Prof. Deanna Hence has been named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor (LEAP) Scholar within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. This distinguished award recognize’s Prof. Hence’s significant achievements and outstanding future potential as a faculty member at Illinois. ...
(Argonne National Laboratory and College of LAS, 9/8/2022) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and a team of academic and community leaders—including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—$25 million over five years to advance urban climate...- During cloud processes, aerosol particles undergo physical and chemical changes. In this work by Dr. Yu Yao, and Professor Nicole Riemer, a particle-resolved model was used to quantify the changes in aerosol mixing states. They linked the particle-resolved aerosol model PartMC-MOSAIC with the cloud...
Balloon launches are typically the stuff of birthday parties and photo opps unless you’re an atmospheric scientist trying to gather storm data in tandem with NASA research planes navigating their way through giant blizzards. Then they require a bit of creativity and determination. That was a job...
This March and April, University of Illinois Atmospheric Sciences faculty will lead a multi-institutional team of researchers to study tornadoes and other severe weather in the southeast US. The project is called PERiLS, which stands for Propagation...
- SEP 13, 2021 10:00 AM BY LOIS YOKSOULIAN | PHYSICAL SCIENCES EDITOR A new, location-specific agricultural greenhouse gas emission study is the first to account for net carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions from all subsectors related to food...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Bangladesh is on track to lose all of its forestland in the next 35-40 years, leading to a rise in CO2 emissions and subsequent climate change, researchers said. However, that is just one of the significant land-use changes that the country is experiencing. A new study...- As students in atmospheric sciences, Troy Zaremba and Kaylee Heimes both refer to their time conducting undergraduate research at Illinois as the highlight of their time on campus. Under the guidance of atmospheric sciences...
NASA’s Terra satellite is celebrating its 20th anniversary since launch … and it’s still going strong! Prof. Di Girolamo worked on developing Terra as a graduate student, was there at the launch, and still works on it today! For the full story on the Terra satellite and its history, see...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The Global Carbon Project recently released its 2019 annual report, giving decision-makers access to data on atmospheric carbon concentrations, emissions and trends. Illinois atmospheric scientist Atul Jain is among the many scientists worldwide who contributed data to the report...
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as the first Category 4 storm in recorded history to reach shore in the northeast Gulf Coast. News Bureau physical sciences editor Lois Yoksoulian spoke with Illinois ...