Who's Who? Who's New?

From Left to Right/ Top to Bottom: Yolanda, Sabine, James, Robin, Diane and Anita.

Yolanda Echegoyen Sanz, fomerly a postdoc in Ed Boyle's lab, left last week to return to her native Spain where she takes up a position working at the University of Zaragoza in the Analytical Chemistry Department. During her postdoc, Yolanda worked on the temporal and spatial evolution of lead and lead isotopes in seawater samples from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Going forward she begins a study of nanoparticle migration from food packaging both in terms of concentration using ICP-MS techniques like the ones she has been honing in Ed's lab aswell as morphologically by electron microscopy.

Two other postdocs, both from Roger Summons, Geobiology Lab, also left in March: Sabine Mehay has gone on to start a geochemistry lab in Dubai working for Schlumberger while James Saenz has departed to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics  in Dresden as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow.

We wish all three well in their new positions.

Visitor Robin Locatelli has been with us for several weeks already but in case you haven't met him: Robin is a graduate student from the National School of Meteorology (ENM-Météo France) in Toulouse and will be with us until mid-August. He is working directly with Matt Rigby, under the overall supervision of Ron Prinn, examining the impact of chemical transport model errors on 'inverse' estimates of trace gas emissions using atmospheric measurements.  Robin is in 54-1413 with Matt Rigby and Eri Saikawa. 

In other news, graduate students Diane Ivy and Anita Ganesan both just got back from extended trips. Diane has been in Australia working at the CSIRO in Aspendale for 4 months. While there she was measuring the Cape Grim Air Archive for "new" (new in that they haven't been previously measured, but have still been around since the 70's and 80's) greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Anita has been at SCRIPPS for the past 6 months developing an automated instrument to measure methane, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride the atmosphere and that will soon be deployed to a field station. Great to have you both back in the Green Building!

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