Student wins prize for atmospheric observations
July 15, 2014
Graduate student Jintai Li won a "best poster" prize at the 2014 Coupling, Energetics
and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions meeting in Seattle in June for his work on the
use of lidar to observe the atmosphere's nickel layer.
Lidar identifies the position of objects or layers by analyzing reflected laser light
and radar signals. Li's paper presented results from measurements taken at Chatanika,
north of Fairbanks, on two winter nights in 2012.
CEDAR is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation to improve ground-based
measurements of the upper atmosphere. Li's work is also under review for publication
by the Geophysical Research Letters journal.
Li is mentored by atmospheric sciences Professor Rich Collins, of the Geophysical
Institute and College of Natural Science and Mathematics.