The NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric
Photos courtesy of Dan Weaver and Volodya Savastiouk. 2012 Summer School Participants Organizers Kimberly Strong and Ashley Kilgour Invited Speakers Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Tim Canty, Lynn Harvey, Brian Manning, Chris McLinden, Martin Sharp, Paul Sullivan, and Christian Zdanowicz Kim Strong will introduce absent speakers: Florent Bouguin, James R. Drummond, Stella Melo, and Margaret Munro.
Students Christian Akpanya, Peter Argall, Justin Bandoro, Alexandre Bevington, Yacine Bouzid, Tyler de Jong, Ryan De Vries, Jonathan Franklin, Debora Griffin, Chieh-Ting (Jimmy) Hsu, Liviu Ivanescu, Stefan Keiderling, Felicia Kolonjari, Philippa Krahn, Sam Kristoffersen, Erik Lutsch, Zen Mariani, Michael Maurice, Miriam Richer McCallum, Emily McCullough, Steven McLaughlin, Joseph Mendonca, Boris Pavlovic, Chris Perro, Keven Roy, Niall Ryan, Nicole Schaffer, Mark Semelhago, Patrick Sheese, Alessio Spassiani, Wenxia Tan, Christopher Vail, Dan Weaver, Robin Wing, Mitchell Wolf, Xiaoyi Zhao, Shouming Zhou, and Johannes Zielcke
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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 Department of Physics University of Toronto Remote sounding of atmospheric composition from the ground, balloons, and satellites using UV-VIS-IR spectroscopy
. Leader of the CANDAC/PEARL Arctic Middle Atmospheric Chemistry theme . Four instruments at PEARL . U of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory . ACE and Odin satellite missions . Laboratory spectroscopy . Mars studies April 2012 Ashley Kilgour CREATE Training Program Coordinator CANDAC Education/Outreach Facilitator Department of Physics, University of Toronto
J.-P. Blanchet – Research Interests
Previous work: Radiation and clouds in CGCM, CRCM, CMAM NARCM explicit aerosol model Physical processes in single column models End-to-end EarthCARE simulator
Currently: CloudSat-CALIPSO science team TICFIRE satellite for CSA with INO Polar climate physics (Fundamental physics) Tim Canty Assistant Research Scientist Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science University of Maryland, College Park, MD Research Interests:
Understanding the atmosphere from the
Surface
to the
Stratosphere The Arctic Polar Vortex during a Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming V. Lynn Harvey University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics km Jan 27th 2009 70 View from GM 60 50 40
30 Eureka (80N, 86W) Norway (69N, 16E) 20 Greenland (67N 51W) Alaska (65N, 147W) 10 Germany (54N,12E)
NH polar map, view from GM. Vertical axis is altitude. GEOS-5 analyses. Vortex is colored by temp. Anticyclones in black. NSF IPY. Interpret single site measurements. Brian Manning Director: Education Programs, Nunavut Arctic College Recipient: Parks Canada’s Ambassador for Education Award Board Member: Education Authority Justice of the Peace: Nunavut Partner: NAC / SIDRU / University of Regina
MARTIN SHARP Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta
Glaciologist • Ice-Climate Interactions • Glacier Change in the Arctic – sea level implications • Glacier biology and Biogeochemistry • Science communication (Leopold Leadership Fellow) • Chair, IASC Cryosphere WG • SWIPA Lead author (Mountain Glaciers and Ice Caps) Paul Sullivan
Science at South Pole
Ferraro Choi Associates LTD 2010-2011 33 projects
Astrophysics, Aeronomy and Meteorology and and Cosmology Space Physics Atmospheric 9 projects 15 projects Sciences
2 projects
SPRESSO 8km
SPT Station
Operations Sector Dark Sector
Artists, Writers, and Earth Sciences E&O 4 projects 3 projects British Antarctic Survey
National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs United States Antarctic Program
Florent Bouguin
Engineering supervisor for the ABB group, responsible for product development for analytical and remote sensing markets. Joined the ABB group in 2001 as a project engineer responsible for space product manufacturing and was later appointed product assurance manager. Has worked with the CSA, NASA and JAXA.
Stella M. L. Melo
Research scientist at the Canadian Space Agency and is currently working as a Policy Analyst. Mission scientist of several CSA satellite missions and specialist on satellite data utilization for atmosphere and climate studies. Research focus is solar variability and climate. Margaret Munro Senior Writer POSTMEDIA/ CHRISTIAN K. AKPANYA
GRADUATE STUDENT, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, UNB FREDERICTON.
BSC. PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST, GHANA
HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN RESEARCH IN CLOUD DISSIPATION IN WEST AFRICA IN THE PAST YEARS.
MY CURRENT RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON INTERPRETATION OF GRAVITY WAVES IN (PEARL) ALL SKY IMAGER (PASI) DATA, COMPARISON OF DATA FROM MESOSPHERIC INSTRUMENTS , ALL SKY, ERWIN, SATELITE, METEO RADAR.
