AirUCI graduate students, postdocs, and researchers from all our research groups will gather at the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center to discuss current research, potential projects, and career options on September 17-18, 2013. For additional information, please contact Mychel Varner or Melissa Sweet.
News
Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).
2013 Annual Teacher Workshop
Event Date:
Fri, 06/21/2013 - Wed, 07/03/2013
AirUCI's ninth annual Teacher Workshop will be held June 21 – July 3, 2013 on the UCI campus. View the class website
We are honored that our program has been cited as exemplary by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences, and that we've been highlighted in their publication entitled Strengthening High School Chemistry Education through Teacher Outreach Programs where the vital importance of public school chemistry teachers is discussed.
About the Course
This is an intensive Environmental Chemistry program, geared for science teachers in grades 9-12. We can accept 20 teachers into the class per year. Priority is given to teachers in districts local to UC Irvine and to high school teachers. View the brochure
The course includes morning lectures presented by leading researchers in the field of Atmospheric Chemistry and afternoon environmental analysis projects in our labs. Watch Dr. Laux teach one of our classes
For those with hypersensitivities to chemicals, please note that time is spent in laboratories each day, though we've only had one participant who had an issue with this in all the years we've held the course.
Download our Teacher Resources page Check out the ACS Climate Science Toolkit
The class is open to any qualifying teacher, but unfortunately AirUCI cannot provide assistance with lodging or transportation. For teachers outside our area, here is a list of local hotels that offer UCI rates, but we cannot make these arrangements.
Attending teachers receive:
- A $1,000 stipend
- University credit through UCI Extension
- Textbook valued at $140
- Class materials in print and CD format
- Lunch each day
- Free parking valued at $80
- Access to AirUCI researchers as a resource
For details about the workshop, please contact Professor Sergey Nizkorodov at 949-824-1262 or Melissa Sweet at 949-824-2628.
NOTE: The registration deadline for the 2013 course is May 1, 2013.
To register:
- Download and print the enrollment form.
- Fill out the form completely (and legibly, please!).
- Send the enrollment form by fax to 949-824-2420 ...OR
- Scan the enrollment form and send it by e-mail to msweet@uci.edu ...OR
- Send the enrollment form by post to:
Melissa Sweet
UCI Chemistry Dept
1102 Natural Sciences 2
Irvine, CA 92697-2025
(Phone 949-824-2628 or 949-824-1262 if you have trouble downloading the form—we'll get one to you right away!)
Please be sure to provide both home and school contact information, including phone numbers where you can be reached during the summer break.
The registration deadline for the 2013 course is May 1, 2013. Class size is limited to 20 teachers, but we will maintain a waiting list for this course and any late registrants will be placed on the waiting list for the following Summer Teacher Workshop.
Please spread the word to your colleagues. We hope you can join us!
Location:
UCI Campus. Visit the class website for additional information and for specific instructions.
AirUCI will host a lecture by Dr. Anne Monod of Aix-Marseille University, Laboratoire de Chimie de l’Environnement, CNRS in Marseille, France (and currently a CIRES visiting fellow at University of Colorado, Boulder). The seminar, entitled "Multiphase Organic Photochemistry in the Atmosphere", will be held on Thursday, June 6 at 11:30 am in Rowland Hall 390.
On Tuesday June 4th, Dr. Sampsa Riikonen of the University of Helsinki will present a talk entitled "Ionization of Nitric Acid in Ice Surface Defects." The seminar will be held in Rowland Hall 390 at noon.
On May 23, 2013, AirUCI will sponsor the high school awards dinner for the Orange County section of the American Chemical Society on campus, with introductory remarks by AirUCI's Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and keynote address by AirUCI's Matt Dawson. Scores of students are honored at this annual event, and we wish them the best as they continue their studies.
On Wednesday, May 15, Dr. Alexander Laskin of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will present a talk entitled “Probing chemistry of ambient SOA with nano-DESI high-resolution mass spectrometry”. The talk will be held at 3.30 in Rowland Hall 390. Dr. Laskin is one of our main AirUCI collaborators at PNNL.
On Monday, April 22, 2013, Professor Xin Yang of Fudan University in Shanghai, China will give a talk entitled “Aerosol Chemistry in Urban Atmosphere: Real-Time Single-Particle Measurements in Shanghai” from noon to 1:00 in 390 Rowland Hall.
Dr. Rachel O'Brien of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of the Pacific will present a seminar on April 2, 2013 at noon in Rowland Hall room 390. The title of her talk is "Chemical compositions and morphology of ambient atmospheric particles".
On March 12, 2013, Dr. Franz M. Geiger of Northwestern University will give a talk entitled “On the Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy of Terpenes and SOA Particles: From Isotope Labeling to Atmospheric Chemistry” at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.
Dr. Manubu Shiraiwa of Cal-Tech will present a talk on Tuesday, February 26th at noon in Rowland Hall room 390. The talk is entitled, "Modeling Multiphase Processes in Organic Aerosols: Gas Uptake, Aging, and SOA Partitioning."
