Here are some of our group milestones! You can also see our department news here!
December 2024: Olivia, Jennifer, Kimberly, Brandon, Daniela, Lena, and Emily all present at the AGU meeting.
November 2024: Matthew Davis joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
Fall 2024 semester: Olivia and Emily pass their preliminary exams and become PhD candidates.
September 2024: Olivia presents at the 16th International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP) Symposium and 18th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Science Conference (iCACGP-IGAC Conference 2024)in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
September 2024: Madison shares new results at the NASA Joint AIRS/Sounder Science Team Meeting.
August 2024: Emily, Dani and Brandon all take part in the SLC-SOS ground campaign in Salt Lake City in coordination with USOS.
July 2024: Kimberley successfully defends her PhD, and transitions to a postdoctoral position in the group.
April 2024: FarmFlux is announced. Emily will co-lead a new NASA Earth Venture Suborbital Mission.
Spring 2024: Olivia visits the New Mexico Department of Health for a 3-month visit as an NSF-INTERN fellow.
January 2024: Emily F., Emily L., Ilana, En, Kimberley, Olivia, and Madison all present at AMS. Ilana organizes a session on agricultural - atmosphere interactions. Kimberley and Olivia are both awarded best presentation awards.
January 2024: EPA Air Toxics project kicks off with monthly advisory board (AQ-MAC) meetings.
January 2024: Brandon McGuire joins the group.
December 2023: Kimberley, Madison, Emily L., Emily F. all present at AGU.
August 2024: Daniela Guevara, Lena Low and Jennifer McGinnis join the group.
October 2023: Julieta participates in the MIT CEE Rising Stars Workshop.
July 2023: Olivia and En were awarded the Rocky Mountain Air & Waste Management Association Scholarship. Congrats!
June - August 2023: Ilana, Emily L., Julieta and En conduct ammonia measurements on the NASA DC-8 for AEROMMA.
May 2023: Olivia went to Chicago for CARE
April 2023: Milena Guajardo joins the group. Welcome!
June 2022: Kimberley is awarded an NSF FINESST.
May 2022: REU Interns arrive for summer 2022. Welcome Linda!
May 2022: Julieta is named a SoGES Leadership Fellow.
May 2022: Emily receives an All-College Award for Teaching and Mentoring.
May 2022: Oliva goes to Chicago for CARE.
April 2022: We launch a new project on smoke communication.
March 2022: Kimberley is awarded an AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award. Great job!
October 2021: Emily Fischer receives Jon C. Graff, Ph.D. Prize for Excellence in Science Communication
August 1, 2021: Welcome to our new graduate students Olivia Sablan and Emily Lill.
August 10, 2021: Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano selected for UCAR Next Generation Fellowship. Awesome!
August 1, 2021: TRANS2AM field campaign kicks off!
June 25, 2021: Kate successfully defends her PhD. Congrats Dr. O'Dell!!!
June - August 2021: Trey Madelleno (ESMEI Intern) and Yuwei Zhao (Extension Intern) join us for the summer to help with TRANS2AM.
May 11, 2021: Julieta is awarded a AWMA Scholarship. Congrats!
April 26, 2021: Emily is named Monfort Professor.
February 9, 2021: Science Moms Launches.
February 2, 2021: Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano receives a presentation award from AMS.
November 20, 2020: Kate O'Dell is awarded a Dietrich Scholarship.
November 13, 2020: Emily talks with Westword about smoke.
October 21, 2020: Results from the 2019 PROGRESS workshops are highlighted in in the Editors' choice section of Science magazine.
September 30, 2020: Emily receives the 2020 Science News 10 to Watch award.
September 24, 2020: Emily does her first NOVA Now Podcast on wildfire smoke.
September 21, 2020: PROGRESS will continue (yay!) and is on the short list for the Nature Research Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science.
September 18, 2020: Emily talks with NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer about wildfire smoke.
August 2020: Madison Shogrin and Kimberley Corwin join the Fischer Group!
August 17, 2020: Emily encounters the Cameron Peak Fire while backpacking with her family - ends up on the radio.....
July 6, 2020: Julieta Juncosa Calahorrano is awarded the AGU Paros Scholarship. Congrats!
July 2, 2020: Jakob Lindaas successfully defends his PhD. Yay Jakob. Jakob will be a 2020-21 AGI Fisher Congressional Fellow.
April 2, 2020: Kate O'Dell is chosen for a Rocky Mountain States Section of Air and Waste Management Association scholarship. Congrats Kate!
January 10, 2020: Jared Brewer successfully defends his PhD. Yay Jared.
January 2020: Emily receives the AMS Atmospheric Chemistry Committee's Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.
December 9 - 13, 2019: We have a very busy AGU meeting. Jakob Lindaas, Julieta Juncosa, Kate O'Dell, Jared Brewer and Emily all give presentations. Emily convenes a big session on smoke, and she receives a Macelwane Medal from AGU.
December 3, 2019: Jakob Lindaas is awarded a David L. Dietrich Honorary Scholarship .
November 2019: Ilana Pollack conducts measurements of ammonia on the University of Wyoming King Air! Go Ilana.
November 19, 2019: Emily attends and presents at the ATom Science Team Meeting.
November 12, 2019: Julieta Juncosa presents at the CSU Grad Show.
October 16-17, 2019: Julieta Juncosa and Jared Brewer attend iLEAPS workshop at NCAR.
October 8-9, 2019: Emily attends the UCAR Annual Meeting in Boulder as the new CSU Member Rep.
September 2019: Emily is named ATS Professor of the Year.
August 27 - 29, 2019: Emily attends and presents at the Aura Science Team Meeting in Pasadena, CA.
July 29 - August 1, 2019: Emily attends and presents at the Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Conference in Bethel, ME.
Late July - Early September 2019: Field work in Carlsbad Caverns National Park to measure ozone precursors!
July 2019: Jakob Lindaas heads to Boise to fly on the NASA DC-8 for FIREX-AQ.
July 2019: Kate O'Dell attends the AMS Summer Policy Colloquium.
Summer 2019: Jared Brewer spends his summer in Denver as a Colorado Science and Engineering Policy Fellow.
June 20, 2019: Steven Brey successfully defends his PhD. Go Steve!
June 21, 2019: Emily is on NPR's Science Friday.
June 12 -13, 2019: Emily heads to NASA Langley for a ASDC Meeting.
June 5-6, 2019: Emily heads to Seattle for a meeting on Smoke!
May 28, 2019: We welcome two new undergraduate interns for the summer: Emily Lill and Elana Cope.
May 2019: Jakob Lindaas is named a SoGES Sustainability Leadership Fellow.
May 9, 2019: Emily presents to the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission on smoke chemistry.
May 6-8, 2019: Emily, Julieta Juncosa and Jared Brewer attend the IGC9 meeting in Cambridge, MA.
April 23 - 25, 2019: WE-CAN Science Team Meeting in Boulder.
April 17, 2019: Emily heads to California to give a seminar at Berkley.
April 8, 2019: Julia Gillard visits CSU. Julieta and Emily get to meet her in person. So cool.
February 2019: Our team hosts PROGRESS workshops at CSU and at NCAT for almost 300 undergraduate women!
January 31, 2019: Emily attends the Geoscience Alliance Meeting in Phoenix and co-leads a workshop on mentoring.
January 7 - 11, 2019: Most of the Fischer group heads to the AMS Meeting in Phoenix. We lead a big session on early WE-CAN results. Jakob Lindaas earns an Outstanding Student Paper Awards from the AMS's 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry.
December 2018: Check out our work being highlighted in the editors choice section of Science Magazine!
November 12, 2018: Jakob Lindaas passes his preliminary exam with flying colors!
November 8, 2018: Ilana receives the WSCOE Outstanding Researcher Award. Awesome!
October 23, 2018: Zitely Tzompa becomes Dr. Tzompa. Congrats! - a PhD is forever.
August 2018: Julieta joins the group! Welcome!
Summer 2018: WE-CAN is in the news....a lot!
May 31, 2018: WE-CAN is previewed by Science Magazine.
May 28 - June 1, 2018: Emily attends the First Biennial NSF-NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry workshop in Boulder while Jakob and Ilana get our ammonia instrument installed on the C-130. Busy week!
May 21, 2018: Zitely is begins her Science Policy Fellowship in Denver. She was selected as an inaugural Colorado Science and Engineering Policy Fellow.
May 21 - 25, 2018: Emily and Steve both give talks at the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) Meeting in Missoula.
