NSERC CREATE 2013 Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science

Our third Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science took place from July 15 to 19, 2013 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario.  Forty-five students from across Canada, the USA, and Europe attended.   Topics covered included ozone science; polar halogens; clouds, aerosols and radiation; the carbon cycle; greenhouse gas observations and modelling; atmospheric chemistry; remote sounding instrumentation (e.g., LIDAR and DOAS); systems engineering; Inuit history and culture; the Inuktitut language; science and policy; uses of satellite data; science journalism; and resume writing and interview skills.  Speakers and panelists included Thomas Davis (Canadian Space Agency), Jim Drummond (Dalhousie University), Ed Eloranta (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Udo Friess (University of Heidelberg), Craig Haley (COM DEV),  Glen Lesins (Dalhousie University), Noel McDermott (Queen’s University), Tom McElroy (York University), Jennifer Murphy (University of Toronto), Ray Nassar (Environment Canada), Ivan Semeniuk (Globe and Mail), and Sarah King, Ruth Louden, and Sheryl Stevenson (University of Toronto Scarborough).  Students also participated in a introductory Jamboree, a video-editing exercise, a poster session, an interactive professional development workshop, and a career panel discussion.

Many thanks to COM DEV for providing support for an enjoyable Icebreaker Social on the first evening of the Summer School.  The video editing portion of the Icebreaker was the brainchild of the Trainees’ Advisory Committee (TAC).  With increasing demand for video social media, the TAC thought it was fitting to launch a short video recording and editing activity to gauge interest for a full length workshop at the 2014 Summer School.  Attendees were assembled into small groups with the task of producing a short (maximum two minute) video on a topic of their choice.  Many groups chose to demonstrate scientific concepts using the outreach materials provided, while others chose to discuss the bigger picture of Arctic atmospheric science, Inuit clothing, and climate change.  Two winning videos were chosen by the attendees: Team Caribou (Christian Akpanya, Sean Hartery, Mathilde Jutras, Kevin Olsen, and Camille Viatte), with an artistic approach to climate change, and Team Arctic Wolves (Jennifer Beale, Paul Godin, Kostya Golovan, Debora Griffin, Jeff Langille, and Erik Lutsch), with an entertaining video about aerosols. Congratulations to both teams!  

The Poster Session gave students a chance to present and discuss their current research projects with the speakers and their peers.  Based on feedback from previous years, we recruited eight judges this year to ensure that all students presented their work to a minimum of two judges. Ed Eloranta, Udo Friess, Glen Lesins, and Ray Nassar served as judges for MSc/PhD/PDF Outstanding Poster Awards, which were awarded to three students: Felicia Kolonjari (University of Toronto), a PhD candidate studying the global distribution of HCFC-22; Stefan Kowalewski (University of Bremen), a PhD candidate studying the mesopheric hydroxyl airglow layer; and Jeff Langille (University of New Brunswick), a PhD candidate who is imaging winds in the upper atmosphere. Honourable mentions were received by Paul Godin (University of Toronto), a PhD candidate working on laboratory spectroscopy, and Jan-Marcus Nasse (University of Heidelberg), a PhD candidate measuring reactive halogen oxides in Antarctica.  Jennifer Beale, Stefan Kowalewski, Kevin Olsen, and Camille Viatte served as judges for the Undergraduate Outstanding Poster Award, which was awarded to Shannon Hicks (SETI Institute), a BSc graduate beginning her MSc at the University of Western Ontario in September, for her work in comparing clumps in Saturn's F ring. Honourable mentions were received by Tony Kang (University of Toronto), a summer intern who is refurbishing an infrared spectrometer for the PARABLE Project, and Marlene Machemy (University of Toronto), a summer intern studying factors influencing the rate of Arctic sea ice loss in global climate models. Congratulations to all the winners!

Our Training Program values professional skills development and provides numerous formal and informal training opportunities within various elements of our Program.  Since some of our trainees are approaching the end of their graduate studies, we decided to offer a resume and interview workshop.  Sarah King, Ruth Louden, and Sheryl Stevenson from the University of Toronto Scarborough facilitated an engaging and informative workshop to help prepare graduates for both academic and non-academic job interviews.  They presented strategies for securing and being successful in interviews, and gave attendees the chance to interview, be interviewed, and assess their experience.  They also provided useful advice on how to prepare CVs and resumes.  Their wealth of experience and knowledge was very beneficial to attendees.   

The Career Panel, which was offered for the first time last year, was well-received by attendees and so was offered again this year.  Dan Weaver, CREATE Trainees’ Advisory Committee member and Social Media Coordinator, graciously accepted the duty of chairing the panel discussion.  Six panelists participated: Thomas Davis (representing government policy), Craig Haley (industry), Noel McDermott (Northern education), Jennifer Murphy (academia), Ray Nassar (government science), and Ivan Semeniuk (media).  This diverse panel of successful science professionals represented the breadth of job opportunities available to science graduates, and complemented the interview workshop presented the previous day.  Dan kept the discussion moving and lively by alternating between questions submitted via the anonymous question box and questions from the audience.  Attendees also had the opportunity to talk to speakers and panelists informally during meals and coffee breaks.

