IMPROVE - CSN Carbon PM Monitoring Workshop
University of California, Davis, CA, January 22- 24, 2008  

Carbon Workshop Topics - An initial planning document for the workshop

Workshop summary notes

Action Plans Developed by Workshop Participants

 

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

Time

Topic

Discussion Leader

8:00am

Welcome, introductions, overview

Marc Pitchford

Organic carbon sampling artifact on quartz filters

8:30am

Review of current artifact adjustment approach for IMPROVE

Lowell Ashbaugh

8:45am

Review of current artifact adjustment approach for CSN, including sampler-specific variations

James Flanagan

9:00am

Evidence for positive & negative artifacts

John Watson

10:00am

Break

 

10:15am

Preliminary organic artifact conceptual model

Marc Pitchford

10:45am

Discussion of conceptual model information gaps & how to fill them with additional assessment/data (wish list)

Marc Pitchford

12:15pm

lunch

 

1:15pm

Development of the action plan to fill information gaps – what, when, where, who, cost, priority

Marc Pitchford

2:15pm

Possible interim approaches for coping with artifacts for IMPROVE, CSN (original sampler/analyzer & new sampler/analyzer)

John Watson

2:30pm

Interim approach for coping with artifacts -discussion and action plan development

Bret Schichtel & Joann Rice

3:15pm

Break

 

Relating IMPROVE to CSN data sets

3:30pm

Review of evidence for differences between the IMPROVE & CSN (original) carbon data

Warren White

4:00pm

Discussion of approaches to relate the two data sets and identification of information gaps

Neil Frank

5:00pm

Adjourn for the day

 

Wednesday January 23

8:00am

Develop action plan to fill information gaps

Joann Rice

8:30am

Interim approach for relating the two data sets - discussion and action plan development

Neil Frank

Relating original IMPROVE to new IMPROVE data sets

9:00am

Review for evidence for a difference between the original and new data sets
Presentation 1
Presentation 2

Warren White

9:30am

Discussion of approaches to relate the two data sets and identification of information gaps

Judy Chow

10:30am

Break

 

10:45am

Develop action plan to fill information gaps

Marc Pitchford

11:15am

Interim approach for relating the two data sets - discussion and action plan development

Warren White

Review & consolidation

11:45am

Review & revise as needed action plans to fill data gaps – assign overall priorities, responsibilities, schedules and budgets

Marc Pitchford

12:45pm

Lunch

 

1:45pm

Review & revise as needed plans to implement interim approaches – assign overall priorities, responsibilities, schedules and budgets

Bret Schichtel

Other Presentations

 

Analysis of STN carbon field blanks, derived STN positive organic carbon artifact and analysis of IMPROVE carbon blank corrections

Bret Schichtel

 

  Carbon Measurements and Adjustments

Neil Frank

  A first look at the "old" TOT and "new" TOR carbon measurements from the CSN network

Supplemental material

Joan Rice