Sorooshian Receives Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award

CHEE professor Armin Sorooshian received the 2019 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award during the American Geophysical Union's 2019 Fall Meeting. 

The award recognizes research by exceptional scientists in the fields of atmospheric and climate sciences. Sorooshian won the award for his work in NASA airborne missions, the Differential Aerosol Sizing and Hygroscopicity Spectrometer Probe, and how clouds redistribute particles and modify aerosol composition, and much more.

"Armin Sorooshian is uniformly cited as one of the most important scholars worldwide in the field of aerosol–water relationships," wrote John H. Seinfeld from the California Institute of Technology.

Sorooshian is currently the principal investigator on a NASA grant to research how aerosol particles impact climate and cloud formation over the Atlantic Ocean.

"I am deeply honored to receive the Ascent Award and am in debt to everyone who has had an impact on my career," Sorooshian wrote upon winning the award. "A very special group of people I share this award with and for whom I am very thankful are my former and current graduate students from the University of Arizona, each of whom I am proud and lucky to have been able to advise."