Author: Jeffrey Geddes

Welcome to Marissa

Welcome to Marissa Lee, who is joining the Geddes group as a work-study student this year. Marissa is an undergraduate student at Boston University, majoring in Earth and Environmental Science with a minor is Remote Sensing and GIS.

Is the U.S. the cleanest country on the planet?

Last week, Jeff was quoted in an article from politifact.com discussing the truth in a statement from President Trump about how clean the air and water is in the United States. Thanks to Manuela Tobias for reporting.

Welcome to Taylor

Welcome to Taylor Adams, who is joining the Geddes group as a Ph.D. student this fall. Taylor earned a BA in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In addition to research with the Geddes group, Taylor will be in the inaugural cohort of the BU URBAN trainee program.

Boston Globe Interview

On Monday July 9, the Boston Globe featured an interview with Jeff about his research projects at Boston University. Jeff talks about the importance of understanding the interactions between emissions from natural and human systems, and about sampling air pollution in the Boston area. Thanks to Emily Williams for reporting. To read the full interview, […]

Feature Article in BU Today

Our research projects were featured this week in BU Today. Thanks to Sara Rimer for reporting. To read the full article, click here.

TEMPO Meeting in Boulder

Jeff travels to Boulder, CO this week for the annual TEMPO Science Team meeting. TEMPO is a geostationary satellite instrument that will be dedicated to monitoring tropospheric pollution over North America. Jeff is working on an algorithm to separate the signal of NO2 in the stratosphere from the total atmospheric column, in order to determine the amount of NO2 in the […]

Canadian Chemistry Conference in Edmonton

This week, Jeff is in Edmonton to present his research at the 2018 Canadian Society of Chemistry meeting (http://www.csc2018.ca/). His talk is entitled “Investigating Rapid Contemporary Changes in Biosphere-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions with a Chemical Transport Model”.

Eyes on the Sky @ Charles River Campus

The Geddes Group just finished installation of a direct-sun Pandora 1s spectrometer at the roof of the Earth & Environment building at BU. This 280-525 nm spectrometer (with 0.6 nm resolution) will be able to retrieve atmospheric NO2, HCHO, SO2, and O3 column abundances. Additional units in the coming months will be deployed across the […]

AGU 2017

This week, Jeff will be in New Orleans presenting research at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (held from 11-15 December). Follow the conference with the #AGU17 hashtag!

Welcome Lei

Welcome to visiting Ph.D. scholar Lei Liu who will be working with the Geddes research group over the next year. Lei is visiting us from Nanjing University, and is interested in using satellite observations to improve constraints on global nitrogen deposition.