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GROUP NEWS
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October 2009:
- Duncan Fairlie successfully defends his Ph.D.
- Noelle Selin accepts faculty position at MIT in the Engineering Systems Department
September 2009:
- Lin Zhang successfully defends his Ph.D.
- Rui Sun (Beijing Normal U.) joins the group as visiting fellow for 10 months
August 2009:
- Helen Amos and Patrick Kim join the group as 1st-year EPS graduate students
- Yaping Xiao (Ph.D. 2007) joins AER
July 2009:
- Anne Laerke Sorensen returns to U. Aarhus after spending a year as visiting student
- Monika Kopacz defends her Ph.D., is off to Princeton to postdoc with Denise Mauzerall
- Dominick Spracklen (postdoc 2005-2006), Loretta Mickley, and Jennifer Logan are
in the news
for their work on future wildfires and air quality in the western United States.
Listen to Dominick on the BBC, beginning around
minute 6.
June 2009:
- Isabelle Bey (postdoc and research associate 1997-2001) is appointed Executive Director of the
Center for Climate Systems Modeling at ETH Zurich
- Paul Palmer (postdoc and research associate 1999-2005) is promoted to full professor with tenure at
U. Edinburgh
- Dylan Jones (postdoc and research associate 2001-2004) receives tenure at U. Toronto
May 2009:
- Geert Vinken (KNMI) joins the group as visiting graduate student.
- Easan Drury successfully defends his Ph.D.! Easan is now a postdoc at NREL.
- Richard Ramaroson (ONERA) joins the group as Visiting Scientist.
April 2009:
February 2009:
January 2009:
- Research Associate Elsie Sunderland receives the highest
level EPA Scientific and Technological Award for her
ocean mercury modeling work. More
info.
- Shiliang Wu (Ph.D. 2007) starts as assistant professor at Michigan Tech
- Solene Turquety (postdoc 2004-2005) appointed Maitre de Conferences at Universite de Paris VI
November 2008:
October 2008:
- Harvard Crimson article on EPA
Graduate Fellowship to graduate student Eric Leibensperger
- Collection of Supplemental Problems for Introduction to
Atmospheric Chemistry posted by Daniel Jacob on his education web
site
September 2008:
- Video of Daniel Jacob's
keynote presentation at the IGAC conference
- Christopher Pickett-Heaps joins group as postdoc; Christopher obtained his Ph.D. at LSCE with
Peter Rayner
- Matthew Alvarado joins the group as a post-doc with Jennifer Logan; Matt obtained
his Ph.D. at MIT with Ron Prinn
- Eloise Marais, Qiaoqiao Wang, Kevin Wecht join the group as graduate students
- Qinbin Li starts faculty position at UCLA
- Shiliang Wu accepts faculty position at Michigan Tech
- Jenny Fisher and Justin Parrella pass their PhD qualifying exams (Moeko Yoshitomi passed hers
in June)
July 2008:
- News video from the ARCTAS summer deployment
- Ray Nassar left for a postdoc at the Centre for Global Change Science at the University of Toronto
- Junhua Liu joined the group as a post-doc with Jennifer Logan. Junhua obtained her
Ph.D. at Duke University with Tom Crowley
June 2008:
- Yuxuan Wang left for a faculty position at Tsinghua U.
- Marielle Saunois, graduate student from the Laboratoire d'Aerologie in Toulouse, is visiting until August to work
on interpretation of data from the AMMA aircraft campaign in West Africa
- Anne Laerke Sorensen, graduate student from U. Copenhagen, arrived June 10 for a year to work on mercury modeling
- Daniel Jacobson, Ben Miller, Meghan Purdy will be working this summer as undergraduate research
assistants
- Peter Zoogman is coming back as a 2nd-year graduate student after a 1-year leave of absence.
March 2008:
- Jinqiu Mao joins the group a postdoc; Jingqiu got his Ph.D. from Penn State working with Bill Brune.
- Amos Tai and Xiaolu Yu join the group as 1st-year graduate students.
December 2007:
- Dylan Millet leaves for assistant professor position at U. Minnesota
- May Fu leaves for assistant professor position at Hong Kong Polytechnic U.
- Folkert Boersma leaves for research scientist position at KNMI - I can't believe it, they're all
leaving!
- Figure 10 of Selin et al. [2007]
shows up as "Image of the week" on the front page of the AGU web site (moral of the story: figure
cosmetology is important!)
- December 13: group reunion and dinner at Little Joe's restaurant in San Francisco
during AGU with Daniel Jacob, Rokjin Park, May Fu, Denise Mauzerall,
Martin Schultz, Yuhang Wang, Yang Liu, Jun Wang, Jingqiu Mao, Hongyu
Liu, Chris Holmes, Lin Zhang, Maria Val Martin, Ray Nassar, Fok-Yan
Leung
November 2007: Noelle Selin leaves for postdoc at MIT
September 2007: Maria Val Martin joins group as
postdoc with Jennifer logan
August 2007: Kevin Wecht joins group as research assistant
July 2007: Dylan Millet (postdoc
2005-2007) appointed assistant professor at University of Minnesota
July 2007: Jun Wang (postdoc
2005-2007) appointed assistant professor at University of Nebraska
July 2007: Lee Murray and Bess Sturges join group as graduate
students
April 2007: Randall Martin (Ph.D. 2002) awarded tenure at
Dalhousie University
January 2007: Colette Heald (Ph.D. 2005) featured in IGBP Newsletter Profile of a
Scientist
January 2007: Rokjin Park (postdoc and research associate
2001-2007)appointed assistant professor at
Seoul National University
December 2006: Group research featured in Harvard University
Gazette
November 2006: Colette Heald (Ph.D. 2005) receives Best Paper Award and Dominick Spracklen receives Best Poster Award
at the 2nd International Young
Scientists' Global Change Conference, Beijing, China.
September 2006: Group research featured in NASA/JPL News Release
August 2006: Group research featured in NASA Earth System Science
highlight
May 2006: Lyatt Jaegle (postdoc and research
associate 1996-2000) receives tenure at
University of Washington
March 2006: Denise L. Mauzerall (Ph.D. 1996) receives tenure at Princeton and Yuhang Wang (Ph.D. 1997) receives tenure
at Georgia Tech
December 2005: Daniel J. Jacob ranked 16th "hottest researcher" by Thomson
Scientific
Aug. 31, 2005: Arlene M. Fiore (Ph.D. 2003) receives the Holton Junior Scientist Award of the
American Geophysical Union for "outstanding research contributions by a junior atmospheric
scientist within three years of her PhD"
March 13, 2005: Group
activities are featured in the Cover Story of USA Today
Feb. 19, 2005: Loretta Mickley presentation at 2005 AAAS
meeting is named "noteworthy" by Washington Post.
December 2004: Jacob et al. [2003] is selected as
"fast-breaking paper in geosciences" by the Institute for Scientific Information
December 2004: Group activities
are featured on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour
 Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group Home Page
http://www-as.harvard.edu/chemistry/trop/news.html
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