2015 Steering Committee Meeting, Grand Canyon, AZ:

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

Agenda and Presentations

Tuesday, November 5th

Time	Topic	Discussion Leader
8:30 AM	Introductions	Scott Copeland
8:35 AM	Welcome to Albright	Justine Stout
8:45 AM	Grand Canyon Air Issues	Jane Rodgers
9:00 AM	Optical, Scene Monitoring	Mark Tigges, Scott Cismoski
9:30 AM	Quality assurance – field audits	Nicole Hyslop
9:45 AM	Aerosol monitoring network status	Nicole Hyslop, Sean Raffuse
10:15 AM	15 Minute Break
Laboratory Review & Methods Development
10:45 AM	Status of IMPROVE Carbon Analysis	Judy Chow
11:15 AM	Temperature Calibration of Thermal/Optical Carbon Analyzer	John Watson
11:45 AM	Ion analysis	Tracy Dombek
11:50 AM	74 Minute Lunch
1:10 PM	Laboratory intercomparisons and issues	Joann Rice
1:20 PM	Trend Analysis	Nicole Hyslop
1:40 PM	Fabs Data	Warren White
2:15 PM	FTIR calibrations for OC and EC using IMPROVE data	Ann Dillner
3:00 PM	15 Minute Break
Data Analysis
3:55 PM	IMPROVE and FED websites	Bret Schichtel
4:10 PM	Ion QA	Tracy Dombek
4:25 PM	Beyond Level 2 QA	Scott Copeland
Tee Up Wednesday Working Group Session
4:45 PM	IMPROVE Tracking Progress Metric Development	Brett Gantt
5:30 PM	Mystery Topic	Bruce Polkowsky
5:50 PM	Adjourn for the day (group dinner for those interested)

Wednesday, November 4th – Business Meeting and Working Group

Time	Topic	Discussion Leader
8:00 AM	Budget Analysis	Tony Prenni
8:30 AM	IMPROVE Protocol Site Assessment	Joann Rice
8:50 AM	IMPROVE QAPP I	Scott Copeland
8:50 AM	IMPROVE QAPP II	Tony Prenni
9:40 AM	IMPROVE Steering Committee business	Scott Copeland
10:00 AM	3 hours for site visit and lunch break
Optional Working Group Session
1:00-5:00 PM	RHR Tracking Progress Metrics Working Meeting
1:00 PM	Session overview and goals	Scott Copeland
1:10 PM	CenSARA Glidepath Results	Cassie Archuleta
1:30-5:00 PM	RHR tracking progress metrics	group

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