MGU Symposium 2016

Bringing together graduate and undergraduate students from the disciplines of earth, oceanic, atmospheric, and space sciences, the Michigan Geophysical Union (MGU) symposium, held on central campus at U of M, was a success again in 2016! Hosted by the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP) department, this 13th annual symposium fosters collaboration and works to generate interest among the various departments. This year, poster keyword bingo was played to further discussion among students from different programs and fields.

Graduate students Becky Craig and Amy Bondy presented posters at the symposium, as did undergraduate students Sydney Niles and Peter Tirella, all shown in the photos below with their posters. Congratulations to Becky for winning 2nd place in the chemistry section of the poster competition!

Amy Bondy presents on her latest manuscript, sea spray aerosol (SSA).

Sydney Niles presents on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) structure, which she also took to the ACS national meeting this spring.

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Peter Tirella presents his first-ever poster on surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).

Becky Craig presents research on her latest publication, pH of aerosol single particles.

The Mobile Lab is Here!

A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Ault and I traveled to Fenton, Michigan to pick up our new Mobile Lab trailer. The trailer is 8.5 ft x 20 ft long and will allow us to embark on field campaigns with all of our instrumentation!

The first field study planned with the mobile lab will be to the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) this July. Next winter, another field study to Kalamazoo, Michigan is planned.

Some of the instrumentation that will be aboard include:

Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS)

Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer (CIMS)

Ambient Ion Monitor- Ion Chromatograph (AIM-IC)

Dr. Andrew Ault (above) and Ryan Cook (below) in front of the brand new trailer!

In addition to plenty of room for our instruments, the trailer also has a large amount of storage!

We are looking forward to the currently planned field studies as well as future deployments of our mobile lab. This unique setup enables us to study atmospheric chemistry from a much different angle!