CIRES/CHEM Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Best Student Paper Award

Past Winners

Ryan D. Davis: Contact efflorescence as a pathway for crystallization of atmospherically relevant particles. Ryan D. Davis, , Sara Lance, Joshua A. Gordon, Shuichi B. Ushijima, and Margaret A. Tolbert. PNAS 2015 112 (52) 15815-15820; doi:10.1073/pnas.1522860113

Sean Coburn: Measurements of Diurnal Variations and Eddy Covariance (EC) Fluxes of Glyoxal in the Tropical Marine Boundary Layer: Description of the Fast LED-CE-DOAS instrument. S. Coburn, I. Ortega, R. Thalman, B. Blomquist, C. W. Fairall, and R. Volkamer, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7, 3579–3595, 2014.
Allison Reed Harris: Photochemical Kinetics of Pyruvic Acid in Aqueous Solution. A. E. Reed Harris, B. Ervens, R. K. Shoemaker, J. A. Kroll, R. J. Rapf, E. C. Griffith, A. Monod, and V. Vaida Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 118, 8505–8516, 2014.
Gregory Schill: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation on Simulated Secondary Organic Aerosol. G. P. Schill, D. O. De Haan, and M. A. Tolbert, Environmental Science and Technology, 48, 1675–1682, 2014.

(1) The paper must have been published or in press during the past calendar year, after the peer-review process. Non-peer reviewed papers are not eligible, including “discussions” papers.
(2) The first author of the paper must be (have been) a PhD student (a) in one of the groups under CIRES Environmental Chemistry or (b) be in the CHEM Division of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry (ANYL) when the paper was submitted. This includes ANYL students working for faculty in other divisions, departments or in national labs. It also includes students who have graduated, as long as the paper was part of their PhD research and was published during the past calendar year.
(3) The first author of the paper should submit the following materials to the ANYL Graduate Advisor via email:
- PDF of the paper in final form
- A paragraph stating the significance of the work and their role in the work described in the paper
(4) The criteria for the Award will include the novelty and importance of the results, the quality of the presentation, and the quality of the journal.
(5) The ANYL & CIRES EnvChem faculty will vote to choose one paper. Details below.
(6) The Award will be presented at ANYL seminar, and will consist of $500 and a Certificate

(1) Each faculty votes per the rules. As is standard to avoid conflicts-of-interest, faculty cannot vote on papers where they are coauthors. If an advisor does not vote, the papers from his/her advisees will not be eligible for the Award.
(2) A score is calculated by summing the votes. E.g. if a paper is ranked 1st by one faculty member and 2nd by another (and only those 2 faculty voted), it has 3 points.
(3) The scores are normalized by the number of voting faculty. E.g. if 3 faculty voted in total, but only 2 could vote in the above paper because it was from a student of the 3rd faculty member. So in that case the corrected scored would be 3 x 3 / 2 = 4.5
(4) The paper with the lowest score wins.
(5) If one or more papers are within 10.0% of the score of the winning paper (calculated as (2nd - winner) / winner), then those papers also win. Otherwise there is only one winner.