Seminar
Title: Modeling atmospheric aerosols: Opportunities, excitements, and challenges
Time: Nov. 21, 2022, 8-9pm EST
Recording
Brief Bio
Mian Chin is currently a Physical Scientist in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She was born and grew up in Shanghai. When she was a child, she dreamed to be an astronaut who could wander in space. That dream did not come true but working at NASA is the closest thing. Long story short, after going through some rollercoaster times in China, she came to the United States for graduate studies. Mian received a Ph.D. in 1992 from Georgia Institute of Technology, where she learned how to collect the atmospheric trace components in the field, how to operate laser instruments in the lab to measure atmospheric reaction rates and products, how to build a simple model to estimate what may be happening in the atmosphere, and, most importantly, how to write a scientific paper that can be published. She then went to Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow where she transformed into a modeler working most time indoors with a computer. After that, Mian came to NASA GSFC in 1995 and has stayed in Maryland ever since. Her major research area is related to aerosols to study their properties and environmental impacts. Mian currently serves as a co-lead of AeroCom (Aerosol Comparisons between Observations and Models) and ACAM (Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon), two international activities she enjoys being involved. Mian has received a few awards from NASA and the community, including NASA Medal of Exceptional Achievement Award, NASA Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award, NASA Goddard Robert H. Goddard Award for Science, AGU fellow, and AMS fellow.
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