Hazy Kinetics

Here are the slides I prepared for a course at TH Bingen, where I gave two lectures. Mostly introductory material, aimed for an audience that may not have a science background. Air pollution Particle measurements

Journals have become famous (or infamous) for how expensive they can be to publish in, with the higher tier journals costing almost $ 10000. I suspect there may be a point where funding agencies demand justification for high article processing charges (APCs), when cheaper options are available. This then begs the question, what are the cheap journals? Most publishers will make the first few years of a new journal free to publish in, so I will not be considering them. Moreover, many subscription-based journals are still free to publish in, with additional fees for open access. Thus, I arrived at this list of low-APC journals relevant to the field I am in, where the journals are: 1. Not pre-print exclusive. 2. Have JCI impact factors or backed by academic societies 3. Are open access. ACS Central Science https://pubs.acs.org/journal/acscii Diamond open access (free to publish), but very selective. Aerosol Research https://www.aerosol-research.net/ Diamond open access, but a relatively ne...

Here's the exam I wrote for CHEM 1114 in the spring of 2017. It's still a bit more difficult than the actual lab exam, but it should be good practice. Google drive access to 2017 practice exam Addendum 2018/11/09: I have updated the exam for the Fall of 2018.

Here's a collection of some of my favorite advertisements for instruments. I have no idea if these improved sales, but they made me chuckle. Agilent.  Agilent has a continuing series of advertisements, and they're awkward enough to be a good laugh. Analtech. Not the best name for a chromatography company, and they know it. Thermo. The dubstep is a nice touch, and it makes mass spectrometry sound really hardcore for some reason.

This is a list of graduate fellowships and scholarships I found that accepts international students. Most federal agencies do not sponsor foreign nationals. I've also included some internal fellowships offered at CU Boulder since that's where I am. Google drive access to doc

I've found something troubling while reading the literature: two journals with the same name. MDPI publishes Atmosphere , which started in 2010, and the Korean Meteorological Society (KMS) publishes  대기 , which translates to the same name. The KMS's journal started in 1991, but it publishes content primarily written in Korean. The interesting part is that MDPI's Atmosphere has received an impact factor from Thomson Reuters, while the KMS's  대기 has not. I still suggest that someone change their journal's name so that readers are not confused. For the moment, Korea Science , a reference website that lists journals published in Korea, translates  대기 to Atmosphere. Personally, I suggest that MDPI does so, since the KMS has been publishing under that name for nearly two decades before MDPI started Atmosphere . Or, possibly, the KMS could translate their journal's English title to something else, although I can't think of what that could be. * ...