Autumn 2024: Oct. 8: Becky gives a talk on Ursula’s work at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user meeting in Richland, WA.

Summer 2024: Sep. 20: Drew gives their “end-of-first-year” talk. July 29 – August 2: Becky presents at the Telluride, CO “Recent Advances in Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry” Workshop. June 27: Alli presents at the NW-AIRQUEST 2024 Annual Meeting.

Spring 2024: June 10-14. Yuk Chun, Ursula, and Alli present at the 11th International GEOS-Chem Users’ meeting (IGC11) in St. Louis, MO. May 30-31: Becky presents at the ICECAP workshop in Atlanta, GA. May 24: Alyssa presents at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium. May 20: Ursula is selected as a Schmidt Science Fellowship Nominee! May 17: Alyssa and Marky present at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. May 15-17: Ursula and Becky Present at the 3rd US Ice Core Community Meeting in Portland, ME. April 15: Alyssa is selected as a summer intern in the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) and Marky is selected for the DINO Summer Internship Program!

Winter 2024: March 18: Becky gives a talk in MIT’s Program on Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC) Colloquium. February 14: Shuting’s paper is accepted to GRL!

Autumn 2023: December 11-15: Ursula, Alli, and Becky present at the AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA. December 11. Alyssa was awarded a Mary Gates Scholarship! December 8: Alli officially passes her Ph.D. qualifying exam! December 7: Shuting successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Zhai! November 13: See the UW press release for Ursula’s PNAS paper. October 18: Ursula’s paper is accepted to PNAS! October 5: Shuting’s paper is accepted to JGR! September 28: Alli’s paper is accepted to ES&T – Air!

Summer 2023: September 13: Becky is selected as AGU’s 2023 recipient of the Future Horizons in Climate Science – Turco Lectureship. August 18: Alyssa presents her summer research project at the SURP symposium. July 31: Becky presents Alli’s work at the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry in Newry, ME. June 6: Alli presents her work at the 5th PACES Open Science meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

Spring 2023: June 9: Ling graduates with her bachelor’s degree from UW. June 7: Ursula’s paper is accepted to ERL. June 6: Yuk Chun passes his general exam. May 25: Becky returns from Summit, Greenland after successful ice-core drilling. May 23: Ling and Alyssa present their work at the Atmospheric Sciences Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium. May 19: Ling presents her work at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. May 8-10: Shuting and Ursula present their work at the US Ice Core Open Science Meeting in Seattle. May 8: Becky heads to Summit, Greenland to drill ice cores. April 3: Yuk Chun’s paper is accepted to GRL!

Winter 2023: March 15: Ursula and Becky are interviewed for KUOW’s Soundside. January 16 – February 12: A successful final Phase 2 of the Bermuda boundary Layer Experiment on the Atmospheric Chemistry of Halogens (BLEACH23)!

Autumn 2022: December 19: Ling is awarded the prestigious Mary Gates Scholarship! December 12-16: Ursula, Alli, and Ling present their work at the AGU meeting in Chicago.  December 6: Alli presents her results at the ALPACA team meeting. November 14: Ursula’s paper is accepted to GRL! October 2-7: Ursula gives a talk at the International Partnerships in Ice Core Science 3rd Open Science Conference in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. October 4: Becky gives an invited seminar in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia. September 23: Alli gives her “end-of-first-year” talk.

Summer 2022: August 24-26: Alli presents her results at the ALPACA data meeting in Baltimore, MD. August 18: Vanessa presents her work at the CICOES undergraduate intern symposium. July 18-22: Becky presents at the Telluride Workshop on New Insights into Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry in Telluride, CO. June 21: CICOES undergraduate intern Vanessa Martinez joins our group for the summer from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Welcome Vanessa!

Spring 2022: June 10: Alanna graduates with her B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences. Congratulations Alanna! June 6-10: Shuting, Yuk Chun, and Ursula present their work at the 10th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC10) in St. Louis. May 24-26: Ursula presents her work at the first annual US Ice Core Open Science Meeting. May 23: Becky heads to Bermuda to set up for the Bermuda boundary Layer Experiment on the Atmospheric Chemistry of Halogens (BLEACH) field campaign. Follow us on Twitter (#BLEACH22)! May 15-20: Yuk Chun presents his work at AbSciCon in Atlanta, GA. May 11: Shuting presents her work at the virtual CATCH (Cryosphere and ATmospheric CHemistry) Open Science Workshop. April 28: Becky gives a seminar in the EPA New Insights in Atmospheric Chemistry webinar series.

