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)