Atmospheric Sciences section members are concerned with climate change, atmospheric chemistry, dynamics, radiative transfer and other processes that affect the atmosphere.

 

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

Awards are organized at each meeting by our Education Chair, Vickie S. Connors

2004 Fall Meeting

Jennifer Murphy, University of California, Berkeley, Analysis of the weekend effect in ozone in central California using speciated NOy and VOC measurements.

2005 Joint Assembly

Jason D. White, Howard University, Washington, DC, The transport and regional aerosol impact of volcanic ash from the July 2003 Soufriere Hills volcanic eruption.

2005 Fall Meeting

Piotr A. Lewandowski, University of Iowa, Iowa City, A new concept for calculating the height of planetary boundary layer from lidar returns using a spatial variance algorithm.

2006 Joint Assembly

Chelle L. Gentemann, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, FL, Optimally interpolated infrared and microwave sea surface temperatures: The Multisensor Improved SST (MISST) Project.

2006 Fall Meeting

Jay Gregg, University of Maryland, College Park, The seasonal and spatial distribution of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in Asia.

2007 Joint Assembly

Nabilah Rontu, University of Colorado, Boulder, Surface partitioning and stability of mixed films of fluorinated alcohols and acids at the air-water interface.

2007 Fall Meeting

Aihua Zhu, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Spectral signature of radiative forcing by East Asian dust-soot mixture.
Ashton Robinson Cook, NOAA Storm Prediction Center and University of Oklahoma, Norman, The relation of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to winter tornado outbreaks.
Timothy Bertram, University of California, Berkeley, Observations of reactive nitrogen over the North Pacific: Comparisons, implications, and chemical constraints.
Katye Altieri, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Chemical characterization of secondary organic aerosol formed through cloud processing of methylglyoxal.
Zhibo Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, A comparison of cirrus clouds retrieved from POLDER-3/PARASOL and MODIS/Aqua.
Philip Swartzendruber, University of Washington, Seattle, Is the stratosphere an important source of reactive mercury in the free troposphere?

2008 Joint Assembly

Yuanyang Fang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ,Estimating the episodic contribution of pollutant export from the United States in summer 2004.
Lucas Paganini, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, Nonlinear processes affecting the accuracy of microwave backend spectrometers.
Michael C. Schwartz, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Cirrus cloud microphysical properties from the Calipso-CloudSat validation experiment.
Joshua B. Williams, Utah State University, Logan, Algorithm development for column water vapor retrieval using the SAM sensor.
Joshua B. Williams, Utah State University, Logan, Sun and aureole measurements (SAM) during the DOE CLASIC and CHAPS field campaigns.

2008 Fall Meeting

Emily V. Fischer, University of Washington, Seattle, Importing ozone precursors to the North American free troposphere: Spring 2008 Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and NOx observations from Mount Bachelor.
Antonia Gambacorta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Temperature change and water vapor feedback: A comprehensive assessment using the atmospheric infrared sounder.
Yi-wen Huang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Experimental study of the kinetics of the reaction of acetic acid with hydroxyl radicals from 255 to 355 K.
Anne Kunz, ICG-1: Stratosphäre and ICG-2: Troposphäre, Institut für Chemie und Dynamik der Geosphäre, Jülich, Germany, High static stability in the mixed layer above the extratropical tropopause.
Matthew Lebsock, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Multi-sensor observations of aerosol-cloud relationships from CloudSat and the A-train.
John E. Ten Hoeve III, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Analysis of biomass burning aerosol impacts on clouds and precipitation over Amazonia.

2009 Joint Assembly

Cora Young, University of Toronto, Canada, Atmospheric chemistry of perfluorobutenes.
Heather Andres, University of Toronto, Canada, Surface climate effects due to changing estimates of century-scale solar variability .
Gray O’Byrne, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, Surface reflectivity from OMI using Aqua MODIS to eliminate clouds: effects of snow on OMI NO2 retrievals.
Katrine Gorham, University of California, Irvine, Estimates of Cl and Br concentrations in the springtime arctic from hydrocarbon measurements during ARCTAS.
Rodica Lindenmaier, University of Toronto, Canada, Springtime Arctic trace gas measurements and comparisons with the atmospheric chemistry experiment on SCISAT.
Rachel Chang, University of Toronto, Canada, Chemical properties of aerosols in the central Arctic.
Minghui Diao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, In situ measurements of ice supersaturation in the upper troposphere in START08 campaign.

