AMS Clinic2

This page is a repository of information for planning the 2nd AMS Data Analysis Clinic Meeting in Boulder. A shorcut to this page is http://tinyurl.com/AMSClinic2/

IMPORTANT: Please RSVP (names, affiliations, snow day info, etc.) on this (open) google doc so we can plan food and schedule accordingly

The dates will be Mon Feb 22 to Thu Feb 25. We'll start Mon @ 9 am, so people should fly in the evening before (Doug and Manjula promised to fly in the night before too). We plan to end on Thu @ 5 pm, 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 Meeting, AGU...).

Monday 22 - Thursday 25 we will be meeting in the CU rec center.here
Thursday the 25th will continue in room E1B20 in the CIRES building if meeting time runs past 5pm. here

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

Tentative Program

The structure of the 2nd Clinic is 4 days, not just focusing on high-resolution, but rather:

• day 1: UMR issues, SQ, CE, RIE, spectra comparisons...
• day 2: PMF
• days 3 & 4: HR issues, elemental analysis, HR-PMF + errors etc.

The content will be determined by the interests of the participants, and the above tentative schedule can be changed as needed. The people who should attend are those who are directly doing (or are VERY involved in directly supervising) AMS data analysis of field of 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.

Subtopics to be discussed (pls add or let us know of suggestions):

• To do
  • Jose will send email about headcount, topics, schedule, and Friday planning
  • Jose to revisit molecules to analyze
  • Once settled on button export for spectral database, ask James to do the same in Q-AMS software
  • add V/W mode to webex mtg
  • Ingrid will ping people about discussing their PMF cases
  • Donna will ping ions list folk
  • Jose will ping database folk + create master volunteering Wiki
  • Eben on life with and without an AMS (10 min)

• Day 1
  • Go over program and topics to discuss, new things etc. (Jose) -- 10 min total
  • Update on CE for field data (Ann + Roya 10 min. prez, open discussion) -- 2 hrs total
  • Update on comparisons of spectra from different AMSs (Jose will lead, which samples or secret? button demo?) -- 1 hr total
    • Demonstration of new panel to create files for the UMR and HR spectra data bases (Donna)
    • Discuss comparison of mini vs Q vs TOFs spectra for the same species (Leah Williams 15 min)
  • Detection of slow evaporating species (Dara on Pb -- 15 min, Taehyoung on K -- 15 min, Lea H on Finokalia -- 15 min) -- 2 hr total
  • hr after lunch is open mike

• Day 2 - PMF
  • Updates on PET (Ingrid -- 10 min)
  • General error discussion, where do they come from, how they are calculated in SQ (Ingrid + Donna)
    • Cases in which errors are too small, Q too high (James Allan)
  • Demo of how to choose a solution (Ingrid et al., MCMA-2003) -- total 2 hrs
  • PMF examples from others for discussion
    • Discussion of Finokalia PMF as a difficult case for very aged OOA (Lea) (see Hildebrandt et al., ACPD 2010)
    • Discussion of Mexico City aircraft PMF as an example where postprocessing helps (Pete if attending, Jose otherwise) (see DeCarlo et al., ACPD 2010)
    • Sally or Manjula: can they contribute some interesting case(s)?
    • Ingrid will ping PMF users

• Days 3-4 - HR
  • Going over big picture analysis schematic, request input on topics to discuss (led by Donna) -- 15 min total
  • Updates and questions on master ion list (Puneet et al. ) -- 30 min total
  • Update on fit error estimates (Mike Cubison prez 20 min + questions, will be in PK release) -- 1 hr total time
  • Questions on using APES for elemental analysis, refresher of new version (Donna, 15 min)
  • Elemental analysis of organonitrates and organosulfates: Farmer et al., Bruns et al., Rollins et al. (Delphine Farmer) -- 1 hr total
  • Fitting 12C and 13C SOA (Lea Hildebrandt) -- 30 min total
  • Discussion of V/W mode 'normalization' and diagnostics -- TBD
  • Breakout for light scattering (Donna)

• Day 5 Play in Colorado (?)
  • For those wishing to extend their trip to ski, snowshoe, or enjoy some outdoor activities, some CU folks can help plan something fun.

Confirmed Attendees so far

• 1-3. Doug Worsnop, Manjula Canagaratna, Sally Ng (Aerodyne)
• 4. Donna Sueper (Aerodyne and Colorado)
• 5-10. Mike Cubison, Delphine Farmer, Patrick Hayes, Ingrid Ulbrich, Carly Robinson, Amber Ortega, Jose-Luis Jimenez (Colorado-Jimenez)
• 11-12. Qi Zhang, Yele Sun (UC-Davis)
• 13-14. Sean Kessler, Eben Cross (MIT)
• 15-16. Roya Bahreini and Ann Middlebrook (NOAA)
• 17-19. Samara Carbone, Sanna Saarikoski, Risto Hillamo (FMI, Finland)
• 20. Jay Slowik (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
• 21. Qi Chen (Harvard Univ.)
• 22. Someone from CEH, UK (Chiara or Gavin)
• 23. Axel Eriksson (Lund University, Sweden)
• 24. Amewu Mensah (Juelich FZ)
• 25-27. Hugh Coe, James Allan, and Will Morgan (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
• 28. John Shilling (PNNL)
• 29. Lea Hildebrandt (CMU)
• 30. Li Qi (Riverside)
• 31. Raea Lessard (Colorado-Tolbert)
• 32. Manuel Dall'Osto, Jurgita Ovadnevaite (Galway)
• 33. Taehyoung Lee (Colorado State)
• 34-36. Puneet Chhabra, Jill Craven, Scott Hersey (Caltech)
• 37-38: Antoinette Boreave and Barbara D'Anna (IRCE Lyon)
• 39-40: Pete DeCarlo (not sure), Claudia Mohr, and Marteen Heringa (PSI)
• 41: Lizabeth Alexander (PNNL)
• 42-43: Leah Williams and Paola Massoli (Aerodyne)
• 44: Mikinori Kuwata (Harvard University)

