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2005 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
Acadia National Park – Schoodic Education and Research Center
July 26 – 27, 2005 

Time

Topic

Discussion Leader

Tuesday, July 26

8:00 AM

2:45 PM

Assemble at training center for car pool to IMPROVE & RAIN site visit (lunch in Bar Harbor)

Welcome & Introductions

Pitchford

Network Operations Updates:

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

4:00 PM

Optical (data recovery, field and data processing QC, SOP updates)

Aerosol (sample recovery, data delivery, flow, analytical & data processing QC)

Carbon analysis changes

Molenar

McDade, Ashbaugh

Chow

Aerosol Data Quality Control – Quality Assurance:

4:30 PM

5:15 PM

Data checks, flags, collocated data

Adjourn for the day

Hyslop, DeBell

Wednesday, July 27

8:00 AM

8:30 AM

9:15 AM

Independent field audit program

QAPP review (data quality objectives,data validation, etc.)

Methods evaluation (inlet clogging, cassette redesign, critical flow, etc.)

Lantz

White

Dillner, McDade

10:00 AM

Break

Data Derivatives

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

11:15 AM

Visual air quality metrics from digital data

Aerosol extinction algorithm assessment

Aerosol extinction algorithm Literature Review

Molenar

Malm

Hand

12:00 PM

Lunch (catered)

1:00 PM

FAST-CAT update

Poirot

Special Studies (~15 minutes each)

1:20 PM

CSU denuder study

Great Smoky NP ammonia study

Nylon filter tests

IMPROVE – STN comparison

UCD mobile lab

Carbon 14

PM10 speciation

RAIN

“wide” hazecam

McDade

Dillner

Dillner

McDade

McDade

Malm

Malm

Allen

Allen

3:30 PM

Break

Other Topics

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

4:25 PM

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

IMPROVE network assessment plans

Budget review

Blueprint for 2000-04 Regional Haze Data Certification

IMPROVE & VIEWS web sites

Quarterly newsletter

Pitchford

Maxwell

Moore

Schichtel

Mercer

5:00 PM

Meeting adjourned