Past Events

AirUCI's Internal Symposium group has scheduled their next meeting for December 16th, 2021 from 12:30 to 1:30.  This will be a hybrid meeting held in Rowland Hall room 390 and also via Zoom https://uci.zoom.us/j/99138396039.  These meetings for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists are an excellent opportunity to practice presentations, to learn about AirUCI-related research, and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs.  Dr. Veronique Perraud from the Finlayson-Pitts group will be presenting, "A tale of two...

AirUCI's Internal Symposium group has scheduled their next meeting for November 18th, 2021 from 12:30 to 1:30.  This will be a hybrid meeting held in Rowland Hall room 390 and also via Zoom.  These meetings for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists are an excellent opportunity to practice presentations, to learn about AirUCI-related research, and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs. 
 
Audrey Odwuor from the Czimczik and Randerson groups will be presenting, "Using radiocarbon measurements of PM2.5 to constrain fuel consumption in western U.S. wildfires."  In...

AirUCI's Internal Symposium group has scheduled their next meeting for October 28th, 2021 from 12:30 to 1:30.  This will be a hybrid meeting held in Rowland Hall room 390 and also via Zoom.  These meetings for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists are an excellent opportunity to practice presentations, to learn about AirUCI-related research, and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs.  Speaker and topic TBD.

AirUCI's Internal Symposium group has scheduled their first autumn meeting for October 14th, 2021 from 12:30 to 1:30.  This will be a hybrid meeting held in Rowland Hall room 390 and also via Zoom.  These meetings for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists are an excellent opportunity to practice presentations, to learn about AirUCI-related research, and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs.  Adam Thomas from the Smith Group will be presenting, "Size-resolved molecular characterization of secondary organic nanoparticles by ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry" and Alyssa...

On Wednesday, October 13th, AirUCI's AAAR student chapter is hosting a practice event for the upcoming AAAR Fall Meeting 2021 from 2:00-3:00 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.  For those who are registered to give a presentation at the meeting, this is an opportunity to practice before an audience.  Please come prepared to practice your 1-2 minute elevator pitch that you will prepare for the live component of the meeting.  Bring your computer devices if you plan to show slides.
 
For those who are not a presenter, you are invited to come support our speakers and to have an...

AirUCI Associate Researcher Murat Aydin will present an Earth System Science lecture on October 13th at 3:30 pm in the Jenkins Room (Reines Hall room 310).  The talk is entitled "Atmospheric carbonyl sulfide for the last 52,500 years from a South Pole ice core" and can also be attended in the Virtual Meeting Room | MID 912 0170 3900.

AirUCI's AAAR student chapter will host an outdoor, in-person welcome back social to kick off the new school year.  This event is to be held on Thursday, September 30th from 4 - 6 PM in the Natural Sciences II Courtyard.  Students and other researchers are invited to come meet friends and colleagues over snacks, drinks, and games.

AirUCI's newest Fulbright Fellow, Dr. Thomas Colin Preston, will present a lecture on Tuesday, September 28th at 3:30 in the ISEB auditorium, room 1010.  The lecture is entitled "Cavity-enhanced Raman scattering from optically trapped microdroplets".  Dr. Preston is from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University in Quebec and will be with us through the end of 2021.

AirUCI Co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was among the panelists discussing climate issues and research at a Solutions That Scale event for a group of UCI supporters who are interested in environmental research.  Along with Prof. Eric Rignot (Earth System Science), Prof. Richard Matthew (Urban Planning/Public Policy), and Paul Hawken (author, environmentalist, activist), Barbara spoke about air quality and atmospheric changes that affect our climate. The event was moderated by Prof. James Bullock, Dean of UCI's School of Physical Sciences...

The City of Irvine is holding a virtual town hall on Wednesday, August 18th at 6:30pm featuring AirUCI Co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts.  The meeting, entitled Quality of Life: Air, is meant to inform residents about the issues related to air quality and climate change.  It will be held via Zoom and all are welcome to attend.   Please RSVP here or visit the Facebook Event Page via this link FB event page for your...