Photo credit: Julia Burkart

It’s well known that the Arctic climate is influenced by anthropogenic contributions like heating during the winter and regional sources in the summer. But the chemistry of the aerosol environment and its influence on the cloud formation over the Arctic is less understood. Dr. Julia Burkart and Megan Willis, a postdoctoral fellow and Ph.D. student respectively, at the University of Toronto’s Department of Chemistry presented findings from their NETCARE summer aircraft campaign in Resolute Bay, Nunavut at the SOCAAR Seminar held on November 5. Continue reading →