & Addlink Software Cientifico
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Topic: The use of air dispersion models to minimize the risk of atmospheric pollution |
May 17, 2006 |
Barcelona, Spain |
May 18, 2006 |
Madrid, Spain |
Interested in attending, please contact:
Marta Balletbo-Coll
Email: marta@addlink.es
Phone: 34 93 415 49 04
34 902 43 00 38
Website: www.addlink.es |
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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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Don’t Forget: Submit Your Modeling Tips Now! |
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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
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Climate Change Threatens Development of Billions of World’s
Poorest People, Charity Says
Millions of people around the world face death and devastation
due to floods, famine, drought and violence caused by global warming,
a charity warned. A report to be released Monday by Christian Aid
said 162 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of
disease directly attributable to global warming by the end of the
century.
https://enn.com/today.html?id=10456 |
Carbon Markets Swell to $10 Billion
Carbon markets were valued at over US$10 billion in 2005, and
will more than double that figure in 2006, according to a new report
from the World Bank. The market suffers from volatility and will
require some reforms, but is showing promise of achieving its goal
of using financial incentives to curb emissions, says the report.
https://www.globe-net.ca/news/index.cfm?type=2 &newsID=2043
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Earth Will Warm 3 Degrees by 2050, Says Leaked Report
Global temperatures will rise by 2-4.5 degrees centigrade over the
next 44 years, according to a draft report by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change leaked by the US government this week.
https://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=11448&channel=0
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U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the Rise
The volume of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by the U.S. increased
from 2003 to 2004, the latest year for which data are available, according
to the U.S. EPA study Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and
Sinks: 1990–2004.
https://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2006/may/policy/nl_greenhouse.html
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Conferences & Tradeshows
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Here are a few Conferences and Tradeshows coming up in the next few months: |
May 22-24, 2006 |
Visit us at: Air Pollution 2006 Conference https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/ air06/index.html |
The New Forest, UK |
Jun 7-9, 2006 |
Debris Flow 2006 https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/ debris06/ |
Rhodes, Greece |
Jun 14-15, 2006 |
10th Canadian Pollution Prevention Roundtable https://www.c2p2online.com/main.php3?section= 98&doc_id=65 |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Jun 20-23, 2006 |
Visit us at: A&WMA Annual Conference & Exhibition https://www.awma.org/ACE2006/default.asp |
New Orleans, LA, USA |
Jul 17-19, 2006 |
Indoor Environmental Quality: Problems, Research and Solutions https://www.awma.org/events/confs/IAQ%202006 /default.asp |
Durham, NC, USA |
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About This Newsletter
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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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