ATom-2 has started! For those of you that had not read my prior blogs, this is a continuation of ATom-1. But if we have already completed 1 ATom, why do another one??????? The over-arching goal of this campaign (4 in total) is to investigate the seasonality of background air composition and seasonality in the transport… Read More


For those of you that were following me during KORUS-AQ, you can now see this is a very busy summer for me, collecting observations. Yesterday marks the first research flight of ATom-1, but you may be wondering what ATom is and why there is a 1 behind it. ATom stands for Atmospheric Tomography, which basically means… Read More


My name is Benjamin Nault, and I am a postdoctoral researcher at University of Colorado, Boulder. My research focuses on the chemistry of aerosols (which I will go into more detail in a later blog or when asked in comments). This blog will be documenting my adventures during two NASA aircraft campaigns during this summer… Read More