Environmental Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) Agenda - April 28, 2015

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Time Presentation Title Presenter(s)

9:00 – 9:20 Welcome and Introductions

Opening Remarks

Meridith Fry, R. David Jones, 

Mark Corbin, Jim Cowles

Morning Presentations

9:20 – 9:50 Evaluation of PRZM Volatilization Algorithm for Soil 

Pesticide Applications

Gabe Rothman – Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs, USEPA

Co-authors: M. Fry, C. Peck, J. Lin, D. 

Young, F. Khan, J. Hetrick, M. Shamim

9:50 – 10:20 Development and Testing of an Updated AGRO 

Model (AGRO-2014) for Use in Predicting Aquatic 

and Benthic Pesticide Concentrations in Ponds

Lauren Padilla – Stone 

Environmental, Inc.

Co-authors: M. Winchell, S. Jackson

10:20 – 10:50 Weather data in aquatic exposure modeling Meridith Fry – Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs, USEPA

Co-authors: G. Rothman, D. Young

10:50 – 11:05 Break

11:05 – 11:35 Comment on Nonlinear Sorption, Nonequilibrium, 

and Sorbed-Phase Degradation with PRZM5

Dirk Young – Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs, USEPA

11:35 – 12:05 Encouraging the Use of Drift Reduction 

Technologies in the United States

Anne Overstreet, Faruque Khan – Field 

and External Affairs Division, 

Environmental Fate and Effects Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs, USEPA

Co-author: C. Peck

12:05 – 1:15 Lunch

Afternoon Presentations

1:15 – 1:45 Aquatic Modeling to Estimate Pesticide Exposure 

to Threatened and Endangered Species

Chuck Peck – Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs, USEPA

Co-authors: M. Corbin, T. Hawkes, K. 

Myers

1:45 – 2:15 Application of a Probabilistic Aquatic Exposure 

Modeling Approach for Use in Endangered Species 

Assessments

Michael Winchell – Stone Environmental, 

Inc.

Co-authors: L. Padilla, C. Hofmann, K. 

Budreski, P. Whatling

2:15 – 2:45 A probabilistic approach for estimating the spatial 

extent of pesticide agricultural use sites and 

potential co-occurrence with listed species for use 

in ecological risk assessments

Katie Budreski – Stone Environmental, 

Inc.

Co-authors: M. Winchell, L. Padilla, J. 

Bang, R. A. Brain

2:45 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:30 Updates to the Standard Operating Procedure for 

Calculating Degradation Kinetics as Part of the 

Pesticide Registration Process in the United States

Katrina White – Environmental Fate and 

Effects Division, Office of Pesticide 

Programs, USEPA

Co-authors: R. Bohaty, W. Eckel, M. 

Shamim, D. Young

3:30 – 4:00 Statistical methods to select kinetics models for 

analysis of pesticide environmental fate data

Jeremy Aldworth – RTI

Co-authors: L. Padilla, S. Jackson, W. 

Chen

4:00-4:15 Remaining Questions and Meeting Wrap-up Meridith Fry, R. David Jones, 

Mark Corbin
Environmental Modeling Public Meeting (EMPM) Agenda - April 28, 2015

Presentations available at: https://epa.connectsolutions.com/april2015empm/ and www.regulations.gov docket 

EPQ-HQ-OPP-2009-0879. For upcoming meetings, please join “empmlist” at https://lists.epa.gov/read/all_forums/