Student and speaker research jamboree

Photos courtesy of Dan Weaver and Bob Christensen
2014 Summer Institute Participants
Organizers
Kimberly Strong and Aubyn O’Grady
Invited Speakers
Marianne Douglas, Mark Flanner, Chris Fletcher,
Christian Haas, Jochen Halfar, Lisa Miller,
David Serkoak, and David Tarasick
Kim Strong will introduce absent speakers:
Richard Berman, Emanuel Istrate,
Richard McAloney, and Cameron McNaughton
Students
C.C. Bajish, David Barrett, Jo Browse, Anne Bublitz,
Matthias Buschmann, Stephanie Conway, Laurence
Coursol, Ghazal Farhani, Jonathan Franklin, Shayamila
Gamage, Stephanie Hay, Shannon Hicks, Gerrit Holl,
Ali Jalali, Setigui Keita, Ja-Ho Koo, Samuel
Kristoffersen, Zen Mariani, Marzena Marosz-Wantuch,
Youri Mathieu, Emily McCullough, Andrew Medeiros,
Joseph Mendonca, Madelyn Mette, Omid Moeini, Eric
Mortenson, Brandi Newton, Ashley O'Brien, Mikhail
Paramonov, Ludovick Pelletier, Catherine Philips-Smith,
Sebastien Roche, Meike Rotermund, Reinel SospedraAlfonso, Chad Thackery, Natalie Thompson, Sophie
Tran, Chris Vail, Jeff Vankerkhove, Zahra Vaziri,
Dan Weaver, and Xiaoyi Zhao
Jamboree Requests
The slides are in alphabetical order by last name
beginning with speakers followed by students. Please
refer to the program to find your presentation slot and
be prepared to begin when the person before you
finishes.
You will be given two minutes
to introduce yourself. Please
be courteous to the next
speaker and wrap-up
promptly when requested.
Please excuse any formatting errors that may have
occurred in compiling the slides into one presentation.
Let’s Start !
Kimberly Strong
Dept of Physics, U Toronto
Director, School of the Environment
Remote sounding of atmospheric composition
from the ground, balloons, and satellites
using UV-VIS-IR spectroscopy
 PAHA Deputy PI and leader of the
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Composition Measurements theme
Four instruments at PEARL
U of T Atmospheric Observatory
ACE and Odin satellite missions
Laboratory spectroscopy
Mars studies
Aubyn O’Grady
CREATE-AAS Training Program Coordinator
CANDAC Outreach and Education Facilitator
Marianne SV Douglas
10 µ
Δ T = ↑ or ↓ ?
Cryosphere-Aerosol-Climate Interactions
Mark Flanner
1. Cryosphere-Climate Feedback
2. Radiative Transfer in Snow
3. Aerosol Forcing
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Chris Fletcher
Assistant Professor, Climate Modelling and Analysis Group
Department of Geography & Environmental Management
University of Waterloo
Interests:
Using GCMs to investigate
climate variability and change
o Surface-forcing of atmospheric
variability:
• snow-climate feedbacks
• teleconnections
o Aerosol-climate interactions
Training students to use GCMs
@ClimoChris
chris.fletcher@uwaterloo.ca
Coralline Algal Reconstructions of High-Latitude Climate
Jochen Halfar, Toronto + numerous students and collaborators
- Photosynthetic calcifier
- Annual increments
- <650 years continuous growth
- Abundant in Arctic+Subarctic
- Lives under sea ice on
shallow sea floor
- Coralline algae record sea-ice changes
- Link between Arctic Sea Ice and NAO
Only multicentury annual-resolution
shallow marine proxy in the Arctic
Lisa Miller, Marine Climate Geochemist
TraceDrawdown
Metals
Radionuclides
Carbon
Aerosol
Production
David Serkoak
Member of the last Inuit group called
“Ahiarmiut” brought into civilized world by
force by the Federal Gov’t in 1950s. David’s
group was feathered in Farley Mowat’s first two
Arctic books: People of the Deer and Desperate People. We attended primary Federal
Day Schools in Rankin Inlet and Whale Cove in early 1960s. David taught himself to
read and write Inuktitut using Bible and English through life experience. Graduated
from Eastern Arctic Teacher Education Program in 1978. A true Elvis and Toronto
Maple Leaf fan. Now, retired from all work.
