Thu, March 12, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM See description. Peter Wall International Visiting Research Scholar public talk:
Hydroxyl is the atmosphere’s Pac-Man. Hydroxyl always wins.
Hydroxyl (OH) is simply water missing a hydrogen and it wants it back. As a result, it has a prodigious appetite for gases emitted into the atmosphere, making it the atmosphere’s Pac-Man despite its puny size. Hydroxyl has defeated many who have attempted to measure its value, but progress has been made in its measurement, its current role in atmospheric chemistry, and the prediction of its role in a future changing climate. This talk will highlight where we are having success and where we are struggling. Where we are struggling might surprise you.
Dr. William Brune is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University. Brune studies atmospheric chemistry, particularly the reactive chemistry that takes gases and particles emitted into the atmosphere and “ages” them into other gases and particles that are more easily removed from the atmosphere. For this work, he has won awards and has been named a Fellow of three professional societies - the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2015
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: Room 1888 (Multipurpose Room), Jim Pattison Pavilion, Vancouver, BC