Miscellaneous: New Job Board, Fine Particle Arts Competition, AS&T Awards & More!

Career Opportunities

The Internet Communications Committee is excited to announce the launch of a brand new AAAR Job Board on our website! The Job Board is accessible to everyone and it is free to post a job listing. Once approved, listings will be online for 90 days. And of course you have the option to repost after that. We have provided a list of job categories to select from. The Job Board can be sorted by these categories, as well as by institution/company, job title, location, and posting date. It is also searchable for terms used in the job description, and we have included a list of suggested terms that might be good to have in the description. You can check out the Job Board here: https://www.aaar.org/job-board/. Please feel free to share it with any colleagues, students, and the broader aerosol community looking for or wanting to announce a job opening. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact info@aaar.org. 

Other jobs boards catering to our community are found here: 

• Es_jobs_net: https://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/es_jobs_net
• ESWN: https://eswnonline.org/online/earth-and-environmental-science-jobs/
• Chemjobber: https://chemjobber.blogspot.com/
• met-jobs: https://maillists.reading.ac.uk/scripts/wa-READING.exe?A0=MET-JOBS
• American Chemical Society: https://www.acs.org/careers.html

AtmosPedia Jobs is a list of lists: https://atmospedia.org/wiki/Job_Lists

Science and tech jobs can also be found through aggregator websites like indeed.com, in tweets and LinkedIn posts, and through any university’s jobs page.

Key Dates/Reminders

• AAAR 43rd Annual Conference, October 13-17, 2025, Buffalo Convention Center, Buffalo, New York
• The late-breaking abstract submission deadline is July 25, 2025
• The deadline for Super Early Bird registration is July 31, 2025
• The deadline to submit applications to serve as a Student Assistant is August 1, 2025
• The hotel reservation cutoff in the conference hotel is September 19, 2025
• The Fine Particle Arts competition will open for submissions on August 1, 2025 – see Fine Particle Arts section below for details.

Awards

AS&T Young Scientist Awards

We are delighted to announce that the Aerosol Science and Technology journal (AS&T) has awarded the “Young Scientist Award” for “Best Presentation” and “Best Poster” to two singular scientists at the 21st Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference 2025 (ELS XXI) held in Milazzo, Italy, this year. These were very well received by the two awardees, Moritz Haarig (Leipzig Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany) who presented “OLALA – Optical Lab for Lidar Applications” and Clément Argentin (Université de Rouen, France) who presented “Accelerating iterative solvers in the discrete dipole approximation using dedicated initial guesses.” Congratulations to both!

Moritz Haarig (left) and Clément Argentin (right) have been awarded Young Scientist Awards from the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)’s flagship journal, Aerosol Science and Technology. Argentin’s work addresses the need to speed up the computation of light scattering by irregularly shaped particles, a challenge that has applications in biology, nanotechnology, and climate studies. Haarig’s work addresses the need to better understand light scattering by mineral dust, work that could improve the ability to sense conditions on the ground remotely.

The Fine Particle Arts Competition

The 43rd AAAR Annual Conference will host the 8th edition of the Fine Particle Arts Competition. This year has an additional thematic element: “Community” – spotlight an element of how aerosol science affects and/or creates community, or how communities can have an effect on the aerosol science around them. Showcase your creative side and help educate the world about aerosols! As in previous years, there are three categories for submission:

• Microscopic scale images (<1mm) images: Creative micrographs or molecular simulation renders capturing small-scale aerosols or aerosol phenomena
• Macroscopic scale (>1mm) images: Creative photographs, collages, or other artwork capturing larger-scale aerosols or aerosol phenomena
• Video: Create an engaging and educational video that explains aerosol science to a wider audience

Submissions for the Fine Particle Arts Competition will open at 12:00 PM (ET) August 1st, 2025. The deadline to enter the Competition is September 22, 2025 11:59 pm (ET). More detailed information will be made available via email and the conference website closer to the submission date.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Joseph Woo (wooj@lafayette.edu) and Dr. Kayane Dingilian (kayane@caltech.edu), Online Education Committee.

2024 Macroscopic Scale first-place winner: “A Call to Protect Air Quality for a Sustainable Future in Africa” by Oladayo Oladeji (Carnegie Mellon University) and Oluwaseyi Abraham Olayinka (University of Ibadan).

2024 Microscopic Scale first-place winner: “TEM Zoo Adventure” by Kayleigh Reilly (University of Michigan, UM), Emily J. Costa (UM), Yao Xiao (UM), Tiantian Zhu (UM), Xena Mansoura (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL), Zezhen Cheng (PNNL), Nurun Nahar (PNNL), Swarup China (PNNL), Drew R. Gentner (Yale), Rachel E. O’Brien (UM), and Andrew P. Ault (UM).