2019 Technical Conference

CORM 2019 Annual Technical Conference and 12th Biennial Joint Meeting of the CNC/CIE and CIE-USNC Technical Program

October 28 -30, 2019, NRC Sussex Auditorium, 100 Sussex Drive

Guest Lecture

Metric Follies, or the Folly of Metrics

Ian Ashdown
President, SunTrackerTechnologies

Session 1: Current Research Activities at NMIs

1.1 CCPR K3 Key Comparison of Luminous Intensity

Arnold Gaertner
NRC Metrology, Ottawa, ON, Canada

1.2 Recent developments in photometry at NIST

Yuqin Zong and C. Cameron Miller
NIST Sensor Science Division, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

1.3 Applications of spectrophotometry in emerging nanomaterials

Li-Lin Tay, John Hulse, Shawn Poirier, and Jeff Fraser
NRC Metrology, Ottawa, ON, Canada

1.4 Current research in high-accuracy radiometers for solar and earth observation

Michelle Stephens¹, Nathan Tomlin¹, Chris Yung¹, Malcolm White¹, Anna Vaskuri¹, John Lehman¹, Dave Harber², Eric Richard², Karl Heuerman², Joel Rutkowski², Cameron Straatsma², and Greg Kopp²¹NIST Boulder
²Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

1.5 Progress in few-photon metrology at NRC

Jeongwan Jin, Dan Dalacu, Robin Williams, and Angela Gamouras
NRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Session 2: Environmental Radiometry

2.1 Improving non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) sensors for greenhouse gas monitoring

Howard Yoon and George Eppeldauer
NIST, Sensor Science Division, Gaithersburg, USA

2.2 Single particle soot photometer measurements of light-absorbing carbon produced by biomass combustion

Joel C. Corbin¹ and Martin Gysel-Beer^2
1NRC Metrology, Ottawa, Canada
²Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

2.3 Performing tower-based solar induced fluorescence retrievals in the context of physiological, environmental, and hardware-based sources of uncertainty

Julia Marrs¹, Lucy R. Hutyra¹, and David W. Allen^2
1Boston University, Dept. of Earth and Environment
²NIST, Sensor Science Division

2.4 Measurements of downwelling irradiance using a diffuse reflectance standard and calibrated radiometer for validation of modeled bias errors

B. Carol Johnson and Thomas Larason
NIST, Sensor Science Division

2.5 Mid-infrared tunable diode laser spectroscopy for the detection of fugitive methane emissions

Jalal Norooz Oliaee, N. Sabourin, J. A. Gupta, P. Lobo, K. Thomson, and G. Smallwood
NRC Metrology, Ottawa

Session 3: UV and IR Radiation – Measurements, Concerns & Applications

3.1 Asymptotics of diffraction corrections in radiometry

Eric L. Shirley
NIST Sensor Science, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

3.2 Combined out-of-range and in-band stray light correction for array spectroradiometers

R. Zuber, and M. Ribnitzky
Gigahertz-Optik GmbH, Türkenfeld, Germany (presented by James Leland, Gigahertz-Optik, USA

3.3 Measurement errors due to limitations of lenses to focus wide wavelength light

Tim Moggridge
Westboro Photonics, Ottawa, ON, Canada

3.4 Status Update of the NIST Infrared Optical Properties of Materials Program

Leonard Hanssen, Simon Kaplan, Braden Czapla, and David Deisenroth
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

3.5 Update on Revisions of Standards for Photobiological Safety of Lamps

David Sliney
Consulting Medical Physicist, Fallston, MD, USA

Session 4: Optical Properties of Materials

4.1 SIM K6 – The regional intercomparison for spectral transmittance

Catherine Cooksey
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

4.2 Heading down the profiling rabbit hole

Dave Wyble
Avian Technologies, New London, NH, USA

4.3 NIST high-accuracy index measurements of IR materials

John Burnett
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

4.4 Development of a new absolute diffuse reflectometer at NRC: status and outlook

Luke Sandilands, Éric Côté, and Joanne Zwinkels
NRC Metrology, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Session 5: LED Lighting for Specialized, Industrial or Commercial Applications

5.1 Specifying LED colors for horticultural lighting

Ian Ashdown
SunTracker Technologies, Victoria, BC, Canada

5.2 Comparison of LM-85 LED measurement techniques

Jeff Hulett
Vektrex, San Diego, California, USA

5.3 Solid-state lighting measurement activities at the National Research Council of Canada

Amin Rasoulof, William Neil, Éric Côté, and Arnold Gaertner
NRC Metrology, Ottawa, ON, Canada

5.4 Overcoming metamerism when calibrating colorimeters used for display measurement

Greg McKee
Labsphere Inc., North Sutton, NH, USA

Session 6: Health and Well-Being Responses to Light and their Measurement

6.1 Experimental evaluation of optical filters for reduction of blue light hazard and circadian stimulus

William J. Mills, III, Kevin B. Martin, Justin L. Cathey, and Ken Tsui
Northern Illinois University, USA

6.2 Evaluating the circadian experience of supportive living residents

Sandy Byers, D. Hetrick, J. Kline, D. Northcutt, Paul Ward, D. Olguin, E. Schumacher, E. Valdivia, and K. van den Wymelenberg
University of Oregon, USA

6.3 Ameliorations in both mood and subjective sleep following light: an open-label light therapy intervention study

Ashley Nixon¹, M. Strick², N. Glozier³, K-L Fields³, R. Wallis³, D. Biddle³, C.Chan³, I. Hickie³, J. De Koninck¹, and R. Robillard¹¹The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, affiliated with University of Ottawa, Canada
²The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa
³Clinical Research Unit, Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, AU

6.4 Health and well-being responses to daylighting in northern buildings

Mojtaba Parsaee¹, Claude M.H. Demers¹, Marc Hébert², Jean-François Lalonde³, and André Potvin¹¹GRAP, École d’Architecture, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
²CERVO Brain Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval
³Computer Vision and System Lab, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval

Session 7: Interior and Exterior Lighting

7.1 Photobiological lighting adaptation scenarios for healthy adaptive buildings

7.2 Temporal light modulation: Research progresses, but questions remain

Jennifer A. Veitch
NRC Construction, Ottawa, ON, Canada

7.3 An open service software solution for data acquisition, management and analysis for spectrometric measurements

Kevin B. Martin, William J. Mills III, and Matthew Bikun
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, USA

Session 8: Vision and Colour

8.1 Color Discrimination

Tony Esposito
Lighting Research Solutions LLC, Boston, MA, USA

8.2 Quantifying perceived chroma and hue changes of object colors in lighting due to Hunt Effect

Yuki Kawashima and Yoshi Ohno
NIST, Gaithersburg, USA

8.3 Assessing color disagreement due to diversity in spectral sensitivity functions

Lorne Whitehead¹ and Michael Royer²¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
²Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Portland, OR, USA

8.4 Vision experiment on perception of correlated color temperature

Yoshi Ohno¹ and Semin Oh²¹NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
²Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea

8.5 Color vision challenges in perceptual displays for automobiles

Jeremie Gerhardt, Hyunjin Yoo, Tara Akhavan, and Hossein Ziaei Nafchi
IRYStec Software, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada

8.6 Photopic and mesopic visual resolution in Parkinson’s disease patients with and without freezing of gait

Jeffery K. Hovis¹, Mosaad. Alhassan² and Quincy. J. Almeida³¹School of Optometry & vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
²Dept of Optometry & Vision Science, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³Sun Life Financial Movement Disorders Research and Rehabilitation Center, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada