Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry (LUC)

The PSI Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry studies atmospheric chemistry and high-altitude glaciers, assessing the impact of human activities and natural processes on human health, environment and climate.

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Lab News & Scientific Highlights

01.11.2022

Michelle Worek - welcome!

A warm welcome to Michelle Worek, our new PhD student in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry. She will join the Analytical Chemistry group on 1 November 2022.

01.10.2022

Welcome Giovanni Baccolo

We warmly welcome Giovanni Baccolo as Postdoc in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry. He joined the Analytical Chemistry group on 1 October 2022.

26.09.2022

Jérôme Gabathuler successfully defended – congratulations!

On 26th September 2022 Jérôme Gabathuler successfully defended his PhD entitled “The thickness of the quasi-liquid layer on ice and its interaction with atmospheric gases as seen by X-ray absorption and photoelectron spectroscopies" at ETH Zürich.

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Publications

Brugger SO, McWethy DB, Chellman NJ, Prebble M, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Eckhardt S, et al.
Holocene black carbon in New Zealand lake sediment records
Quaternary Science Reviews. 2024; 325: 108491 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108491
DORA PSI
Brugger SO, Chellman NJ, Plach A, Henne PD, Stohl A, McConnell JR
Pollen in polar ice implies Eastern Canadian forest dynamics diverged from climate after European settlement
Geophysical Research Letters. 2024; 51(2): e2023GL105581 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105581
DORA PSI
Di Mauro B, Garzonio R, Ravasio C, Orlandi V, Baccolo G, Gilardoni S, et al.
Combined effect of algae and dust on snow spectral and broadband albedo
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 2024; 316: 108906 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2024.108906
DORA PSI