Re-emerging from the pandemic fog

It’s been quite a while since I the UA Group blog has been updated and quite a few things have happened recently, so here’s a quick update on events of the past year. Graduates! The UA Group now has minted 2 PhDs! In January 2021, Danielle Draper successfully defended her thesis entitled Understanding NO3 oxidation Read More…

Aerosol Dynamics Workshop!

The UA Group hosted an AirUCI workshop on Aerosol Dynamics, taught by Pete McMurry. The workshop took place over 3 days at the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve near Idyllwild, CA. During the workshop the group learned how to use a sectional code for calculating the time-dependent evolution of an aerosol particle size distribution. It Read More…

Summer 2018

It’s time for an update on research and group life! For random pics posted from the group, please see our photo page. First, Deanna Myers joined the group at the start of the summer! Deanna is a graduate of Western Washington Univ. Deanna will be studying the uptake of water into atmospheric nanoparticles. We also Read More…

New article explores influences on new particle formation

A new article was just published by the group, with lead-author Mike Lawler and collaborators at the University of Helsinki,  in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.  The article explores the sources that influence the growth of newly formed atmospheric particles over the remote boreal forest. Measurements of nanoparticle composition made in Hyytiälä, Finland during the 2014 Read More…

Wrapping up 2017 …

Happy New Year everyone! It seems the fall has flown by. Here are some of the highlights for the Ultrafine Aerosol Group. At the end of the summer we said farewell to our awesome summer research undergrads with a bonfire and dinner on the beach. During the summer, Irmak Sengur (senior, UCI Chemistry) worked with Read More…

Danielle is awarded a GROW grant!

Danielle Draper, a third-year graduate student in the group, was just awarded a Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant from the National Science Foundation. GROW provides current awardees of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program travel funding for international research collaboration. She will use her GROW funds to collaborate with Theo Kurten and colleagues at Read More…