Second International SPARTAN Meeting, Nov 8-9, 2016

University Hall, Macdonald Building, Dalhousie University

Tuesday, November 8

Overview
9:00 Overview & welcome (Randall Martin, Dalhousie U)
9:30 Overview & update of SPARTAN operating procedures: maximizing information
from a single filter (Crystal Weagle Dalhousie U)
9:50 Global health effects of PM2.5 (Aaron Cohen, Health Effects Institute)
10:10 Connections of SPARTAN with international assessments including PURE-Air
(Michael Brauer, U British Columbia)

10:30 Break

10:45 Characteristics and performance of AirPhoton instrumentation (Vanderlei Martins,

AirPhoton and UMBC)

11:30 lunch, University Club

SPARTAN-related Activities
1:30 Overview & update of SPARTAN operating procedures: combining optical and
composition measurements to infer time-varying PM2.5 (Graydon Snider,
Dalhousie/McGill U)
1:50 MPLNET activities and connections with SPARTAN (Judd Welton, NASA GSFC)
2:20 Oxidative potential and links with SPARTAN (Scott Weichenthal, McGill)
2:40 Insight from WMO nephelometer intercomparison (Vanderlei Martins, AirPhoton
and UMBC)

3:10 Break (and group photo)

3:30 Walk to HERC

4:00 Tour of Health and Environments Research Centre: Weighing procedures, EBC
analysis, and OC/EC thermal analysis (led by Jong Kim, Crystal, Graydon and Robyn)

4:30 walk to Sexton Campus

5:00 Gibson lab tour for IC & ICP-MS analysis (led by Mark, Crystal, Graydon, and Robyn)
5:30 leave for dinner

Group Dinner, Chives, 1537 Barrington Street

Wednesday, November 9

SPARTAN Analyses
9:00 Initial results from analysis of SPARTAN elements (Graydon Snider, Dalhousie
U/McGill U)
9:30 Initial results from interpreting SPARTAN composition measurements with the
GEOS-Chem model (Crystal Weagle, Dalhousie U)
10:00 Plans for analyses of mass scattering efficiency (Robyn Latimer, Dalhousie U)

10:15 Break

10:30 Standard operating procedures for nephelometer cleaning and calibration (Crystal
Weagle, Dalhousie U)
10:45 Preliminary source apportionment analysis of selected SPARTAN sites using
PMF v5 (Mark Gibson, Dalhousie U)
11:05 Perspectives from World Merit 360 and UN Conference on Sustainable Development
Goals (Paul Bissonnette, Dalhousie U)
11:15 Plans for sampling station upgrade and testing (Randall, Crystal and Robyn,
Dalhousie U)

11:30 Lunch, University Club

Looking Forward
1:30 Future instrumentation options from AirPhoton (Vanderlei Martins, AirPhoton and
UMBC)
2:00 Discussion

2:50 Break

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

Dalhousie U)
4:00 General discussion and concluding remarks

4:30 Adjourn