10/16/2026 Heesun won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Korean Meteorological Society 2026 Annual Meeting. Congrats!
9/30/2026 Dr. Joo was awarded the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Commendation in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST)
6/24/2026 Heedo joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Heedo!
6/23/2026 Yechan was awarded the Presidential Science Scholarship funded by the Korea Student Aid Foundation. Congrats Yechan!
6/1/2026 Junghoon and Hanjoo joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome Junghoon and Hanjoo!
5/26/2026 Heesun successfully defended her Master's degree thesis, titled "Multi-year variability of Water-Soluble and Water-Insoluble Brown Carbon in PM2.5 over the Seoul Metropolitan Area". Congrats!
5/22/2026 "Secondary Brown Carbon Formation from Furans Oxidation via Hydroxyl Radicals" was recognized as a top-viewed article in Geophysical Research Letters among the articles published in the year 2024!
3/3/2026 Heeseong and Seho joined the group as MS student researchers. Welcome Heeseong and Seho!
1/5/2026 Yechan joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Yechan!
9/1/2025 Hee Yeon joined the group as an MS student researcher. Welcome Hee Yeon!
8/28/2025 Dr. Joo was invited to give a talk at the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry's 2025 Annual Meeting about "From Smog Chamber to Mass Spec: Real-Time Hard- and Soft-Ionization Insights into Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation". Check out this LINK to see the talk!
5/23/2025 Dr. Joo was invited to give a talk at the Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment's 2025 Spring Symposium about "Oxidation of Ozone Precursors and Secondary Pollutants Formation Mechanism". It is covered in Today Energy, "KOSAE Hosts 2025 Symposium at Korea University."
1/6/2025 Heeseong, Nayeon, and Jaekyeong joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome all!
11/19/2024 We captured severe changes in air quality and evaluated health effects when Canadian Wildfire smoke heavily affected the Northeastern United States in May and June 2023. Check out the article covered in the Yale Engineering article "Smoke changes over time and distance, but health risks remain."
9/2/2024 Hee Sun joined the group as an MS student researcher. Welcome Hee Sun!
7/1/2024 Jihoon and Hyunseo joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome Jihoon and Hyunseo!
3/21/2024 Dr. Joo was invited to give a talk at AGU's Early-Career Science Seminar Series about "Aged and obscured wildfire smoke associated with downwind health risks during 2023 Canadian Wildfires in NYC". Check out this LINK to see the talk!
3/4/2024 Dr. Joo joined the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Korea University as an Assistant Professor starting today.