May 17, 2018: Jakob and Steven both win scholarships from the Rocky Mountain States section of the Air and Waste Management Association.
May 15, 2018: Kate also wins NASA NESSF! Go Kate!!!!
May 1, 2018: Emily receives the Graduate Advising and Mentorship Award from the CSU Graduate Student Council.
April 27, 2018: Zitely gives a talk at FO CO Speaks Ciencia - a night of cultural infusion, art and science. Awesome!
April 24-25, 2018: Emily visits Portland, OR to give a presentation at the WESTAR and WRAP spring meeting.
April 4, 2018: Kate wins a NSF GRFP! Awesome!!!!!
February 18, 2018: Emily is featured by Cogent Geoscience in celebration of the UN's International Day of Women and Girls in Science .
February 12, 2018: Emily gives an invited seminar in the Chemistry Department at CU Boulder. Very fun to visit our neighbors!
January 8, 2018: Ilana gives a presentation at the AMS meeting about our new airborne ammonia measurement capabilities.
December 11 - December 15, 2017: Jakob, Jared, Kate, and Emily all present at AGU.
November 17, 2017: Emily gives an invited talk at the University of New Hampshire.
November 5 - November 11, 2017: Jakob Lindaas travels to Germany for the COP23.
September 18 - September 29, 2017: WE-CAN test flights.
September 10 - September 16, 2017: Zitely attends the GEIA conference in Hamburg, Germany.
September 20, 2017: Emily is featured in OnlineEducation.
June 9 - July 8, 2017: Jared is in France, working at the Institut de Combustion Aérothermique Réactivité et Environment (ICARE) learning how observations are made!
July 10 - July 14, 2017: Its a fire-focused week. Emily attends the International Biomass Burning Initiative (IBBI) Workshop in Boulder. Emily, Jakob and Kate attend the ACCORD Fire Data Analysis Workshop.
June 4 - June 13, 2017: Zitely and Jakob attend the AMS summer Policy Colloquium.
May 23, 2017: earthzine features The Earth Science Women's Network.
May 12, 2017: Emily gives an invited seminar at the University of Washington.
May 1-5, 2017: Emily , Jared , Juliet and Zitely present at the 8th International GEOS-Chem Meeting in Cambridge MA.
April 25, 2017: Our next field campaign is announced. It will be focused on wildfires!
March 22, 2017: A paper that Zitely co-authored is featured in Science Magazine.
January 23 -26, 2017: Jakob , Jared , and Emily present at the AMS meeting in Seattle. Emily is crazy and presents on our oil and gas project ,our TES PAN project , and PROGRESS.
January 8, 2017: Zitely gives a presenation at the UNAM (Mexican National Autonomous University of Mexico) Atmospheric Science Department!
December 12 -14, 2016: Ilana and Juliet present at AGU!
December 12, 2016: Steven Brey receives the Dietrich Award for his outstanding work on ozone and wildfires!
December 2, 2016: Emily gives the keynote lecture and Steven presents at the 10th Annual Earth System and Space Science Poster Conference at ATOC.
November 17-18, 2016: Emily visits the University of Pittsburg Department of Geology and Environmental Science for their Diversity Celebration.
November 14-17, 2016: Steven presents at the 2nd International Smoke Symposium and wins a best student presentation award!
November 16, 2016: Zitely wins the Forever Green Top Scholar Award from the CSU Alumni Association!
November 9, 2016: Zitely is awarded the Sjostrom Family Schlarship!
November 4, 2016: Emily gives an invited talk at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
October 15-16, 2016: We hold our second PROGRESS workshop, and it was awesome.
September 26-30, 2016: Emily, Steven, Zitely, Jakob and Jared all present at the IGAC Meeting in Breckenridge.
September 26-30, 2016: Steven gets his first taste of International Service as the Co-Chair of the IGAC Early Career Meeting. Zitely is selected to attend!
September 25-28, 2016: Ilana presents at the GSA Meeting in Denver.
August 22, 2016: Emily gives an invited talk at the American Chemical Society Meeting on our 2015 observations.
June 2016: Ilana is chosen for the INSIGHT into Diversity 2016 Inspiring Women in STEM Award. Yay Ilana!
May 23, 2016: Emily visits Brown University for a panel associated with the Young Scholar's Conference: Thriving in the Academy.
