Final Agenda for SPARTAN and CAMS-Net Meeting

June 11, 2025, Washington University

Green Hall, Room 0120

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​Day 0, Tuesday, June 10
Knight Center Pub offers food and is available for informal gatherings throughout
evening

Day 1, Wednesday, June 11
8:30-9  Registration desk open (Green 0120)
8:30  Coffee, tea, pastries (Green 0120)

Welcome and Overview (Chair: Jay Turner, WashU)
9:00  Welcome to WashU (Dean Aaron Bobick, WashU)
9:05  Welcome and Overview of SPARTAN (Randall Martin, WashU)
9:35  Overview of CAMS-Net (Daniel Westervelt, Columbia U, LDEO)
10:05  Overview of Clean Air Fund (Ruaraidh Dobson, Clean Air Fund, Remote)
10:20  Overview of SPARTAN Operations (Chris Oxford, WashU)

 

10:35  Break

 

Monitoring of PM2.5 Chemical Composition (Chair: Priyanka de Souza, CU Denver)
11:00  Black Carbon Emissions Generally Underestimated in the Global South as Revealed by Globally Distributed Measurements (Yuxuan Ren, WashU)
11:15  X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Elements and Assessing Attenuation Effects of Light Elements in Mineral Dust (Xuan Liu, UC San Diego)
11:30  Organic Measurements through FT-IR (Ann Dillner, UC Davis, Remote)
11:45  Early Results from the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT) (Armistead Russell, Georgia Tech)

12:00  Catered Lunch (Umrath Lounge)

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Low-Cost Monitoring of PM2.5 (Chair: Dan Westervelt, Columbia U)
2:00  Exploration of intra-city and inter-city PM2.5 regional calibration models to improve low-cost sensor performance (Naomi Zimmerman, UBC)
2:15  Opportunities and Challenges of Using Low-Cost Sensors for Air Pollution Monitoring (Priyanka deSouza, CU Denver)
2:30  Lessons Learned from PM Low-Cost Networks in Mongolia and Central Asia (JayTurner, WashU)
2:45  Exploring the robustness of lower capital cost air sensors for understanding the impacts of location-specific agricultural practices on local air quality in Ghana (Collins Gameli Hodoli, Clean Air One Atmosphere & U Environment &
Sustainable Development)
3:00  Performance of Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensors Under West African Weather: Insights from the Air Sensor Evaluation and Training Facility for West Africa (James Nimo, U Albany)
3:15  Air Quality Assessment in Kara City, Togo (Ogouvidé Akpaki, U Kara/Togo, Remote)

3:30  Break

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4:00  Panel Discussion (led by Dan Westervelt, Columbia U) Panelists (Priyanka deSouza, James Nimo, Christi Schroeder, and Albert Presto)

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5:00  Walk to dinner

5:30  Catered dinner (Holmes Lounge)

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Day 2, Thursday June 12
8:30  Coffee, tea, pastries (Green 0120)

Air Quality Monitoring Across Regions (Chair: Albert Presto, CMU)
9:00  Uncovering Bengaluru's Air Pollution: Hyper-Local Monitoring with LCS network and Source apportionment using ToF-ACSM (Kavyashree Narayana Kalkura, Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, Remote)
9:15  Air Quality Landscape of a Southeast Asian Megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh (Abdus Salam, U Dhaka)
9:30  Characterizing Global Monitoring Coverage and Pollution Trends: Findings from IQAir's 2024 World Air Quality Report (Christi Chester Schroeder, IQAir)
9:45  Closing the air pollution data gap in the Global South (Dan Westervelt, Columbia U)
10:00  Air quality management and monitoring in Togo (Kokou Sabi, Laboratoire de Chimie Atmosphérique/Université de Lomé)

10:15  Break

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Advancing Air Quality Applications (Chair: Naomi Zimmerman, UBC)
10:45  Leveraging Satellite Measurements to Build Machine Learning Models for Estimating 20 years of High-Resolution Gridded Daily PM2.5 for Ghana (Abhishek Anand, Columbia U)
11:00  Small fires, large fires: Implications of residential and agricultural emissions for air quality in India (Chandra Venkataraman, IIT Bombay)
11:15  To address India’s air pollution, we must focus on informal sources (Lucas Rojas Mendoza, UC Berkeley)
11:30  Overview of air quality management in Ghana (Emmanuel Appoh, Environfin consult)

11:45  Group Photo (Brookings Staircase)

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12:00  Catered Lunch (McKelvey Commons)

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Extracting New Information from Aerosol Measurements (Chair: Lu Xu, WashU)
2:00  Progress toward offline AMS measurement of organic aerosol (Yuxuan Ren, WashU)
2:15  Low-Cost Hourly Ambient Black Carbon Measurements (Albert Presto, CMU)
2:30  AirPhoton/GRASP Current Hardware and Software Projects to Improve Particulate Characterization (Richard Kleidman, AirPhoton)
2:45  Apparent water content in gravimetrically measured PM2.5 (Chris Oxford, WashU)
3:00  Improvements to nitrate measurements in SPARTAN (Summer Liu, WashU)
3:15  Discerning the Spatial Trends of PM Oxidative Potential across the Global Scale (Ganesh Subramanian Pavizhakattumadom Saptharishi, UIUC)

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3:30  Break

 

4:00  Discussion (led by Randall Martin, WashU)

 

5:00  Walk to dinner
5:30  Catered dinner (Ibby’s)

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