Justin Bandoro
Who Am I? • Completed BSc. Physics @ UWO with PCL Group – 3 summers of research • Starting PhD in Fall @ MIT with Susan Solomon
Research Interests • Past and Present: Rayleigh-scatter atmospheric lidar temperature retrieval methods • Future: Regional climate change predictability and impact of stratospheric change on climate Alexandre Bevington
• BSc with spec. in Physical Geography - University of Ottawa (Dec. 2011) • MSc in Geophysics - University of Copenhagen (Sep. 2012) • RA – Yukon, Nunavut, IPY-Office • Research interests: Everything!...cryosphere, remote sensing… • Council member of APECS • Travel, outdoors, music and photography Optimization of an instrument for thin ice clouds observations in the infrared and far-infrared Yacine Bouzid PhD candidate Supervised by: J-P Blanchet (UQÀM) and François Châteauneuf (INO) Tyler de Jong M.Sc. Candidate University of Ottawa Department of Geography
Previous degree: B.A. Geomatics and Spatial Analysis (uOttawa)
• Coursework completed at the University of Oslo and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
Study area: Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut
Research area: Glaciology
Thesis topic: Change in glacier facies location due to increases in melt extent / Changes in surface mass balance and ice motion of the Sverdrup Glacier
Other research interest: - Remote sensing - Glacier – ocean interactions - Changes to glacier dynamics in a warming climate
University of Western Ontario Purple Crow Lidar
Undergraduate Summer Intern, CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science Jonathan Franklin
Ph.D. Candidate, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax M.Sc., Univ Massachusetts, Amherst B.Sc., Marlboro College, Vermont US Coast Guard Masters License
Studying the transport and chemical evolution of biomass burning plumes Debora Griffin Remote sensing of the atmosphere (with PARIS) Supervised by Kaley Walker PhD candidate in Physics, University of Toronto Chieh-Ting (Jimmy) Hsu
As a person: Honours Physics student at Dalhousie University Research Experience in theoretical physics
As a CREATE INTERN: Working with professor James Sloan and Post Doc Rabab mashayekhi at the University of Waterloo Analysis on the AMS data from PEARL Helping with atmospheric chemical transport model, WRF-Chem to calculate the effects of aerosols on precipitation in north-eastern North America.
Star-photometry of arctic thin ice clouds Stefan Keiderling Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway Education: . BSc at the University of Hamburg, Germany . One year abroad at UNIS, Svalbard . Currently MSc at the University of Bergen Research interests: . Mesoscale dynamics of the atmosphere . Numerical modeling
Master’s Thesis: . “Low level jet streams at the sea ice edge – Numerical experiments using WRF”
Non-scientific activities: . Skiiiiiiiiiing . Hiking . Soccer Observing the ozone story from space: Measuring CFC and HCFC species using ACE-FTS Felicia Kolonjari, University of Toronto Supervised by: Prof. Kaley A. Walker
➡ Are the measurements of CFCs and HCFCs from the ACE-FTS comparable to other coincident satellite, ground-based, and air-borne measurements? ➡ What can we learn about the chemistry of these species from the ACE-FTS measurements? ➡ What causes the differences between model predictions of the concentrations of CFCs and HCFCs compared to the concentrations observed by the ACE-FTS? ➡ How does the Brewer-Dobson circulation impact the distribution of CFCs and HCFCs as measured by the ACE-FTS? Philippa Krahn
from Toronto 4th year of BSc in Engineering Physics at Queen’s University
This summer... › CGCS intern at U of T in Atmospheric Physics with supervisor Dr. Kim Strong › helping run TAO › helping with GOSAT validation
ERWIN-II Wind Observations Samuel Kristoffersen (UNB) Erik Lutsch
Background - Undergraduate Physics student at UW - NSERC CREATE Summer Intern in Arctic Atmospheric Training under the supervision of Dr. James Sloan
Research - Retrieval of particle size distributions of polar stratospheric clouds from ACE-FTS and MAESTRO measurements of SCISAT-1 Zen Mariani, Kimberly Strong Radiation and Trace- University of Toronto Gas Trends in the High Arctic using the Extended-Range Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (E-AERI)
• Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer with 1cm-1 resolution • Measurements of accurately calibrated downwelling infrared thermal emission from the atmosphere • Impact of ice crystals, water vapour, clouds, etc. on radiative budget
• Total column measurements of trace gases such as O3, CH4, etc. • Trace gas measurements throughout Polar Night, comparisons Mike Maurice Georgian College (2013) – Environmental Technology Wilfrid Laurier, BA (2005) – Geography & Environmental Studies
2011: TAO Lab Assistant Operator, University of Toronto 2012: GAW Observatory Lab Assistant Operator, Environment Canada (Alert, Nunavut)
Photo Credits: A. Maurice (2012), World Travel Destinations (2011) Miriam Richer McCallum M.Sc. Geography, Carleton University & University of Ottawa (Sept. 2012)
Background
• B.A. Geography & Geomatics and Spatial Analysis
• M.Sc. Geography (Sept. 2012)
Introduction to M.Sc. work
• Characterization and delineation of different ice types and their microstructure in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery
Steven McLaughlin
~ BSc in Physics and Diploma of Meteorology from Dalhousie University
~ Undergraduate Summer Intern (CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science)
~ Working with Professor William Ward at the University of New Brunswick TCCON Measurements at Eureka Background Information • H.BSc from the University of Toronto. • Science Horizon Youth Internship. • M.Sc 2011. • 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.
