4th International SPARTAN Meeting
St. Louis, MO, May 18, 2023
Final Agenda for Fourth International SPARTAN Meeting
May 18, 2023, Washington University
Brauer Hall, Room 3015
May 17
Informal pre-meeting option
Knight Center pub open until 10pm (food available until 8pm)
May 18
8:30 Coffee, tea, pastries
Overview (Chair: Jay Turner, WashU)
9:00 Overview & welcome (Randall Martin, WashU)
9:15 Connections of SPARTAN with global health (Michael Brauer, UBC)
9:30 Clean Air Fund and connections with SPARTAN (Tom Grylls, Clean Air Fund, remote)
9:40 Network status and methodological advancements (Christopher Oxford, WashU)
9:55 Advances in elemental characterization with the XRF (Xuan Liu, WashU)
10:10 Organic information from FT-IR (Ann Dillner, UC Davis)
10:25 Offline Aerosol Mass Spectrometry (AMS) technique for chemical characterization of filter samples (Yuxuan Ren and Jhao-Hong Chen, WashU)
10:40 Updated scripts for data processing (Haihui Zhu, WashU)
10:45 Break (Coffee, tea, snacks)
Broader context (Chair: Ann Dillner, UC Davis)
11:00 Black and brown carbon from UV-Vis (Joshin Kumar, WashU)
11:10 Exploring oxidative potential measurements for SPARTAN (Vishal Verma, UIUC)
11:20 Perspectives from lab, network, and field measurements (Jay Turner, WashU)
11:30 Perspectives on SPARTAN from Dhaka, Bangladesh (Abdus Salam, U Dhaka)
11:40 Insights from analysis of IMPROVE data (Jenny Hand, CSU)
11:50 Leave for group photo
12:00 Group photo
12:15 Lunch (Whittemore House)
(12-2 Brauer 3015 being used by Dean)
Low cost monitors and future directions (Chair: Michael Brauer, UBC)
2:00 MAIA, its connection with SPARTAN, and SPARTAN data dashboard (Sina Hasheminassab, JPL)
2:10 Integration with low-cost monitoring and CAMS-Net (Dan Westervelt, Columbia U)
2:20 Interrogating new science with low cost monitoring approaches: needs, pitfalls, and opportunities (Richard Peltier, U Mass Amherst)
2:30 Perspectives on SPARTAN from Rehovot, Israel: Insights about the Nephelometer (Eli Windwer, Weizmann Institute)
2:40 Nephelometer characterization, denuder, and other AirPhoton updates (John Hall, AirPhoton)
2:50 Future AERONET plans & potential connections with SPARTAN (Pawan Gupta, NASA, remote)
3:00 Break (Coffee, tea, snacks)
3:20 ASCENT and potential connections with SPARTAN (Sally Ng, Georgia Tech, remote)
3:30 PM2.5 Characterization in Pretoria, South Africa (Muhammad Naveed Anwar, UC Davis)
3:40 Initial findings from comparison of SPARTAN data with GEOS-Chem (Yu Yan, WashU)
3:45 Discussion of future analysis opportunities, dissemination, and outreach (all)
4:30 Lab tour of analytic facilities (weighing, XRF, IC, IBR) led by Chris Oxford and Xuan Liu
4:50 AMS led by Brent Williams, Jhao-Hong Chen, and Yuxuan Ren
5:20 Leave for dinner (O’Donnell Lounge, Knight Center)
Informal post-meeting activities (all are welcome)
Friday, May 19
9:00 – 11:00, Discussion of organic aerosol characterization (Brauer 3015)
11:00 – 12:00, Seminar by Michael Brauer (Rodin Auditorium)