News & Fieldwork Index

March 2019

The group webpage is live!! 

Future updates on research and fieldwork will be available here


January 2019

Happy New Year!


December 2018

The group presented their work at the AGU Fall Meeting in Washington DC:

Luke Schiferl presented his work on understanding the carbon fluxes of Alaskan Tundra in a very well received oral presentation! 

Maggie Powell gave a great poster presentation on her work in the Alaskan tundra during the Polaris Project summer fieldwork from 2018

Roisin presented a poster on the group’s work on the impact of African pollution on the tropical Atlantic, that got some attention.

Just before AGU, Roisin and Luke attended the Permafrost Carbon Network annual meeting in Washington DC. As usual, this was an interesting and exciting meeting with lots of interactions and potential collaborations brewing! 

The week before AGU, Roisin gave an invited seminar in the Dept of Physics at University of Toronto, with a quick side trip to visit colleagues at Environment and Climate Change Canada.  


November 2018

Roisin attended the NASA ATom Science Team meeting in Boulder, CO and presented the group’s work on African air quality. 


October 2018

Roisin attended the CO2-USA (CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis Network) workshop in beautiful Salt Lake CIty to learn about carbon fluxes from various urban areas in the US. 

Roisin also participated in the Arctic Data Center's Permafrost carbon synthesis working group in Santa Barbara, CA (website). With researchers from Germany, Japan, Korea, US, Canada and Finland, we had a great overview of pan-Arctic flux sites and much progress was made!


September 2018

Group News! 

Emily Follansbee has joined the group as a G1 gradutate student in DEES! Welcome Emily!

Maggie Powell is continuing her summer research on Arctic methane into her Senior Research Thesis at Harvard College. 

Bronte Dalton is continuing in the group as a research assistant at Lamont for the fall semester, with a continuing focus on developing an urban carbon measurement network. 


Roisin presented the group’s work on Arctic carbon in a plenary presentation at the Integrated Carbon Observing System (ICOS) Biannual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic on Sept 12, 2018. She also presented a poster on our work with the ATom CO data at the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) biannual meeting in Takamatsu, Japan on Sept 27, 2018. 


July 2018

Margaret Powell spends two weeks in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in south west Alaska as part of the NSF Polaris Project. 


June 2018

Roisin is featured as a data provider on NASA Earthdata

Bronte Dalton joins the group as a summer student at Columbia.


April-May 2018

Roisin, Bruce and John fly around the world for ATom4!


April 2018

April 8-14: Roisin, Bruce and John in Palmdale for ATom4 Test Flights! 

April 2: First ATom data released on the ORNL DAAC! See ATom data

March 2018

March 27-30: Roisin in Santa Barbara for an Arctic Flux Workshop at NCEAS.

March 19: Sarah Strode’s paper using CO data from ATom1 is on ACPD:  Forecasting Carbon Monoxide on a Global Scale for the ATom-1 Aircraft Mission: Insights from Airborne and Satellite observations and modeling

March 19: Roisin quoted in a WaPo article on methane emissions.

March 7-16: Roisin and Bruce Daube travelled to NASA Armstrong in Palmdale, CA to prepare the Harvard QCLS instrument for install on the NASA DC8 research aircraft for NASA ATom Phase 4! 


February 2018

Feb 5: Elliott Campbell’s paper on OCS in redwood trees (using data from the CalNex cruise) is featured in the EOS Editor Highlights!


January 2018

Jan 22-26: Roisin and Luke attended the NASA ABoVE meeting in Seattle.


Jan 24: Commane et al., 2017 was mentioned in an NPR article: Is there a ticking time bomb under the Arctic? 


Jan 18: Roisin was quoted in a article on Arctic Methane in Earther


Jan 8: Sean Hartery’s paper was published in ACP! 


Jan 7-11: Roisin attended the American Meteorological Society’s Atmospheric Chemistry Meeting in Austin, TX to present ATom data: 


Jan 2: Luke Schiferl started in the Wofsy/Commane Group at Harvard


December 2017

The AGU session with Roisin’s invited oral presentation is available on Youtube:



October 2017

Completed ATom3 flight circuit - with an added flight under the Antarctic Ozone Hole! 

Twitter Moments from ATom3 


September 2017

Roisin attended the KISS Workshop in Pasadena, CA on Next Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Space-Based Integration of Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS), CO2 and Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) 

The four presentations of the Short Course are available online.


May 2017

Intro to Commane et al., 2017: Early Winter Respiration from Alaskan Tundra 


March 2017

Roisin attended the SEARCH Methane Workshop in Seattle, WA 


March 2017

Chemistry of remote regions: ATom Overview


February 2017

Around the World Again: ATom2


January 2017

Methane publications overview: Regional Methane fluxes in Alaska


August 2016 

Around the World Attempt 1: ATom1


June 2016

Intro to Parazoo et al., 2016Future CO2 in Alaska


December 2015

Intro to Zona et al., 2016Methane in the Arctic


November 2015

Intro to Commane et al., 2015: Forest Fluxes of Carbonyl Sulfide 


October 2015

Carbon Fluxes in the Arctic: CARVE


October 2014

Harvard Forest: OCS Flux


October 2013

Stratospheric CO2 Measurements: SEAC4RS


August 2012

OCS over the Ocean: WACS 2012


July 2010

Californian Air Quality: CALNEX 2010


October 2009

Greenhouse Gases above the Pacific: HIPPO


July 2008

Oxidation in the Tropics: OP3


March 2008

Halogen Oxidation in the Arctic


August 2007

Coastal Iodine Monoxide


June 2007

Iodine Oxide above the Atlantic


July 2006

Oxidation above the African Sahel: AMMA


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