2016 Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

November 1, 2016, Santa Fe National Forest Headquarters, Santa Fe, NM

Tuesday, November 1st – Technical Session

Time      TopicDiscussion Leader 8:30 AM Introductions Scott Copeland 8:35 AM Welcome to Santa Fe National Forest Josh Hall

Network Review

8:45 AM Optical, Scene Monitoring Mark Tigges 9:00 AM Quality assurance – field audits Derek Day 9:20 AM Aerosol monitoring network status Nicole Hyslop 10:05 AM 15 Minute Break

Laboratory Review & Methods Development

10:20 AM Ion analysis Tracy Dombek 10:40 AM Update of IMPROVE Carbon Analysis Judy Chow 11:10 AM Additional Chemical/Optical Characterization for IMPROVE/CSN Filter Samples John Watson 11:40 AM 90 Minute Lunch

IMPROVE Business

1:10 PM Budget Tony Prenni 1:25 PM IMPROVE Website/Winhaze Tony Prenni/Bret Schichtel 1:35 PM QAPP signing Scott Copeland 1:45 PM Committee Business, Next year’s meeting Scott Copeland

Data Processing, Distribution, and Quality

2:00 PM IMPROVE /CSN Mega PE and TSAs Joann Rice 2:15 PM Environment Canada Monitoring comparisons Keith Jones 2:40 PM 15 Minute Break

Regional Haze / Data Analysis

2:55 PM RHR Metrics Reporting John Vimont 3:15 PM IMPROVE’s roles in tracking changes in visibility and determining causal mechanisms for impairment for Class I areas Tom Moore 3:45 PM Reconstructed Fine Mass trends Jenny Hand

Data Analysis

4:05 PM An Examination of the Current IMPROVE Algorithm Tony Prenni 4:25 PM Future Priorities: 3rd IMPROVE Algorithm, Natural Bret Schichtel Conditions 3, automated data substitution, quantitative metric uncertainty model, IMPROVE Report VI   4:45 PM Working Group Session on Future Priorities Bret/Scott/Jenny 5:15 PM Adjourn for the day (group dinner TBD)

Wednesday, November 2nd – NADP Joint Session – La Fonda Hotel

Time      TopicDiscussion Leader 8:30 AM Conference opening, introductions, overview of agenda 8:40 AM Annual State of NADP Report Dr David Gay 9:00 AM Estimating Temporal Trends in Biogenically Formed Secondary Organic Aerosols Resulting From Reduction in Atmospheric Aerosol Water Content Across the Continental United States Bill Malm 9:20 AM Early onset of the spring fine dust season in the southwestern United States Jenny Hand 9:40 AM A Non-destructive, Inexpensive Method for Predicting TOR OC and EC in the IMPROVE and CSN networks using Infrared Spectra Ann Dillner