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Presentations from the 2004 IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting June 2 & 3, 2004 at Glacier National Park Community Building; West Glacier, MT

Following is the meeting agenda and participants.  Each agenda item is linked to the meeting presentation.

IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

 

Wednesday, June 2

 

Time               Topic                                                                                      Discussion Leader

8:00am           Welcome                                                                                Park official

8:10am           Introductions and agenda review                                        Marc Pitchford

 

Aerosol Monitoring

8:30am           Network Operations:                                                            UCD team

·    Sample recovery

·    Data delivery

·    New sites

·    Additional networks

·   IMPROVE STN Comparison

9:30am           Investigations & Special Studies:                                       UCD team

·    Technical investigations

·    Davis test site

·    PM10 speciation

·    GRSM 2004

10:30am         Break

10:45am                ·  Ion studies (30 min)                                                    Bill Malm

·    Biogenic smoke (60 min)                                           Bill Malm

12:15am         Lunch

1:30pm           Aerosol Analytical Methods

·    New XRF (15 min)                                                      Chuck McDade

·    Particulate mercury (15 min)                                     Nicole Hyslop

·    Carbon analysis (30 min)                                          John Watson

2:30pm           Aerosol Data Interpretation

·    Trends (15 min)                                                          Warren White

·    MDLs (15 min)                                                            Warren White

·    Site comparisons (30 min)                                        Nicole Hyslop

3:30pm           Break

3:45pm                  ·  IMP/STN comparison (15 min)                                 Neil Frank

·    Mass balance carbon (30 min)                                 Neil Frank

4:30pm           Aerosol monitoring open discussion                                  Marc Pitchford

5:30pm           Adjourn for the day

 

 

 

 

Thursday, June 3

Time               Topic                                                                                      Discussion Leader

Optical & Scene Monitoring

8:00am           Optical network status                                                          John Molenar

8:20am           Transmissometer calibration tests                                     John Molenar

8:40am           Nephelometer comparison tests                                         John Molenar

9:00am           Optical monitoring open discussion                                   Marc Pitchford

9:15am           Break

Data & Information Distribution

9:30am           IMPROVE Web site update                                                 Bret Schichtel

10:00am         Data quality assurance                                                         Linsey DeBell

10:15am         Quarterly Newsletter                                                             Gloria Mercer

Financial Administration

10:45am         Particle analysis contract update                                        David Maxwell

11:00am         Budget review                                                                       David Maxwell

11:15am         Open discussion of financial admin.                                   Marc Pitchford

11:30am         Lunch

Independent Field Audit Program

1:00pm           EPA’s audit program                                                            Neil Frank

1:15pm           States and WESTAR concerns                                           Bob Lebens

1:30pm           Sampler quality control                                                         Chuck McDade

                                -Flow Rate Validation and QC in IMPROVE              Lowell Ashbaugh

1:45pm           Open discussion of audit program                                      Marc Pitchford

2:45pm           Adjourn Steering Committee Meeting

3:00pm           Assemble at IMPROVE monitoring site

4:30pm           Field site tour completed


 

IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting Participants

June 2 & 3, 2004

Glacier National Park Community Building; West Glacier, MT

 

Darcy Anderson        Arizona DEQ                                     anderson.darcy@ev.state.az.us

Scott Archer               USDI-BLM                                         scott_archer@blm.gov

Lowell Ashbaugh       UCD                                                   ashbaugh@crocker.ucdavis.edu

Bob Bachman           USDA FS                                           rbachman@fs.fed.us

 

Ray Bishop                Oklahoma DEQ                                 ray.bishop@deq.state.ok.us

Susan Caplan            USDI-BLM                                         susan_caplan@blm.gov

Judith Chow               DRI                                                      judyc@dri.edu

Linsey DeBell            CIRA                                                   debell@cira.colostate.edu

 

Rich Fisher                USDA FS                                           rwfisher@fs.fed.us

Neil Frank                  US EPA                                             frank.neil@epa.gov

Jim Homolya              US EPA                                             homolya.james@epa.gov

Nicole Hyslop            UCD                                                   hyslop@crocker.ucdavis.edu

 

Jeff Lantz                    US EPA – Las Vegas                      lantz.jeff@epa.gov

Bob Lebens               WESTAR                                           blebens@westar.org

Bill Malm                    NPS                                                    malm@cira.colostate.edu

Dave Maxwell            NPS                                                    david_maxwell@nps.gov

 

Chuck McDade         UCD                                                   mcdade@crocker.ucdavis.edu

Gloria Mercer            ARS                                                    gmercer@air-resource.com

John Molenar ARS                                                               jmolenar@air-resource.com

Charles Pietarinen    New Jersey DEP                              charles.pietarinen@dep.state.nj.us           

 

Marc Pitchford           NOAA                                                 marcp@noaa.com

Bret Schichtel            NPS                                                    schichtel@cira.colostate.edu

Sandra Silva              US FWS                                             sandra_v_silva@fws.gov

Andy Trent                  USDA FS                                           atrent@fs.fed.us

 

John Vimont               NPS                                                    john_vimont@nps.gov

John Watson              DRI                                                      johnw@dri.edu

Warren White            UCD                                                   white@crocker.ucdavis.edu

Brian Wiens               Environment Canada                        brian.wiens@ec.gc.ca