2026.2.6 - New project titled "Decision-Triggered Drone-Based Aerosol Sampling for PFAS and Aerosol Chemistry" has been funded. This is a one-year seed grant supported by ODU's Institute of Coastal Resilience and Adaptation.
2025. 11. 13 - Graduate student Anna Silver joined the group.
2025. 11. 5 - New preprint "Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean". https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686593v1
2025. 7. 1 - Postdoctal Scholar Dr. Kun Ma joined the research group.
2025. 6. 27 - We traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico to participate in the 2025 BATS validation cruise.
2025. 6. 23 - Ms. Jacole Hendrick joined our lab to complete an 8-week research experience for high-school teacher in chemistry.
2025. 4.15 - New project titled "Constraining the photoreactivity of particulate nitrate in atmospheric aerosols" was funded by ODU office of research and economic development's summer research fellowship program. This fund will partially support Dr. Zhu's summer research in the Atlantic Ocean.
2025.2.3 - New project titled "Stormwater-Influenced PFAS Sources and Transport Pathways: Investigation through
ROV-Based Sampling, Laboratory Analysis, and Mathematical Modeling" has been funded. This is a one-year seed grant supported by ODU's Institute of Coastal Resilience and Adaptation.
2024. 9. 28 - Graduate student Becca served as a science ambassador and led a booth at the ODU's Reign in the Science Day.
2024. 9.13 - Dr. Katie Halloran from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution visited us and gave an invited talk at the Chemistry & Biochemistry Seminar.
2024. 7. 25 - Dr. Zhu started as an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of ODU!