Congratulations to all presenters at the Environmental Chemistry Symposium. We had a great keynote from Joel Thornton and a great day of presentations and questions. Congrats to Niki and Will for great talks!
Great day to stare at the sun
Niki is back at observing greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) by direct-sun FTIR spectroscopy. This photo was during the overpass of the NASA OCO-2 satellite today. Spring in interior Alaska is always a great day to stare at the sun.
Adios AMIGGOS
For the past two and a half months, we have been measuring greenhouse gases around Fairbanks in the AMIGGO campaign. This is Niki Jacob’s project, and we had great collaboration with Qiansi Tu and Harrison Parker in Fairbanks and Dubey, Frank, and Thomas from afar. It was great also to work with Greg Osterman of JPL, the OCO-2 validation team leader on making coincident observations of that satellite’s measurements with our ground-based observations. It has been great to get out and about in the area and watch the summer transition into fall. I leave you with a photo of Denali on the way down to the Nenana site today.
A good day, AMIGGOs
After one of the rainiest summers, we’ve gotten some clear skies, and on Monday, August 29, we were on the ground at Poker Flat for an OCO-2 satellite overpass. We were measuring greenhouse gases from the bottom up, and OCO-2 measures from space. This photo is from when OCO-2 was looking down on us.
AMIGGO Campaign
Hola AMIGGOs-
We are running the Arctic Mobile Infrared Greenhouse Gas Observations (AMIGGO) campaign around Fairbanks, Alaska. The campaign is studying Arctic greenhouse gas (CO2 and methane) exchange by using Bruker EM27/Sun Fourier Transform Spectrometers. Our partners, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have brought two EM27 spectrometers to the Fairbanks area, and we are deploying them in upwind/downwind configurations to study fluxes of these gases. The campaign is in August and September, 2016. You can follow the campaign at the website below:
https://ozone.iarc.uaf.edu/amiggo/FrontPage
Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award
I was honored to be selected as the College’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor and Advisor for 2015-16. This is a great honor. I feel lucky to have worked with students and to have helped them along their educational path.
Congrats to KC!
KC successfully defended his M.S. thesis today. He had a nice presentation that was well attended. The audience had a lot of good questions, which KC handled well. Congrats to KC on the oral defense!
2016 E-Chem Symposium a Success
Congratulations to all participants in the 2016 Environmental Chemistry Symposium. Our group had five talks, which went great, and Niki won the “Best Questions from the Audience Award”. Congrats to all and see you next year.
Congrats to Justine — MS Thesis Defended
Justine successfully defended her thesis and has the thesis signed by committee and chair and on to the Dean. Way to go Justine!
OBuoy-8 DOAS rides again
Obuoy-8’s DOAS was recovered from the Arctic Ocean by an icebreaker and we got it back in lab and refurbished it. It will be deployed this summer and will again measure reactive halogens above the frozen Arctic Ocean. Ride on, OB8.