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● Is this phenomenon due to aerosol microphysics or absorption? This is a nice picture showing a cloud being sliced by aerosols from aircraft exhaust.

● On 04/21/09  Zahra Chaudhry has defended her PhD thesis at UMD College Park - A Study of Optical, Physical, and Chemical Properties of Aerosols using in Situ Measurements, under the direction of Profs. Zhanqing Li (UMD) and J. Vanderlei Martins (UMBC).

● The first Cloud-CubeSat Workshop will happen at UMBC on March 26th, from 9AM to 5PM. Attendants are invited to bring oral presentations and/or posters.

On 02/22/09 we had the first light in our integrating sphere. The polarization control box is underway and should be integrated to the system soon.

 The UMBC aerosol sampling station for PM10 and PM2.5 is up and running on the top of the Physics Building as part of the Phys650 Special Topics in Experimental Atmospheric Physics (future PHYS 427/627: Atmospheric Physics Measurements: Instrumentation and Techniques)

 Koren, Martins and Remer have been featured on the UMBC Research Page for their recent Science paper "Smoke Invigoration Versus Inhibition of Clouds over the Amazon" (Science, 321, 946-949)).

 Olin College students concluded a study on two subsystems of the UMBC Cloud-Cubesat Project.