2009 Fall Meeting

Lelia Hawkins, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, Morphology and Organic Functional Group Composition of Submicron Single Particles Collected in the Continentally-Influenced Marine Boundary Layer of the Southeast Pacific during VOCALS-REx 2008.
Kelly Baustian, University of Colorado, Boulder, Effects of Palmitic Acid on Water Uptake and Ice Nucleation Properties of Ammonium Sulfate Particles.
Sophie Peyridieu, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS/IPSL/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Dust aerosol optical depth and altitude retrieved from hyperspectral infrared observations (AIRS, IASI) and comparison with other aerosol datasets (MODIS, CALIOP, PARASO).
Michael Schwartz, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Assessing the Value Added to Cirrus Retrievals by Ice Water Path Derived From Sub-millimeter Radiometry and by Radar Doppler Velocity.
Yan Zhang, Princeton, University, Princeton, NJ, Coupled Monitoring and Modeling of Air Quality and Regional Climate during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Patrick Veres, University of Colorado, Boulder, Measurements of gas-phase inorganic and organic acids in biomass fires by negative-ion proton-transfer chemical-ionization mass spectrometry (NI-PT-CIMS).
Samar Moussa, University of California, Irvine, OH Oxidation Reactions of Unsaturated Self-assembled Monolayers on Germanium Surfaces: A System That Mimics Organics Adsorbed on Urban Surfaces.
Stephen Griffith, Indiana University, Bloomington, OH and HO₂ Concentrations during PROPHET 2008: Measurement and Theory.
Katherine Mackey, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The influence of atmospheric nutrients on primary productivity in coastal upwelling regions.
Theran Riedel, University of Washington, Seattle, Observationally Constrained Estimates of Nitryl Chloride Production on Regional and Global Scales.
Brian Giebel, University of Miami, FL, δ¹³C Techniques and Measurements: Analysis of Low-Molecular Weight Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds in Source and Ambient Air Samples.
Yi-wen Huang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Pressure Dependence of the Reaction Rate of Acetic Acid with Hydroxyl Radical.
Paul Koster van Groos, University of California, Berkeley, Developing Isotope Tools for Identifying Mercury Mining Sources.
Marcia DeLonge, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, West African convective storms during the land-ocean transition.
Seungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Change in the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon Circulation due to the CO₂ Increase in IPCC AR4 CGCMs.
Kelly Everhart, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Isotopic Variations of Atmospheric Water Vapor on Synoptic Scales in Hanover, NH.
Elaine Hart, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Planning a Target Renewable Portfolio using Atmospheric Modeling and Stochastic Optimization.

2010 Fall Meeting

Ryan Neely, CIRES, Boulder, CO, Initial Results of the Cloud, Aerosol Polarization and Backscatter Lidar at Summit, Greenland.
Susan Anenberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Sensitivity of Surface Air Quality and Global Mortality to Global, Regional, and Sectoral Black Carbon Emission Reductions.
Cassandra Gaston, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA,The impact of port emissions and marine biogenics on the single-particle chemistry of marine aerosol measured on board the R/V Atlantis during the CalNEX 2010 field campaign.
Thomas Gasser, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Attributing the increase of atmospheric CO₂ to emitters and absorbers
Matthias Brakebusch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, Polar Ozone Loss in a Changing Climate
Ben Lee, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Measurements of HONO and NO₂ by tunable infrared differential absorption spectrometer during SHARP 2009.
Paul Ullrich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, High-Order Finite-Volume Schemes for Simulating Atmospheric Flows.
Minghui Diao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Ice Supersaturated Regions Formed by the Inhomogeneities of Water Vapor Field in the Upper Troposphere in START08 and HIPPO Global Campaigns.
Eric Kort, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Global distributions of nitrous oxide and implications for emissions: Measurements from the HIPPO (HIaper Pole to Pole Observations) campaign and comparisons to a global model.
Trevor VandenBoer, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Observations of the Partitioning of Trace Acids During CalNex, Bakersfield: HONO, HCl and Oxalic Acid in an NH₃-rich Environment
Kevin Reed, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Assessing the Significance of Varying AGCM Physics Packages on Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations.
Christina Karamperidou, Columbia University, New York, NY, Northern Hemisphere Meridional and Zonal Temperature Gradients and their Relation to Hydrologic Extremes at Mid-latitudes: Trends, Variability and Link to Climate Modes in Observations and Simulations.
Kara Sulia, Penn State University, University Park, PA, The Importance of Habit Evolution for Maintaining Supercooled Liquid in Arctic Clouds.
Yingxi Shi, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, Evaluation of the MODIS Deep Blue aerosol product over the North Africa Regions for aerosol forecasts related applications.
Laura Fierce, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, Exploring the sensitivity of black carbon aging time scales with particle-resolved aerosol model simulation.
Julien Boulon, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, CNRS, Aubiere, France, Investigation of the vertical extension of nucleation events.
Lindsay Hatch, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Measurements and model studies of ambient aerosol volatility in Riverside, CA.
Ahmed Tawfik, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Soil moisture controls on inter-annual variability of biogenic isoprene emissions and ozone.
Ashley Russell, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Evaluation of an Improved Retrieval of OMI NO₂ Column Using Within Boundary Layer Aircraft Observations.
Mariya Petrenko, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Using Spaceborne Aerosol Observations to Constrain Biomass Burning Emissions in the GOCART Model.
Elke Ludewig, Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Multi-Sensor Analysis of Cloud-Top Height in Sc-Cu Transition Regions.

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