Photo Gallery

A time series of a wave breaking in 'beach mode' in the CAICE ocean-atmosphere chamber. When running the wave tank in this manner, waves break almost every 2 seconds. Photo Credit: M. Dale Stokes

Professor Chris Cappa and graduate student Sara Forestieri (UC Davis) prepare their Cavity Ring-down and Photoacoustic Spectrometers to measure aerosol optical properties.

Michelle Kim (Bertram Group, UCSD) is adding a monoculture of Duneliella tertiolecta (green algae) to the ocean-atmosphere

Postdoctoral researcher Defeng Zhao has been working long nights performing the first analyses of our sea spray samples by SEM and raman microscopy.

Prof. Francesco Paesani (at right) discusses the intersection of this experiment with his work within CAICE: molecular dynamics simulations of reactions at aerosol interfaces.

Oct 28: Scientists are now arriving from around the world for the setup stage.

Prof. Tim Bertram, oceanographer Dale Stokes, and chemistry grad student Doug Collins chat about recent progress and plans.

Vicki Grassian and Andy Ault (U. of Iowa) discuss the sampling setup for offline analysis by microscopy and spectroscopy.

A breaking wave in the ocean-atmosphere chamber using the focused-wave packet mode.

Tim Bertram (UCSD) works with his flowtube apparatus for conducting gas-to-particle chemical reactions wave breaking aerosols generated in the ocean-atmosphere chamber.

CAICE grad students and postdocs chatted with Prof. Gil Nathanson (UW-Madison) over lunch before his invited chemistry department seminar.

Darius Ceburnis (NUI Galway) and Meilu He (Clarkson) discuss the data as it is reported in real time.

Green algae (Duneliella tertiolecta), which has grown to impressive cell density, awaits its turn in the ocean-atmosphere chamber.

Prof. Tim Bertram and his grad student Olivia Ryder discuss their heterogeneous chemistry experiment.

Close up photo of the off-gassing bubble plume resulting from a breaking wave in the wave tank.

Micro-orifice Uniform Deposit Impactors (MOUDIs) collect particles in 8-10 different size ranges for offline microscopy and spectroscopy.

The early stages of loading the SIO Hydraulics Lab with our atmospheric sampling instrumentation.

A fringe benefit of working at SIO — beautiful sunsets on an almost daily basis!!

A time series of waves breaking in ‘beach mode’ in the CAICE ocean-atmosphere chamber. Photo Credit: M. Dale Stokes

From left: Wilton Mui (Caltech), Olivia Ryder (UCSD/Bertram), and Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez (UCSD/Prather) around the CAICE portable marine aerosol generator.

Professor Suresh Dhaniyala (Clarkson Univ.) and Meilu He work on deploying their instrument to measure fast size distributions of sea spray particles generated in our ocean-atmosphere chamber.

Grad students Carly Ebben (Northwestern) and Greg Medders (UCSD/Paesani) have a light discussion at the CAICE luncheon.

The physical structure and dynamics of the bubbles produced from the breaking waves will be investigated by oceanographers Grant Deane and Dale Stokes.

Paul DeMott (Colorado State) hopes to see interesting changes in the ability of biologically-enhanced sea spray particles to act as ice crystal nuclei, which is important to cloud and precipitation processes.

Postdoctoral researcher Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez works on making careful measurements of single aerosol particles.

Oct 27: Single Particle mass spectrometer calibrations are underway

Oct 28: CAICE investigators and collaborators become re-acquainted and discuss the current status.

The CAICE crew all sat down for a group lunch on Nov 8.

SIO grad student Michelle Kim (Bertram Lab) carefully adds marine biological agents to the wave tank.

The Bertram Group’s quadrupole mass spectrometer is being used for measurements of heterogeneous reactions.

Operations ramped up on Oct 28 with scientists arriving from around the world for the initial setup stage.

The green algae (Duneliella tertiolecta, Nov 5) preferred to stay at the surface of the water in the wave tank.

CAICE Director Kim Prather speaks with a group of visitors about our single particle analysis of aerosols.

Caltech grad student Wilton Mui is making water uptake measurements using a technique called DASH-SP (yellow rack).

CAICE Director Kim Prather flipping through single particle mass spectra with her grad student Doug Collins

The Hydraulics Lab is filling up… we now have most instruments in place…only some have made it out of their shipping crates.

The bubble plume from a breaking wave in ‘beach mode’.

SIO Research Oceanographer Grant Deane trains his expert eye on acoustic data, which tell us about the bubble size distribution from the breaking waves.

A group of students, including UCSD undergrad Mallory Pickett, are taking care of comprehensive seawater analysis during the study.

Sunset overlooking the Scripps Pier at SIO.

The Hydraulics Lab has become quite a bustling place during the CAICE Intensive campaign.

Photo credits: Matt Ruppel, Franz Geiger, M. Dale Stokes, and Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez