NEWS | Atmospheric Science & Engineering Laboratory | Washington University in St. Louis

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 WUStL

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 WUStL
  - 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 WUStL
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!

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.