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Featured Student: Katye Altieri |
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 I am originally from a small town on the West Coast of Florida. I am a graduate of the Honors Program at The College of New Jersey and received a BS in Chemistry. My Senior Internship was here at IMCS with Sybil Seitzinger and Barbara Turpin and that’s what led me to graduate school here at Rutgers.
My dissertation focuses on elucidating the complex chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol formed through cloud processing reactions, and the composition of organic matter in precipitation. This work has resulted in the first evidence that oligomers (i.e., small polymers) form through aqueous in-cloud reactions, the first detailed chemical mechanism of aqueous phase oligomerization, and the first identification of oligomers and organosulfates in precipitation. Currently, I am studying the composition of organic nitrogen in precipitation samples collected locally in New Jersey.
Congratulations!!!
Katye E. Altieri, an oceanography graduate student at Rutgers University, is the 2008 winner of the Desert Research Institute’s prestigious Peter B. Wagner Memorial Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences.
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