Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Russ Schnell, a Deputy Director with the NOAA, demonstrated a balloon used to check air quality as government agencies and and industry announced the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study Tuesday, February 7, 2012 in Vernal, Utah. The study intends to better understand why ozone levels occasionally soar above health-based standards in the winter.Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Sandy Hansen, Tuesday, February 7, 2012, in Vernal, Utah. Government agencies and and industry announced the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study, which intends to better understand why ozone levels occasionally soar above health-based standards in the winter.Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Bryce Bird, Director of the Utah Division of Air Quality speaks, as government agencies and and industry announced the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study Tuesday, February 7, 2012 in Vernal, Utah. The study intends to better understand why ozone levels occasionally soar above health-based standards in the winter.