Congratulations to Zach McQueen who was recently awarded a NASA Post-doctoral Researcher Fellowship. Zach will be working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where will be conducting research on Titan's atmosphere.

Ryan, John and Geoff attended the annual meeting of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) where they each gave platform presentations: Ryan on interpreting the aethalometer DualSpot correction, John on coated black carbon particle analysis, and Geoff on clustering based on aerosol optical properties.

Congratulations to Chase, Zach, Ryan and all of our G-WISE collaborators on the publication of their paper, entitled "Brown Carbon Emissions from Biomass Burning under Simulated Wildfire and Prescribed-Fire Conditions".

Congratulations to Zach and all of our G-WISE collaborators on the publication of our paper, entitled "Optical Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols from Simulated Wildfires and Prescribed Fires with Representative Fuel Beds from the Southeast United States".

Sun explored how mass is lost and the UV-vis spectrum changes when humic acids are exposed to UV light. Read our paper: "Photolytic Mass Loss of Humic Substances Measured with a Quartz Crystal Microbalance".

Congratulations to Sun and all of our G-WISE collaborators on the publication of our paper, entitled "Aqueous photolysis of water-soluble brown carbon from simulated prescribed and wildfire biomass burning".

Congratulations to Zach, who defended his thesis entitled "Optical Characterization of Aerosol Particles using Ambient, in-situ Measurements and Biomass Burning Simulations".

The Smithlab participated in the aerosol sampling campaign at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography led by Prof. Amanda Frossard (UGA) and her group. Aerosol optical properties of marine and continental air masses were sampled.

Congratulations to Sun, who defended his thesis entitled "Characterization of Light Interaction with Atmospheric Aerosol: Scattering and Photo-reaction".

Zach and Ryan each presented talks at the AAAR meeting held in Portland, OR. Zach described his research on the optical properties of biomass burning aerosols produced under both wildfire and prescribed burning conditions from the G-WISE campaign. Ryan discussed his latest work on correcting the loading compensation of DualSpot aethalometers.