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…

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…

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…

Hello world … it’s the last week of summer break and we are well past due for an update on things going on in the UA Lab! Papers During the winter and spring we had a flurry of published papers by members of the group: Postdoc Nanna Myllys, our resident molecular modeler, published a paper Read More…

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…

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…

Classes ended a month ago and now we have warm days and a more relaxed schedule. This doesn’t mean things have slowed down, however. Two papers from the group were recently accepted for publication in an upcoming special issue of Aerosol Science and Technology that will honor Pete McMurry. For those of you who don’t know Read More…

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…

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…

Jim and Hayley just returned from a teaching and research visit to the Federal University of Western Pará in Santarem, Brazil. We have been sampling ultrafine particles in the rainforest here for the past year. Here is a slideshow with some highlights from the visit. Among other things, we held a short course on “Introduction to Read More…