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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi
Everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
third ESI Young Faculty Seminar of the semester is fast approaching on <b>Tuesday,
April 6<sup>th</sup> at 4 p.m. in the 54-915...reception to follow.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
spread the word and feel free to distribute the <b>attached poster</b>.
Any and all are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jesse
Kroll, </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Assistant
Professor in CEE will entertain and inform us with his talk:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Oxidative evolution of
organic aerosols in Earth’s atmosphere</span></i></b><b><i><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Organic aerosols (OAs) constitute a large, often dominant
fraction of the total tropospheric particulate burden, and as such have
important implications for visibility, human health and climate on Earth.
However, state-of-the-art models do not predict OA loadings or properties with
any accuracy, indicating large gaps in our understanding of the chemistry
underlying OA formation and evolution. Here we present experiments aimed at
probing the multi-generational oxidative processing ("aging") of
OAs. These reactions are likely to be important in the atmosphere, but
are rarely accessed in the laboratory or included in models. Results are
presented within the context of a new framework for describing the chemistry of
atmospheric organic species, using average carbon oxidation state as a metric
for describing the degree of photochemical aging.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*********************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Also,
many thanks to Tanja Bosak of EAPS for her excellent talk on March 9<sup>th</sup>.
The rest of the lineup for this semester includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tuesday,
May 4: Taylor Perron @ 4pm at Parsons (48-316): <i>Pattern formation in
river networks</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tuesday,
June 1: Janelle Thompson @ 4pm at EAPS (54-915): <i>Land and Sea:
Microbial processes from corals to carbon sequestration</i></span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
join us for all the talks and an easy opportunity to check out what’s new
in areas outside your own expertise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hope
to see you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kurt</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>**********************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Kurt
Sternlof, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Executive
Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>MIT
Earth System Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>617-253-6895<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>kurtster@mit.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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