If you have questions or comments about future Summer Schools, please email create_summerschool@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca.

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Summer School Schedule

2013 Summer School Program

2013 Summer School Survey - summary of results

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Suggested Readings and Websites

Thomas Davis

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca

Canadian Science Policy Conference 2013: http://www.cspc2013.ca/

Recruitment of Policy Leaders: http://jobs-emplois.gc.ca/rpl-rlp/index-eng.php?p=1

Careers in the federal public service: http://jobs-emplois.gc.ca/index-eng.htm

James R. Drummond

http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/~jrdrummond/drummond_files/page0001.htm

Ed Eloranta

http://lidar.ssec.wisc.edu/staff/eloranta.htm

Udo Friess

http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/institut/forschung/groups/atmosphere/troposphere/Mitarbeiter/en/

Simpson, W. R.; von Glasow, R.; Riedel, K.; Anderson, P.; Ariya, P.; Bottenheim, J.; Burrows, J.; Carpenter, L. J.; Frieß, U.; Goodsite, M. E.; Heard, D.; Hutterli, M.; Jacobi, H.-W.; Kaleschke, L.; Neff, B.; Plane, J.; Platt, U.; Richter, A.; Roscoe, H.; Sander, R.; Shepson, P.; Sodeau, J.; Steffen, A.; Wagner, T. & Wolff, E.: Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion, /Atmos. Chem. Phys., /*2007*/, 7/, 4375-4418, http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/4375/2007/

Hönninger, G.; von Friedeburg, C. & Platt, U.: Multi axis differential optical absorption spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS), /Atmos. Chem. Phys., /*2004*/, 4/, 231-254, http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/4/231/2004/

Platt, U. & Stutz, J.: /Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications, Physics of Earth and Space Environments, ISBN 978-3-540-21193-8. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+engineering+and+physics/book/978-3-540-21193-8

Craig Haley

http://www.comdev.ca/

Ashley Kilgour

http://candac.ca/candac/Outreach/CANDACcollaboration/ 

http://apecs.is/outreach/ 

Polar Science and Global Climate: An International Resource for Education and Outreach by Kaiser, Pearson 2010. (http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000391207)

Sarah King, Ruth Louden, and Sheryl Stevenson

http://ctl.utsc.utoronto.ca/home/

Job Boards using Web Crawler technology:

www.simplyhired.ca

Other job boards of interest:

www.workopolis.ca

Social media for job searches:

www.freshtransition.com

Recruitment agencies

http://www.acsess.org

www.kellyservices.ca

Amy Cuddy, TED talk, "Your body language shapes who you are" http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html

Glen Lesins

http://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/physics/about/atmospheric-science.html

Noel McDermott

http://www.queensu.ca/indigenous/index.html

Inuktitut Essentials: A Phrasebook, Pirurvik Press (First Edition, 2009)

Tom McElroy

http://larss.science.yorku.ca/ 

Jennifer Murphy

http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/wp/murphygroup/

Ray Nassar

http://www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&xsl=scitechprofile&xml=F97AE834-A762-47A6-A2D9-9C397FD72F37&formid=6706100A-4FFF-4926-B415-6D10BA6A9F51

Ivan Semeniuk

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/ivan-semeniuk

Kimberly Strong

http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/strong/strong.html 

CREATE/CANDAC

http://www.candac.ca/create/ 

http://www.candac.ca/candac/

@CREATEArcticSci (https://twitter.com/CREATEArcticSci)

 /CANDAC (http://www.facebook.com/groups/CANDAC/)

 CREATE Arctic Science Blog (http://createarcticscience.wordpress.com/)

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Student Poster Session

Click on thumbnails for larger versions of the photos and posters.

