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2004 Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

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

IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

Time

Topic

Discussion Leader

Wednesday, June 2

8:00 AM

8:15 AM

Welcome

Introductions and Agenda Review

Park official

Marc Pitchford

Aerosol Monitoring

Network Operations

8:30 AM

Sample recovery

Data delivery

New sites

Additional networks

IMPROVE STN Comparison

UCD Team

Investigations & Special Studies:

9:30 AM

Technical investigations

Davis test site

PM10 speciation

GRSM 2004

UCD Team

10:30 AM

Break

10:45 AM

Ion studies (30 min) 

Biogenic smoke (60 min)

Bill Malm

Bill Malm

12:15 PM

Lunch

Aerosol Analytical Methods

1:30 PM

New XRF (15 min)

Particulate mercury (15 min)

Carbon analysis (30 min)

Chuck McDade

Nicole Hyslop

John Watson

3:00 PM

Break

Aerosol Data Interpretation

2:30 PM

Trends (15 min)

MDLs (15 min)

Site comparisons (30 min)

Warren White

Warren White

Nicole Hyslop

3:30 PM

Break

3:45 PM

4:30 PM

5:30 PM

IMP/STN comparison (15 min)

Mass balance carbon (30 min)

Aerosol monitoring open discussion

Adjourn for the day

Neil Frank

Neil Frank

Marc Pitchford

Thursday, June 3

Optical & Scene Monitoring

8:00 AM

8:20 AM

8:40 AM

9:00 AM 

Optical network status

Transmissometer calibration tests

Nephelometer comparison tests

Optical monitoring open discussion

John Molenar

John Molenar

John Molenar

Marc Pitchford

9:15 AM

Break

Data & Information Distribution

9:30 AM

10:00 AM

10:15 AM

IMPROVE Web site update

Data quality assurance

Quarterly Newsletter

Bret Schichtel

Linsey DeBell

Gloria Mercer

Financial Administration

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

Particle analysis contract update

Budget review

Open discussion of financial admin.

David Maxwell

David Maxwell

Marc Pitchford

11:30 AM

Lunch

Independent Field Audit Program

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

EPA’s audit program

States and WESTAR concerns

Sampler quality control

Flow Rate Validation and QC in IMPROVE

Open discussion of audit program

Adjourn Steering Committee Meeting

Assemble at IMPROVE monitoring site

Neil Frank

Bob Lebens

Chuck McDade

Lowell Ashbaugh

Marc Pitchford

4:30 PM

Field site tour completed