End of 2022: Awards, AGU, fieldwork

The team has been busy this fall semester conducting research, teaching, and field work. We are proud to announce 3 group members being recently honored for their work. 

1. Visiting PhD Student Victoria Owusu Tawiah was awarded Best Poster at the International Conference for Air Quality in Africa for her poster titled "Relationship between meteorological parameters and PM2.5 in Accra"!

2. Columbia DEES PhD student Garima Raheja was awarded The Story Exchange Women in Science Incentive Prize for her excellent work on air pollution analysis with low cost sensors! 

3. Lamont Assistant Research Professor Dan Westervelt was awarded a Columbia Climate and Life grant to pursue research on climate impacts of regional aerosol forcing changes in the near term. 

In other end-of-2022 news, PhD student Ben Yang presented a poster at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. His poster title: "Impacts of Automated Isoprene Chemical Mechanism Reduction on SOA Chemistry and Air Quality in GEOS-Chem"

Finally, Prof. Westervelt spent 2 weeks in Morocco with collaborator Professor Wahid Mellouki of CNRS and several other French colleagues. The trip included a stop in Rabat at University of Mohammed V, where Prof. Westervelt presented in a symposium on climate and air quality. The rest of the trip was spent at the First African School of Atmospheric Sciences near Marrakech, Morocco. ~25 students from 10 African countries were brought together to learn about atmospheric science, climate change, and air quality. Prof. Westervelt was one of the organizers and lecturers. Pictures below! 

Congratulations to the team on a successful 2022! Here's to 2023.