June 20, 2026
Carter and Nathan have finished setting up the MICETRAP (Multiscale Investigation of Cropland-atmosphere Exchange, Transport, and Reactive Agricultural Processes), the follow-up experiment to MOUSETRAP. This study will collect flux measurements at 5 and 10 m above a crop canopy to investigate how volatile organic compounds, ozone, carbon dioxide, heat, and moisture are exchanged between croplands and the atmosphere. The experiment will also use UAS-mounted remote sensing to characterize crop conditions and better understand how spatial variability across the landscape influences measured fluxes. See you at harvest!
June 09, 2026
Carter presented his work at the 12th International GEOS-Chem Meeting.
March 23, 2026
We welcomed students from the Indiana School for the Deaf to explore the science behind what makes the world around us smell. Students used our “mass spectrometer nose in the sky” to sniff the chemicals released from things we encounter every day like shampoos, deodorants, and pine needles, and learned about the molecules responsible for their unique scents. They also got to see how drone-mounted cameras can measure surface temperatures, including the heat signatures from their own bodies. Thanks so much for visiting!
January 27, 2026
Carter and Michael presented their work at the annual American Meteorological Society Meeting.
December 5, 2025
End of the semester group dinner at The Bryant!
November 17, 2025
Lauren presented her poster on CO2 fluxes from MOUSETRAP and AmeriFlux sites at the Fall 2025 Undergraduate Research Expo, showing how climate variability shapes carbon uptake across the U.S. Corn Belt.
November 14, 2025
Congratulations Carter, for passing his qualifying exams!
October 24, 2025
After more than three months of continuous observations led by Carter and many mouse relocations, the MOUSETRAP study has concluded.
July 10, 2025
The MOUSETRAP (Measurement of Organic and Uncharacterized Species, Exchange, Transport and Reactive Agricultural Processes) study to measure eddy covariance fluxes of VOCs at a corn and soybean field has begun. Check out the awesome tower Nathan and Carter put together.
March 5, 2025
The AIRCheM Vocus chemical ionziation time-of-flight mass spectrometer has arrived in Hampton Hall! (We're still unpacking and moving in).
February 3, 2025
Carter, Nathan, and Michael visited Aerodyne Research Inc. in Billerica, MA to get trained on our group's Vocus chemical ionization mass spectrometer with Dr. Mitchell Alton (left). We learned a lot about mass spectrometry and supermarket lobster rolls.
January 2025
Welcome to our new Ph.D. student, Nathan Rose!
December 11, 2024
Michael received the James R. Holton Award. This atmospheric science award recognizes outstanding scientific research and accomplishments from honorees within three years of receiving their Ph.D.
August 11, 2024
Carter Swenson and Michael Vermeuel have completed day one of the AIRCheM lab at Purdue University. So far, so good.