What do you see when you look out over the Pacific Ocean? One time, I saw a colorful sunset with promise of a green flash. Another time, I saw a …
SeaSCAPE Summer Experiment Kicks Off!
The SeaSCAPE (Sea Spray Chemistry And Particle Evolution) 2019 is ramping up! At the Hydraulics Laboratory at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NSF CAICE researchers are working hard …
Let’s get it started!
SeaSCAPE (Sea Spray Chemistry And Particle Evolution) 2019 is ramping up this week! As you look around the Hydraulics Laboratory “H-Lab” at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, you …
Where the circle of life meets the colors of the wind
Like many people, I grew up watching Disney animated movies. But now as a Ph.D. student who studies connections between ocean and atmospheric chemistry, these childhood ideas are much more …
Particles for Days
Aerosols influence the climate and the environment directly by interacting with incoming and outgoing radiation and indirectly by acting as cloud seeds. Because of their influence on climate, it is …
Is the Ocean Healthy? Let’s Sniff it to Find Out!
This summer I have been fortunate to be a part of the CAICE summer experiment at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. My mentor, Jon Sauer, and I have been using …
Does Aerosol Size Matter?
The three of us, Lee, James, and Young, have been fortunate enough to participate in research for the first time in our undergraduate careers, down at the SIO Hydraulics lab …
A New Beginning
As I made my way back to California from Washington, D.C., I wondered how the next chapter of my life would unfold. Although I had been a research intern for …
Contamination Conundrum
I am an incoming first year PhD student in the Prather research lab. My project for this summer isn’t currently tied to what is happening with the main wave channel …
A Timely CAICE Summer Experiment
Summers are always an incredibly exciting time for all of us in the NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE) at UC San Diego. Every June, …