News:

2008

JULY - NOVEMBER

- Sang Rin Lee and Charles Stanier attended the American Association of Aerosol Research Conference, presenting on model development of PEASM (Personal Exposure Aerosol Screening Model) and new particle formation measurements at West Branch Iowa.

- Selected group members will be attending the American Geophysical Union meeting (December) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineering 100th Anniversary Meeting (November).

APR - JUNE

- The flood of 2008 hit us over the summer of 2008, severely flooding the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories.

- We have won a competition for the University of Iowa base grant program under the Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC). Our program is entitled IMCANS: Iowa's Multiscale Carbon and Nitrogen Studies. More details and project website to come soon. Participants are Thanos Papanicolaou (co-director), Greg Carmichael, and Tom Moorman of the USDA National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames.

- Syed Ismail from NASA Langley will have a team at the NOAA tall tower in West Branch Iowa (WBI) testing the NASA DIAL-LIDAR for vertically resolved CO2 measurements. University of Iowa researchers will be adding aerosol LIDAR and aerosol size distribution measurements.

- Stanier, invited talk at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Environmental Molecular Sciences Division) on New Particle Formation and Growth.

- Our group is part of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology REU program at the University of Iowa. Kyle Lilly from Luther College is the REU student working in our group.

- Very successful final presentations in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 52:236 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Students from the Grassian, Carmichael, O'Shaughnessey, Stanier, and Eichinger groups.

- Award winning posters at the Research Open House by with lead authors Adam Beranek-Collins on design and testing of automated SO2 sampling systems for the tall tower, the Jay Raife on Personal Exposure Aerosol Screening Model (PEASM), and Development of Emission Factors from Mexico City by Alicia Pettibone. Adam's won the Excellence in Undergraduate Research award from the CBE Department, and Alicia's won the best CGRER poster competition.

- Attended Health Effects Institute (HEI) annual conference.

JAN - MAR

- Paper on parameterization of aerosol semivolatility from smog chamber experiments published in AE.

2007 (JULY - DEC)

- Dec - Sang-Rin Lee joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher working on a personal exposure screening model for air toxics and size-resolved ultrafine particles from urban vehicles. See more in the people section.

- Dec - Campbell was at AGU with a talk on Carbonyl Sulfide's link to the Carbon Cycle.

- Dec - Stanier won the Health Effect Institute's Walter A. Rosenblith's New Investigator Award.

- Nov - AICHE meeting in Salt Lake City. In addition to the oral presentations in CO2 and atmospheric aerosols, we held a very successful panel discussion for undergraduate students on Environmental Careers for Chemical Engineers. This is part of the Career Workshops held on Saturday Nov 3 afternoon as part of the student conference.

- AAAR Meeting in Reno. Stanier and Alicia Pettibone attended. Contact Alicia for her presentation on number-based emission factors from Mexico City.

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