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Michigan Tech Faculty, Researchers Endorse Michigan’s 25% by 2025 Renewable Energy Initiative

Webmaster — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:00:34 +0000

More than a dozen Michigan Tech faculty members and researchers have gone on the record in support of a ballot initiative designed to give a big boost to the state’s renewable energy industry. If passed by the voters in November, the initiative would require that 25 percent of Michigan’s electricity be generated using renewable energy sources by the year 2025. Among the signers is assistant professor of physics Claudio Mazzoleni. READ MORE

Cloud Chemistry

Webmaster — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:00:49 +0000

NSF funds will build a cloud chamber.
By Lynn Mazzoleni
In addition to interesting cloud chemistry questions, physics professors Raymond Shaw (lead PI), Will Cantrell, and Claudio Mazzoleni intend to study aerosol and cloud physics in the chamber. The group plans to conduct experiments in parallel whenever feasible, to better link the chemical and physical properties of aerosols. READ MORE
CHeMnOTeS, Michigan Tech Department of Chemistry 2011 Newsletter

The Physics of Atmospheric Ice Nucleation

Webmaster — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:57 +0000

Sarah Brooks
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
Thursday, October 27, 2011
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

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Michigan Tech Researchers to Study Atmospheric Aerosols at PICO Mountain Research Observatory

Webmaster — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:00:54 +0000

In 2001, Richard Honrath established an atmospheric research station on the top of Mt. Pico, a cold, lonely, extinct volcano in the Azores. Mt. Pico is the highest point in the Portuguese island chain and the only spot in the mid-Atlantic where the air is high enough to escape the effects of the ocean environment. Wife and husband Lynn and Claudio Mazzoleni have received separate grants to characterize aerosols at the PICO Mountain Observatory. Lynn Mazzoleni, an assistant professor of chemistry, will focus on understanding aerosols’ chemistry and how they interact with sunlight. Claudio Mazzoleni, an assistant professor of physics, is a coinvestigator on the project and is lead investigator on a related two-year, $300,000 US Department of Energy grant to characterize how much sunlight aerosols are reflecting or absorbing and how their reflective properties change as they drift across the cloud-covered Atlantic. READ MORE

Clouds and Aerosol Nucleation from the Cloud-resolved to the Global Scale

Webmaster — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:00:08 +0000

Jan Kazil
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, USA
Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Thursday, September 29, 2011
4:00 pm, Fisher 139

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MTU Studying Clouds

Webmaster — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:00:35 +0000

Clouds play a crucial part in regulating climate, but precious little is actually known about clouds’ inner workings and their role on Earth. A group of Michigan Technological University scientists hopes to change that, thanks to a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

MTU studying clouds, weather
Mining Journal, January 3, 2011

New Michigan Tech Research Focuses On Clouds’ Role In Climate
CBS Detroit, January 3, 2011

Clouds with silver linings
Mining Gazette, December 30, 2010

Michigan Tech looks at clouds
National Science Foundation grant used to build research chamber
UpperPeninsula.biz, December 13, 2010

A Look at Clouds from All Sides Now
Michigan Tech News, December 13, 2010

Cloud Comments

Webmaster — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:00:38 +0000

Professor Raymond Shaw (Physics), is an author of a commentary published in this week’s issue of the journal “Science.” The topic is the need to better understand cloud processes and how that can be accomplished. The article entitled “Can We Understand Clouds Without Turbulence?” is published in the Perspectives section of the journal. The reference is E. Bodenschatz, S. P. Malinowski, R. A. Shaw, and F. Stratmann Science 19 February 2010: 970-971. The synopsis is “Advances at the interface between atmospheric and turbulence research are helping to elucidate fundamental properties of clouds.”