EPA invited approximately 65 individuals from various scientific disciplines and affiliations to attend the ORD Adaptation Workshop. The workshop participants included EPA personnel, academics, consultants, and numerous individuals with air quality planning responsibilities at local, state, tribal, regional, or national levels. Appendix A lists the workshop participants and provides their contact information. This report documents the discussions at the workshop, which was intended to achieve two primary goals: (1) to determine, through dialog with the air quality planning and research communities, ORD stakeholders highest priority needs with respect to decision support for climate change adaptation; and (2) to identify which ORD research initiatives and products (e.g., analyses, decision support tools) will be most useful in addressing the stakeholders needs.

Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 18, 2010). "EPA/600/R-08/042." "March 2008." "EPA Contract No. EP-C-07-015. Work Assignment Number 0-2."

Over the past few decades, air quality planners have forecasted future air pollution levels based on information about changing emissions from stationary and mobile sources, population trends, transportation demand, natural sources of emissions, and other pressures on air quality. However, our future climate will likely differ from present conditions and that climate change can affect both emissions sources and atmospheric fate and transport processes that determine air pollution levels. To develop an understanding of the highest-priority science questions regarding adaptation and the effects of climate change on air quality, EPA held a "Workshop on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Air Quality Decision Making." This report documents the discussions at the workshop, which was intended to (1) determine the highest-priority needs with respect to decision support for climate change adaptation and (2) identify which ORD research initiatives and products will be most useful in addressing the stakeholders' needs.