Student wins prize for atmospheric observations

July 15, 2014

University Relations

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.