Department of Atmospheric Sciences

As air quality improves, the invisible chemistry happening in the air around us is changing. Skies should clear up as emissions drop, but recent results suggested that declining nitrogen oxides can create an environment where airborne carbon-containing compounds more easily convert into small particles that harm human health. 

Research led by the University of Washington proposes a new idea that may explain why some Antarctic icebergs are tinged emerald green rather than the normal blue, potentially solving a decades-long scientific mystery. 

Isabel McCoy’s presentation title, “Cloud-Aerosol Interactions and Aerosol Variability Near Southern Ocean Low Clouds” won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA), which is prestigious award is only granted to the top 5% of student participants. 

Peng Qiaoyun won the Outstanding Student Paper Awards by the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, American Meteorological Society (AMS), poster presentation: “In Situ Measurements and Evaluation of Primary Radical Budgets within Wildfire Plumes during WE-CAN.”
  

Adja Savarin’s presentation title, Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation and the MJO over the Maritime Continent: “Tug of War” between the land and sea, is prestigious award is only granted to the top 5% of student participants. 

Undergraduate students Joshua Driscol, Jamin Rader and Dave Bonan were recently awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarships. 

The Simpson Center for the Humanities has awarded doctoral candidate Judy Twedt with a research fellowship to support her work on “Arctic Climate Change through Human Narratives and Data-as-Music”: 

Jefferson Donovan, BS June 2018, will be the new Meteorologist at KDRV–Medford, OR. 

Nathan Santo Domingo, BS June 2018, is the new Meteorologist at NewsWest 9 in Midland Texas. 

Atmospheric Sciences graduate students Claire Buysse, Michael Diamond, Yue Dong, Casey Hilgenbrink, and Lucas Zeppetello attended the 12th Annual Graduate Climate Conference, a climate science conference run and attended entirely by graduate students, on November 2-4, 2018 at the UW Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest.