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WELCOME!
This
third in a series of meetings designed to stimulate dialogue on
atmospheric aerosols research worldwide among diverse research
disciplines was attended by 153 participants from as many as 14
countries. Presentations and discussions took place among researchers
from diverse professional backgrounds, all of them possessing
varied and distinctive exposure to, and perspectives on, the speciation
of organic aerosol compounds. Climatologists, biologists, meteorologists,
and analytical chemists shared knowledge with each other, along
with students and government agency sponsors. Many came away from
the workshop with new knowledge gained by virtue of the workshop's
unique approach of grouping researchers of somewhat exclusive,
but complementary, disciplines. Organic speciation of atmospheric
aerosols was the one thing they had in common.
One
participant, praising the workshop's success at bringing together
such diverse, yet complementary disciplines, said, "as an
organic analytical chemist, if I can learn a little bit about
how chemicals interact with lung tissue, I may be able to target
my techniques to chemicals that are useful to health science and
maybe find a few more target compounds." He refers to topic
four presentation by Joe Mauderly of the Lovelace Respiratory
Research Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information
about the workshop outcomes, please browse this website. We will
be posting powerpoint presentations of about 27 presenters, nearly
40 posters, and summary outcomes of discussions.
The
APACE workshops are planned and conducted by an informal network
of researchers, sponsors, support organizations, and individuals
working to improve communication on what works, what doesn't work,
and where the capacity exists to improve sampling, monitoring,
modeling, interlaboratory communication, and bridging the gap
between researchers and research sponsors.
Look
for news on this website about the next workshop to be held in
2005. If you would like to be informed about progress of this
workshop or future ones, please email
us with your request.
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