AMS Clinic6

• This is the page for organization of the 6th Boulder AMS & ACSM Clinic Meeting. A shorcut to this page is http://tinyurl.com/AMSClinic6
• The Clinic is not a meeting for beginners but for people who have experience with the AMS / ACSM and want to discuss technical issues with other users and the instrument developers.
• The feedback from the Clinic is here

G-TOF (Guacamole TOF): Data analysis in appetizer form.

G-TOF (Guacamole TOF): Data analysis in appetizer form.

Dates and Location

• The 6th AMS Clinic will take place at CU-Boulder on Thu June 18 to Sat June 20, 2015.
  • Map of Hotels, Conference Sites, and Dinner locaitons: AMS Clinic Map
  • Static Maps: Campus Map Closeup Map
  • We'll start Thu @ 8:30 am and end Sat at 5 pm
  • Thu & Fri: main meeting in Humanities 135 (across from the Ekeley building where we have met in past years). Breakouts: HUM 180 and 186
  • Sat: main meeting in Ekeley E1B20 (same room as past few Clinics). Breakouts in Ekeley E1B50 and E1B75.
  • Aerodyne-sponsored dinner on Thu eve @ Backcountry Pizza (no alcohol included)
  • Party at Donna's on Friday Evening.
• The AMS Clinic will follow immediately after the 2015 Aerodyne ToF-CIMS Users Meeting that will take place in Fort Collins, CO (1 hr N of Boulder) during Mon June 15-Wed June 17, 2015.

Clinic Schedule & Presentations

Detailed schedule is kept at this spreadsheet.

Thu 18-June-2015: Quantification Issues

• Manjula: Review of quantification issues (RIE, CEs, nitrate cals)
• Jose-Luis Jimenez: Overview of field intercomparisons
• Dan Murphy: Free molecular flow, thermal decomposition, and residence time in the AMS ion source
• Doug Worsnop: Constraints on quantification from intercomparisons, hygroscopicity & other methods
• User input & discussion
  • Jay Slowik: Citric acid w/ VUV at 600 and 300
  • Suzane de Sa: apparent CE in GoAmazon
  • Ken Docherty: CE vs f44/f57 in chamber SOA
  • Ann Middlebrook: observations from prior lab & field work: PM Volume comparisons
  • Ann Middlebrook: observations from prior lab & field work: IPP, NH4, f44
  • Manjula Canagaratna: Slide on glutaric, citric acid in VUV

• John Jayne: variability of f44
• Simone Pieber: f44 interference from nitrate and other salts (prez. not posted, manuscript in preparation)
• Leah Williams: PToF vs MS as diagnostic of slow f44

Fri 19-June-2015: Instrumentation & Analysis Issues

• WeiWei Hu: Capture vaporizer and f44
• Mike Cubison: Detecting metals with a ToF-ACSM (Donna to post a subset)
• Donna Sueper: Updates to HROrg Analysis for updated Elemental Analysis
• Donna Sueper: A case of inaccurate HRNH4
• Joel Kimmel: Event trigger (can't be posted yet due to pending patent)
• Megan Willis: preliminary ambient SP Event trigger data

Lunch

• Pedro Campuzano Jost: ePToF
• Leah Williams: Is ePToF better for ambient data?
• Pete DeCarlo: ePToF was helpful at high loadings

• Wen Xu: PM 2.5

Sat 20-June-2015: ME-2, PMF, User Open Mike

• Jay Slowik: Updates on ME-2
  • ME2 Software Website
• Tim Onasch: SP-AMS: Main Issues for Quantification
• Ed Fortner: SP-AMS Aligning particle and laser beams
• Ed Fortner: SP-AMS Some laser power problems

lunch

• Raea Hicks: Soil analysis by laser-ablation + AMS (will not be posted, manuscript in preparation)
• Dara Salcedo: AMS evaporation model for non-refractory vs. semi-refractory material
• Pedro Campuzano-Jost: Lens transmission issues
• Leah Williams (presented by Manjula Canagaratna): followup on PToF/MS Ratios vs m/z
• Qi Zhang: Comparison of DESI vs AMS O/C, and issues with m/z calibrations in SP-AMS
• Jason Schroder & Donna Sueper: IE panel for ET data

Party at Donna's 19 June 2015

• Address: 875 Roxwood Lane #A Boulder, CO.
  • Directions
• The Plan:
  • Empanadas from Rincon in Boulder will be served.
  • Non-Alcoholic Beverages and a few beers will be provided.
  • Donations to cover food and drink Encouraged.
  • Feel free to bring your own food and drink if you wish.
  • Have fun mingling in Donna's beautiful back yard if weather cooperates, and/or inside.

