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from major exposure sources, such as motor vehicles,
power plants, and cigarettes. Dr. Nazaroff earned a PhD
in environmental engineering science at Caltech (1989).
He is a Fellow of AAAR and will serve as AAAR President
for 2011-2012.
8. ThIS TuTorIAl hAS Been CAnCeled.
Third Session: 1:00 pm – 2:40 pm
9. SpeCTroSCopy of AeroSolS
Ruth Signorell, Department of Chemistry, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract: Spectroscopic methods play a central role
in the characterization of aerosols. Nowadays, a large
number of spectroscopic instruments exist to measure
aerosols wherever they arise. This course is intended to
provide an introduction into aerosol spectroscopy and an
overview of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly developing
field. It will include fundamental aspects of aerosol
spectroscopy as well as applications to atmospherically
and astronomically relevant problems. The goal is to
provide an overview of the latest experimental and
theoretical studies in aerosol spectroscopy. The course
will cover the whole range of spectroscopic methods from
infrared and Raman to UV/VIS and X-ray. The focus will
be on fundamental aspects of light particle interaction as
a function of the wavelength and on aerosol properties
that can be probed with light of a certain wavelength.
Fundamental problems associated with the analysis of
aerosol spectra as well as other aspects that need further
research and development will be discussed.
Ruth Signorell is a professor in the Department of
Chemistry at the University of British Columbia.
She received her undergraduate and post-graduate
degrees in physics and chemistry from the ETH
Zürich in Switzerland. Her research interests focus
on spectroscopic and mass spectrometric studies of
aerosols. She is co-editor of a book on “Fundamentals
and Applications in Aerosol Spectroscopy”. She has
received several awards, among them the 2005 Werner
Award of the Swiss Chemical Society, an A. P. Sloan
Fellowship in 2007 (USA), and a E. W. R. Steacie
Memorial Fellowship in 2011 (Canada).
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