NEWS

• July 2024
  • Jiaoshi’s paper “Stratospheric air intrusions promote global-scale new particle formation” is published in Science. We found that new particle formation is greatly promoted when lower stratospheric and upper tropospheric air mix, which is significant for fully understanding the sources and processes of aerosols in the troposphere. This exciting work is highlighted by Science and covered by WashU. Congratulations, Jiaoshi!
    • A Perspective Commentary in Science
    • Coverage at WashU News
  • The first field campaign of the Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) starts in Chicago. We are going to study aerosols and trace gases in urban air.
• May 2024
  • NASA’s Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment (ARCSIX) starts in Greenland. We will measure the Arctic aerosol properties onboard a research airplane and explore how aerosols affect clouds and radiation during the early melting season.
• January 2024
  • Xiaoyu attended the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting and presented a poster about the research on air quality and urban heat island.
  • Xianda’s paper “Maximum Supersaturation in the Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Over the North Atlantic” was featured as an Editor’s Highlight on Eos.org. This research sheds light on the coupling between the chemical composition and the physical properties of the atmosphere. Congratulations, Xianda!
• December 2023
  • We attended the 2023 AGU Annual Meeting. Lei gave an oral presentation about the warm air intrusion in Arctic. Shengqian gave an e-Lightening presentation about shoreline sea spray aerosol.
  • Dong Qi and Hui Zhong officially join our group as PhD students. Welcome!
• November 2023
  • Xianda’s paper “Maximum Supersaturation in the Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Over the North Atlantic” was published in AGU Advances. Congratulations, Xianda!
• October 2023
  • We attended the 2023 41st American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) Annual Conference. Jian presented the work about blowing snow and Shengqian presented the shoreline sea spray aerosols. Jing and Maiqi had two posters introducing aerosol properties during the TRACER campaign and the impact of aerosol on precipitation in stratocumulus clouds.
  • WashU’s Center for Aerosol Science & Engineering (CASE) hosted a reception during the AAAR Annual Conference. Fantastic!
• September 2023
  • Welcome our new rotation students Dong Qi and Hui Zhong!
  • Xianda’s blowing snow paper was published in Nature Geoscience. It was also highlighted as the journal’s front cover story. Congratulations, Xianda!
    • Coverage at WashU
  • Qian’s paper on new particle formation in the tropical free troposphere was published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Congratulations, Qian!
• August 2023
  • Jing won the US Student Travel Grant to the 2023 41^st American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) Annual Conference. Congratulations, Jing!
• June 2023
  • Minye Zhu joined our group to carry out an independent undergraduate study. Welcome, Minye!
• March 2023
  • Xiaoyu Chen officially joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!
• January 2023
  • Jian and Xianda presented at the AMS Annual Meeting. Jian gave an invited talk about the marine aerosols.
  • Welcome our new rotation student Xiaoyu Chen!
• December 2022
  • Xianda presented the blowing snow work at the AGU Fall Meeting.
  • Lei Zhang officially joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!
• November 2022
  • Welcome our new rotation students Mingyang Song and Prabhav Upadhyay!
• October 2022
  • Jian gave a presentation on aerosol properties and processes at the 40^th American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) Annual Conference.
  • Qian, Jing, Maiqi, and Lei presented at the 2022 Mid-America Environmental Engineering Conference (MAEEC).
  • Jian, Xianda, and Jing presented at the 2022 ARM-ASR Joint Facility and Principal Investigator Meeting. Here are two posters: (1) Maximum supersaturation over the North Atlantic, (2) Size-resolved aerosol hygroscopicities at a rural site during TRACER.
• September 2022
  • Welcome our new rotation student Lei Zhang!
  • Shengqian Zhou joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome!
• August 2022
  • TRacking Aerosol Convection Interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) starts in Houston area.  We are studying the ability of aerosol particles to take up water and form cloud droplets at a site about 50 miles southwest of Houston.  Here is a vlog from Jing.
• June 2022
  • The Aerosol Growth in the Eastern North Atlantic Campaign (AGENA) starts on Graciosa Island in the Azores. We are returning to the Azores to study how particles grow in the marine boundary layer.
• May 2022
  • We won a grant from NSF to study particle formation in marine environment and its impact on clouds.
    • Coverage at WashU
• April 2022
  • Jiaoshi’s paper on retrieval of aerosol hygroscopic growth is published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. Congratulations, Jiaoshi!
  • Jian presents an invited seminar at University of Maryland.
  • Jian presents an invited seminar at University of Missouri, Columbia.
  • Jian gives an invited presentation of the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) seminar series.
• January 2022
  • A collaborative paper with Dr. Rahul Zaveri from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, entitled “Rapid growth of anthropogenic organic nanoparticles greatly alters cloud life cycle in the Amazon rainforest” is published in Science Advances.
• December 2021
  • Maiqi Zhang and Ruikang Ma joined our group as PhD students. Welcome!
  • Jiaoshi and Xianda present at American Geophysical Union Conference.
• October 2021
  • Jiaoshi, Xianda, and Qian present at Annual American Association of Aerosol Research Conference.

