Atmospheric Formaldehyde Concentrations Project

With funding through the University of Minnesota’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), I worked alongside Sreeleka Chaliyakunnel under the direction of Professor Millet in the Land and Atmospheric Science department to conduct research into the background concentrations of atmospheric formaldehyde (HCHO) for use in making proxy measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). I made use of high performance computing (HPC) resources at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) to run the chemical transport model GEOS-Chem.