Tag: atmospheric aerosols

Doctoral student Michael Perez tends to the sun photometer on the roof of a building at the Marine Campus. (Photo: Matthew Rembold/University of Miami)

How’s the air up there?

A University of Miami device measures aerosols in the atmosphere to assist research on local and large-scale weather patterns.

Aboard the RV Neil Armstrong, University of Miami graduate student Hope Elliott, left, prepares vials of seawater into which Saharan dust particles and volcanic ash were injected.. (Image courtesy of Hope Elliott/University of Miami)

‘A fertilizer for the sea’

A University of Miami Ph.D. student investigated the impact of Saharan dust and volcanic ash on the ocean’s ecosystem.