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Happy 2024!!!

Happy New Year! 2023 was an incredibly productive and exciting year for the Smith group. We participated in multiple field campaigns this year. The EPCAPE field campaign took place in the spring. We spent two months in La Jolla, collecting data on coastal aerosols. The Brake and Tire wear project had a week-long stint at Read More…

2023 Update

Happy 2023 everyone! While 2022 was a busy year for us, it looks like 2023 will be even more eventful. First off, we had two more students graduate from the lab. Hayley Glicker and Dianna Myers both successfully defended on June 13th. Hayley has gone on to teach at Chadwick High School in LA and Read More…

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…