Our collaborators at the University of Colorado Boulder have some excellent new work on chamber experiments for oxidation of "D5" decamethylcyclopentasiloxane.

Our final report is out. By Stanier, Arinze Okoye, Sheng (Jerry) Wang, and Addi O'Grady.

Professor Jennifer Fiegel and I co-authored a presentation on the teaching assistant training we do in Chemical Engineering at the University of Iowa -- focusing on skills development, role playing as a way of training, and developing rapport with students.

On Wednesday, July 24, 2024 the Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy held a webinar on wildfire smoke in Iowa. We have posted a recording of the event here.

Saeideh Mohammadi, Chris Brunet, and Behrooz Roozitalab at the Community Earth System Model Workshop at the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and PM2.5 estimation from observation-model machine learning fusion over S. Korea: Influence of observation density, chemical transport model resolution, and geostationary remotely sensed AOD

Led by Chris Brunet of Heri Hornbuckle's research group, this paper summarizes the VMS measurements from the rooftop field campaign in summer 2022 at CUNY in Manhattan, specifically in Harlem. The title is "Concentrations of Volatile Methyl Siloxanes in New York City Reflect Emissions from Personal Care and Industrial Use"

This paper, led by Jeewani Meepage in Betsy Stone's group, looks at the series of siloxanol aerosols formed from oxidation of decamethylpentasiloxane (D5), a common ingredient in personal care products. Samples from New York City ambient air are compared to laboratory oxidation products.