• September 2021
  • Welcome to our new rotation student August (Yuezhi) Li!
  • Dr. Wang gave an invited presentation at 2021 Meteorology and Climate – Modeling for Air Quality Conference.
• August 2021
  • Jiaoshi’s paper on humidity-controlled fast integrated mobility spectrometer is published as a highlight article in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. Congratulations, Jiaoshi!
  • Arden Chen joined ASE lab as an undergraduate intern. Welcome!
  • Patrick Wiecko will carry out his senior thesis in ASE lab. Welcome, Patrick!
• July 2021
  • We are receiving funding from Department of Energy for a collaborative project with Prof. Tim Bertram and Prof. Joel Thornton. We are going to the Azores (again) to study marine aerosols!
  • The overview paper of Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) led by our group is now published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The paper presents measurements, observation strategy, meteorological conditions of the ACE-ENA campaign, preliminary findings, and future analyses and modeling studies.
• June 2021
  • Ruikang Ma, Maiqi (Maggie) Zhang, Ian Henderson, and Andrew Finn joined ASE lab as summer research students. Welcome!
  • Qian Xiao and Li Jing joined our group as PhD students. Welcome!

• January 2021
  • Guangjie Zheng and Yang Wang’s paper on new particle formation in the marine boundary layer was published in Nature Communications.
    • Coverage at WashU
    • Coverage at Department of Energy
  • Dr. Wang gave two invited presentations on marine aerosols and new particle formation at the 101^st American Meteorological Society annual conference.
• October 2020
  • A collaborative paper with Dr. Bin Zhao from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, entitled “High concentration of ultrafine particles in the Amazon free troposphere produced by organic new particle formation” is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• September 2020
  • We won a grant from DOE to study aerosols and their impact on clouds.
    • Coverage at WashU
• August 2020
  • Xianda Gong joined our group as a postdoctoral scientist. Welcome!
• December 2019
  • Dr. Wang presented an invited seminar at University of Iowa.
• November 2019
  • Dr. Wang gave an invited seminar at Carnegie Mellon University.
• July 2019
  • Yang received the GAeF PhD Award from the Association for Aerosol Research in Germany for his dissertation in aerosol research! Congratulations!
  • Guangjie and Dr. Wang participated in Aerosol Summer School at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  • We won a grant from Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research program to study the aerosol properties and processes in the Eastern North Atlantic. We thank DOE for the strong support!
• June 2019
  • Yang’s paper on high time resolution measurements of aerosol hygroscopic growth is published in Aerosol Science and Technology.
• May 2019
  • We won a grant from NASA to study how aerosols and their impact on clouds in Southeast Asia.  Thank NASA for the strong support!
  • Himanshu Goyal from IIT-Bombay joined group as a summer intern, welcome!
• March 2019
  • Dr. Jiaoshi Zhang joined group as a visiting scholar, welcome!
• February 2019
  • Dr. Nicholas Rothfuss joined group as a postdoctoral scientist, welcome!
• January 2019
  • Dr. Wang and Guangjie published a paper on the ability of secondary organic aerosol particles to form cloud droplets.
• December 2018
  • Zhenyang Jiang joined group as a Ph.D. student, welcome!