Frontiers in Atmospheric Chemistry Seminar Series
About the Series
The Frontiers in Atmospheric Chemistry Seminar Series is a high profile virtual seminar series to be held over the 2020-21 academic year. Speakers will be a mix of junior and senior researchers from US/Canada. Seminars will be presented “live” on Zoom webinars on Fridays at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern. Presenters are encouraged to present unpublished results; as a result recordings or transcripts of talks will not be made available following the webinar. This series was organized across multiple institutions and anyone in the atmospheric chemistry community is welcome to attend the webinars. Please sign up to the email list if you are interested in receiving announcements. Note that webinar registration is unique for each speaker; emails with registration information are sent on Mondays. Though nothing can replace in-person interactions, in this unusual year we hope that this seminar series will provide a broad platform for individuals to share scientific results.
Seminar Schedule
Spring 2021 Schedule
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29 | Climate change, air pollution, and public health impacts: Past, present, and future | Susan Anenberg (George Washington University) | Colette Heald (MIT) |
| Feb 5 | Organic reactions within aqueous atmospheric particulate matter | Melissa Galloway (Lafayette College) | Allison Steiner (University of Michigan) |
| Feb 12 | It takes two to CCN! The role of gas-phase chemistry in the growth of atmospheric droplets | Akua Asa-Awuku (University of Maryland) | Chris Cappa (UC Davis) |
| Feb 19 | Trends in wildfires and agricultural fires over different timescales: Implications for radiative forcing and air quality | Loretta Mickley (Harvard University) | Jen Murphy (University of Toronto) |
| Feb 26 | Mapping urban emissions with neighborhood resolution | Ron Cohen (UC Berkeley) | Julie Fry (Reed College) |
| Mar 5 | Global distribution of "forever" chemicals: Importance of atmospheric production and policy | Cora Young (York University) | Colette Heald (MIT) |
| Mar 12 | Formation and evolution of organic aerosol: from laboratory fires to wildfire plumes | Shantanu Jathar (Colorado State University) | Jesse Kroll (MIT) |
| Mar 19 | Multiphase Oxidation Chemistry: From East Asian Haze to Wildfires to Indoor Environments | Jon Abbatt (University of Toronto) | Delphine Farmer (Colorado State University) |
| Mar 26 | The impact of dust, smoke, and chemical aging on aerosol biogeochemical cycles in tropical ecosystems | Cassie Gaston (University of Miami) | Chris Cappa (UC Davis) |
| Apr 2 | Volatile organic compounds in western US wildfire smoke | Lu Hu (University of Montana) | Jen Murphy (University of Toronto) |
| Apr 9 | Relevance of organic compounds in air for public health in the United States | Havala Pye (EPA) | Julie Fry (Reed College) |
| Apr 16 | TBD | Róisín Commane (Columbia University) | Jesse Kroll (MIT) |
Series Hosts
Chris Cappa
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Delphine Farmer
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Juliane Fry
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
Colette Heald
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Jesse Kroll
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Professor of Chemical Engineering
Jennifer Murphy
Professor of Chemistry
Allison Steiner
Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Music
FACSS original music is composed and performed by Chris Cappa and Dave Michalak
Spring 2021: Winter Sunrise
Fall 2020: Autumn Fall's (coming soon)
Spring 2021 Classes
Reed College: Chem 405, Atmospheric Chemistry Seminar, half-unit conference course; instructor: Juliane Fry
One-half course for one semester. In conjunction with a planned cross-institutional virtual speaker series, which will feature weekly seminars spanning the cutting-edge topics in atmospheric chemistry research, students in this course will meet weekly to discuss a paper from the primary literature related to the seminar. The course will deepen students’ understanding of the frontiers of atmospheric chemistry, while we learn to evaluate scholarship, pose questions, and participate in scientific discourse.