Prather Research Group

At the American Geophysical Union meeting last week, Prof. Prather was interviewed for a piece on the CBS Evening News which ran on Dec. 12.  The piece covers our group's recent work in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, working out the impact of aerosols on the properties of clouds and precipitation in California.  Ultimately, the project is aimed at understanding how to better forecast and manage our state's water resources, especially within the context of a changing climate.

Several members of the Prather Research Group will be presenting their research at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union this coming week in various sessions:

(only presentations with Prather Research Group members as first author are listed here)

Can changes in the chemical and biological content of the ocean change the chemical and physical properties of sea-spray aerosols?  Members of the Prather Research Group are working within the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment to further understand this question more fully, using a mesocosm experiment at SIO.  Over the past 10 days, we have been using a glass wave channel, which has been modified to

Experts from across chemical, physical, and biological disciplines are participating in an intensive sampling campaign in the ocean-atmosphere chamber housed at the Hydraulics Laboratory within Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Follow the latest from CAICE's intensive campaign on our blog and facebook.

As the 2011-2012 Academic Year begins at UC San Diego, Prather Research Group undergraduate member and Calit2 Summer Research Scholar Mallory Pickett was given the opportunity to summarize her summer research experiences alongside the other 23 scholarship recipients in a special poster session held yesterday on the UCSD campus.  Calit2 UCSD Division Director Ramesh Rao presented Mallory with the Best Poster award for having “the most professional, creative, and informative poster”.  Her work, entitled “Chemical Aging o

Our lab's studies of the interactions of aerosols with clouds and precipitation have garnered notice recently following Professor Prather's presentation of our findings at the 242nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held last week in Denver, CO.  Prof.

Members of the Prather Research Group are currently involved in a field campaign called Ice in Clouds Experiment - Tropics (ICE-T) which aims to better understand the formation of ice in towering warm cumulus clouds.  Kaitlyn Suski and Alberto Cazorla are conducting aircraft based measurements (on the NCAR/NSF C-130) of single particle aerosol and cloud residue chemistry using A-ATOFMS while Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez is making ground

The San Diego Section of the American Chemical Society is to award Professor Kim Prather the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award for her scientific acumen and a general evaluation of her overall scientific contributions. The award designed to honor a prominent local scientist and to highlight the importance of San Diego as a center of research.

As the CalWater research team prepares for the upcoming data workshop to discuss research findings to date, the Los Angeles Times has published a very well-presented article on our study.  The author spent several days in the field with Prof.