News and updates

04/25/12 Daven Henze receives the Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Teaching Award. The Engineering Excellence Fund committee presents the Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Education Award as recognition of one professor each year who makes an extra effort to involve students in hands-on, engaged learning.

03/26/12 Steven Vogel wins the CU Engineering college award for Outstanding Graduate for Academic Achievement (highest GPA).

03/26/12 Alex Turner wins the CU Engineering college award for Outstanding Graduate for Research.

12/15/11 Daven Henze recieves ME department Outstanding Undergraduate Education Award.

06/01/11 Welcome to new group members Dr. Kateryna Lapina and Dr. Brian Meland.

04/15/11 Alex Turner and Kristen Brown both win first place awards for their posters at the Discovery Learning Research Symposium and RASEI Energy Frontiers 2011 conference, respectively.

04/12/11 Daven Henze featured in CU's Engineering magazine.

03/31/11 Daven Henze and collaborators Greg Carmichael and Scott Spack of University of Iowa and Georg Grell from NOAA are awarded an EPA-STAR grant to study black carbon.

03/04/11 Another very sad day courtesy of Taurus rockets as the Glory satellite fails to reach orbit.

01/20/11 Daven Henze is selected to be a member of NASA's new Air Quality Applied Sciences Team.

10/01/10 Welcome to new group members Gill-Ran Jeong and Havala O. T. Pye, both postdoctoral research associates working with collaborators at the EPA offices in Research Triangle Park, NC.

09/03/10 Welcome to new group member Kristen Brown. Kristen has a background in Physics, and she will be working on a problem related to U.S. energy production, air quality and climate, co-advised by Prof. Jana Milford.

08/16/10 Welcome to new group member Hyung-Min Lee. She has a M.S. degree in Environmental Science and Engineering and will be pursing a Ph.D. related to air quality modeling.

08/06/10 Prospero. Our new group computer cluster, Prospero, has arrived and is now up and running.

05/06/10 Daven Henze is named a NASA New Investigator for a proposal to study the impacts of short-lived pollutants on Earth's energy balance.

04/28/10 Alex Turner is named the Vestas Mechanical Engineering Student of the Year Award, and he goes to NYC to collect a very large check.

04/01/10 Alex Turner wins a NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship.

02/12/10 Postdoc position available for a joint project between CU and the EPA, this one focusing on constraining a bidirectional NH3 flux model with in situ and remote observations, sponsored by the NASA ACMAP program. details

01/11/10 New project with Becky Alexander at the University of Washington focusing on sources of nitrogen that deposits in Antarctica, sponsored by NSF Office of Polar Programs.

12/02/09 Matt Turner and Daven Henze attend the International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research at NOAA ESRL in Boulder.

11/11/09 Daven Henze is awarded an EPA Early Career grant to develop novel methods for constraining NH3 emissions.

10/19/09 Daven Henze attends the 8th annual CMAS Conference in Chapel Hill, NC, and the NASA Applied Sciences Air Quality meeting in Washington, DC.

07/15/09 Postdoc position available for a joint project between CU and the EPA in inverse modeling and regulatory impacts of aerosol precursor emissions in the U.S. details

04/24/09 NASA proposal submitted last summer to NASA's Applied Science program has been selected for funding. This project aims to use satellite observations and adjoint modeling to improve decision making activities at the EPA. Full abstract available.

04/17/09 Greenhouse gases are now recognized as a pollutant by the EPA.

04/07/09 Third GEOS-Chem Users Meeting This year over 150 people in attendance. Presentations are now online

03/03/09 New website Enjoy!

02/24/09 OCO fails The Orbiting Carbon Observatory fails to launch and ends up in the ocean. This is a sad day for science.

02/23/09 TES Science Meeting was here in Boulder this time. Presentations should be online eventually.