We are welcoming several new group members to the Westervelt aerosol group:
1. Dr. Abhishek Anand joins as a postdoctoral research scientist. He completed his PhD in August with Prof. Albert Presto from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Anand will work on the new Clean Air Fund project on satellite-derived estimates of PM2.5 in Africa. His website is here.
2. Gopikrishan Gopalakrishna joins us as a Fulbright fellow from IIT-Kharagpur, India. He is a 3rd year PhD student. He is working on ozone pollution globally and in India using GEOS-Chem. More information here.
3. Three undergraduate researchers have joined us for the academic year. Ollie McDonald is a senior undergraduate at Barnard and will work with Prof. Westervelt on her senior thesis on air quality data from shipping emissions. Jordan Hill is a senior undergraduate at Columbia and will work on air quality and public health in Kinshasa, also for her senior thesis. Kade Jimenez is a senior in engineering at Columbia and is working on the rooftop monitoring site data analysis project.
Welcome to the new team members!