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 …
A Deep Dive
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 …
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 …
Bubbles and Aerosol Particles in the Hydraulics Lab
The Hydraulics Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is probably one of the best places on the Earth to study bubbles and aerosols. When I joined CAICE in 2014, my …
Head in the Clouds
As an incoming graduate student working on my first independent project, I had no idea what to expect from the CAICE IMPACTS chemistry intensive. I quickly found out that this …
The study of ocean – atmosphere interactions
When waves crash and underwater bubbles burst at the surface, tiny particles are ejected from the ocean into the atmosphere. As the water evaporates away, a particle is left behind …