Prof. Pratt receives DOE Early Career Award!

Prof. Pratt was chosen for a 2018 Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award! This funds the Pratt Lab to study Arctic aerosols during DOE ARM field campaigns in Nov.-Dec. 2018 (polar night) in Utqiagvik, Alaska and during the historic international MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) campaign aboard the German icebreaker Polarstern in the high Arctic from Sept. 2019 - Oct. 2020.

Check out the Univ. of Michigan Chemistry Press Release!

Jun and Jamy perform "surgery" on our ATOFMS!

Welcome to the Pratt Lab! Here are photos of new postdoc Dr. Jun Liu and PhD student Jamy Lee performing "surgery" on our aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ATOFMS) Maverick!

Welcome Dr. Jun Liu!

Welcome Dr. Jun Liu! Jun recently completed his PhD in Prof. Lynn Russell's group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He joined the Pratt Lab to learn single-particle mass spectrometry and study Arctic atmospheric aerosols!

Welcome Jasmine!

Welcome Jasmine! Jasmine is participating in the Detroit Research Internship and Summer Experience (D-RISE) program through the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry, and we are excited for her to be part of our lab this summer! Jasmine is a rising senior at Cass Technical High School in inner city Detroit.

New paper published inland sea spray and lake spray aerosol!

Congratulations to Pratt Lab PhD Dr. Nate May, as well as Pratt Lab PhD Dr. Matt Gunsch and PhD student Rachel Kirpes, for their paper published in Environmental Science & Technology Letter titled "Unexpected Contributions of Sea Spray and Lake Spray Aerosol to Inland Particulate Matter". We detected sea spray aerosol in northern Michigan from Hudson Bay, so don't always assume that Na+ is from dust in the summer!

Collaborator Prof. Ault gives radio interview about collaborative HAB aerosol research!

Collaborator Prof. Andrew Ault gave a NPR radio interview about our collaborative harmful algal bloom lake spray aerosol research! Enjoy listening!

Michigan News highlights our HAB aerosol research!

Michigan News highlighted our harmful algal bloom lake spray aerosol research that we've done in collaboration with Prof. Andrew Ault!

Congratulations Rachel!

Pratt Lab PhD student Rachel Kirpes was awarded a Chemistry One-Term Dissertation Fellowship for her research progress and science policy outreach! Congratulations Rachel!!

Rachel participates in AMS Summer Policy Colloquium in DC!

Pratt Lab PhD student Rachel Kirpes was selected and participated in the 2018 American Meteorological Society Summer Policy Colloquium in Washington, DC!

Welcome Jamy, Kathryn, and Savannah!

Welcome Jamy Lee, Kathryn Kulju, and Savannah Haas! Jamy is a third-year Chemistry PhD student who is excited to join the Pratt Lab to pursue Arctic aerosol chemistry research! Kathryn is an incoming Chemistry graduate student completing a summer rotation in the Pratt Lab. Kathryn recently graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Northern Michigan University. Savannah is a junior Biochemistry undergraduate student at Villanova University and undergraduate researcher in our fantastic collaborator Prof. Amanda Grannas' lab. Savannah is participating in the University of Michigan Chemistry REU in the Pratt Lab! We are excited for all of you to be in the lab this summer!