April 12, 2016: Steven presents at the 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference in Portland, OR.
April 7, 2016: Zitely presents at the INNOVATION MATCH MX in Guadalajara, Mexico.
April 6, 2016: EPA Announces the start of our grant focused on climate, fires and dust.
March 23, 2016: Zitely wins a 2016 Rocky Mountain States Section of the Air and Waste Mangement Association Scholarship. Congrats Zitely!
March 9, 2016: Emily and Jakob present a mini lesson combustion using legos and our Picarro 2401 at the Teen Science Cafe.
February 4, 2016: Jakob receives an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his 2016 AMS Presentation! Congrats Jakob!
January 26, 2016: Steven's paper on the impact of smoke on ozone acros the U.S. is published in ES&T.
January 10 - 14, 2016: AMS Meeting in New Orleans. Jakob presents his work from Harvard.
Emily presents at the 'Tools of the Trade' and 'Conversations with Professionals' sessions at the Student Conference.
January 3, 2016: Brittany gets some press about her recent paper!
December 14 -18 2015: Emily, Zitely, Jake, Jared, Steven, Ilana and Juliet all present at AGU.
December 9, 2015: Jake defends his Masters!
October 19 - 20: Emily, Ilana, Jakob, Zitely and Jake attend the SONGNEX data meeting in Boulder.
October 10 - 11 2015: 53 undergraduate women learn about the geosciences in Estes Park. Zitely volunteers! Ilana runs the show!
September 15, 2015: Juliet's paper on fires and PAN comes out in GRL
September 2015: PROGRESS Program Launches!
September 7, 2015: Summertime BAO field campaign ends!
August 12 - 13, 2015: Emily and Steve are at the Wildfire Stakeholder Meeting in Longmont!!
August 13 - 18, 2015: Zitely travels to Belgium to work on ethane trends!!
August 10, 2015: Jakob Lindaas Arrives!!
August 2-7, 2015: Juliet presents at the Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Conference in Waterville, NH.
June 29, 2015: Summertime BAO field campaign starts!
May 17, 2015: Springtime BAO field campaign ends!
May 4 - 7, 2015: Zitely and Juliet present at the GEOS-Chem Users Meeting. Zitely wows the crowd when she raps her poster introduction.
May 5, 2015: Jake Zaragoza presents a poster at the FRAPPE Science Team Meeting.
April 30 - May 1, 2015: Emily attends the ACCORD meeting in Boulder.
April 29, 2015: Jakob Lindaas, joining in August 2015, recieves an AMS Fellowship. Congrats.
Sometime in April 2015: Jared decides that he would like to suffer more, so he signs up for the PhD. We are super excited that Jared is staying!
April 13, 2015: Zitely passes her prelim. Yay.
April 7, 2015: Steven Brey receives an NSF Honorable Mention! Congrats.
March 24, 2015: Jake gives a talk at ACS.
March 16, 2015: Fischer/Farmer springtime BAO field campaign begins along with SONGNEX flights in Colorado.
Feb 11, 2015: Baby Joan arrives.
January 12, 2015: Emily gives a seminar at NCAR in Boulder!
December 15 - 19, 2014: Emily and Zitely present at the AGU meeting!
December 3, 2014: Emily gives the NOAA/ESRL Seminar in Boulder!
November 20-22, 2014: Emily visits the University of Wisconsin for a series of panels.
November 6, 2014: Exploring the Influence of Gender and Science at Avagadro's Number
November 4, 2014: Emily gives an invited talk at the University of Wyoming!
October 30, 2014: Emily gives and invited talk at the Rocky Mountain Air and Waste Management Meeting!
October 23, 2014: Zitely is named a CSU International Presidental Fellow!!
October 12, 2014: Ilana Pollack joins the group as a Research Scientist! Welcome! We are so happy to have you on board!!
October 10, 2014: Zitely presents at the CSU Young Scientists Symposium on Atmospheric Research!
October 2014: Zitely joins the Fischer Group. Fantastic!
September 24, 2014: Bridging the Gap Betweeen Science and Policy at Avagadro's Number
September 18, 2014: Juliet Zhu gives an invited talk at the CrIS Atmospheric Chemistry Users workshop in MD!
September 2, 2014: We begin a 5-year recruitment program for the geosciences with some press!!
August 2014: Our Current Field Program (FRAPPE) has been in the news!