Tentative List of Attendees

The following 50 people have registered for the meeting:

• Doug Worsnop, John Jayne, Leah Williams, Donna Sueper, Joel Kimmel, Philip Croteau, Manjula Canagaratna, Harald Stark, Tim Onasch, Ed Fortner - Aerodyne Research
• Doug Day, Brett Palm, Jason Schroder, Weiwei Hu, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose-Luis Jimenez - Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
• Mike Cubison, Tofwerk AG
• Suzane de Sa, Harvard Univ.
• Olivier Favez, Tanguy Amodeo - INERIS and LCSQA, France
• Jeongho Kim - APM ENG
• Liz Alexander, Raea Hicks, PNNL
• Dara Salcedo, Franco Guerrero, Harry X, UNAM-Queretaro, Mexico
• Liming Cao , Peking University Shenzhen
• Ann Middlebrook, NOAA
• Joel Brito, Univ Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Claudia Mohr, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Peter DeCarlo, Michael Giordano, Anita Johnson, Drexel Univ.
• Dongyu "Simon" Wang, University of Texas at Austin
• Haiyan Li, Tsinghua University
• Sanna Saarikoski, Risto Hillamo, FMI, Finland
• Megan Willis, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
• Qi Zhang, Nicky Young, Shan Zhou, University of California, Davis
• Qi Chen, Peking Univ., China
• Will Wallace, Yu Jun Leong, Rice Univ.
• Jay Slowik, Simone Pieber - PSI, Switzerland
• Roya Bahreini, Chia-Li Chen, Lijie Li - UC-Riverside
• Ping Chen, Handix
• Ken Docherty, US EPA (pending confirmation)
• Ingeborg Nielsen, Aarhus Univ.

Some Topics to be Discussed

• UMR analyses
• Recent updates to elemental analysis
• General HR-AMS operation, tuning, fitting
• PMF and ME-2 analyses
• ePToF
• Event Trigger
• Anything that users are interested in discussing

Lodging and Travel

• General information on Boulder is here
  • You will most likely travel via Denver International Airport
  • You can use the Supershuttle service between the airport and the hotel and back (once in Boulder, you can walk to and from the meeting)
  • If you are looking for someone to share a room with we have created a spreadsheet for coordinating and posting contact information here

• Millennium Harvest House
  • Block Rate: $134.00/night
  • Reservations: AMS Clinic Online Reservations
  • Cutoff Date for block rate: Reservations must be made by May 22, 2015 to receive the block rate, availability limited.
  • Contact: +1 (303) 443-3850
  • Block Reservation Name: AMS Clinic (University of Colorado)

• University Inn - Boulder
  • Rate: $125.00/night. (Request the "CU Student" rate if you wish to book a room here).
  • Availablity: Rooms only available on the 17th and 18th. Due to this no "block" of rooms have been set aside.
  • There is no cutoff date, the "CU Student" rate is available year around, availability permitting.
  • Contact: +1 (303) 417-1700

• Residence Inn - Boulder
  • Block Rate: $194.00/night (Standard Rate: $219.00)
  • Block Reservation Name: CU AMS Clinic
  • Reservations: CU AMS Clinic Online Reservations
  • Reservations by phone: (800) 331-3131 request "CU AMS Clinic" rate
  • Contact: +1 (303) 449-5545
  • Ammenities: Complimentary Breakfast, Studio room (one King, one Pullout couch bed), Kitchenette, Free Wireless)

• Marriott
  • Rate: $234/night
  • Reservations: AMS Clinic Online Reservations
  • Cutoff Date for block rate: Reservations must be made by May 18, 2015 to receive the block rate.
  • Contact: +1 (303) 440-8877
  • Block Reservation Name: University of Colorado AMS Clinic