Jun Meng (孟军), PhD

Three weeks have passed since I started to work as a postdoctoral researcher. I feel thrilled to have been working with an excellent scientist (Jasper) and the whole research team for a few weeks, during which I was so focused on the new research area, dust emission and its effects on the Earth system.

I did a thing last week! I started to prepare my thesis just as the pandemic started. I had to finish the draft of the third project, make it ready-to-be-submitted-to-journal and incorporate it nicely into the last main chapter in my thesis.  It would be impossible without the consistent help from my supervisor Dr. Martin. […]

I have been preparing my thesis since March 2020, since when the whole world started to lockdown. I cherished those days during which I fully focused on my thesis writing. Today I was thrilled to hear the chair of the defense announcing that my supervisory committee agreed to submit my thesis to FGS without modifications. […]

Check out this article: “America’s Skies Have Gotten Clearer, but Millions Still Breathe Unhealthy Air“ by Nadja Popovich from the New York Times on June 19, 2019

On September 4, 2019, I moved to St. Louis! Excited! I’m a visiting scholar here at Washington University in St. Louis. The new adventure begins…