- 7/1/2022- Warm welcome to Brad as our newest group member :) So happy you decided to pursue your MS degree at UCR, Brad!
- 6/24/2022- Got to take a trip down to Salton Sea with the 2022 SARP Aerosol and WAS groups and U. of Houston's Mobile Van and ozonesonde launcher! It was scorching hot!!
- 12/9/2021- So excited to finally meet the NASA 2020-2021 SARP students in Palmdale! The Aerosol Groups are even more fun in person :) Alex MacDonald (2020 Aerosol mentor, now at UCR) and Eva-Lou Edwards (2021 Aerosol mentor, U. Arizona) did a superb job flying on the DC8 and taking care of the aerosol instruments! On the side, Alex also put together a nice presentation on the DC8 aerosol measurements.
- 10/1/2021- Excited to be part of the NSF- funded ASCENT team and collaborate with Drs. Sally Ng (GaTech), Ann Dilner (UC Davis), Ted Russell (GaTech), and PIs from 10 other universities in the US as well as NCAR to build the next generation of the online fine-aerosol monitoring network! My group's focus will be on instrumenting a site in Rubidoux, CA.
- 9/13/2021- Warm welcome to Alex MacDonald to join our group as a Postdoctoral scholar! Alex was also the Aerosol Group first SARP mentor and I'm super excited he'll be working with us during our upcoming projects!
- 6/14/2021- Excited to be part of SARP- 2021! We're gonna have a fun group of students working on aerosol- related research with Andreas Beyersdorf (CSU- SB), Eva- Lou, and myself!
- 6/11/2021- Congratulations to Nilofar for successfully defending her thesis and receiving her MS Degree!
- 5/18/2021- Very proud of Yumeng! We learned today that she was awarded the Sustainability Graduate Student Research support from the CNAS Dean's Office! Congrats Yumeng and many thanks to the generous donors!
- 3/26/2021- Congratulations to Yumeng for having results of her study on the influence of NOx, ammonia, and relative humidity on BrC formation published in ACS- Earth and Space Chemistry! Well done Yumeng :) (doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00353)
- 2/8/2021- Excited for Alex to have his paper on uncertainty analysis of aerosol refractive index retrievals accepted in AST! (doi: 10.1080/02786826.2021.1895428). Congratulations Alex!
- 6/20/2020- NASA's Summer Airborne Research Program (SARP-2020) started last week :) Roya, Andreas Beyersdrof (CSU-SB) and Alex MacDonald are excited to work with this smart and motivated group of students in the "Aerosol Group" during the next 7 weeks!
- 4/22/2020- Check out a short interview with KESQ about the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on local and global air quality. maybe we all can learn a lesson or two to adjust our activities when things are back to normal and reduce our emissions! https://kesq.com/news/2020/04/22/air-quality-has-seen-improvements-for-earth-day-2020-with-stay-at-home-orders-in-place-due-to-coronavirus/
- 3/30/2020- Happy to have Hossein Pazooki officially join the group this quarter! Welcome Hossein :)
- 11/21/2019- Our paper on oxidation of dimethyl selenide and toxicity of the resulting aerosol particles is published in EST :) Congratulations Sabbir! (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b04376)
- 9/18/2019- Bahreini's Aerosol Group is growing! Warm welcome to Rambod and Nilofar :)
- 7/24/2019- Alex's paper on source characterization of dust in Imperial Valley/Salton Sea is published in EST! Congrats to Alex :) (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.9b02137)
- 6/16/2019- Roya joins the 2019 NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) as a Faculty Mentor of the Aerosol Group.
- 5/31/2019- Congratulations Alex on defending your thesis :) We will miss you Dr. Frie!
- 5/14/2019- yeay! Justin's SOA optical properties paper is among the top 10 most downloaded articles in AST! Great work Justin :)
- 1/30/2019- Congratulations Alex and Huanhuan for having published their paper on nighttime formation of brown carbon aerosol! :) (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.9b00017)
- 1/8/2019- Congrats to Justin! His paper on SOA optical properties is published :) (https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9kqA7UfzEaENfgVZKsXw/full?target=10.1080/02786826.2019.1571680)
- 10/9/2018- Alexis is awarded the Marsh Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations Alexis!
- 9/24/2018- Warm welcome to Yumeng Cui as our new ENSC graduate student member!
- 7/5/2018- Alyssa Duro has joined the group for summer research through USDA's Fertile Future Internship program. Welcome Alyssa!
- 6/16/2018- Roya proudly hooded Justin at UCR's 64th commencement ceremony :) Justin is headed to Canada soon for a post-doc at U. of Toronto. We'll miss you Dr. Dingle!
- 6/4/2018- Justin Dingle successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congrats Justin! :)
- 12/2017- Alexis has been awarded the RISE Research Fellowship for Spring-Summer 2018. Congratulations Alexis!
- 11/2017- Justin Min has been selected to participate in DOE's Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program. He'll be working at Brookhaven National Lab, starting in Jan. 2018. Congratulations Justin!
- 10/17/2017- Stephen was recognized as a winner in the AAAR-2017 Student Poster Competition. Well done Stephen!
- 10/2017- Alex has received the Albert Marsh Environmental Sciences Travel Scholarship. Congratulations Alex!
- 10/2017- Stephen and Alex have received travel/student support to present at the annual AAAR meeting in Raleigh, NC in Oct.!
- 8/2017- Alex’s paper has been picked up in the media:
- 7/21/2017- Alex’s paper on his analysis of the Salton Sea samples is published in EST. Congratulations Alex!
- 9/27/2016- Kennedy’s paper on the influence of the Denver Cyclone on air quality in the Front Range is published in ACP. Congratulations Kennedy!
- 9/23/2016- Alex is awarded a scholarship from the Association of Environmental Professionals- Inland Empire Chapter. Congrats Alex!
- 9/12/2016- Justin’s paper on aerosol optical extinction during FRAPPÉ is published in ACP. Congratulations Justin!
- 3/11/2016- Kennedy successfully defended his Master’s Thesis! Well-done Kennedy!
- 1/2016- Warm welcome to Stephen, our new ENSC graduate student member!
- 7/2015- Warm welcome to Alex, our new ENSC graduate student member!
- 6/2014- Justin, Kennedy, and Roya are off to Colorado for integrating our instruments on the NSF C-130 aircraft as part of the FRAPPÉ project!
- 7/2013- Warm welcome to Kennedy, our new ENTX graduate student member!
- 2/2013- Welcome Justin to the group :)
