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: 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 meeting: Talks and discussion ARI music jam at Donna Sueper's house. Bring your instrument and be ready to play!
• 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-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).

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)

Details on 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.

• Some topics to be discussed:
  • 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)

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.

• The schedule will include formal research presentations, updates on hardware and software status, group discussions about best practices, Igor tutorials, and open mike time for user presentation of questions / problems / ideas. On Thursday afternoon, we will have a public CI-MS research symposium. Invited speakers include: Joel Thornton, Tim Bertram, Jim Roberts, Joost de Gouw, Mikael Ehn, Doug Worsnop, Reddy Yatavelli , and Jim Smith.

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.