Name, Institution		Poster		Name, Institution		Poster
Christian Akpanya (MSc), University of New Brunswick			Comparative analysis of gravity waves detected by PEARL All Sky Imager (PASI) and E-Region Wind Interferometer (ERWIN)	Peter Argall  (CREATE summer intern), University of Western Ontario			Development of a New Lidar Data Analysis Program
Jennifer Beale (PhD), York University			Investigating the “Escalator Effect” in the Kilmore East fire of February, 2009 using GEM-AC	Eric Boone (PhD), University of Michigan  (USA)			Aircraft-based Measurements of Atmospheric Aerosol Size Distributions and Transport near Barrow, Alaska in Spring 2012
Jonathan Franklin (PhD), Dalhousie University			Solar tracker development in support of ground-based solar absorption spectroscopy	Paul Godin (PhD), University of Toronto			Overview of Laboratory Spectroscopy at the University of Toronto
Kostya Golovan (CREATE summer intern), University of Toronto			Evaluating and Improving the Performance of the FTIR Spectrometer at the Toronto Atmospheric Observatory	Debora Griffin (PhD), University of Toronto			Investigation of ozone depletion in the Arctic polar vortex - using ground-based FTIR measurements at Eureka between 2005 and 2013
Sean Hartery (CREATE summer intern), Dalhousie University / University of Western Ontario			Methods of Calibration for the Purple Crow Lidar	Shannon Hicks (MSc begins Sept. 2013), University of Western Ontario			Comparing Clumps in Saturn's F Ring
Angela Hong (PhD), University of Toronto			Halide-mediated behaviour of nitrate at the air-aqueous interface and implications for the liquid brine layer at the surface of snow and ice	Liviu Ivanescu (PhD), Université de Sherbrooke			Supervised feature classification of atmospheric particles from lidar charts
Ali Jalali (MSc), University of Western Ontario			Extension of the Purple Crow Lidar Rayleigh temperature climatologies using an Inversion Approach	Magnus Joelsson (PhD), University of Copenhagen (Denmark)			Clumped kinetic isotope effect in CH4 + Cl
Mathilde Jutras (CREATE summer intern), Université de Montréal / Dalhousie University			A PID Controller for the Ozone DIAL System at Eureka	Tony Kang (summer intern), University of Toronto			Refurbishment of the DU DA2 for PARABLE Project
Bradley Kloostra (CREATE intern), University of Toronto			New eye on the sky: SPÉIR, a millimetre-wave radiometer for High Arctic research	Felicia Kolonjari (PhD), University of Toronto			Do we understand the global distribution of HCFC-22?
Stefan Kowalewski (PhD), University of Bremen (Germany)			The mesopheric hydroxyl airglow layer – A study based on ground-based spectroscopic observations at Spitsbergen and mesospheric models	Samuel Kristoffersen (PhD), University of New Brunswick			Wind and Gravity Wave Observations with ERWIN-II
Jeffery Langille (PhD), University of New Brunswick			Imaging winds in the upper atmosphere: the Michelson Interferometer for Airglow Dynamics Imaging (MIADI) and the Birefringent Imaging Doppler Wind Interferometer (BIDWIN)	Valérie Losier (CREATE intern), McGill University / University of New Brunswick			The Waves Michelson Interferometer: Design Principles and Validation
Erik Lutsch (BSc), University of Waterloo			Properties of polar stratospheric clouds obtained by ACE-FTS extinction measurements	Marlene Machemy (summer intern), University of Victoria / University of Toronto			Understanding the Decline of the Arctic Sea Ice Rate of Retreat using CMIP5 Observations
Zen Mariani (PhD), University of Toronto			Year-round Radiance and Trace Gas Variability in the Arctic using the E-AERI - Poster Abstract	Emily McCullough (PhD), University of Western Ontario			Thin liquid layers in Arctic tropospheric clouds during the 2012 Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign
Joseph Mendonca (PhD), University of Toronto			The Spectral Line Shape Problem and Airmass Dependence in TCCON Spectra	Omid Moeini (PhD), York University			A mathematical model of Brewer instrument for estimating stray light amount
Jan-Marcus Nasse (MSc), University of Heidelberg (Germany)			Measuring mesoscale horizontal and vertical distributions of reactive halogen oxides in Antarctica	Kevin Olsen (PhD), University of Toronto			Temperature and Pressure Retrievals for Mars: Evaluation Over the Earth's Arctic
Onaizah Onaizah (summer intern), University of Toronto			Validation of ACE-FTS satellite data using ozonesonde measurements	Christopher Perro (PhD), Dalhousie University			Arctic Precipitable Water Measurements and Comparisons using the Microwave Humidity Sounder
Anthony Pugliese (summer intern, MSc begins Sept. 2013), University of Toronto			Installation of a New Suntracker for the Bruker IFS 125HR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer in Eureka	Meike Rotermund (CREATE intern), Dalhousie University			CANDAC Rayleigh-Mie-Raman Lidar Analysis at Eureka, Nunavut and Surface Temperature Comparisons in the Northern Hemisphere
Niall Ryan (PhD), University of Toronto			A Tale of two Instruments	Ilya Stanevich (PhD), University of Toronto			FTIR measurements of acetylene, formic acid, and formaldehyde at the University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory
Christopher Vail (MSc), University of New Brunswick			Observations of Gravity Waves over Eureka using the All Sky Imager	Jeffrey VanKerkhove (MSc begins Sept. 2013), University of Western Ontario			A study of disk composition in NGC1333
Zahra Vaziri (PhD), York University			A New Calibration Procedure which Accounts for Non-linearity in Single-Monochromator Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometers	Camille Viatte (PDF), University of Toronto			Observation of biomass burning species at Eureka
Chen Wang (PhD), University of Toronto			Determination of Setschenow Constants of Organic Compounds in Ammonium Sulfate Solutions and the Salt Effect on Air-Water Partitioning	Dan Weaver (PhD), University of Toronto			Intercomparison of atmospheric water vapour measurements at Eureka
Xiaoyi Zhao (PhD), University of Toronto			Cloud identification using the UV-visible colour index at the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory

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Photos

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Information about the 2013 Summer School can be found on this poster, but the competition for 2013 has now closed.
The application form can be downloaded from this link.  The application deadline was May 31, 2013.
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