Alaska Dispatch News covers Pratt Lab paper!

The Alaska Dispatch News (Anchorage daily newspaper) covered Katie's recent paper on Prudhoe Bay emissions impacting ultrafine particle growth on the North Slope!
https://www.adn.com/arctic/2017/04/09/what-tiny-particles-blowing-in-north-slope-air-tell-us-about-oil-field-pollution-impacts/
Link to paper published in Atmospheric Environment: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231016309785

Pratt Lab presents research at the Michigan Geophysical Union meeting

At the 14th Annual Michigan Geophysical Union meeting, six graduate students and five undergraduate students from the Pratt Lab presented their research. The topics highlighted the diversity of research that we are pursuing in our group. PhD student Matt Gunsch won first place in the Chemistry Section for his research on "Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Particulate Matter from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska" and PhD rotation student Nicole Olson won second place in the Chemistry section for "Single Particle Analysis of Ambient and Laboratory Generated Lake Spray Aerosols". Senior Annie Barget won first place for the Michigan Geophysical Union Undergraduate category for her work on "Effects of Wind Speed and Sea Ice Conditions on the Chemical Composition of Coastal Arctic Snow". Congratulations to everyone who presented!

Matt Gunsch presenting his first place research on the single particle chemical composition in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Nicole Olson with her award winning research on lake spray aerosols

Annie Barget with her award winning research on the connections between wind speed, sea ice leads and the chemical composition of snow

Anna Leemon presenting on Arctic snow composition during the spring melt

Logan Vear presenting research on the influence of wildfires on cloud water 

Ryan Cook talked about the organic composition of aerosols observed at the University of Michigan Biological Station during summer 2014

Alexa Watson discussed her work calibrating the ATOFMS using relative sensitivity factors

Nate May presented on the physical and chemical characteristics of lake spray aerosol

Rachel Kirpes discussing her research using microscopy to identify elemental composition and functional groups present in particles from Utqiagvik, Alaska

Stephen McNamara presented data on atmospheric chlorine chemistry in the springtime Arctic 

Grand Prize for Rashad at 60th Science & Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit!

Congratulations to summer 2016 D-RISE Pratt Lab researcher Rashad Prendergast (Cass Technical High School) for being awarded in the Grand Prize in the Senior Division (Category: Earth & Environmental Sciences) at the 60th Science & Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit for his summer research and poster titled "Impact of Road Salt Usage on Atmospheric Concentrations of Cl and Na PM2.5"! Rashad will now go to compete at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles in May! Good luck Rashad!

New paper on dust composition in the Taylor Glacier (East Antarctica)!

Congratulations to Sarah Aarons (recent PhD in the Aciego group at the University of Michigan) on her recent paper on "Dust composition changes from Taylor Glacier (East Antarctica) during the last glacial-interglacial transition: A multi-proxy approach" published in Quaternary Science Reviews! Pratt lab PhD student Nate May and Prof. Pratt are co-authors.

Prof. Pratt awarded Sloan Research Fellowship!

Prof. Kerri Pratt was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!

https://sloan.org/fellowships/2017-Fellows

https://record.umich.edu/articles/seven-u-m-scientists-selected-sloan-fellowships

Welcome Natasha!

Welcome Natasha Garner! Natasha is a third-year PhD student in Prof. Hans Osthoff's group at the University of Calgary. She is visiting for two months to learn about Arctic halogen chemistry and participate in analysis and interpretation of our gigantic chemical ionization mass spectrometry dataset from Utqiaġvik, Alaska in spring 2016!

Pratt/Ault Lab Weekend Getaway at UMBS

Pratt and Ault lab members took a weekend away from the lab to get out and explore the beautiful University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) during the winter. There was plenty of snow for skiing and snowshoeing during the day. We also took a trip across the Mackinac Bridge to the Upper Peninsula for lunch and to get a view of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. In the cabin there was a wonderful fireplace to keep us warm while we exercised our creative skills by putting together puzzles and playing Trivial Pursuit. It was nice to spend some time outside and to relax with fellow group members!

A view of the cabins

Rachel on skis

Katie jumping on the frozen lake

Kerri teaching Oskar how to ski

Puzzling

Stephen made a fire to keep us all warm - perhaps in the future we can study biomass burning aerosols here!

Ryan on the edge of Lake Huron

Matt copying Ryan