Outreach Efforts

2004 Summer intern Peggy Hannon
Balloon flights launched from Pittstown New Jersey in August 2004. In this proof of concept study Peggy and Colby measure vertical profiles of aerosol properties on board a hot-air-balloon in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan area. Vertical profiles are needed to assess the physical and health related effects of local and continental scale air pollution.

2003 Summer ICP intern Autumn Anderson and Natasha Ewarts
Spatial variability of air pollution in New York City in summer 2003. For one month the high school students Natasha Ewarts and Autumn Anderson performed optical measurements of the atmosphere all over New York City and mapped the reduction of atmospheric transparency and visibility due to air pollution. They took the subway from north to south and east to west, the circle line boat around the Island of Manhattan and we rented a convertible and drove from Long Beach on Long Island through Brooklyn, Manhattan and up the Hudson Valley to Lamont while monitoring air pollution.

IPC is the Institute for Climate and Planets of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. IPC was a collaborative program between NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, providing minority public high school and college students and teachers the opportunity to conduct climate and planetary research.

BBC documentary "Dimming Sun"
In 2004 the BBC came to Lamont and documented my contribution of the discovery of global dimming for the "dimming sun" documentary.

Earth2Class
Guest lecturer “Saturday workshop for educators” a NSF funded program for K12 students, teachers and administrators

RealClimate
Guest commentaries on RealClimate. RealClimate contributors are climate scientists who comment on climate science understandable for the public.