What I Have Done: Since my graduation in 1978 as a teacher, I helped my Education
Dept. in primary Inuktitut Curriculum Development and produced many teaching
materials for schools in my region with my wife. I wrote 3 Inuktitut
children’s books in Inuktitut for Nunavut schools. In the last 25
years, I try to promote Inuit drum dancing in Nunavut, Nunavik
(northern Que.) and Nunatsiavut (Labrador).
David’s Outlook:
Carry on this:
David W. Tarasick
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B.Sc.: Trent, 1978
M.Sc.: Montréal, 1982
Ph.D.: York, 1989
Joined EC in 1989, stratospheric ozone research
group
Senior Research Scientist; also Adjunct Prof. at
York, Western, UofT
UV Index; SPEAM; MANTRA; IONS;
BORTAS
 Research interests: tropospheric ozone
and air quality, strategic network studies,
tropopause processes and dynamics,
stratospheric ozone and UV
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Environment Environnement
Canada
Canada
Connaught Summer School
Richard
Berman
Richard Berman has an
undergraduate degree in Engineering
Science and a PhD in Atmospheric
Physics from the University of
Toronto. Richard did field work in
atmospheric chemistry and ozone
lidar before becoming one of the
founders of Spectral Applied Research
– a leading supplier of high
performance optics for life science
imaging systems.
Emanuel Istrate
• PhD in Photonics, UofT
• Academic Program Coordinator
– Institute for Optical Sciences
– Impact Centre
• Active in novel training programs & courses
– Holography
– Research skills
– Entrepreneurship
Richard McAloney
Director, Technology Management
Impact Centre
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PhD in Physical Chemistry
14 years experience in technology translation
Manages the Impact Centre’s entrepreneurship training
Cofounder of Axela Inc.
Cameron S. McNaughton, PhD, P.Eng.
Academics
 BASc in Environmental Engineering (Univ. of Waterloo – 2000)
 NASA Earth System Science Fellow (2005 – 2008)
 MS & PhD in Oceanography (Univ. of Hawai`i – 2003, 2008)
 Affiliate Researcher (Univ. of Hawai`i – 2009 to present)
 Adjunct Professor (Univ. of Saskatchewan – 2014?)
Research & Professional
 In-situ real time measurements of aerosols and trace gases using
aircraft (720 flight hours on 9 international airborne field campaigns)
 Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Candidate (2008)
 Fellow International (FI ‘09) of the Explorers Club
 Professional Environmental Engineer (AB, SK) with Golder Associates
Ltd., leader of the Saskatchewan Air Quality, Odour and Climate team
Current Projects (as Project Manager or Technical Manager)
 Baseline studies for 2 Western Canadian CCS projects
 Air quality modelling/monitoring for potash and uranium
mines, oil & gas developments, and energy projects
 Climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies
 Lifecycle assessments of greenhouse gas emissions (e.g.,
mining and milling of uranium in Saskatchewan)
Bajish Chevooruvalappil
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Earth and Space Science,
York University, Canada.
