Outstanding Student Paper Awards

Atmospheric Sciences Section

Awards are organized at each meeting by our Education Chair, Lin Hartung Chambers

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, Fla., 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, N. J., 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, N. J., 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 fi eld 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, Mass., 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, Calif., 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, N. J., In situ measurements of ice supersaturation in the upper troposphere in START08 campaign.

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Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on September 11, 2009