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An ASCOS Doctor Join us all in congratulating the 2nd new doctor to have achived a PhD within the ASCOS project, Cathryn Birch. Well done!

2nd ASCOS workshop

The second full ASCOS workshop was held at Ersta Conference in Stockholm 3-6 March. Some 30 ASCOS scientists got together to discuss achievments and upcoming publications in chilly Stockholm.

Worshop dinner at Dushanbe TeahouseOn 2-6 November, 2009, a group of meteorologists from Sweden, Germany, the UK and US got together at NOAA/ESRL in Boulder, Colorado, for the the First ASCOS Meteorology Workshop. Besides a nice dinner at the Dushanbe Teahouse we spend five 9-hour days picking apart some of the the meteorological data from the ASCOS campaign, focusing primarily on vertical mixing and processes that contributed to cloud formation and their effects.

Petri not defending thesisJoin us in congratulating Petri Vaattovaara for successfully defended his thesis  "The organic tandem differential mobility analyzer: Instrument development and studies of freshly nucleated and Aitken mode size atmospheric nanoparticle compositions at marine and forest environments" (yes that is a long title!) on 30 October 2009 at University of Kuopio in Finland. A large emphasis in IPY was put on fostering future Arctic scientists and since ASCOS is an IPY project it is a particular pleasure to congratulate Petri to having become the first new ASCOS PhD! 

Conference on Nucleation & Atmospheric AerosolOn 10-14 August 2009, Petri Vaattovaara and Zoran Ristovski represented ASCOS at the "18th International Conference on Nucleation & Atmospheric Aerosol" in Prague, Czech Republic, among participants from 39 countries. Petri gave an oral presentation of observations of ultrafine particle composition over the open Arctic Ocean during the "Aerosol-Climate Interaction" session while Zoran presented a short overview of the VH-TDMA measurements collected during ASCOS in the plenary session on Marine Aerosols.

European Aerosol ConferenceASCOS made it to yet another conference! This time Andreas Held presented aerosol flux observations at the European Aerosol Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany on 6 - 11 September, 2009. Andreas was also given the opportunity to present these results as an oral presentation as a backup presentation.

Prize-winning presentationThe Joint Assembly of the AGU was held in Toronto from May 24-27, 2009.  Although smaller than the fall meeting, there were still an extensive Arctic session.  The oral presentation on the aerosol chemistry measured during ASCOS given by Rachel Chang won an award for Best Student Presentation.

Brooks et al. UK

An oral presentation giving an overview of ASCOS/AMISA and a poster with preliminary
meteorology results were presented at the first UK Arctic Science Conference at the
National Oceangraphy Centre, Southampton, on July 13-15. This was the first meeting
to bring the whole UK Arctic science community together.

See http://www.ukarcticscience.org/ for more information.

Sara del la RosaThree posters and an oral presentation, illustrating some ongoing work from ASCOS/AMISA, were presented at the MOCA-IAMAS-IAPSO-IACS meeting in Montréal, Canada, 20-24th July. It was a very fruitful meeting, with 18 atmospheric, 10 ocean, 6 cryospheric sessions and 21 Joint Symposia sessions. The poster session was organized all in one large common hall, allowing participants across the various disciplines to interact.

ASCOS now has a new logo, which can now be viewed on the home page of web-site or below ASCOS logo