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.
Lab News & Scientific Highlights
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.
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.
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.
Publications
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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
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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
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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
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