AirUCI workshop Program
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
December 11-13, 2006
Sunday 10 December
Mixer at Crowne Plaza Hotel ‘Gallery A’ (5.00 pm to end no later than 7.00 pm)
Monday 11 December Crowne Plaza ‘First Edition’ conference room
Session 1 9.00-11.00 (Chair: Donald Dabdub)
9.00-9.15
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: Opening remarks
9.15-10.00
John White: Template-induced growth of organic films on liquids.
10.00-10.20
Doug Tobias, Raffaella D'Auria, Matthew Brown, Maria Krisch, John Hemminger, Hendrik Bluhm, David Starr, Miquel Salmeron, Markus Ammann: Influence of surfactants on ion adsorption at the air-water interface: experimental and simulation studies.
10.20-10.40
John Hemminger, Matthew Brown, Maria Krisch, Simon Mun: New results on reaction of ozone with alkali halide surfaces in the presence of water vapor.
10.40-11.00
Theresa McIntire, Paul Gassman, Sutapa Ghosal, Olivia Ryder, Najat Saliba, Samar Moussa, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: Oxidation reactions of self-assembled monolayers on silicon surfaces.
11.00-11.25 Coffee Break
Session 2 11.25-12.50 (Chair: Alex Laskin)
11.25-12.10
Gregory Warr: Surfactant self-assembly structures at solid/solution interfaces.
12.10-12.30
Pavel Jungwirth, Robert Vacha, Jing Chen, Kalliat Valsaraj: Adsorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the air-water interface.
12.30-12.50
Matthew Brown, Maria Krisch, David Starr, Hendrik Bluhm, John Hemminger: Ion concentrations at the alkali halide aqueous-vapor interface investigated through a combined droplet train ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy experiment.
12.50-1.50 Lunch Break
Session 3 1.50-3.35 (Chair: Joelle Underwood)
1.50-2.35
James Beattie: The enhanced autolysis of water at hydrophobic interfaces.
2.35-2.55
Raffaella D'Auria, Douglas Tobias, R. Benny Gerber, Yifat Miller, Sotiris Xantheas: On the interfacial reaction mechanism between OH and Cl-: a detailed description of the mechanism leading to release of gaseous Cl2 from marine aerosols.
2.55-3.15
Jennie Thomas, Martina Roeselova, Liem Dang, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Douglas Tobias: Molecular dynamics of aqueous NaNO3 in interfacial environments.
3.15-3.35
Lisa Wingen, Amy Moskun, Stanley Johnson, Jennie Thomas, Douglas Tobias, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: Photochemistry of sodium nitrate - sodium chloride mixtures as a model for aged sea salt.
3.35-4.00 Coffee Break
Session 4 4.00-5.55 (Chair: Sergey Nizkorodov)
4.00-4.45
Henrik Kjaergaard: Vibrational overtone spectra of hydrated complexes in the atmosphere?
4.45-5.20
Sotiris Xantheas: Anharmonic vibrational spectra of hydrogen-bonded clusters: extension of Badger's rule.
5.20-5.55
Benny Gerber, Yifat Miller, Michael Kamboures: Atmospheric reactions of molecules in water clusters.
Tuesday 12 December Crowne Plaza ‘First Edition’ conference room
Session 5 9.00-10.45 (Chair: John Hemminger)
9.00-9.45
Evan Bieske: Laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry of trapped nanoparticles.
9.45-10.05
Maggie Walser, Joelle Underwood, Xiang Pan, Sergey Nizkorodov: Probing the photochemistry of secondary organic aerosols via cavity ringdown spectroscopy and chemical ionization mass spectrometry.
10.05-10.25
Sergey Nizkorodov: Ultrafine aerosol particle generation by ionization air purifiers.
10.25-10.45
Joelle Underwood, Ahmad Alshawa, Steven Ng, Sergey Nizkorodov: Hygroscopicity of ultrafine organic aerosol particles: The role of chemical composition and structure.
10.45-11.10 Coffee Break
Session 6 11.10-12.55 (Chair: Theresa McIntire)
11.10-11.55
Bruce Garrett: OH radical interactions in aqueous solutions.
11.55-12.15
Paul Nissenson, Jennie Thomas, Donald Dabdub, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: Sensitivity analysis of the MAGIC aerosol model using Latin Hypercube Sampling.
12.15-12.35
David Bones, Leon Phillips: Photolysis of nitrate ions in an aerosol.
12.35-12.55
Michael Ezell, Yong Yu, Barbara D’Anna, Stanley Johnson, Theresa McIntire, Christopher Harmon, Alla Zelenyuk, Dan Imre, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: Secondary organic aerosol from photolysis of nitrate aerosol with alpha‑pinene.
12.55-1.55 Lunch Break
Session 7 1.55-3.20 (Chair: Lisa Wingen)
1.55-2.40
Murray Smith: Towards an improved atmosphere/ocean gas-exchange parameterisation.
2.40-3.00
Ron Grimm, John Hemminger, Christopher Knox, Nicole Barrentine: Temperature programmed desorption studies of water interactions with hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces.
3.00-3.20
Christopher Pursell, Leon Phillips: Irreversible thermodynamics of water vapor at the surfaces of water and ice.
3.20-3.45 Coffee Break
Session 8 3.45-5.50 (Chair: Jim Pitts)
3.45-4.30
Alan Lloyd: Linking basic research results to policy: applications to atmospheric chemistry, health effects, and climate change.
4.30-4.50
Yury Desyaterik, Rebecca Hopkins, Alexei Tivanski, Mary Gilles, Alex Laskin: Partitioning of methanesulfonate and non-sea-salt sulfate in individual sea salt particles collected at the Pt. Reyes National Seashore.
4.50-5.10
Jean Futrell, Julia Laskin, Alex Laskin, Alla Zelenyuk: New instrumentation for aerosol chemistry and physics at PNNL's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory user facility.
5.10-5.30
Martina Roeselova (to be presented by Pavel Jungwirth): Modeling structure and dynamics of atmospheric surfaces by molecular dynamics simulations.
5.30-5.50
Huda Shaka, William Robertson, Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: A new approach to studying aqueous chemistry using diffuse reflectance Fourier transform spectrometry.
5.50-6.00
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts: Closing remarks