Currently: o Working for a second summer with the University of Toronto in Atmospheric Physics as a CGCS intern o Supervised by Prof. Kaley Walker and her team o Student at the University of Guelph (2013) o Studying Honours, Theoretical Physics, Minor in Biology o Entering fifth year
Research Focus: Assisting Niall Ryan with the software and motion design on the development of a new radiometer named SPÉIR for deployment in the Arctic Includes: o Identifying motion control products that fit the specifications of our instrument o Considering the effects that Arctic conditions can have on equipment o Coding the automated control systems and GUI using LabVIEW Chris Perro - PhD Student Tom Duck - Supervisor
CANDAC RMR LIDAR
Arcade Cabinet Keven Roy University of Toronto
About me - B.Sc. from McGill University in Montreal (Physics) (2009) - M.Sc. from the University of Toronto (2010) - Ph.D. in progress at the University of Toronto
Project I study the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) process, in particular the determination of appropriate mantle viscosity models and the influence of global warming on physical observables generally associated with the last glacial period. Niall Ryan
PhD student in atmospheric physics: remote sounding
University of Toronto Thesis Objective: Nicole Schaffer Quantify historical changes and future Ph.D. student, University of Ottawa impacts of glacier volume loss on Penny Supervisors: Dr. Copland & Dr. Zdanowicz (GSC) Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
Camp
20 km Pangnirtung Mark Semelhago Background: • BASc in Engineering Science (finished 1st year) at the University of Toronto
Current Research: • Helping to run and working with data from the Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (TAO) under Prof. Strong – Summer internship sponsored by the NSERC CREATE Program • Specifically focusing with FTIR spectrometer and its data –interpreting total and partial column time series of C2H6, CH4, CO, HCl, HF, N2O, and O3
• Preschool, York University, 1986 • BSc, York University, 2004 • PhD, York University, 2009 • Postdoc, University of Saskatchewan, 2009-2010 • Postdoc, University of Toronto, 2010-present Alessio C. Spassiani
Completed a B.Sc. at York University in Atmospheric Science Certificate in GIS and Remote Sensing Certificate in Meteorology Currently a CREATE Undergraduate Interns, working with Dr. Pierre Fogal Working on returning an AERI-X to service through software and hardware upgrades Starting a Masters in Atmospheric Science at McGill in September
Wenxia Tan－PhD candidate in Geography Ellsworth LeDrew－Supervisor
Background: B.Sc And M.Sc from Wuhan University, China (Major in Surveying, GIS and Remote Sensing ) Ph.D. work: Sea Ice Melt Process in Canadian Arctic and the Linkage with Atmospheric Circulation Sea ice Data: Daily Passive since 1979 Microwave (SMMR, SMM/I) Atmosphere data: ERA-interim Methods: Time series analysis
50 How often signatures are detected
BSc in Physics and BCS in Hardware Systems from UNB (2012) Honours Thesis using data from the All Sky Imager. Current summer work expanding upon Thesis work Amount of waves found in a day Dan Weaver • M.Sc. Student at University of Toronto • Supervised by Prof. Kim Strong, working on water vapour measurements. • Travelled to Eureka this past winter with ACE validation team. • Also : o have education background (B.Ed.) o musician o love the outdoors
Precipitable Water Vapour at Eureka vs. Time 20 FTIR Sunphotometer Microwave Radiometer Radiosondes 15
10 Total Column Total Column
5 (mm precipitable water)(mm precipitable
0 2007 2007.5 2008 2008.5 2009 2009.5 2010 2010.5 2011 Time (Fractional Years) Robin Wing
Institution: The University of Western Ontario
Programme: MSc. Physics
Project: Purple Crow LIDAR
Current Research: LIDAR measurements of stratospheric and tropopause water vapour. Mitchell Wolf CREATE Summer Intern University of New Brunswick
•From Vancouver, BC •4rth year Physics and Ocean Science (Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics) at University of Victoria •E-Region Wind Interferometer- II (ERWIN-II) data analysis •Large scale tidal signatures (periods >8 hours) and planetary waves within the wind speed data Xiaoyi Zhao Ph.D. Candidate at Univ. of Toronto UV-vis DOAS/MAX-DOAS measurements Research Associate – Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Supervisor: Prof. Jon Abbatt Phone: 416-946-7359
Research Interest: - Atmospheric chemistry of oxygenated organics and secondary organic aerosol formation from atmospheric oxidation of PAHs - Heterogeneous oxidation of organic aerosols (organic aerosol aging process in the atmosphere) - Small gas-phase products (carbonyl species) formed from atmospheric oxidation of organic substances in sea-surface microlayer (SML) Johannes Zielcke
working on halogen chemistry in the troposphere
Institute of Environmental Physics University of Heidelberg, Germany That’s all, folks! Thank-you for your participation.