AMS Clinic4

This page is a repository of information for planning the 4th AMS Data Analysis Clinic Meeting, which will take place in Boulder in Spring 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: 1st day of AMS (Squirrel and PIKA)
• Tue March 27: 2nd day of AMS (User issues, PMF errors)
• Wed March 28: PMF of AMS data (Discuss user cases) (CIMS users may be interested to sit in): ARI dinner
• Thu March 29: 1st day of CIMS: Talks and discussion / In parallel AMS last day with Donna (User questions)
• Fri March 30: 2nd day of CIMS
• Sat March 31: 3rd day of CIMS
• Sun April 1: small group CIMS meetings as needed / hiking or skiing for interested folks

AMS only users may want to come Sun-Thu, 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.

Details of CIMS Meeting and Clinic

• Thursday morning: Status
  • Joel K, 60m: status of the instrument
  • Harald & Mike, 60m: status of data analysis software
  • Joel K, 20m: Resources of the Community (manuals, web page, email list)
  • Plans of the different users (to maximize collaboration and minimize duplication or conflict), 60m

• Thursday afternoon: Science & technique presentations (to be confirmed by speakers)
  • • Joel Thornton: CIMS, MOVI, London...
    • Tim Bertram: CalNex etc.
    • Jim Roberts: acid CIMS etc.
    • Joost de Gouw: PTRMS vs H3O+ CIMS etc.
    • Mikael Ehn: new APCI source, chamber w/ acetate
    • Doug Worsnop: ambient ions
    • Reddy: BEACHON-RoMBAS
    • Jim Smith: nanoparticle CIMS applications

• Friday: use
  • Use of acetate (120m)
    • Best practices
    • Advantages and limits
  • Use of H+ transfer (90m)
  • Plans for other reagent ions (30m)
  • Gas-phase calibrations (60m)

• Friday afternoon:
  • John Jayne & Felipe, 60m: status of MOVI
  • Particle-phase calibrations, 90m
  • HR analysis and peak list, 90m
  • Backgrounds, 60m

• Saturday
  • Overflow of topics from previous days
  • Harald: Data analysis tutorial w/ actual dataset (180m)
  • Clinic (users bring up issues & questions w/ their own instrument operation & data analysis)
    • High-resolution analysis discussion
  • Open Mike: short presentations of results, ideas, etc.

• Sunday: small group CIMS meetings as needed / hiking or skiing for interested folks

Details on AMS Clinic

The people who should attend this 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.

The presentations and discussions will end on Thu @ 4 pm, followed by Happy Hour at a local restaurant on Fri. afternoon, and hiking, skiing, snowshoeing or other activities on Friday for people who can stay an extra day, so please plan your flights accordingly. 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.

Attendees

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

• The list of attendees is kept on this Google Spreadsheet. Click the Edit link at the bottom if you want to make changes. (Pls make changes only on the sheet named "2012", the ones from 2011 and 2010 are there only as a reference).

Schedule & Topics

The tentative schedule (exact dates TBD) is:

• Sun @ 1 pm - Mon March 26 @ noon: AMS Hardware Tutorial ("Pre-Clinic")
• Mon @ noon - Thu March 29 @ 4 pm: Data Analysis Clinic (Aerodyne dinner on Tue evening, and Happy Hour on Thu afternoon)
• Fri: Hiking etc. day for those interested