Tag: Atmospheric Chemistry and Carbon

It’s been three months since Zhanqing Li and his team released their groundbreaking study on air pollution, and they’re still feeling the effects. Sitting in his corner office at ESSIC, Li excitedly Googles the terms “Li,” “pollution,” and “precipitation,” and sits back as the screen regurgitates millions of related links. Almost all of them are tied to his study, and as he scrolls down the page his own name flashes in front of him over and over again. The same search in …

Zhanqing Li gave an invited talk at the 30th American Association for Aerosol Research conference in Orlando, FL, October 3-7, on the long-term impact of aerosols on cloud and precipitation….

James Farquhar has been awarded a 2012 Gledden Visiting Senior Fellowship (http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/gledden-fellows) with the Centre for Microscopy Characterisation and Analysis at the University of Western Australia, Crawley (near Perth), Western Australia for his distinguished research record….

Researcher: Eugenia Kalnay
Grant Sponsor: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Amount: $102,597
Grant Study: “An Integrated Carbon Data Assimilation System to Advance Understanding and Predictions of the Carbon Cycle.”

Researcher: Zhanqing Li
Grant Sponsor: NSF
Amount: $144,656
Grant Study: “Converting AOT to CCN for Studying Global Impact of Aerosols on Cloud and Precipitation.”…

  Ross Salawitch and Russell Dickerson were mentioned and/or quoted in SiFy (March 31), The Washington Examiner (March 28), The Washington Post (March 23), PhysOrg and TG Daily (March 21) in articles on the movement of airborne radioactive materials released by the Fukushima Daiichi power station, Japan.  …

Researcher: Russell Dickerson
Grant Sponsor: STMD-Maryland Department of the Environment
Amount: $365,000
Grant Study: “Air Pollution in Maryland – RAMMPP FY2011”  …

Raghu Murtugudde was an invited Panelist for the Adaptation and Mitigation: The Role of Climate Services panel at the 2010 American Meteorologist Society (AMS) Public-Private Partnership Forum, held at the University of California Washington Center, April 6….

Russell Dickerson  was quoted in the Washington Post, February 10, in an article on snow cream desserts, explaining that the first few inches of falling snow capture most of the pollutants in the air, and any snow falling after that should be clean….

James Farquhar was quoted in ScienceNews, November 7, in an article on bioturbation….