Recent News, Updates, & Awards
1/16/24 - Postdoc, Alfie Mayhew, featured on "Talking Climate" Podcast
Recently in the news, checkout the Wilkes Climate Center’s Podcast “Talking Climate”, Episode #12 “Making Sense of How VOCs Impact Air Pollution & Climate” for an interview with Dr. Alfred Mayhew, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Haskins Lab where he describes his research adding dimer formation to GEOS-Chem.
11/30/23 - Undergrad, Todd Clark, Named Wilkes Fellow
Congratulations to Haskins Lab undergraduate, Todd Clark who was recently named a Wilkes Fellow in Spring of 2024 for his undergraduate research project, entitled “Formalizing a Data Pipeline Tool to Enable the Use of USGS Soil Survey Geographic Database Products in 3-D Global Climate Models”.
9/20/23 - grads, Shuying Zhao & Joey Bail Win GCSC Travel Grant
Congratulations to Haskins Lab graduate students, Shuying Zhao & Joey Bail, who both recently won a Global Change and Sustainability Center Travel Grant to attend the 11th International GEOS-Chem Meeting in St. Louis, Mo at Washington University in June of 2024.
7/30/23 - Jessica's Brass Band Featured in SLC Tribune
Need a break from science news? Prof. Haskins founded a new brass band in Salt Lake City that was recently featured in the Salt Lake Tribune. Read the full article here!
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Excited to share a summary of our latest paper by @alfred_w_mayhew on the AQ side effects of enhanced oxidation technologies to remove methane as a climate solution:
See my group's very first publication (!!) by @alfred_w_mayhew showing that intentionally adding OH to the atmosphere does indeed have a negative air quality impact (mostly winter) but also removes nearly no CH4 at patent proposed rates!
New startup, Inversion Point Technologies Ltd, is proposing to create & deploy OH or Cl towers to convert CH4 into CO2... but are claiming there is "a climate benefit for AQ", a prove-ably false claim. Something our community should be aware of at minimum...
CAPRAM goes heterogeneous. We start with dust surface reactions. Big kudos to Marvel B.E. Aiyuk for his first Ph.D. paper !
A CAPRAM Modeling Study on the Role of Heterogeneous Reactions on Dust in Tropospheric Chemistry | ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Sure hope someone at UGA/GaTech had their mass specs pulling today. Would be super interested to know what spiked after the #biolabfire in Conyers today. Probably some interesting halogens?!