Dear Colleagues,
I hope you have had a great start to 2025. It was wonderful to see so many of you in Albuquerque last October. Our Annual Conference is always a busy week, but one I look forward to every year full of scientific discussion and meeting new and old aerosol friends. Many of our Presenters have uploaded their presentations to share. You can access them here until October 2025. In case you missed a Plenary Lecture or would like to rewatch one of them, you can visit AAAR’s YouTube channel to view them along with the ones from our past two conferences.
Jason Surratt (our 2025 Conference Chair), the Conference Committee, Technical Program Committee, and AAAR Events Team are already busy at work preparing for our 43rd Annual Conference to be held October 13-17, 2025. AAAR will be headed to a new location this year, the Buffalo Convention Center in Buffalo, NY. We will have the entire space to ourselves for the whole week. I am excited to try out this new venue and perhaps check out Niagara Falls, which is just 20 min away! At the end of this month, we will be reaching out to the Exhibitors and Sponsors with the Prospectus. We are targeting to have abstracts submission open by the end of February.
We have a big year ahead as we work to renew the publishing contract for AAAR’s Journal Aerosol Science & Technology. Speaking of our Journal, AS&T has continued to flourish under the amazing leadership of Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Reid and Editorial Assistant Yaelle Hartley. We hope you will consider submitting an article to the Society’s Journal. Don’t forget that all authors now have the option to create a headline or research infographic about their work. You can check out the 27 infographics we already have as well as the 31 Lectures as part of our ongoing monthly AS&T Lecture Series!
A year ago, we launched our new VMX Membership Directory. All AAAR Members can access it under the My AAAR tab on our website by logging in using the e-mail aliases created for everyone of firstname.lastname@aaar.vmx.org. Here you can search our entire Membership by Name, Affiliation, and Working Group as well as access AS&T articles for free. In July 2024, we also added a Committees section that we hope will be able to serve as a living archive for all documents and communications for our various Committees and Working Groups. We highly encourage everyone to check out VMX and utilize it to stay connected. If you are looking for additional ways to become more involved in AAAR, Immediate Past President Faye McNeill and the Nominating Committee will be soliciting nominations for new Working Group Chairs and Board Members over the next couple of months and Vice President Suresh Dhaniyala will be looking to add new members to all our over various Committees later this summer.
During our Board Meeting in Albuquerque, we created 26 new action items to continue to see AAAR and our Conference thrive. We also anticipate receiving a number of new proposals at our Winter Board Meeting. I look forward to continuing to work with everyone on these over the next year and of course, seeing you all in Buffalo!
As always if you have any questions or there is anything I can do to help, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at amy.sullivan@colostate.edu.
Sincerely,
Amy P. Sullivan
2025 AAAR President
This Issue’s Newsletter Committee:
Editor | Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside
Senior Assistant Editor | Lindsay Yee, University of California, Berkeley
Junior Assistant Editor | Qian Zhang, UL Research Institute
Junior Assistant Editor | Robert Nishida, University of Waterloo