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Cloud and Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k)
February 10 - April 7, 2025
The CAPE-k campaign based at the Cape Grim Research Station aims to strengthen the highly uncertain gaps in precipitation and cloud modelling over the SO by cataloging a complete seasonal cycle of cloud and precipitation properties and observing how they are affected by aerosol and thermodynamic factors. Kayleigh Reilly (Ault lab) and Tiantian Zhu (Pratt lab) participated in this field campaign and collected aerosol particles over the course of three months with four different impactors. These include the MOUDI, mini-MOUDI, ESP, and High-flow cascade impactors. The samples collected were then brought back to Michigan to be analyzed with microscopy techniques.
The Moisture and Aerosol Gradients-Physics of Inversion Evolution (MAGPIE)
January 26 - February 24, 2025
The MAGPIE project is a collaboration between a number of academic and federal agencies to study, among other atmospheric phenomena, dust and smoke events transported from the Sahara, over the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Caribbean. Rebecca Parham, from the Ault lab, participated in a field campaign at Ragged Point, Barbados to collect these aerosol samples and characterize them using microspectroscopic techniques. Special thanks are given to Prof. Cassandra Gaston’s group at the University of Miami for overseeing this campaign.
New York City metropolitan Measurements of Emissions and TransformationS (NYC-METS)
July 5 - August 13, 2022
NYC-METS is part of a larger comprehensive campaign known as AEROMMA (Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas). This campaign focused on urban areas in order to study air quality, atmospheric interactions at the marine-urban interface, and climate change with the ultimate goal of improving our understanding of air pollution. Yao Xiao (Ault lab) and Emily Costa (Pratt lab) worked at two separate sites, NYC and a downwind coastal Connecticut site, to collect samples.
June 1 - July 16, 2013
The SOAS campaign focused on understanding the formation and properties of secondary organic aerosol in the southereastern United States. For this study our group was located at the Centreville, Alabama site where we were collecting samples for microscopic and spectroscopic analysis. For further details, story, and pictures check out the SOAS posts on our group blog. Our sincere thanks to Victor Nhliziyo, Steve Bertman, Kerri Pratt, and Paul Shepson for making our participation in SOAS possible/successful.
University of Michigan Biological Station 2014
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