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The 1st LUC Retreat

The LUC team held inspiring discussions about LUC's current and future research in the relaxing atmosphere of Hotel Möschberg near Bern.

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Welcome Susanne Haselbeck

We warmly welcome Susanne Haselbeck in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry joining the Analytical Chemistry group as of 18th October 2016. Susanne Haselbeck is a chemical lab technician by training and will contribute to our Paleofire project by analysing black carbon in samples from various ice cores using a single particle soot photometer.

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Welcome Ling Fang

We warmly welcome Ling Fang in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry joining the Analytical Chemistry group as of 1st October 2016. Ling Fang studied environmental science at the Ocean University of China and received her Master Degree with a major in biogeochemical oceanography from the Seoul National University in South Korea. During her master thesis she developed a vacuum line to extract DOC from ocean water for analysis of its 13C and 14C content. Ling Fang will use her skills to extract DOC from glacier ice to investigate the potential of this specific carbon fraction for 14C dating.

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Blick: Protecting Ice Memory

The international project “Protecting Ice Memory” aims to preserve the most valuable ice archives from high altitude glaciers for future generations.

With the ongoing warming of our climate and the consequence of rapid glacier melting observed worldwide, these natural archives of past climate and atmospheric conditions are in danger of being lost forever. As the glaciers warm, percolating melt-water will irreversibly disturb their chronological layering, thus making future investigations by next generation scientists with improved and to date still unknown analytical possibilities impossible.

“Protecting Ice Memory” will collect around 20 ice cores extracted from various glaciers around the globe in a natural ice cave at Concordia Station (Antarctica). With mean annual temperatures of around -50 °C, there, safe long-term storage and preservation of these valuable archives of the past is guaranteed.

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LUC at the Top of Europe

This years excursion took the members of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry (LUC) up to 3600 m altitude where we visited the high-alpine research station. We enjoyed Heinz Gäggeler, president of the Swiss Commission of the high-alpine research station Jungfraujoch, giving us a tour through the station and a live demonstration of ice core drilling.

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Welcome Dr. Alexander Vogel

We warmly welcome Dr. Alexander Vogel in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry joining the Analytical Chemistry group as of 1st July 2016. Alexander Vogel received his PhD at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and worked as Marie S. Curie ITN Fellow in the EU project CLOUD-TRAIN at CERN in Geneva. Alexander Vogel is an analytical chemist with a strong background in atmospheric chemistry and mass spectrometry and he will apply these skills to reconstruct long-term organic aerosol concentrations from glacier ice cores in a CROSS project with the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry.

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Welcome Dr. Peter Alpert

We warmly welcome Dr. Peter Alpert in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry joining the Surface Chemistry group as of 1st June 2016. Peter Alpert has received his PhD at Stony Brook University and has been a postdoc at CNRS-IRCELYON in France. Peter Alpert will strengthen the group’s activities in application of Scanning Transmission X-ray Spectromicroscopy (STXM) in a CROSS project with the SYN department (PolLux beamline and Laboratory of Micro- and Nanotechnology) to develop a new generation of environmental cells.

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LUCky Sola Team

The Radiowanderer stroke again: A team of 14 runners from the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry (LUC) and the Laboratory of Radiochemistry (LRC), as well as a number of external friends and supporters, happily and successfully finished the 43rd Sola event in Zürich. The total distance summed up to 116 km and 2580 m in altitude. Congratulations to the runners!

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