First International SPARTAN Meeting, Dalhousie University, June 9-10, 2015

Life Sciences Research Institute Theatre, Room N303

Final Agenda

Tuesday, June 9

Overview (Chair, Yang Liu, Emory U)

9:00 Overview & Welcome (Randall Martin, Dalhousie U)
9:15 General SPARTAN activities (Graydon Snider & Crystal Weagle, Dalhousie U)
9:45 Theory behind AirPhoton instrumentation (Vanderlei Martins, AirPhoton and
UMBC)

10:10 Break

10:30 Why SPARTAN matters: applications of satellite remote sensing to air pollution
health effects (Michael Brauer, UBC)
10:45 Analyzing SPARTAN filters for organics with an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (Rachel
OBrien, MIT)
11:00 Initial results from SPARTAN measurements in Israel (Yinon Rudich, Weizmann
Institute of Science)
11:15 Implications for SPARTAN of filter based PM2.5 source apportionment (Mark Gibson,
Dalhousie U)

11:30 lunch, University Club

SPARTAN Operating Procedures (Chair, Michael Brauer, UBC)

1:10 Instrument operation demo & discussion (Vanderlei Martins, AirPhoton and UMBC)
2:00 Outline of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for field measurements, laboratory
procedures, Harvard impactor, instrument cleaning and calibration (Graydon &
Crystal, Dalhousie U)
2:30 Discussion of standard operating procedures

3:00 Break in Board Room (2nd floor)

3:20 Tour of Health and Environments Research Centre: Weighing procedures, EBC
analysis, and OC/EC thermal analysis (led by Graydon Snider and Crystal Weagle)

3:45 walk to Sexton Campus

4:00 Gibson lab tour for IC & ICP-MS analysis (led by Mark, Graydon, and Crystal)
4:30 Discussion of laboratory facilities and procedures (Room MA 120; Sexton Campus)
5:15 leave for dinner
Wednesday, June 10

SPARTAN Analyses (Chair, Yinon Rudich, Weizmann Institute of Science)

9:00 Methods for inference of composition from filters: salts, soil, EBC, OC, and aerosol
water (Graydon Snider & Crystal Weagle, Dalhousie U)
9:45 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 Analysis of PM2.5 / AOD versus GEOS-Chem (Crystal Weagle, Dalhousie U)

10:45 Initial results from analysis of SPARTAN composition (Graydon Snider, Dalhousie U)
11:00 PURE Air: Connections with SPARTAN (Michael Brauer, UBC)
11:15 Discussion

11:30 Lunch, University Club, Alumni Room

Looking Forward (Chair, Mark Gibson, Dalhousie U)

1:30 Future instrumentation options including inlets (Vanderlei Martins, AirPhoton and
UMBC)
2:30 Discussion

2:50 Break in Board Room (2nd floor)

3:10 Discussion of planned activities by all investigators (led by Randall Martin,

Dalhousie U)
3:45 Connections with other networks (Randall Martin, Dalhousie U)

4:00 Adjourn