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Group members Eric and Stephen, as well as group alum Shira, travelled to CSC to present their work. Cora presented work from group members, including Daniel, Jessica, Alessia, Eric, and Shira.
Congratulations to Eric for winning a best student poster award for his presentation!
Eric presents his (award-winning) poster at CSC 2023.
Stephen gives his talk at CSC 2023.
Welcome to new graduate students, Nasrin and Na-Yung, as well as new undergraduate students, Arman and Sadeya. They will all be gearing up quickly to participate in the upcoming THE CIX campaign. We are excited to have all of you as part of the team!
We bid farewell to postdoctoral researcher, Shira, as she embarks on a few well-deserved months off before starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. We are sad to see her go, but excited to see her flourish in her new role!
We also welcome new graduate student, Mayré, to the team. We are excited to have her as part of the group!
Members of the group travelled to Calgary earlier this month to present their work at the CCCE.
Alessia presented a poster describing our affordable off-grid precipitation samplers. Shira and Jessica both gave presentations about atmospheric acids collected with the ambient ion monitor-ion chromatograph-mass spec. Shira also presented a poster about leaching of PFAS from laboratory materials. Cora gave a keynote talk on the atmospheric sources and fate of atmospheric acids and officially received her early career research award from the Environment Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
Alessia presents her poster.
Shira presents her poster.
Jessica gives her presentation.
Cora received the emerging researcher award from the Environment Division of the Chemical Institute of Chemistry.
Two papers led by postdoctoral researcher Ye Tao were recently published.
High time-resolution measurements of HCl are infrequently reported, but are critical to our understanding of the atmospheric chlorine budget.
Measurements from the CalNex campaign in Los Angeles and Bakersfield, California were published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (link to paper). These allowed us to examine gas-particle partitioning of the HCl/Cl- system.
Measurements from the HaliFAQS campaign in Halifax, Nova Scotia were published in ACS Earth & Space Chemistry (link to paper). These allowed us to develop a new approach to constraining aerosol pH.
Instrument collecting high time-resolution HCl data at the HaliFAQS campaign.
Our team is part of the Whales Initiative, in which we are trying to better understand contaminant sources to the habitats of at-risk whale populations. In fall of 2021, we set up samplers to understand atmospheric deposition of PFAS into the habitats of the St. Lawrence beluga whales (in Tadoussac, QC) and the Salish Sea killer whales (on Saturna Island, BC).
Sampling site in Tadoussac, QC
Sampling site and team (Cora, Shira, Trevor) on Saturna Island, BC
Cora was awarded the 2022 CIC Environment Division Early Career Research Award (announcement here). The award belongs to the whole team and reflects their outstanding efforts.
The fantastic team!
The first in person conference experience for our team since pre-pandemic times was had by Lisa. She attended the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans to present her analysis of data from the Twin Otter aircraft during the FIREX-AQ campaign.
Lisa presenting her poster at the AGU Fall Meeting.
Teles successfully defended his PhD thesis exploring atmospheric reactive chlorine on Nov 30. Congratulations!
The newly-minted Dr. Furlani after his defense.
Masks off briefly for this photo at the celebration of Dr. Furlani!
Cora, Daniel, and Jessica attended the Fluoros Global 2021 meeting virtually earlier this month.
Cora presented an invited talk on the global distribution and transport of PFAS, Jessica presented a poster on using wastewater treatment plant influent measurements to identify PFAS sources, and Daniel presented a poster on PFAS measurements from an ice core.
Jessica also won a Fluoros 2021 ACS Environmental Poster Award. Congratulations!
Jessica presents her award-winning poster during the awards session at Fluoros Global 2021.
