12/06/2022 - DEC 6, 2022 BY LOIS YOKSOULIAN | PHYSICAL SCIENCES EDITOR An almost limitless supply of fresh water exists in the form of water vapor above Earth’s oceans,...
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11/18/2022 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Prof. Atul Jain has once again been recognized as one of the world’s most influential scientists. See the story here to...
10/05/2022 - NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, WASHINGTON — A global clearinghouse for greenhouse gas emissions information should be created to support decision-makers working to address climate change, says a new...
09/16/2022 - Prof. Deanna Hence has been named a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor (LEAP) Scholar within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. This distinguished award recognize’s Prof. Hence’s...
09/14/2022 - (Argonne National Laboratory and College of LAS, 9/8/2022) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and a team of academic and community leaders—including...
03/02/2022 - During cloud processes, aerosol particles undergo physical and chemical changes. In this work by Dr. Yu Yao, and Professor Nicole Riemer, a particle-resolved model was used to quantify the changes in...
02/22/2022 - Balloon launches are typically the stuff of birthday parties and photo opps unless you’re an atmospheric scientist trying to gather storm data in tandem with NASA research planes navigating their way...
12/20/2021 - This March and April, University of Illinois Atmospheric Sciences faculty will lead a multi-institutional team of researchers to study tornadoes and...
10/22/2021 - In a study recently published in the journal Atmosphere, ATMS graduate student Lina Rivelli-Zea leveraged disdrometer data collection in the Americas to compare the drop-size...
09/17/2021 - The Gibson City flood occurred on August 12, 2021, in Gibson City, Illinois. During this event, around 10 inches of rain fell in less than 10 hours. There were numerous water rescues conducted during...
09/13/2021 - SEP 13, 2021 10:00 AM BY LOIS YOKSOULIAN | PHYSICAL SCIENCES EDITOR A new, location-specific agricultural greenhouse gas emission study is the first to account for net...
09/03/2021 - The study was conducted by Professor Sonia Lasher-Trapp, current graduate student Enoch Jo, and recent alumni Luke Allen and Bryan Engelsen. It identifies and quantifies various mechanisms of...
07/17/2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster for the world, but efforts to control the disease have produced at least one silver lining in terms of the environment: a decrease in global emissions....
05/10/2021 - Although tornadoes produced by quasi-linear convective systems (QLCSs) generally are weak and short-lived, they have high societal impact due to their proclivity to develop over short time scales,...
04/20/2021 - LAS Communications The state of Illinois is undergoing a rapid change in weather patterns that already has started to transform the state, according to a major new scientific assessment by...
