Agenda and Presentations

Held Virtually, November 9-10, 2021

Tuesday, November 9 – Technical Session

Time	Topic	Discussion Leader
Network and Lab Reviews
10:30 AM	Optical and Scene Monitoring	Mark Tigges, Scott Cismoski
10:45 AM	Update on IMPROVE Carbon Analysis	Judy Chow
11:15 AM	Ion Analysis	Tracy Dombek
11:40 AM	Quality Assurance.  Field Audits	Scott Copeland for D. Day
11:50 AM	20 Minute Break
12:10 PM	Network Updates (Raffuse and Hyslop)	Sean Raffuse, Nicole Hyslop
Analytical Development
12:30 PM	Light absorption measurement update	Warren White
12:55 PM	Smoke Sample Losses and Potential Mitigation (Potanin and Raffuse)	Sean Raffuse, Ilia Potanin
1:20 PM	20 Minute Break
1:40 PM	Carbon Report	Bret Schichtel
2:10 PM	XRF Measurement Inter-comparisons	Nicole Hyslop
2:30 PM	Purple Air / Optical Instrument Studies	Bill Malm
2:50 PM	Adjourn for the day

Wednesday, November 10 – Technical (cont) and Business Meeting

Time	Topic	Discussion Leader
Analytical Development (cont)
10:30 AM	ASCENT Network	Ann Dillner
Data Analysis
10:50 AM	Long-term dust trend and association with Valley fever infection	Daniel Tong
11:10 AM	IMPROVE Report Overview	Jenny Hand
11:35 AM	20 Minute Break
Data Processing, Distribution, and Quality
11:55 AM	IMPROVE Data and RHR Metrics	Scott Copeland
12:15 PM	Documented process for relocated IMPROVE sites	Tom Moore, Brett Gantt
IMPROVE Business
12:35 PM	Steering Committee Charter (Copeland and Schichtel)	Scott Copeland, Bret Schichtel
12:55 PM	20 Minute Break
1:15 PM	Steering Committee Charter – Discussion	Scott Copeland, Bret Schichtel
1:35 PM	Implementing Sub-committees – WRAP perspective	Tom Moore
1:55 PM	Budget	Tony Prenni
2:15 PM	Committee Business	Scott Copeland
2:35 PM	Meeting Adjourned

Meeting Minutes

Minutes (PDF)

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