Group News
2024
December
Three lab members will be attending the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington DC. If you will be there, please come and check out their presentations at:
- Emily, Monday morning,
- Lixu, Monday afternoon,
- Damien, Tuesday afternoon,
- Damien, Tuesday afternoon,
- Lixu, Friday morning,
October
Our SuperVan (Mobile Atmospheric Chemistry Lab, or MAC Lab) is ready for field deployment! Led by Wade and Lu T., the lab is sampling prescribed burns out of the Lubrecht Experimental Forest as part of the . We are on fire!
September
Lu presents at the .
August
Great timing that Emily's first paper based on our 2022 SLC data has . Congrats Emily! Check it out here. Together with additional field data collected this summer by the mobile lab and 2025 by UWy King Air aircraft, they will help inform the air quality policy in SLC.
July
Lu T., Emily, Wade, and Lu are part of the to study urban photochemistry and pollution sources in Salt Lake City. It is a joint effort with NOAA, Colorado State U, U of Wyoming, U of Utah, etc, and we are co-deploying several mobile laboratories, aircraft, and other ground fixed monitoring stations. Enjoy some field photos below.
June
Hu group gives five presentations at the .
May
Harvest season!
- Congrats Emily for winning an honorable mention of the NSF GRFP award!
- Congrats Joseph, Mercedes, and Emily for winning various departmental awards for their excellence in academics and research.
April
Congrats Joseph and Mercedes for giving their first conference presentations at the UM Conference on Undergraduate Research! And, Joseph won the Best Oral Presentation in Physical Sciences!
March
Wade and Emily present our work about urban VOC sources in SLC at the
2023
December
Hu group gives 4 presentations at the AGU Fall Meeting this year. Hope to see you there.
- Lu Tan presents "
- Wade presents "
- Lu Hu presents "
- Emily presents on Friday
October
Wade's paper on missing organic acid sources is highlighted by .
Lixu and Damien present at the in Seattle, WA.
August
Lixu's new publication is highlighted in the
Wade delivers the keynote at the 猎奇重口 ACS summer meeting in Helena, MT!
June
Damien presents his work on indoor air pollutants in Helsinki, Finland.
The group gives five presentations at in Bozeman, MT.
May
We will be part of the and will lead the field study of prescribed fire emissions and chemistry. Looking forward to the large collaborative project for the next 5 years!
Joseph has been awarded a and joins us as an undergraduate researcher. He will work on installing a weather and air quality station at our local science museum this summer!
April
Lixu is awarded the Departmental Shafizadeh Memorial Scholarship for wood chemistry. Damien receives the travel award from the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) to travel to the Air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies Open Science meeting in Helsinki, Finland in June. Congrats, Lixu and Damien!
March
Emily and Lu present our recent work at the Air Quality Science for Solution meeting in Salt Lake City. Check out the presentations .
February
was among the top cited articles 2021-2022 in JGR: Atmosphere. Congrats Wade!
2022
December
Hu Group leads five presentations at the AGU 2022 Fall Meeting in Chicago, including two invited talks:
August
Lixu and Damien participate in the SAMOZA field campaign in Salt Lake City to study summertime ozone formation.
Congrats Lu for winning the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for wildfire smoke research!
June
Lixu and Damien participate in the .
Group members Amy, Sree, Lixu, and Lu present at the 10th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC10) in St. Louis, MO. Presentation slides are posted on .
January
Vanessa and Damien are leading our group effort participating in the to study the chemistry and emissions in Fairbanks, AK. .
2021
December
It is AGU time! We have 3 group members showcasing in 5 presentations:
- Wade Permar presents on Wednesday PM on his work on OH reactivity in fire smoke:
- Amy Christiansen presents on Monday (13:30 PM) on long term trend of global NOx emissions:
- Amy will also present Tuesday (13:30 PM) on long term global tropospheric O3 trend:
- Vanessa Selimovic presents Monday (7 AM) on Arctic biogenic VOC emissions:
- Vanessa's Wednesday (3 PM) presentation will be on How well can a global model represent regional smoke and assess continental-scale impacts of fires?
May
Wade's paper on was just accepted! Amy and Vanessa were both invited to attend ! Keri graduated with summa cum laude and two B.s. degrees! Just wow! Congrats, everyone! It's an honor to work with you all!
April
Lu gave an invited talk on our recent WE-CAN wildfire study at .
March
Congratulations to Damien Ketcherside on receiving an Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation's 2021 Graduate Research Fellowship Program! UM News Release: /news/2021/03/033121nsfa.php
February
Wade won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the AGU Fall Meeting 2020. Congrats, Wade!
January
Sree presented preliminary results of the TEMPO project at the AMS meeting. Catie successfully defended her master degree. Congrats, Catie!
