Dr. Gannet Hallar recently spoke at the Alta Summer Camp where she gave a talk about snow in the Wasatch Mountains. Campers had the opportunity to learn about different types of snowflakes and how to measure water content in snow all in the middle of the summer. The HART group values community engagement opportunities and …
Congratulations to Kai whose new paper titled “Wildfire plumes in the Western US are reaching greater heights and injecting more aerosols aloft as wildfire activity intensifies” was accepted for publication in Nature’s Scientific Reports. In this paper, a novel, decadal-scale plume rise climatology demonstrates that wildfire plumes in the Western US are reaching higher altitudes …
Kai’s Paper Published in Nature’s Scientific Reports and Featured in LA Times Read More »
A prestigious grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded funding to the HART group to continue research analyzing whether aerosols from new particle formation events become cloud condensation nuclei and thus potentially impact cloud formation. The project, which is a collaboration with investigators from SUNY Albany, the University of Colorado, and the University …
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Noah Hirshorn successfully defended his thesis on May 26 titled “The Impacts of New Particle Formation on Cloud Condensation Nuclei at Storm Peak Laboratory”. As part of his M.S., Noah worked with aerosol data, cloud condensation nuclei data, trace gas data, and developed automatic methods to classify new particle formation and the potential impact on …
On May 24, Kai Wilmot successfully defended his dissertation titled “Quantifying the Impact of Wildfires on Air Quality in Western United States Urban Centers” which is the culmination of his three years at the University of Utah. The dissertation consists of three separate manuscripts: “Expanding number of Western US urban centers face declining summertime air …
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While the University of Utah isn’t the closest university to an ocean, that doesn’t stop previous HART group member Jordann Brendecke from successfully pursuing research focused on maritime aerosol. Jordann, a HART member from 2017 to 2018, is the first author of a recently accepted publication titled “Maritime Aerosol and CCN profiles derived from ship-based …
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Storm Peak Laboratory in Steamboat Springs, CO is hosting a field campaign studying mixed-phase clouds which are composed of both water and liquid. Different instruments at the lab are currently taking measurements relevant to cloud formation, ice nucleation, and other meteorological parameters. The NSF-funded project which is titled “An in situ Closure Study of Mixed …
The University of Utah is now hiring a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in The Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Candidates with a Ph.D. are encouraged to apply. The position can start as early as the Fall 2022 semester. Below is a link to apply as well as the general description of the opportunity. Please feel free to …
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Members of the HART team are often drawn to the group because of a passion for the environment and a desire to pursue research in the atmospheric sciences. For wildfire researcher Kai Wilmot, this couldn’t be more true. In a recent story by Dyestat.com, writer Dave Devine explores Kai’s journey from an extremely successful long-distance …
The University of Utah Department of Atmospheric Sciences is now hiring a full-time lab technician! This position will work with multiple groups within the department including the HART team. Interested individuals can find more information and apply for the position using this link: https://employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-city-ut/lab-technician-atmospheric-sciences/A4B877EC493F44AC903025133E557096/job/ If you like instrumentation, atmospheric sciences, and great views then this …
