Weekly Report for the Week of April 7, 2008
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CODE 613 LABORATORY FOR ATMOSPHERES
Awards and Honors
The following Laboratory members were recipients of the 2008 NASA Honor Awards.
Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal: Gerry Heymsfield (613.1)
Exceptional Achievement Medal : Steve Platnick (613.2)
Outstanding Leadership Medal: Si-Chee Tsay (613.2)
Group Achievement Award: OMI Science Processing System
Education and Outreach
Ali Tokay (613.1/ JCET) attended a master’s degree defense at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette as a committee member on Thursday, April 3.
Steven Platnick (613.2) was an invited speaker at the University of Virginia, Dept. of Environmental Sciences Seminar Series, April 7-9, 2008, Charlottesville, VA.
Travel
Si-Chee Tsay (613.2) participated in the International Asian Monsoon Year (AMY) 2008 Aerosol Cloud Interaction Observations as part of the DoE/ ARM studies on the Asian dust and mega-city aerosols long-range transport, April 9-21, 2008, Beijing, China.
Field Campaigns
Ralph Kahn (613.2) and Lorraine Remer (613.2) participated in the ARCTAS (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites) spring deployment, April 4-18, 2008, Fairbanks, Alaska. ARCTAS is the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The Arctic is particularly susceptible to global change. It is where warming has been strongest over the past century, accelerating over the past decades. It is an atmospheric receptor of pollution from the northern mid-latitude continents, as manifested in particular by thick aerosol layers ("arctic haze"). ARCTAS is part of a larger interagency and international IPY effort collectively identified as POLARCAT (Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport).
Seminars
S.K. Satheesh, ORAU Senior Fellow and Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, "Excess Absorption by Elevated Aerosol Layers over India", April 2, 2008.
Items of Note
"MODIS View of the Global Aerosol System and 2007 Anomalies"
URL: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/viewImage.php?id=230
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