AMS Clinic4

This page is a repository of information for planning the 4th AMS Clinic and the 1st Aerodyne CIMS Meeting and Clinic (March 2012). A shorcut to this page is http://tinyurl.com/AMSClinic4

Dates and Location

The 4th AMS Instrument and Data Analysis Clinic and 1st Aerodyne CIMS Meeting and Clinic will take place in the Spring of 2012 at the University of Colorado-Boulder. It will be organized by the Jimenez Group and Aerodyne. We will post information here as it becomes available.

The schedule for the meetings will be:

• Sun March 25: AMS Hardware tutorial & Q&A (starting 9am, with an AMS in the room)
• Mon March 26: AMS: Unit resolution issues, PToF, w/ TOF, Quad, ACSM
• Tue March 27: AMS: High resolution issues (PIKA)
• Wed March 28: AMS: PMF, including errors & discussion of user cases. (CIMS users may be interested to sit in) & ARI dinner
• Thu March 29: CIMS: 1st day. Music jam at Donna Sueper's house. Bring your instrument and be ready to play!
• Fri March 30: CIMS: 2nd day
• Sat March 31: CIMS: 3rd day
• Sun April 1: CIMS: small group CIMS meetings as needed / hiking or skiing for interested folks

AMS only users may want to come Sun-Wed, or a subset of those days, while CIMS-only users will come Wed-Sun, or a subset of those days. Pls fill this Doodle Poll with the dates you are planning to attend. (Mark them with "(yes)" if tentative). This is the OFFICIAL attendee list for the meeting, which is important to plan for meeting rooms, lunches, coffee breaks, etc.

Detailed program of 4th AMS Clinic

The people who should attend the AMS Clinic are those who are directly doing (or are VERY involved in directly supervising) AMS data analysis of field or lab data. The clinic will be much less useful for PIs who are not directly involved in data analysis, or for people who are just starting to learn about the AMS but haven't done serious data analysis yet. Attendees are expected to bring to the Clinic datasets in which they are currently working, and be ready to use them as a basis for discussion with the group.

As planned, this is "out of phase" with the AMS Users Meeting and the heavy Fall meeting season (AAAR, EAC, AMS Users Meeting, AGU...).

There is no registration fee, but please let us know if you are coming to plan food, coffee, tables, power, internet, name tags, hotel room block, etc.

Feedback from past Clinics has been very positive overall, and you can see the details for 2009, 2010, and 2011.

• Sun, Hardware day:
  • We had some interesting problems with the AMS come up during our field mission, particularly with the chopper. I just want to summarize how we went about troubleshooting the problem: Matt Coggon, Caltech

• Mon, unit resolution with TOF, quad, ACSM:
  • What to measure and how to calculate AMS mass concentration uncertainty (and how to report it) for field campaigns. Roya's Auxiliary Material of her 2008 Houston paper is a great summary with numbers and references, but how to get all of those numbers exactly has been sometimes unclear to me. (led by Jill Craven, Roya Bahreini?, Jose Jimenez)
  • ACSM naphthalene calibration method, and would it be applicable to the AMS: Anna Ripoll, IDAEA-CSIC
  • "I don't have a full understanding of how PToF is calculated. I've been making up some image plots for people so that they can average the distributions according to their instruments time stamp. However, if I give them an image based on the saved AMS time stamp, the distributions averaged to other instrument time stamps are messy. If I give them an image based on a 5 min squirell average, the averaged distributions are nicer. I realize that this is an "average of an average", but I'm interested in learning how squirrel fundamentally calculates PToF distributions.": Matt Coggon, Caltech

• Tue, High-resolution analysis:
  • General issues that cropped up during PIKA analysis, interpretation of high m/z ions: Jill Craven, Caltech
  • Adding new ions into PIKA to account for marine organic aerosol ion fragments: Paola Massoli, Aerodyne
  • Precautions for deciding when N containing ions peaks in fits are real or not: Paola Massoli, Aerodyne
  • "I've been working on data from a field mission and I've found that masses at m/z 42 and m/z 99 are important in cloud processed ship emissions. I have an idea (based on HiRes data) what these ions are, but I'm interested in trying to figure out if anyone has any idea what compounds might fragment to generate these masses": Matt Coggon, Caltech

• Wed, PMF day:
  • Chamber PMF work: Jill Craven, Caltech
  • New Tofwerk autotuning/diagnostics software: Manuel Hutterli, Tofwerk (30-45 min, incl. questions & discussion)

Details of 1st CIMS Meeting and Clinic

• This first meeting of ToF-CIMS users is being held Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31 2012, immediately following the AMS Clinic. AMS users are invited to attend any portion of the ToF-CIMS meeting and vice versa. All details related to this meeting are on the ToF-CIMS website.

Attendees

• If you may be interested in attending the AMS Clinic, you should add yourself to the AMS Clinic Email List.

• The list of attendees is kept on this Doodle Poll. This Poll will be the official list of attendees, so please remember to update it if your plans change. If you would like to attend but are not sure yet, please enter the "(Yes)" option (it'll show up in yellow in the poll) and update the entries later when your plans become solid either way.

Lodging

A map with three local hotels that have offered to give us a discounted rate can be found here
If you are looking for someone to share a room with we have created a spreadsheet for coordinating and posting contact information here

• Millenium (recommended, closest to meeting location)
  • Rate: $104.00 for one King / $104.00 for two doubles / $114 for a triple / $124 for a quad (we are currently holding 10 rooms)
  • Reservations: register online here
  • Contact p.303.443.3850 / AMS Users (for discounted rate)
  • Reservations can only be made up to February 23, 2012 (for guaranteed rate)

• Boulder Inn (farther from meeting location, but a little cheaper)
  • Rate: $82.00 for one King bed / $92.00 for two Queen Beds
  • Contact: p.800.233.8469 / AMS (for discounted rate)
  • Reservations can only be made up to February 23, 2012 (for guaranteed rate)

• Boulder Outlook
  • Rate: $74.00 for standard outside / $84.00 inside by pool / $94 executive (can either be a king or two doubles)
  • Contact: p.800.542.0304 ext. 0 / ask for CU CIRES group rate

• Quality Inn
  • Rate: $79.00 one queen / $79.00 two queens
  • Contact: 1.888.449.7550 / ask for AMS Conference Rates

• If you want to find a roommate for the Clinic, please enter your information in this spreadsheet.

Please feel free to contact Michael Lechner (michael.lechner(at)colorado.edu for any further question)