Physical Scientist
U.S. EPA
Dr. James Thurman is a physical scientist with EPA's Air Quality Modeing Group in the Air Quality Assessment Divsion of the Office of Air Qualtiy Planning and Standards in RTP, NC. James has been with the EPA for 13 years and his work focuses on dispersion modeling applications involving AERMOD. Specific areas of expertise are meteorological data for dispersion modeling, SO2 modeling and, air toxics modeling for the National Air Toxics Assessment and other air toxics applications such as modeling for ethylene oxide monitor siting. James has been instrumental in the development of SIP and designations modeling guidance for SO2, guidance on the use of prognostic meteorological data with AERMOD, and the 2017 update to the Guideline on Air Quality Models. Other accomplishments include the development of the AERMINUTE pre-processor for AERMET, the completion of the AERSCREEN program and development of tools to complete thousands of AERMOD runs in a timely manner EPA's high speed computing system for the 2014 NATA.
James is a native of Kinston, NC and has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from North Carolina State University. His graduate research focused on the use of a mesoscale model for tracer transport with application to the transport of tobacco blue mold spores and the orographic effects of the Appalachian Mountains on the record rainfall from Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
3:40pm – 5:40pm US EDT