SIO Research Oceanographer Grant Deane trains his expert eye on acoustic data, which tell us about the bubble size distribution from the breaking waves. 
Prof. Francesco Paesani (at right) discusses the intersection of this experiment with his work within CAICE: molecular dynamics simulations of reactions at aerosol interfaces. 
A group of students, including UCSD undergrad Mallory Pickett, are taking care of comprehensive seawater analysis during the study. 
A breaking wave in the ocean-atmosphere chamber using the focused-wave packet mode. 
Professor Chris Cappa and graduate student Sara Forestieri (UC Davis) prepare their Cavity Ring-down and Photoacoustic Spectrometers to measure aerosol optical properties. 
Paul DeMott (the author, Colorado State Univ.) had brought along his Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber which measures how aerosol particles make ice crystals. 
The Hydraulics Lab has become quite a bustling place during the CAICE Intensive campaign. 
The author, Vicki Grassian, with postdoc Andy Ault, conferring about their sampling setup. 
The bubble plume from a breaking wave in ‘beach mode’. 
SIO grad student Michelle Kim (Bertram Lab) carefully adds marine biological agents to the wave tank. 
The CAICE crew all sat down for a group lunch on Nov 8. 
Caltech grad student Wilton Mui is making water uptake measurements using a technique called DASH-SP (yellow rack). 
Prof. Tim Bertram and his grad student Olivia Ryder discuss their heterogeneous chemistry experiment. 
The green algae (Duneliella tertiolecta, Nov 5) preferred to stay at the surface of the water in the wave tank. 
Grad students Carly Ebben (Northwestern) and Greg Medders (UCSD/Paesani) have a light discussion at the CAICE luncheon. 
Tim Bertram (UCSD) works with his flowtube apparatus for conducting gas-to-particle chemical reactions wave breaking aerosols generated in the ocean-atmosphere chamber. 
From left: Wilton Mui (Caltech), Olivia Ryder (UCSD/Bertram), and Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez (UCSD/Prather) around the CAICE portable marine aerosol generator. 
CAICE Director Kim Prather flipping through single particle mass spectra with her grad student Doug Collins 
The Bertram Group’s quadrupole mass spectrometer is being used for measurements of heterogeneous reactions. 
Close up photo of the off-gassing bubble plume resulting from a breaking wave in the wave tank. 
Micro-orifice Uniform Deposit Impactors (MOUDIs) collect particles in 8-10 different size ranges for offline microscopy and spectroscopy. 
CAICE grad students and postdocs chatted with Prof. Gil Nathanson (UW-Madison) over lunch before his invited chemistry department seminar. 
CAICE Director Kim Prather speaks with a group of visitors about our single particle analysis of aerosols. 
The physical structure and dynamics of the bubbles produced from the breaking waves will be investigated by oceanographers Grant Deane and Dale Stokes. 
Postdoctoral researcher Defeng Zhao has been working long nights performing the first analyses of our sea spray samples by SEM and raman microscopy. 
Oct 27: Single Particle mass spectrometer calibrations are underway 
The early stages of loading the SIO Hydraulics Lab with our atmospheric sampling instrumentation. 
Green algae (Duneliella tertiolecta), which has grown to impressive cell density, awaits its turn in the ocean-atmosphere chamber. 
A fringe benefit of working at SIO — beautiful sunsets on an almost daily basis!! 
Oct 28: CAICE investigators and collaborators become re-acquainted and discuss the current status. 
Michelle Kim (Bertram Group, UCSD) is adding a monoculture of Duneliella tertiolecta (green algae) to the ocean-atmosphere 
The author, Darius Ceburnis (NUIG, at left), and Meilu He (Clarkson) discuss results in real-time. 
Postdoctoral researcher Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez works on making careful measurements of single aerosol particles.
Photo credits: Matt Ruppel, Franz Geiger, M. Dale Stokes, and Luis Cuadra-Rodriguez
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