Winter 2022: March 1: Ursula earns her M.S. degree and passes her qualifying exam! January 16 – February 26: Successful completion of the ALPACA field campaign by Alli, Shuting, Yuk Chun, Ursula, Alanna, and Becky! (#ALPACA22, #ALPACA2022). January 5-8: Shuting and Ursula attend the Ice Core Early Career Researchers Workshop (ICECReW).

Autumn 2021: December 13-17:  Shuting, Yuk Chun, Ursula, and Alanna present their work at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans. November 10:Ursula presents her research in the department seminar for her Ph.D. qualifying exam. October 22: Becky gives a talk for the Frontiers in Atmospheric Chemistry Seminar Series (FACSS). September 30: Becky gives a seminar in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University.

Summer 2021: September 20: Becky gives a talk at the NCAR ACOM seminar series. September 13-15: Shuting presents at the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Conference. July 20: Our paper with Hannah Horowitz was one of the top 10% most downloaded papers in GRL in 2020! June 21: New graduate student Alli Moon arrives at the UW. Welcome Alli! June 20: Shuting’s paper is accepted to GRL!

Spring 2021: June 7: Shuting passes her general exam! May 26:  Ursula gives a talk at the PACES Open Science meeting. May 11: Shuting presents her work at the Hercules Dome Ice Core Workshop and Open Science Meeting. April 21: Yuk Chun’s paper is accepted to JGR!

Winter 2021: March 10: Yuk Chun officially passes his COGS exam! February 22: Becky and Rob Wood give a talk on Geoengineering at the NASA Goddard Applied Sciences Seminar Series. January 11: Yuk Chun gives his Ph.D.-qualifying exam presentation (COGS) to the department.

Autumn 2020: December 14: Shuting and Yuk Chun present their work at the virtual AGU meeting. November 16: Ursula presents her work at the “Sulfur in the Earth System” meeting. September 29: Ursula gives her “end-of-first-year” talk. September 28: Becky gives an invited seminar at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland.

Summer 2020: July 14:  Shuting presents her work at the virtual ICECAP (ICE core Chemistry And Proxies) workshop. June 22:Yuk Chun’s proposal to Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology is recommended for funding. Congratulations Yuk Chun!

Spring 2020: May 4: Shuting officially passes her qualifying (COGS) exam. Congratulations Shuting! April 22: Happy Earth Day! Becky discusses geoengineering (virtually) with 8th graders. April 16: Becky is interviewed about air pollution, climate change, and COVID-19 on “A Light in the Dark” podcast (Also featured on April 22 podcast). March 31: Becky’s paper is published today in ACP.

Winter 2020: March 18: Becky discusses geoengineering (virtually) with 7th graders.  March 4: Becky gives an invited seminar in the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center at UC Berkeley. February 10: Shuting gives a seminar in the department for her COGS exam. January 28: Hannah’s paper is accepted to GRL!  January 12-16: Hannah gives an invited talk at the AMS meeting in Boston, MA.

Autumn 2019: December 9-13: Hannah, Shuting, Yuk Chun, and Becky attend and present at the AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA.  December 7: Becky gives a keynote talk at the Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry Open Science Workshop in Berkeley, CA. December 4: Becky gives an invited talk at the International Aerosol Modeling Algorithms Conference in Davis, CA. November 26: UW IsoLab is featured in the College of the Environment newsletter.  October 1-3: Becky attends the Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions workshop in Sterling, VA.  September 25-26: Becky gives a presentation at the AQUARIUS workshop in Salt Lake City, UT.

Summer 2019: September 20: Becky is announced as the new Director of the UW Program on Climate Change!  September 16: New graduate student Ursula Jongebloed arrives at the UW.  Welcome Ursula! September 11-13: Hannah and Becky attend the UW Program on Climate Change Summer Institute at Friday Harbor, WA.  August 7: Becky gives a Keynote talk at the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative workshop in Hong Kong.  July 28 – August 2: Hannah and Becky attend and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry in Newry, Maine. July 26 – 28: Hannah attends the Atmospheric Chemistry Conference for Emerging Senior Scientists in NY.  July 22 – August 2: Shuting attends the Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Atmospheric Aerosols.  July 15: Undergraduate student Shana Edouard joins the group.  Welcome Shana! June 24: Hannah accepts a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.  Congratulations Hannah!

Spring 2019: May 29-30: Shuting and Becky host and present at the ICECAP workshop at the UW. May 6-9: Hannah, Shuting, Yuk Chun and Becky present at the 9th International GEOS-Chem Users’ Meeting (IGC9) in Cambridge, MA.  May 3:  Hannah Horowitz and alumnus Qianjie Chen were accepted to the Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS)!  April 24: Hannah presents her work at the SOLAS Conference in Japan and wins and early career presentation award.  April 17: Jingyuan’s paper is accepted to ACP, and was selected to be highlighted!