Lodging

• We have reserved a block of 20 rooms for Sunday February 21, 2010 through Friday February 26, 2010. At the Millenium hotel in Boulder. (Address is 1345 Twenty-Eighth Street) Boulder, CO 80302).
• The group rate for a double bedded room is $109.00 per day.
• Reservations can be made by calling 303.998.2480 or 1.800.545.6285 and refer to the AMS Users meeting or confirmation code 1002UNIVCU
• Reservations can also be made online here and receive the same group rate.
• The group rate is offered 3 days prior and 3 days after the room block that is reserved until the hotel reaches an occupancy of 80% so if you plan on staying after the clinic has finished making an early reservation may be beneficial.

Organization

• Posting stuff on Wiki
  • Carly

• Internet
  • Michael will request conference access, make sure UCB Guest will work there, and whether it can handle 50 laptops at decent speed

• Pickup people up in the morning
  • Ingrid will pick up the first two mornings

• Refreshments
  • Will have $1500
  • Carly + Ingrid
  • Breakfast: coffee, tea, soft drinks
  • Lunch the first day $500 (and the other days if ARI provides $1500, Donna will check). Lunch should be at noon every day (also for noise reasons).
  • Afternoon break
  • ARI dinner (Donna will ask about funds, then we need to organize it)
  • Coffee reservoirs? (Carly)

• Social activities on Friday
  • Eldora: cross-country, downhill, snowshoeing
    • Get show of hands by email for who will come and who will do what (on next business meeting)
  • Delphine will post prices of each activity, renting equipment, lessons.
  • Go with the bus. Mike will pick up at 7:45 for 8:10 N bus. Ingrid will pick up 9:30 for 10:10 N bus. Mike will post (link) return bus times.
  • Potentially also go hiking (e.g. Gregory Canyon or Mt. Sanitas)

• Room and setup (all Michael)
  • Power strips + extension cords: they will provide, Michael will check that they have enough, protection from tripping on cables. Need 75 plugs, because of large converters that take more space. Michael will be there first thing in the morning on Monday to help set up and check.
  • Tables. Reasonable room for 50 people.
  • Projector: Use theirs, make sure image is as large as possible
  • reserve projector from CIRES
  • Check where we could project the 2nd projector
  • Check how to move dividers
  • Need a whiteboard or writing pad as large as possible and pens
  • Organize access and signs to direct people to the room
  • Update how to visit our group: Post google maps and PDF with directions (link the one from last year). How to get back to the aiport. (Will print copies for start of meeting) (Amber)
  • Name tags (printed ahead of time)
  • Coat location?
  • Find out about clickers: Ingrid will find out (CHEM, Athletic Center via Michael, Campus via Donna)
  • Get ugly dolls (5) -- Jose (The Game Store)

• Person on call for crises and helping people (e.g. guide to Supershuttle, AB etc.)
  • Michael is default
  • Amber is secondary

• Clinic itself
  • presentations
  • leading discussions
  • rotating and helping users

• • Jose's email: BRING YOUR AMS PROBLEMS, please sign up on the google document

Snow Day Information

We're working on some significantly cheaper group rates, but we'll need to know numbers first, so please complete your RSVP soon! Otherwise the standard rates apply and are below.

We'll be headed up to Eldora. They have alpine (skiing, snowboarding), nordic skiing and snowshoeing - and it's only a quick bus ride away...

• Transportation is via the N bus, which leaves the downtown Boulder bus station (Walnut & 14th) at 8:10am and 10:10am. Mike Q will meet folks at 7:45am in the Millenium lobby to walk up there on the Friday morning.

• Alpine
  • Lift tickets: Full day: $65
  • 1/2 Day Lift ticket(after 12:30pm): $53
  • Rentals
    • Gear: $49 (ski or snowboard), telemark $42
    • Helmets: $10 (Delphine considers them non-negotiable, but technically they're not required)
    • Clothing: $35 (jacket + pants)
  • Lessons
    • First timers: $99 gets you a 4hr lesson + lift tickets + gear rental (ski or snowboard)
    • Intermed/Advanced lessons: $109 gets you a 2hr lesson + lift tickets + gear rental (ski or snowboard)
    • Note 'first timer' lesson starts at 9:45am, regular lessons are either 9:45am or 12:45pm

• Nordic (cross-country)
  • Pass: $19
  • Gear rental: $24 (+ $5 if you want skate skis)

• Snowshoeing
  • Pass: $15
  • Gear rental: $20

If you want to hang out in Boulder and go for a hike instead, sign up on the google sheet and/or contact Amber, who will either direct you to some good trails or organize a day of fun in town...