Congratulations to Lindy Carmichael on her successful MSc thesis defense this week! The environmental chemistry contingent gathered to celebrate Lindy’s research success over lunch and cheesecake!
Trevor on CBC Quirks & Quarks - Fatima Research Cruise
Following our adventures on the high seas this summer, Trevor was interviewed about research from a ship science platform to study marine fog by Bob McDonald for Quirks & Quarks. Check out the podcast and article!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-10-our-summer-in-the-field-special-1.6577787
Congratulations to all group awardees!
The environmental/analytical undergraduate and graduate student contingent have been racking up the recognitions over the past couple of years! Here’s the run-down of some of the great achievements from our team:
2022-23
Seyed Danial Nodeh Farahani: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (International)
Eric Vanhauwaert: Kostas Tsotsos Graduate Award
Yashar Iranpour: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Leyla Salehpoor: Enbridge Graduate Student Award
Stephen Ye: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Alessia Colussi: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2021-22
Alessia Colussi: Enbridge Graduate Student Award and Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Moxy Shah: Gillian E Wu Award in Biochemistry
Stephen Ye: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Publication Alert: HCl Measurements from Canada!
Our colleague @Teles_Furlani has just published on the validation of HCl measurements by CRDS at pptv levels with 0.5 Hz time resolution! This technique was then applied by @TheChlorineKid (Andrea A. Angelucci) in a second publication examining GEOS-Chem performance in representing coastal and continental chlorine chemistry. Exciting contributions!
Analyst - Passive Sampling of HONO with a BODIPY-based Probe
VDB Group member Danial Farahani (PhD Student, @NitroDanialine) has published the development of a molecular probe for passive sampling of nitrous acid (HONO) for use in surveying indoor environments and exposure! @IndoorChem
Check out this Sciex vlog on PFAS with Prof. Young!
Our PFAS deposition collaborator, Prof. Cora Young (Guy Warwick Rogers Chair, @SVOCora), sat down for a fireside chat with Dr. Craig Butt @SCIEXnews on the contamination of the Arctic with short-chain PFAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3F6FXhAJ8A
Congratulations 21-22 VDB Group Awardees
Leyla Salehpoor, Alessia Colussi (@aacolussi), and Stephen Ye were awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships, in addition to the Charles Hantho Award in Atmospheric Chemistry, the Enbridge Graduate Award, and Harold I. Schiff Graduate Award in Atmospheric Chemistry, respectively. Congratulations to you all on your success!
Fall 2021 Group Kick-Off!
Welcome to new group members Eric Van Hauwaert, and undergraduate students Moxy Shah, George Cieszynski, Irina Nistorescu, and Gailmyra Fuentes who are joining us this year! Looking forward to the year ahead with the entire team! We made up for a year of missed monthly group socials by celebrating all birthdays and accomplishments in the sunshine in the afternoon (with the breeze giving plenty of ventilation and occasionally relief from the Yellowjackets).
Visit @NitroDanialine at #ACM2020 Today! He has an #IndoorChem probe to passively sample HONO to share! @SVOCora and @ShiraJoudan are presenting too!
Danial Farahani will be presenting his work on a water-soluble BODIPY probe to selectively collect HONO by passive sampling in indoor environments. This project is supported by the Sloan Foundation Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and we collaborated with the Caputo Group at YorkU to synthesize our probe. If you are attending the conference, visit him in the L1 breakout room today! Otherwise, feel free to contact us to learn more.
Welcome to the research team Fahim and Stephen!
The VandenBoer research team has two new members this fall: RenXi (Stephen) Ye and Fahim Sarker. New researchers met the entire team at a socially distanced outdoor event this fall. Welcome to you both! To learn more about our new, or existing, members, please visit their bios: https://www.tcvandenboer.ca/people