The Slade Lab

News:

2023:

July 7th: Our paper, "We Need a "Keeling Curve" Approach for Contaminants of Emerging Concern" is out in ACS Environmental Science & Technology!

June 26th: We welcome two undergraduate student researchers, Isaac Sipp-Alpers and Alexis Shenkiryk, to the Slade Group! They are participants in NSF-CAICE'S SURP program.

May 18th: Our paper, "Heterogeneous and Photosensitized Oxidative Degradation Kinetics of the Plastic Additive Bisphenol-A in Sea Spray Aerosol Mimics" is out in the Journal of Physical Chemistry of A and has been selected as alternative cover art!

May 15th: Our paper, "Aerosols, airflow, and more: examining the interaction of speech and the physical environment" is out in Frontiers of Psychology! 

May 10th: Ph.D. students Sam Kruse and Ben Carr present at the Aerodyne ToF-CIMS Meeting in Atlanta

March 26th: Prof Slade and Ph.D. students Ryan Tuminnello & Sam Kruse present at the National ACS Meeting in Indianapolis

February 13th: The Slade lab moves down to the SIO pier for our winter intensive period of the MATADOR campaign!

January 5th: Welcome to new Ph.D. students Maya Morris, Diana Tran & Kanuri Roundtree who will be joining the Slade lab!

2022:

December 8th: Congratulations to Allison Kawasaki on the successful defense of her masters thesis: "Uptake Kinetics of a Pure α-pinene-derived Hydroxy Nitrate onto Seed Aerosol at Different Relative Humidity and Particle Acidity"

November 23: Congratulations to Cindy Tan on the successful defense of her masters thesis, "Photodegradation and Heterogeneous OH Oxidation Kinetics and Product Analysis of Aerosolized Triclosan Mixed with NaCl and Humic Acid!"

October 4th: Prof Slade presents "Molecular Drivers of Nascent and Aged Marine Aerosol Phase States" at AAAR

June 23rd: Parts of the Slade Lab move to the Hydraulics Laboratory for the CAICE summer campaign, CHAOS (Characterizing Atmospheric-Oceanic parameters of SOARS.)

June 13th: We welcome summer undergraduate researchers Julia Niehoff and Vanessa Valdez to the Slade Group for the summer!

May 17th: We have received an EPA Early Career STAR Grant for the Real-Time Analysis of Aerosol-Phase Plastic Additives in a Coastal Marine Environment in California. 

May 12th: Undergraduate student Karen Lopo-Zapeda presents at the UCSD ACS-SA Symposium and wins the Outstanding Poster Award for Physical/Analytical Chemistry!

May 11th: Our article, Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment, is out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment!

May 3rd: PhD Candidate Samantha Kruse presents at the Aerodyne Tof-CIMS user meeting

March 23rd: PhD Student Lincoln Mehrendiratta presents at the Spring ACS Meeting

March 8th: Our first grant is funded by the NSF! We'll be recruiting graduate students and a post doctoral researcher for projects concerning: Understanding the Fate of Plastic Additives in Marine Aerosol Mimics.

2021:

December 13th: PhD Students Samantha Kruse, Ryan Tuminello and Adam Cooper present at the AGU Meeting 

November 10th: We're excited to host a summer undergraduate student through CAICE's SURP Program! Learn more here and apply here by February 28th!

October 18th: Our first paper from the lab, Evolution of Sea Spray Aerosol Particle Phase State Across a Phytoplankton Bloom, is out in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry!

October 18th: Ph.D. students Samantha Kruse and Ryan Tumminello present at the AAAR conference

August 10th: SURP students Karen Lopo-Zepeda & Katy Belcher both present their summer research projects at the CAICE symposium!

July 27th: Congratulations to Cindy Tran for receiving the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellowship!

July 23rd: Ph.D. student Adam Cooper is featured on KPBS for his research on pollution transfer in the Tijuana River Valley.

June 11th: Congratulations to seniors ZY Lin and Isaac Canada on their graduation!

June 4th: We welcome two CAICE SURP undergraduate researchers for the summer, Karen Lopo-Zepeda and Katy Belcher!

April 8th: Ph.D. student Adam Cooper presents at the ACS Spring conference

March 5th: We welcome Benjamin Carr and Lincoln Mehndiratta (co-advised with Vicki Grassian) as new Ph.D. Students!

February 25th: Some of our mentored high school teams present at the CLEAR Symposium hosted by CAICE!

2020:

November 27th: Ph.D. student Adam Cooper presents at MICRO 2020 International Conference

October 1st: Cindy Tran transitions into the M.S. program in our lab!

September 25th: Ph.D. student Sam Kruse has advanced to candidacy! Fantastic job Sam!

June 13th: Congratulations to seniors Reece James and Cindy Tan on their graduation!

June 2nd: The Slade Lab is now a certified Bronze Level Green Lab!

May 21st: Undergraduates Cindy Tam, Reece James, and Z.Y. Lin present at the ACS-SA Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations to Reece for receiving an Outstanding Presentation Award!

May 16th: Congratulations to Ryan Tumminello for receiving the San Diego Fellowship sponsored by NSF-CAICE!

May 1st: Congratulations  to Isaac Canada for receiving the 2020 Undergraduate Summer Research Award from the Division of Physical Sciences!

March 31st: Congratulations to Adam Cooper for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Ryan Tumminello for receiving an Honorable Mention!

February 26th: Congratulations to Ph.D. students Adam Cooper and Ryan Tumminello for passing their second year oral examinations!

January 6th: We welcome Mallory Small as our new Ph.D. student and congratulate Allison Kawasaki as she transitions into the M.S. program in our lab!

2019:

December 13th: Ph.D. students Samantha Kruse, Ryan Tumminello, and Adam Cooper present at the AGU conference in San Francisco

October 14th: Prof Slade and undergraduate researcher Isaac Canada present at the AAAR conference in Portland

August 25th: Prof Slade and Ph.D. students Samantha Kruse, Ryan Tumminello, and Adam Cooper present at the ACS conference here in San Diego

July 1: Slade lab welcomes incoming Ph.D. student and summer rotator, Mallory Small. Welcome, Mallory!

June 24: Slade lab welcomes our summer REU student supported by the NSF-CAICE, Isis Guadalupe-Diaz from the University of Puerto Rico. Welcome, Isis!

June 17: Slade lab moves to the Hydraulics Lab "H-Lab" at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the NSF-CAICE 2019 summer intensive study SeaSCAPE (Sea Spray Chemistry And Particle Evolution).

May 30: Congratulations to Ph.D. students Samantha Kruse, Ryan Tumminello, and Adam Cooper for their acceptance to present during the 2019 ACS Fall Meeting here in San Diego, CA. Way to go, everyone!

May 16: Slade lab undergraduate researcher, Isaac Canada, presents during the ACS Student Affiliates Undergraduate Research Symposium at UCSD. Job well done, Isaac!

March 18: Nate, Sam, Ryan, and Adam attend Aerodyne Research Inc. in Billerica, MA for training on the EESI-ToF-CIMS. "It's not EESI being green!"

March 15: Congratulations to Ph.D. student Sam Kruse for passing her second-year oral examination! Hard work and perseverance pay off - way to go, Sam!