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PhD Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University,
Japan (Sept.2013)
Research Interests:
 Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice interaction
and variability
 Remote sensing of sea ice and
Model validation
David Barrett - PhD Student
Research interests:
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Bacteria-sediment interactions
Impacts of changing lake-ice
quality/quantity on dissolved
oxygen levels
Effects of climate change on
general water quality
parameters
Modeling water quality under
changing ice conditions
Jo Browse
University of Leeds, UK, Research
Fellow:
• ACCACIA (junior) mission scientist
• Global (Arctic) aerosol modeller
• Cloud microphysics in global
models
• Parametric Uncertainty
(HEIF/GASSP)
ACCACIA: Aerosol-Cloud coupling
and Climate interactions in the
Arctic
Arctic Haze
ocean-ice-cloud interactions
Anne Bublitz
PhD candidate at York University
Supervisor: Dr. Christian Haas
Current Research :
Optimization of Arctic sea ice thickness
measurements with an airborne
electromagnetic induction device (AEM)
Arctic Campaigns :
CASIMBO 2013
CryoVEx 2014
Education:
B.Sc Geosciences
M.Sc Geophysics
at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Matthias Buschmann
PhD student
Institute of Environmental Physics
University of Bremen
JAMBOREE SLIDE - STEPHANIE CONWAY
Current Research:
Detecting energetic electron
precipitation (EEP) from
ground based FTIR
measurements of NOy (NO,
NO2, HNO3 and CLONO2) at
Eureka, Nunavut by using
correlations with CH4 to
separate out the NOy
produced from N2O
oxidization (background
NOy).
Stratospheric NOy [ppmv]
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Stratospheric CH4 [ppmv]
Laurence Coursol
Academic Background
- BSc Major in Physics with Minor in math,
McGill University (June 2014)
- Beginning MSc in Atmospheric sciences,
UQÀM (September 2014)
Research
- with Pierre Gauthier and JeanPierre Blanchet
- data assimilation
- investigate the biases found in
GEM model in TIC regions
through the data assimilation
scheme
Investigation of Detector Behavior At High
Count Rates for the Purple Crow Lidar
Ghazal Farhani, PhD student
Supervidor: Dr. R.J. Sica
Jonathan Franklin
Ph.D. Candidate, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax
M.Sc., Univ Massachusetts, Amherst
B.Sc., Marlboro College, Vermont
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Fourier transform spectrometry
Solar tracker development
Transport and chemical evolution of
biomass burning plumes
Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage
Masters in Physics (1st year)
The University of Western Ontario
Supervisor: Prof.Robert Sica
Research: Water Vapour
Retrieval using CRL
Stephanie Hay
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BSc: Physics & Atmospheric Science, McGill 2012
MS: Meteorology, Penn State 2014 → Global Atmospheric Available Energy & Trends
PhD: Atmospheric Physics, Toronto 2018? → Arctic Sea Ice Modelling
Meteorologist, The Weather Network
Shannon Hicks
M.Sc. Student in Astronomy/Planetary Sc.
University of Western Ontario
• Supervisor: Dr. Bob Sica
• Project: Automation of the
Purple Crow Lidar
• CREATE TAC Member and
Co-Editor of CREATE Blog
HOLL
Ali Jalali
 Background: B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in
Meteorology
 Currently: Masterstudent in Physics at
University of Western Ontario
 Purple Crow Lidar (Prof. Bob Sica)
 Retrieving temperature from lidar
measurements
IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF
AEROSOLS IN THE FORMATION OF ARCTIC ICE CLOUDS
Presented by:
Setigui Aboubacar KEITA
Master in Atmospheric Sciences
UQAM
Directed by:
Éric GIRARD
PROJECT
Why?
 A major challenge in modeling aerosol feedback on weather and climate is the representation of
aerosols and ice nucleation (IN) in models.
→ Physically-based parameterizations of ice nucleation in GEM only include deposition-immersion
ice nucleation based on limited laboratory data (Eastwood et al., 2008;2009).
→ The dust concentration is fixed and constant.
How to Improve the Model?
 Implement a realistic representation of aerosols (ECMWF MACC reanalysis). [future Ph.D. project]
 Implement new parameterizations for predicting IN (e.g. Hoose and Mohler, 2012). [my M.Sc. project]
 After incorporating a new IN representation, the model will be compared to in situ observations (ISDAC
and NETCARE Arctic campaigns).
