Written by: Julia Niehoff, CAICE 2022 SURP Fellow “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a …
The functionally linked features of aerosol formation and composition
Written by: Scott McInerney undergraduate @ University of Wisconsin-Madison Aerosol formation is directly linked to particle properties such as size and composition. CAICE observes the implications this has on atmospheric …
We caught bacteria from the most pristine air on earth to help solve a climate modeling mystery
Written by: Kathryn Moore, Colorado State University; Jun Uetake, Colorado State University, and Thomas Hill, Colorado State University The Southern Ocean is exceptionally cloudy. But climate models over-predict the amount …
CAICE Summer Undergraduate Research Applications NOW OPEN!
The opportunity to bring interested undergraduates into CAICE research projects is one of the most exciting times of the year here at CAICE. Every summer, students from across the country …
Where The Air Meets the Sea
Written By: Sarah Amiri Walking in to the H-Lab at Scripps is like walking in to an enormous wooden spacecraft. With a flume stretched across the floorplan filled with thousands …
Down the Tube: A Two-Part Story of Characterizing Marine VOCs
Written By: Delaney Kilgour (Upper Section) & Margaux R.E. Winter (Lower Section) When you roll down your car windows after a long drive to the beach, what are your first …
Sizing Up the Situation
If you’ve never read the whimsically titled Tale of Two Blooms paper that covered key findings from the IMPACTS (Investigation in Marine PArticle Chemistry and Transfer Science) wave flume campaign …
Shedding Light on the Effects of Biology and Organic Matter in the Ocean
Living near the ocean for almost my entire life, I grew up in a coastal town called Quy Nhon in Vietnam and moved to San Diego almost 10 years ago. …
Those Pesky but Important Ice Nucleating Particles — Honest, It Is Not an Obsession
This ain’t my first rodeo, as they say, but I love it just the same and I still have so much to learn. That sums up my feelings about SeaSCAPE. …
Acidic Aerosols and Supporting Scientists: A Tale of Two Atmospheres
Some of my happiest memories are of walking on the beach with my family. There is something so relaxing about being by the vast ocean and smelling the salty air. …