Winter 2019: Jan. 14: Hannah gives a seminar in the department on her research.

Autumn 2018: Dec. 10-14: Hannah presents her and Alicia’s work at the AGU meeting in Washington, D.C.  Dec. 3: Becky gives a seminar at the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute at Michigan Tech.  Nov. 30: The ALPACA whitepaper is released.  Nov. 1: Becky presents Jingyuan’s work at the Air Pollution Extremes Workshop at Columbia University.  Sep. 24: Shuting gives a talk on her research in the department.

Summer 2018: Sep. 21: Alicia gives a poster presentation at the Space Grant Awards REception and Poster Session at the UW.  Sep. 7: Qianjie’s paper is accepted to ACP!  August 16: Ava presents her research at the JISAO summer intern symposium.  July 23-27: Becky Alexander presents at the workshop on “New Insights into Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry” in Telluride, CO. June 26-28: Becky Alexander and Shuting Zhai attend the ICECAP project science team meeting at the University of Rochester. June 18: Undergraduate research fellows Alicia Wright and Ava Krahn begin their summer research. Welcome, Alicia and Ava!

Spring 2018: May 30-31: Hannah Horowitz and Becky Alexander attend the NSF ATC PI meeting in Boulder, CO.  May 15: Alicia Wright is awarded a summer research grant from the Washington Space Grant Summer Undergraduate Research Program! May 14-16: Becky Alexander participates in the ALPACA workshop in Fairbanks, AK. April 18: Becky Alexander gives a seminar in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UCLA.  April 2: John Robinson successfully defends his master’s thesis.  Congratulations John!  March 25-28: Becky Alexander presents at the International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI 2018) in Baton Rouge, LA.

Autumn 2017: December 11-15: Hannah Horowitz, Qianjie Chen and Jingyuan Shao present their work at the AGU meeting in New Orleans, LA.  December 7: Becky Alexander gives a talk at the IAMA conference in Davis, CA.  December 1: Alumna Maria Zatko was elected co-director of the board of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association.  November 3: Qianjie Chen successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis.  Congratulations Qianjie! October 16: Visiting student Sakiko Ishino from Tokyo Institute of Technology arrives at the UW.  Welcome Sakiko!

Summer 2017: September 15: Qianjie Chen gives a talk at the University of Michigan.  September 11: New graduate student Shuting Zhai arrives at the UW.  Welcome Shuting!  August 17: Laura Moore gives a presentation for JISAO on her summer research project.  July 31: Becky Alexander gives a poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry in Sunday River, ME.  July 13: Today is science-a-thon sponsored by ESWN.  Check out Becky’s day on twitter @BeckySuess #DayOfScience. June 22: Qianjie’s paper is accepted to GRL! June 19: Laura Moore arrives at the UW for her summer research internship.  Welcome Laura!

Spring 2017: May 30. Arielle gives a talk about her internship experience with us at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences.  May 19. Becky Alexander gives a talk in the department colloquium. May 17. Lei’s paper is published on line in Nature!  The print version will be available June 1.  Read about it here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) May 1-4: Qianjie Chen, Hannah Horowitz and Jingyuan Shao present their work at the 8th International GEOS-Chem Users’ Meeting in Cambridge, MA.  April 24: High-school student Arielle Isaacs begins her 5-week internship in our group. Welcome Arielle! April 19: Becky Alexander gives a talk at the CATCH (the Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry) Workshop in Guyancourt, France.  April 3: New postdoctoral fellow Hannah Horowitz arrives at the UW.  Welcome Hannah!

Winter 2017: February 3: Becky Alexander gives an invited seminar at the University of Rochester.  January 24-25: Qianjie Chen and John Robinson present their work at the meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Seattle.

Autumn 2016: December 12-16: Qianjie Chen presents his research at the AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA.  December 8: Qianjie Chen passes his general exam. November 15: Visiting Ph.D. student from Peking University, Jingyuan Shao, arrives at the UW.  Welcome Jingyuan! October 4: Becky Alexander gives a keynote talk at the 8th International Symposium on Isotopomers in Nantes France.  October 1: Maria’s paper is accepted to Atmos. Chem. Phys.! September 27: Becky Alexander gives a presentation at the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project meeting in Breckenridge, CO.

Summer 2016: August 24: Qianjie Chen’s paper is accepted to ACP!  July 19: Becky Alexander gives a talk at the Telluride Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry meeting. July 1: Becky Alexander gives a talk at the Goldschmidt conference in Yokohama, Japan. June 27: John Robinson goes to the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, CO to prepare WAIS Divide samples for shipment to the UW.

