Vinayak Sinha

Atmospheric Chemistry within the Earth System: Understanding Changes and Impacts
7-11 September 2026
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Star studded Keynote and invited speakers list!

Economists and environmental scientists see the world differently – here’s why that matters Distinct disciplines are trained to notice different things.

theconversation.com/economists-a...
Interesting article....

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.

Air pollution particles don't just enter your lungs, they attach themselves to red blood cells and move around the whole body.

We don't breathe them out, so pollution accumulates in the body causing organ damage, dementia and more.

Reduce emissions and clear the air.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

MethaneSAT Releases First Global Assessment of Oil and Gas Climate Pollution - Inside Climate News Nearly a year after the Environmental Defense Fund lost contact with an $88 million satellite, data from the spacecraft reveal higher-than-expected methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0602202...

A Poor Indian Man Taught Me True Generosity - The Doe

Read a nice short story after a long time...heartwarming and humane

www.thedoe.com/article/poor...

Wie wird der Wissenschaftsstandort #Deutschland 2040 aussehen? „Die Relevanz von Wissenschaft muss höher sein als heute. Sonst fahren wir vor die Wand“, sagt Wolfgang Wick, Vorsitzender @wissenschaftsrat.de www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-... [ZEIT (+)] Die Zukunftsagenda im Original findet Ihr hier 👇

Winter Olympics Faces New Climate Reality Unpredictable conditions are limiting where it’s physically and financially possible to host the Winter Olympics.

Alpine areas are heating up faster than the rest of the planet: all the cities that staged the #WinterGames since 1950 have heated up in the years since by an average of 2.7C, according to scientists. That’s well above 1.4C, the warming average for the entire planet www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Tsunamis from the Sky - Eos Not all tsunamis come from the seafloor, some are triggered by the atmosphere, driven by fast-moving storms and pressure waves, and can strike coasts with little warning.

Not all #tsunamis come from the seafloor, some are triggered by the atmosphere, driven by fast-moving storms and pressure waves, and can strike coasts with little warning.🌊

Learn more in @eos.org: buff.ly/aS3Lsxa

#NaturalHazards #Oceans #SeaLevel #meteotsunamis @reviewsgeophysics.bsky.social

Let’s save the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the prime climate research lab in the US. ✊

Sand & dust storms (SDS) are major hazards.

This month, Libya was hit by winds of up to 80 km/h.

Libya’s NMHS issued forecasts & warnings to keep casualties to a minimum.

WMO seeks to strengthen operational forecasting to reduce the impacts of SDS.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3NI6GV3

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

Scheme showing a small tree in a pot. This pot sits in another pot with a culture plate containing fungal hyphae. Roots and fungi can only communicate by volatile signals. Pot-in-pot system.

„Fungal #volatiles drive #lifestyle-dependent, systemic metabolic reprogramming in poplar“

Can plant #roots recognise the odours of #fungi? yes, & much more: they can distinguish them & adapt the metabolism of the plant.

#PlantScience
@andrea.Ghirardo.BSky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Median time under review (time intervened from submission to acceptance) of articles indexed in PubMed with a female first author (n = 2,562,262), a male first author (n = 3,405,821), a female corresponding author (n = 975,010), a male corresponding author (n = 1,946,469), a female first author and a female corresponding author (n = 757,878), a male first author and a male corresponding author (n = 1,357,835), all-female authors (n = 650,280), and all-male authors (n = 2,146,799)

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

🌡️ WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record.

2025 was one of the 3 warmest years on record, with the global average surface temperature at 1.44°C ± 0.13°C above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of 8 datasets.

🔗 https://bit.ly/49xpkWP

Evidence for hydroperoxide formation through atmospheric aqueous photochemistry of α-keto acids Sunlight irradiation of α-keto acids leads to the formation of hydroperoxides in cloud, rain, and aerosol waters.

Publication:
H. Pang, A. Tilgner, .... , D. Vione, H. Herrmann, S. Gligorovski: Evidence for Hydroperoxides Formation through Atmospheric Aqueous Photochemistry of α-Keto acids. Alternative Source of Hydroperoxides in the Atmosphere. Science Advance, 9 January 2026. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adx4527

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

During the interwar period (c. 1918-1939) universities were in economic crisis, rising authoritarianism, ideological polarization & global instability. Sound familiar? What did successful academic leaders do? 🧵⬇️

@wcrpclimate.bsky.social APARC releases a landmark report on global atmospheric impacts of the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption

159 scientists. 21 countries. 3 years. One report.

More information here: https://bit.ly/493hOmz

#WCRP #APARC #ScienceforAction #HungaEruption

Your works have been really inspiring ✨️ Happy New Year !

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Harvard scientists today announced a study where they were able to piece together that you are much too hard on yourself, trying to fulfill many unreasonable expectations.

You are awesome the way you are. You are loved. You have worth. Tell a friend you appreciate them. Be kind.

🌍 The Global Atmosphere Watch Programme provides trusted science and information on air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and other atmospheric constituents that affect our health, climate, and ecosystems.

#GAW #WMO #ScienceforAction

NCAR and NOAA have not only served US and Global Atmospheric science through state of the art research but also provided various atmospheric research tools freely for researchers around the world, my own research group has benefitted from many of these, this is a time to acknowledge and support !

Great to see so much support from our community for NCAR.

The Weather and Society Conference 2026, under the WMO’s World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) will take place online from 23–26 February 2026.

🌍 Conference dates: 23–26 Feb. 2026 (Online)
🔗 Registration: https://bit.ly/3LL5cZl

Anyone fancy a PhD looking at the chemistry involved when bushfire smoke taints wine? 🍇🍇🍇
Co-supervised by #CSIRO's Fabienne Reisen in my team

scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...

Air Quality Research using PTR-TOFMS!
New work from IISER Mohali used High-Mass-Resolution PTR-TOFMS to precisely trace the origins of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Delhi's atmosphere.
Read the full story of their essential research! 👇

www.ionicon.com/blog/2025/ii...

If you work on sources and impacts of VOCs (biogenic or anthropogenic) from measurement to modeling perspectives please submit an abstract to our atmospheric organics session at #EGU26! Our invited speakers are @dbm.bsky.social and @jacquirickard.bsky.social See you in Vienna! tinyurl.com/55vda8u7

PostdocAd-FarmFlux Postdoctoral Associate: aircraft-based measurements of atmospheric ammonia Join our team! The atmospheric chemistry group at the University of Minnesota (UMN) seeks applications for a Postdoctoral A...

Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements

Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.

See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!

An early sunset behind Bear Peak in Boulder.