Ja-Ho Koo
PDF at University of Toronto (working with Dr. Kaley Walker)
• Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
• B.S. and M.S. at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Researches interests
- Regional characteristics of tropospheric ozone
depletion events in the Arctic spring
- Influence of large-scale climate variability to the
spatiotemporal pattern of polar surface
environment
ERWIN-II
Samuel Kristoffersen (UNB)
Zen Mariani
Dept. Physics, UofT
Ph.D. Project: Measuring Radiation and Trace Gas
Variability in the High Arctic
Supervisor: Prof. Kathy L. Young
Research interests:
Hydrological processes, Numerical modelling
Cryosphere - climate impacts and feedbacks
Remote Sensing and in situ measurements
Master’s Thesis at UofT Erindale Campus:
“Modelling snowline migration and runoff
response for Place Glacier basin.”
Supervisor: Prof. Scott Munro
Professional experience at DMTI Spatial Inc.:
Remote Sensing Specialist
“Impact of volcanic ash
on snow and permafrost
hydrology, Iceland.”
air temperature (oC)
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PhD Student , Geography, York U
Current research:
air temperature (oC)
Marzena Marosz-Wantuch
Youri Mathieu
 BSc in Atmospheric Science from University
of Quebec at Montreal (May 2013)
 Currently working on MSc (Atmospheric
Science) project under the supervision of
Eric Girard
 Project focus: Homogeneous ice nucleation
Lidar observations
of ice clouds at
Eureka, Nunavut
Emily McCullough
10 April 2014
Calibrating the CRL Lidar for depolarization
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Andrew S. Medeiros
Isotope Hydrology
Paleoecology
Biogeography
Water Security
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Waterloo
Joseph Mendonca
University of Toronto
Background Information
• H.BSc from the University of Toronto.
• Science Horizon Youth Internship.
• M.Sc.
• Ph.D.
Introduction to Ph.D Work
• Solar Absorption Spectra.
• Bruker IFS 125HR FTIR at PEARL.
• Retrieval of CO2 and CH4.
• Satellite validation.
• Carbon Cycle.
Madelyn (Maddie) Mette
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Ph.D. Candidate at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (Advisor: Dr. Alan Wanamaker)
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
B.A. in Geology and Environmental Studies from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Arctica islandica
Long-lived bivalve proxy
Annual growth increments
Omid Moeini
• Background
o PhD Student, Earth and Space Science, York University
• Supervisors: Dr. Tom McElroy and Dr. David Tarasick
o M.Sc., Photonics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
o B.Sc., Physics, University of Isfahan, Iran
• Research interests
o Remote sensing measurements
o Numerical modelling
Eric Mortenson
PhD student
SEOS, U. Vic., BC
Research: Implementation of sea ice algae to
ecosystem component of 1D ocean turbulence
model in order to better represent air-sea
carbon exchange
in the Arctic.
Previous Research:
• Atmospheric drivers of seasonal water availability in the
Mackenzie and Saskatchewan River basins
Current Research:
• Arctic Amplification
• Hydroclimatic extremes in midand high-latitudes
Ashley O’Brien
MSC Candidate, Geography, York University
Supervisor(s): Dr. Christian Haas, Dr. Kathy Young
BES Geog & Env. Management, University of Waterloo
Research Interests:
•Analysis of Arctic sea ice drift
•Sea ice drift buoys
•Remote Sensing and modeling to estimate sea ice flux
•Nares Strait
Upcoming:
•POLARSTERN Central Arctic Ocean – August 2014
Mikhail Paramonov
• BSc in physical geography, Trent University, 2006
• GIS Tech, Ministry of Natural Resources, 2006–2008
• MSc in physics, University of Helsinki, 2010
• PhD in physics, University of Helsinki, in progress
Research
• field measurements and data analysis of aerosol phys/chem/opt
properties
• activation of aerosol particles (CCN) into cloud drops
• Markku Kulmala’s group (atmospheric nucleation!!!)
