1. Penn State Colloquium http://physics.umbc.edu/~mcmillan 1/18/07 Atmospheric Physics at UMBC physics.umbc.edu (mcmillan@umbc.edu) Offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees Research areas: remote sensing of aerosols, gases, clouds, and transport modeling 4 core faculty, 20 research faculty, 2 Joint Centers with NASA Goddard (100+ researchers), and 15 graduate students Research Instrumentation Full meteorological station including all-sky camera In situ trace gas and aerosol monitors including filters Multiple Lidar systems (scannable, Raman, elastic, MPL) Uplooking atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI) AERONET CIMEL sun photometer and Suominet GPS Lightning mapper network CO2 and eddy flux covariance measurements Vaisala RS-92 radiosonde ground-station

2. Atmospheric Lidar Group Raymond Hoff (hoff@umbc.edu) Areas of Researchhoff@umbc.edu Understanding optical properties of atmospheric aerosols and gases in a suburban environment Understanding satellite retrievals of these chemicals and the relationship between column and profile measurements Calibrating the remote sensing measurements with in-situ ground measurements Understanding the impact of aerosols on human health

3. UMBC Monitoring of Air Pollution (UMAP) http://alg.umbc.edu/UMAP

4. Physics Department Laboratory for Aerosol and Cloud Optics Aircraft Sensors and Measurements Laboratory Measurements New Remote Sensing Instrument Development www.umbc.edu/laco

5. Physics Department Laboratory for Aerosol and Cloud Optics Instrument Development www.umbc.edu/laco Science Prof. J. Vanderlei Martins martins@umbc.edu Marshak et al. 2006, ACP Martins et al. 2007, ACPD Zinner et al. 2008, ACPD

6. Atmospheric Remote Sensing Facility (ARF) Wallace McMillan (mcmillan@umbc.edu) Remote sensing of trace gases: mainly CO and O3 Long-range transport and impacts on air quality Fire and human pollution changes with climate Stratosphere-troposphere exchange Planetary boundary layer evolution and air quality forecasting Correlations of trace gases and aerosols Ground-based: BBAERI Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer PBL Temperature and moisture profiler (U. Wis. developed) PBL CO and tropospheric column O3 (UMBC developed) Satellite: AIRS Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (on Aqua) CO retrievals and validation (Science Team member) Integrating analysis with other observations: Calipso, MODIS, MOPITT, TES, OMI, IASI, ground-based, etc.

7. AIRS tracks LA fire plume to Texas Calipso track Calipso 532 nm attenuated backscatter LA Station Fire plume 8/30/09 (AP) Wallace McMillan (mcmillan@umbc.edu)

8. Hurricane Katrina hot towers (TRMM) Lynn Sparling Research areas: Low level winds: Energy generation and boundary layer dynamics. Long-range transport: Tracking SO2 emissions from volcanoes. Hurricanes: Small scale processes in the eye and eyewall and links to intensity change. sparling@umbc.edu

9. Student Opportunities Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) http://gest.umbc.edu/student_opp/students.html Joint Center for Earth Systems Techology (JCET) http://gest.umbc.edu/ faculty_publications/2010/JCET_Summer2010.pdf