Roisin is PI on the CarbonFOX satellite proposal to the NASA Earth System Explorer (ESE). After many years of work, and a particularly intense few weeks in July, she was delighted that the proposal was finally submitted!
Ludda Ludwig received 2nd place in the student awards at the AMS Hydrology Conference in Denver in January 2023. Congratulations Ludda!
She also gave a fantastic oral presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago in December. Ludda is on a roll!
Luke Schiferl's recent paper in Biogeosciences was an EGU Highlight. Luke has made the atmospheric tools developed for his North Slope permafrost tundra ecosystem evaluations available on: http://atmoscomp.ldeo.columbia.edu/tvprm
Dandan Wei's ERL paper received a lot of interest from NYC news soon after being published! Kevin Krajick at wrote a great press release that interested many media outlets.
NY1 News joined the group at the CUNY Observatory and Juan Benitez interviewed Dandan, Andrew and Roisin. The video is available here
Winston Choi-Schagrin at the New York Times Metro Desk interviewed Dandan, Roisin and our colleague (and co-PI) Andy Reinmann as we walked around the CUNY Campus. Andy's very photogenic dog Guinevere also featured! The article is available here
We also chatted with more…
We are delighted that Yuwei Zhao joined the group in Sept 2022 as a first year graduate student in the Columbia University Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. She will be working on urban air quality and composition.
Our fieldwork in New York is continuing through the summer for various projects, even with some unavoidable COVID delays for the mobile lab deployment.
Dandan and Andrew are leading our summer fieldwork around the city and at the Bronx Botanical Garden and LDEO. Christine and Rebecca have joined the group as part of the LDEO Summer Research Education program and are focussing on methane from wetlands and aquatic systems in the NYC area. Felicity is joining us from Hunter College and Andy Reinmann's group and is focussing on isoprene emissions from urban vegetation. Ludda is still…
It may have taken two years but Bronte Dalton and Charlotte Kwong finally got a graduation ceremony! They were both doing senior theses in our group in spring 2020 when the pandemic shut everything down. It was great to see them back and to learn how their science careers have progressed!
Róisín, Luke and Ludda travelled to the NASA ABoVE Science Team meeting in Fairbanks, AK to present their work on arctic carbon. Ludda presented the work so far on her NASA FINESST fellowship. Luke presented his work synthesizing the methane models and observations from across the NASA ABoVE program.
Roisin and Luke joined a tour of the Permafrost Tunnel in Fox, AK. The masks were quite helpful to reduce the smell! Thawing permafrost and active microbes are quite a pungent combination.
Róisín and Andrew traveled to the NYS DEC air quality site in Pinnacles State Park near Addison, New York. It was a long day out but we met with our collaborator Prof. Lee Murray and graduate student Matt Lomen from University of Rochester. We returned Lee's instrumentation that we were comparing against our instrumentation and retrieved the instrument we had given him on loan.
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Slide 1: Setup of instruments and boiler during the tests.
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Slide 2: Crew for the tests. From left to right: Yuwei, Stephen Galvin (BNL), Jake Lindberg (BNL), and Andrew. Not pictured: Roisin
We traveled to Brookhaven National Laboratory for a day of tests on a boiler there. Preliminary results were exciting; stay tuned for more updates!
We are delighted that recent research assistant Andrew Hallward-Driemeier has joined the graduate program in the Columbia University Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences and will continue in the group as a graduate student. With his experience running the long-term CO2 and CH4 observation sites around NYC, Andrew will be investigating some of the interesting processes we have seen in the urban area, including the impacts of incomplete combustion.
We joined in the NOAA funded project Fluxes of Reactive Organic Gases in New York (FROG-NY) to measure greenhouse gases at at tower in Mineola, NY during summer 2023. We measured CO2, CO, methane, ethane and N2O at two different heights. Our analysis of this data is being lead by graduate student Yuwei Zhao, with field assistance from Andrew Hallward-Driemeier and Roisin Commane and funding from NYSERDA. We are going back for a winter intensive in Jan/Feb 2024 with FROGSICLE. This heating season intensive will be very interesting for the greenhouse gases but we don't…
Roisin is PI on the CarbonFOX satellite proposal to the NASA Earth System Explorer (ESE). After many years of work, and a particularly intense few weeks in July, she was delighted that the proposal was finally submitted!
Ludda Ludwig received 2nd place in the student awards at the AMS Hydrology Conference in Denver in January 2023. Congratulations Ludda!
She also gave a fantastic oral presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting in Chicago in December. Ludda is on a roll!
Luke Schiferl's recent paper in Biogeosciences was an EGU Highlight. Luke has made the atmospheric tools developed for his North Slope permafrost tundra ecosystem evaluations available on: http://atmoscomp.ldeo.columbia.edu/tvprm
Dandan Wei's ERL paper received a lot of interest from NYC news soon after being published! Kevin Krajick at wrote a great press release that interested many media outlets.
NY1 News joined the group at the CUNY Observatory and Juan Benitez interviewed Dandan, Andrew and Roisin. The video is available here
Winston Choi-Schagrin at the New York Times Metro Desk interviewed Dandan, Roisin and our colleague (and co-PI) Andy Reinmann as we walked around the CUNY Campus. Andy's very photogenic dog Guinevere also featured! The article is available here
We also chatted with more…
