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 …
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 …
DNA in the Clouds
As a third year graduate student in a biochemistry lab, I don’t often get experiences like this. A giant wave-generating tank is novel to me and quite a bit different …
Approaching the Finish Line…
Although it was a ton of hard work, I have enjoyed being part of the CAICE (Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment) IMPACTS (Investigation into Marine Particle …
Collaboration and teamwork are a key to great discoveries
Dozens of instruments from many universities, this is what it takes to do real science! Nowadays, great discoveries are not possible within one laboratory working in isolation. Collaborations of research …
Just the beginning in our quest to understand complex chemistry impacts on climate……
As I sit here on Thanksgiving morning thinking of all I am thankful for, I think of many things but the CAICE intensive, just completed a little more than one …