Project

Students will write a paper and give a 15-minute presentation (12-minute talk, 3 minutes for questions) during the last week of class. A list of possible topics is included below, or students can pick a topic of his or her own choosing. The paper should be at least 5 pages long (but no more than 10 pages) using ~1.5 line spacing and include at least 10 references, as well as figures to illustrate your points. The paper is worth 25% of your total grade for the class. The presentation is not part of your project grade, but will factor into your participation grade. Participation points will be given both on your presentation effort and questions you ask during other students' presentations. This is meant to give you practice at communicating your work, in a low pressure, supportive environment. Papers (hardcopies only please) are due on Friday, June 3.

Air pollution in mega-cities
Air pollution and health
Intercontinental transport of pollutants
Geoengineeing
Biogenic emissions of VOCs
Secondary Organic Aerosol formation
Composition of polar stratospheric clouds
Biomass burning, and its effect on aerosols/ozone in tropical regions
Halogen chemistry in the marine boundary layer
Ozone depletion events in the arctic boundary layer
Is the global oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere changing?
Satellite observations of tropospheric or stratospheric composition
Lightning and the global NOx budget
Recent trends in CH4
Glacial-interglacial changes in CH4
Planetary photochemistry
Effects of aerosols on tropospheric ozone
Cloud chemistry
Formation of the stratospheric ozone layer in Earth's early atmosphere (~2 billion years ago)
Mesospheric clouds
Climate change - polar ozone depletion feedbacks
Volcanoes and atmospheric chemistry
The 2002 Antarctic ozone hole
Sources of lead
The effects of global warming on the recovery of the stratospheric ozone
Composition of polar stratospheric clouds
Biogenic emissions of VOCs: past and future
Sources and chemistry of DMS
New insights in heterogeneous and multiphase (cloud) chemistry

Presentation schedule:

Wednesday, May 25: Luke Madaus, Jen DeHart, Gallia Painter, Hannah Barnes, Megan Smith

Wednesday, June 1: Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker, Xiaoming Shi, Chen Zhang, Angel Adames-Correliza, Colin Clark, Hansi Singh

Friday, June 3: Elizabeth Maroon, Nathan Steiger, Nick Siler, Andy Berner, Daniel McCoy



' Home Syllabus (.pdf) Problem Sets Notes Project	ATM S 558, Spring 2011 Atmospheric Chemistry Final Project Students will write a paper and give a 15-minute presentation (12-minute talk, 3 minutes for questions) during the last week of class. A list of possible topics is included below, or students can pick a topic of his or her own choosing. The paper should be at least 5 pages long (but no more than 10 pages) using ~1.5 line spacing and include at least 10 references, as well as figures to illustrate your points. The paper is worth 25% of your total grade for the class. The presentation is not part of your project grade, but will factor into your participation grade. Participation points will be given both on your presentation effort and questions you ask during other students' presentations. This is meant to give you practice at communicating your work, in a low pressure, supportive environment. Papers (hardcopies only please) are due on Friday, June 3. Examples of potential topics: Air pollution in mega-cities Air pollution and health Intercontinental transport of pollutants Geoengineeing Biogenic emissions of VOCs Secondary Organic Aerosol formation Composition of polar stratospheric clouds Biomass burning, and its effect on aerosols/ozone in tropical regions Halogen chemistry in the marine boundary layer Ozone depletion events in the arctic boundary layer Is the global oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere changing? Satellite observations of tropospheric or stratospheric composition Lightning and the global NOx budget Recent trends in CH4 Glacial-interglacial changes in CH4 Planetary photochemistry Effects of aerosols on tropospheric ozone Cloud chemistry Formation of the stratospheric ozone layer in Earth's early atmosphere (~2 billion years ago) Mesospheric clouds Climate change - polar ozone depletion feedbacks Volcanoes and atmospheric chemistry The 2002 Antarctic ozone hole Sources of lead The effects of global warming on the recovery of the stratospheric ozone Composition of polar stratospheric clouds Biogenic emissions of VOCs: past and future Sources and chemistry of DMS New insights in heterogeneous and multiphase (cloud) chemistry Presentation schedule: Wednesday, May 25: Luke Madaus, Jen DeHart, Gallia Painter, Hannah Barnes, Megan Smith Wednesday, June 1: Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker, Xiaoming Shi, Chen Zhang, Angel Adames-Correliza, Colin Clark, Hansi Singh Friday, June 3: Elizabeth Maroon, Nathan Steiger, Nick Siler, Andy Berner, Daniel McCoy