Winter 2016: March 7: Qianjie Chen gives a talk in the Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Seminar.  February 11: Maria Zatko’s paper is accepted to Atmos. Chem. Phys.!  February 4: Visiting Ph.D. student Erwann Legendre arrives at the UW from  Sorbonne University in Paris, France.  Welcome Erwann!   January 28: Lei Geng is awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship to work with Joel Savarino at the LGGE/CNRS in Grenoble, France.  Congratulations again Lei!   January 7: Lei Geng is awarded the “1000 Young Talent Program”, and will take a position at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, China.  Congratulations Lei!

Fall 2015: New graduate student John Robinson arrives at the UW.  Welcome John!  December 20: Qianjie Chen gives a talk at Pacifichem 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii.  November 6: Maria Zatko received the PNWIS-AWMA Excellence in Presentation for Young Professionals award at the Pacific Northwest International Section of the Air and Waste Management Association 55th Annual Conference!

Summer 2015: August 21: Claire Buysse gives a poster presentation on her work this summer for JISAO.  August 10: Maria Zatko successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation.  Congratulations Maria!! August 3-7: Becky Alexander presents Qianjie Chen’s work at the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry in Waterville Valley, NH.  July 20: Ploy’s paper is published in ACP.  July 14: Visiting undergraduate student “Susan” Chenyun Su arrives at the UW from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.  Welcome Susan!  June 22: A warm welcome to our JISAO undergraduate summer intern Claire Buysse!

Spring 2015:  June 15: Lei Geng’s paper is accepted to GRL! May 15: Lauren Easley presents her research at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. May 5: Becky Alexander and Loretta Mickley’s (Harvard) review paper is published on line in Current Pollution Reports.  See our publications page for more information. May 4-7: Maria Zatko gives a talk and Qianjie Chen and Becky Alexander (stepping in for Lei Geng) give a poster at the 7th International GEOS-Chem Users’ Meeting (IGC7) in Cambridge, MA.  May 2-9: Lei Geng gives an invited talk at the New Generation of Polar Researchers (NGPR) Leadership Symposium in Catalina Island, CA. April 6:  Qianjie Chen passes his Ph.D. qualifying (COGS) exam.  Congratulations Qianjie!  March 21: Becky Alexander gives a talk at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, China.

Winter 2015:  March 17: Becky Alexander gives a talk at the Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute in Lanzhou, Gansu, China.  February 12: Visiting student Pengzhen He from the University of Science and Technology of China arrives at the UW!  Lei Geng is selected to attend the New Generation of Polar Researchers (NGPR) Leadership Symposium in May in Catalina Island, CA!  Becky Alexander is awarded a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Visiting Scientists to work with Professor Ninglian Wang at the Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute!

Autumn 2014: Check out IsoLab’s new website!  December 16: Lei Geng’s paper is published in Atmos. Chem. Phys.  Congrats Lei! Week of December 15: Lei Geng and Maria Zatko are both presenting at the AGU meeting in San Francisco this week.  Lei is giving two talks (one invited), and Maria is presenting a poster.  December 2: Lei Geng’s paper is accepted to Atmos. Chem. Phys.  Congratulations Lei!  November 21: Becky Alexander gives an invited talk at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.  November 17: Lei Geng gives a talk in the department’s Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry seminar series.  November 4: Becky Alexander gives an invited talk in Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.  October 13-15: Maria Zatko and Becky Alexander attend the workshop on Chemical Atmosphere-Snow-Sea Ice Interactions in Cambridge, U.K., where Becky gave an invited talk and Maria gave two poster presentations on her work on snow photochemistry in Antarctica and Utah.  September 22-24: Lei Geng and Becky Alexander attend the WAIS Divide Science Meeting in La Jolla, CA where Lei presents his research on sea salt aerosol concentration in the WAIS Divide ice core.

Summer 2014: A warm welcome to our two summer undergraduate researchers Lauren Easley (UW) and Madeline Camp (Rice University).  Check out Maddie’s great write up and video on the JISAO web site.

Spring 2014: April 8, 2014: Lei Geng’s paper was published today in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.  Congrulations Lei!  Check out the press release (April 11, 2014) on UW Today and our publications page for more information.  Click here for a list of press coverage so far!  Also check out the article from April 17, 2014 on Environmental Research Web, and a podcast (see “Clean Air Act Success”) posted on April 23, 2014.  Click here for the May 9, 2014 article in the student-run UW Daily.