Active CRAICC
member
Hyytiälä
www.helsinki.fi/yliopisto
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Ludovick S.Pelletier
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BSc. In Atmospheric science University of
Quebec in Montreal (2014)
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Beginning of MSc. In atmospheric science
University of Quebec in Montreal (Fall 2014)
MSc. supervisor : Éric Girard
NETCARE field experiment at Alert in 2015
Network on Climate and Aerosols Addressing Key Uncertainties in Remote
Environments
Catherine Phillips-Smith
Identifying the Origins of Trace Metals in Particulate Matter in
the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
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Metal
Source
Calcium
Crustal
Lead
Anthropogenic
Arsenic
Anthropogenic
Potassium
Crustal
Vanadium
Anthropogenic
Strontium
Anthropogenic
Copper
Anthropogenic
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Sébastien Roche
BSc. Physics (Lyon 1)
 Currently: MSc. Atmospheric Physics (Lyon 1)
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Previously:
-Solid aerosols generation
-Depolarization ratios
Now:
-NSERC CREATE intern
-Supervisor: Kimberly Strong
-TAO suntracker
-EC-CAS Vs TCCON for CH4 and CO2
CANDAC RMR Lidar
 Masters – Climate Physics
(Universität Hamburg)
 BSc – Honors Physics
(Dalhousie University)
(Photo credit: Graeme Nott)
 Supervisor Prof. Tom Duck
 Modeling overlap profiles of the CANDAC
RMR Lidar
Environment Canada
Environnement Canada
www.ec.gc.ca
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Centre canadien de la modélisation et de l’analyse climatique
www.cccma.ec.gc.ca
Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso
CCCma, University of Victoria
PDF for the Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution Network
(CanSISE)
Current Research
Representation of snow in the Canadian Seasonal to
Interannual Prediction System (CanSIPS),
with William Merryfield
Education
 PhD in Mathematics, University of Victoria, BC Canada
 MSc in Modelling and Simulation of Complex Systems,
ICTP, Trieste, Italy
 BSc in Nuclear Physics, ISCTN, Havana, Cuba
Canada
Chad Thackeray
Ph.D Candidate, University of
Waterloo
M.Sc., University of Waterloo
B.Sc., Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Interests:
Snow Albedo Feedback
Canopy/snow interactions (models vs. obs)
Improving model representation of snow
processes
Impacts of climate change on the Cryosphere
Natalie Sarah Thompson
PhD student in Geology & Environmental Science ISU
Marine Sediments Lab, Iowa State University
‘Sea ice decline and changing primary productivity
in the Bering Sea during Marine Isotope Stage 11’
Chris Vail
Gravity Waves above UNB Fredericton
Campus
Background
• Completed BSc (Physics)
and BCS (Hardware
Systems) from UNB in 2012
• Undergrad thesis involved
looking at the variation of
small scale gravity waves
from PEARL.
• Started MSc (Physics) at
UNB in 2012
• Masters work involves
detecting small scale gravity
waves, determining their
parameters and developing
their climatology.
Supervisor: Prof. William Ward
Jeff VanKerkhove
• BS Physics & Astronomy (2009-2013), University of Rochester
• MSc Astronomy (2013-), University of Western Ontario
Current role:
• Purple Crow Lidar henchman
• Characterizing water vapor measurements
• Zahra Vaziri
• PhD in Earth and Space
Science
• York University
• Supervisor:
Dr. C.T. McElroy
A New Calibration
Procedure which Accounts
for Non-linearity in Singlemonochromator Brewer
Ozone Spectrophotometers
A New Pointing system
for Balloon and Space
Applications.
Dan Weaver
• Ph.D. Student at University of Toronto
• Supervised by Prof. Kim Strong,
working on water vapour measurements
and ozone depletion at PEARL.
• Travelled to Eureka in 2012 , 2013, and
2014 with ACE validation team.
• CREATE TAC member & social media
coordinator
Total Column
(mm precipitable water)
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Precipitable Water Vapour at Eureka vs. Time
FTIR
Sunphotometer
Microwave Radiometer
Radiosondes
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2007.5
2008
2008.5
2009
2009.5
Time (Fractional Years)
2010
2010.5
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That’s Everyone!