2020
Rest of 2020
The COVID pandemic has brought challenges for everyone. Well we don't want to just skip this year. The group gave 5 AGU Fall Meeting presentations. More importantly, we welcomed 3 amazing women scientists to the group this year! More exciting science to come:
- leads our effort on studying factors controlling the long term trend of global tropospheric ozone;
- leads our effort in examining sources of VOCs in the Arctic and in Missoula;
- takes the group's interests to space and leads our TEMPO project.
February
Congrats to Keri and Wade, who won INBRE Travel Award grants to attend national conferences! Keri will be presenting at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Bozeman, MT this March, and Wade will be presenting at the 3rd International Smoke Symposium in Raleigh, NC this April.
2019
December
to study the capability of a to-be-launched geostationary satellite, The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO), for monitoring VOC emissions from fire smoke! To learn more about TEMPO, here is the .
October
Damien gives an oral presentation about the air toxins in Missoula at the 2019 NIH IDeA Western Regional Conference, Las Vegas, NV. This work is funded by .
September
to study the long term trend of global tropospheric ozone! This project is in collaboration with the group at Harvard. We are looking to hire a postdoc for this exciting work; details are .
August
Wade, Damien, and Ahsan participate in the field campaign at Mt. Bachelor Observatory, jointly with our awesome collaborators at U Washington ( and groups) and UC Davis ( group).
May-June
Catie leads the field deployment of our PTR-ToF-MS in the Arctic at Toolik Field Station in Alaska. We are there to study how the warming climate affects biogenic VOCs emitted from Arctic tundra, together with collaborators from the group of CU Boulder and the group of U Minnesota. Looking forward to analyzing this unique dataset! Check out more field photos at our and .
April
Emi presents at on her laboratory burning experiments of fire retardant.
Wade, Catie, and Ahsan give updates on wildfire smoke analyses and present at in Boulder, CO.
January
Three members of the HU group present at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
- Wade:
- Catie:
- Lu:
2018
September
We took 7 students from CHMY595 Atmospheric Chemistry class on a field trip to fly in the C-130 research aircraft and visit National Center for Atmospheric Research laboratories in Colorado. This educational flight and our research efforts on western wildfire smoke are reported by . Other reports include , and . More photos of the educational flight are posted on .
August
Hu group is in Boise, ID this month, participating in the WE-CAN field campaign and chasing wildfire smoke in the whole western U.S. Looking forward to great science coming out of this awesome dataset!
June
Wade and Lu are back to the NCAR Research Aviation Facility in Broomfield, CO for PTR-TOF-MS installation to the NSF/NCAR C-130 research aircraft, in preparation for . Four group members (Wade, Catie, Qian, and Lu) will be joining a large science team chasing wildfire plumes this summer in Boise, ID.
May
Wade receives the departmental Fred Shafizadeh Memorial Scholarship for excellence in wood (or smoke) chemistry. Congrats, Wade!
We receive UM UGP Seed Grant to bring our PTR-TOF-MS to Alaska to study biogenic VOCs in the Arctic.
Lu attends two workshops this month: in Boulder, CO, and ALaskan in Fairbanks, AK.
April
We receive UM's 2018-2019 The Toelle-Bekken Family Memorial Fund for 'Bringing a flying laboratory into a classroom at UM: a creative curriculum for analytical/environmental chemistry'. This grant will partially support a field trip for students in CHMY 595 Atmospheric Chemistry to NCAR in Boulder, Colorado. CHMY 595 will be offered in this fall.
A joint postdoctoral position to investigate smoke plume chemistry is available immediately.
January
We are hosting several atmospheric chemistry and air quality seminars in the spring semester.
2017
December
and present at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA. The photo below: Wade explains how atmospheric mixing height evolution affects wildfire smoke pollution in a city.
November
Lu's paper on global tropospheric ozone is featured at the .
Wade and Lu complete a successful test flight. Our PTR-TOF-MS is getting ready for airborne VOC measurements next summer! Photos below: C130 aircraft about to take off, and instruments installed in C130 for the test flights.
August
: Where Discoveries Begin. Wade and Lu go to Broomfield CO for instrument installment and testing in the . The photo below: Qian and Wade are loading the instrument into a U-Haul truck.
July
gets funded. We are going to Alaska in 2019!
Lu attends , and Wade attends the , both in Boulder, CO.
June
Our wildfire field campaign is in the and reported by the . Other related reports include , , .
May
Wade receives the travel grant to attend the NCAR ACCORD fire workshop.
Lu presents at in Cambridge MA.
March
Lu gives an invited talk at the UMT Geosciences department.
gets funded. We are going to be in the airborne phase!
January
Lu presents at the in Seattle, WA.
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