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2013 Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

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

Notes:  This meeting was conducted in conjunction with the NADP annual meeting.  The technical presentations were given October 9th in a joint IMPROVE and NADP session.  Unfortunately, the meeting occurred during the government shut down and many participants were unable to attend.

Time

Topic

Discussion Leader

Tuesday, October 23

8:00 AM

Welcome and Agenda Review

Scott Copeland

Network Review

8:10 AM

8:30 AM

8:45 AM

Optical, Scene, Night Sky

Quality Assurance: Field Audits

Aerosol Monitoring Network Status – McDade
Aerosol Monitoring Network Status  – Hyslop *

John Molenar

Chuck McDade, Nicole Hyslop

Chuck McDade, Nicole Hyslop

9:45 AM

Break

Laboratory Review & Methods Development

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

10:50 AM

11:20 AM

Carbon Analysis

Ion Analysis

Laboratory Intercomparisons and Issues

Method Development:
Pb reference materials for EPA lab audits – Dillner
BITS- new multi-wavelength absorption measurement – McDade

John Watson

Eva Hardison

Jewel Smiley

Chuck McDade, Ann Dillner

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM

Trends in XRF reanalysis results – Hyslop
Light absorbing fraction in PM2.5 – White

Nicole Hyslop, Warren White

Data Processing, Distribution, and Quality

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

2:35 PM

Federal Environmental Database

WESTAR RHR Core Issues

Natural Background

Bret Schichtel

Bob Lebens

Scott Copeland

Data Analysis

2:55 PM

Joint Fire Science Biomass Burning AQI

Information content of IMPROVE data for tracking RHR trends

Bill Malm

Scott Copeland

3:20 PM

Break

Other Topics

3:35 PM

3:45 PM

4:05 PM

5:05 PM

5:20 PM

Newsletter and calendar

IMPROVE Steering Committee business

Budget

Review agenda and wrap up

Adjourn

Cassie Archuleta

Scott Copeland

Scott Copeland

Scott Copeland