Dear all,

a workshop, organized by ECAC-ACMCC and AIS DC, will be hold on April, 5, 9-12am CEST. Practical information and trainings on new ACTRIS tools for the yearly submission of qualified ACSM data will be given. To join the meeting please use the weblink below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87214534611?pwd=TXl0ZXZGcStzenc2N2tNQjBUbitEUT09
Meeting-ID: 872 1453 4611
Kenncode: 806356

Thanks a lot in advance for saving the date, and participation of concerned people.

Best regards,
ECAC office

EMC2: Opportunity to access EMC2 services through RADIATE Transnational Access (TA)

LABEC, the INFN accelerator laboratory hosting the EMC2 unit, is participating in a European research infrastructure of ion beam facilities, RADIATE (https://www.ionbeamcenters.eu/), that currently offers transnational access (TA) to the external-beam PIXE-PIGE facility for atmospheric aerosol sample analysis to external users.

Member of ACTRIS can benefit of this opportunity for high-sensitivity and high-throughput elemental analysis of atmospheric aerosols collected on daily, hourly and size-segregated (e.g. impactor) samples, using Ion Beam Analysis techniques, typically PIXE and PIGE with 3 MeV proton beams and exploiting a dedicated detection set-up made by an array of Silicon Drift Detectors for X-ray spectroscopy. Given the pandemic situation hands-off experiments are welcomed: the user sends the aerosol samples, we will analyse them and then we will send them back.

The users have to submit a proposal to RADIATE’s proposal submission system, RADIATE GATE (https:// gate.hzdr.de/user/). Check this presentation as a guideline.

Access is granted free of charge to positively evaluated proposals. Download the proposal template to prepare your proposal.

Information on how to submit a measurement proposal to RADIATE TA can be found at the following website:
https://www.ionbeamcenters.eu/radiate/radiate-transnational-access/

After the beam time at LABEC , once the measurements are finished, you will have to submit an experimental report in RADIATE GATE.

It is suggested that you contact Massimo Chiari (chiari@fi.infn.it) before submitting a proposal for advice on the beam analysis method and requested hours that are most appropriate, and for support in proposal submission.

1st ACTRIS Science Conference - Call for abstract and registration are now open!

Dear ACTRIS Community,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to register and submit your scientific contributions to the 1st ACTRIS Science Conference, due to take place virtually on May 11th-13th, 2022.

Important dates:
• Abstract submission deadline: 25 March 2022 – no late submission will be considered.
• Registration deadline: 2 May 2022
• Poster submission deadline: 4 May 2022

The conference will be held in conjunction with the ACTRIS course on atmospheric observations and will be organised jointly by the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) at the University of Helsinki, Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) at the University of Helsinki and the ACTRIS Interim Head Office.

More details can be found on the conference webpage: https://actris.eu/news-events/events/1st-actris-science-conference and in the attached announcement.

Best regards,
Giulia, on behalf of the ACTRIS Head Office

1st ACSM community workshop
1st February 2022, 9 to 11.30am CET
Link: TEAMS-Meeting at weblink:

Cliquez ici pour participer à la réunion
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjRkNTYyM2QtY2ZiMS00MzlmLTgyNjEtYjFkYzkyOGE5NGU4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2258e30408-5f61-4cea-8a9f-7a6eb45ff0b1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22deb52936-34a3-4831-8ea9-d30f048dd04b%22%7d

New Information:

The ECAC, are happy to announce the release of the ACTRIS whitelist for aerosol in‐situ instrumentation at observatories.

6th Aerosol Community meeting
27.01.2022, 9 to 11.30 am CET
Zoom-Meeting beitreten
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85920158713?pwd=VDN1S1Y4MFg4UXJuUVJnaERVRUhVUT09

TROPOS DMA cleaning tutorial video:

You have a TROPOS DMA, but you don´t know how to clean it?

We created and uploaded an youtube video which will show you how to clean your DMA. If you have any further questions, use the "FORUM" in ECAC.

visit "TROPOS DMA cleaning tutorial video"

Your ECAC-WCCAP Team

Dear European ACSMers
As firstly announced during our last general ECAC community meeting, we will have a virtual technical meeting dedicated to ACSM calibrations and some other ACSM-related technical topic you would like on Feb. 1st 2022 morning (9-12am CET).

If interested in, please:
- Save the date on your agenda,
- Send your wished discussion and presentation topics to acmcc@lsce.ipsl.fr asap.

The meeting weblink and the agenda will be sent later on (based on the propositions we will get by early January).

Best regards
ECAC - ACSM