I’m currently at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, a conference of over 24,000 geo-scientists in San Francisco. The presidential forum this year was delivered by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla Motors and chairman of SolarCity. The queue to his talk was massive, winding around the building many times over, and was… More Elon Musk in conversation
I recently attended the annual conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, which was held this year in Minneapolis. Having been based in Europe until this summer I hadn’t attended this meeting before. There were many interesting sessions on atmospheric aerosols, aerosol nucleation and growth and instrumentation that were directly relevant to my research.… More AAAR 2015
Ilona Riipinen, associate professor at Stockholm University, researches aerosols and their interactions with clouds, climate and human health. I had the pleasure of working with her on the CLOUD collaboration during my doctoral studies. She recently gave this TEDx talk about how the health effects of aerosols are key to climate action.
I’m currently attending a conference on Aerosol Research in Minneapolis. For me and many others, it kicked off this evening with a workshop on the subject of proposal writing, specifically aimed at young researchers. I’ll summarize briefly what I took away from it here (with full caveats that this may differ from what anyone else took… More Proposal Writing for Young Investigators
I mentioned in a previous post that over half of the aerosols in the atmosphere with the ability to act as cloud condensation nuclei (the seeds on which clouds form) are formed directly in the atmosphere from the gas phase in a process called nucleation. Here I will explain a bit about how that occurs. Individual… More Aerosol Nucleation
My main motivation in studying aerosols is that we need to understand them better in order to improve our understanding of climate change. Aerosols scatter sunlight (that’s why they can make the air look hazy). Aerosols also are needed for clouds to form, and the amount, size and composition of the aerosols can affect the properties… More Aerosols and Climate
Aerosols are small solid or liquid particles suspended in a gas. They enter our atmosphere from both natural and anthropogenic sources and are pretty ubiquitous. Aerosols can make the air look hazy when you look over a mountain range or a polluted city by scattering light. They’re the reason you can see your breath on… More An Introduction to Aerosols