Molina Symposium

On May 12, 2014, Prof. Andrew Ault attended the Molina Symposium in La Jolla, CA to honor Professor Mario Molina. Molina is a celebrated chemist and Nobel Prize recipient; he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 along with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for their discovery of the role of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) in ozone depletion. This symposium took place at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego since Molina moved to UCSD in 2005 from MIT to research the chemical properties of atmospheric particles and the effect of these particles on clouds and climate. At this symposium, Dr. Ault presented a poster concerning the spectroscopic and microscopic analysis of particles from SOAS.

 

Picture of Dr. Ault showing the work of grad student Amy Bondy on particle analysis from the SOAS campaign.