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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Assess the applicability of model results to your projects
• Review the dispersion model output in project context
• Understand model results and uncertainty
• Use dispersion modelling data to optimise monitoring protocols

Description
Air quality work depends heavily on air dispersion modelling to predict facility or project impacts on human health and the environment. However, for those not directly involved in dispersion modelling, these results can be difficult to interpret and may be misleading when applied to project situations. 

Utilizing case studies, this practical webinar will examine the issues and uncertainties around dispersion modelling and prediction of offsite impact. It will also provide guidance on how this information can be best used at the facility or project level.

Course Outline:

• Basics of air dispersion modelling
• Regulatory issues
• Model results for specific scenarios
• Application of model data to emissions control
• Application to fugitive emissions
• Case studies

Who Should Attend:

Those involved in the assessment, control or management of air quality issues, including:

• Facility/Operations personnel
• Environmental personnel

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Instructor

Linda Lattner, M.Eng., P.Eng.

Linda Lattner is a licensed professional engineer and is the technical lead for the Air Quality Practice in Ontario. She has over twenty years of experience in air quality assessment and compliance management.

Her primary responsibilities include air quality compliance management, emission inventory development, greenhouse gas quantification and mitigation studies using GHG frameworks and protocols of Canadian and other global agencies, air dispersion modelling, developing and overseeing ambient air monitoring programs, annual environmental reporting, and leading the air quality technical component of Environmental Assessments and permitting assessments.

With experience that includes notable work for gold and iron ore mining clients, power projects, municipal landfills, and industrial facilities. Linda has provided air quality and fugitive dust management support for mining projects; the cleanup of the radioactive waste repository in Port Granby; Toronto Transit Commission’s Leslie Barns site remediation and facility construction; the remediation of the former gold mine site in Deloro, Ontario; Waterfront Toronto’s Lakefilling Project; and for Metrolinx projects in southern Ontario.

Mrs. Lattner has worked with Environment and Climate Change Canada, where she reviewed the GHG reduction potential for major projects subject to federal or provincial environmental assessment. She has also worked for the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment as co-author of a study on the Adequacy of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring in Canada. She has developed guidance materials for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change to support the provincial odour policy and led a training workshop for Ministry operations staff.