April 10, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Science: Physics: Environment: Ozone Layer: Global Warming: University of Wyoming: Kenya RPCV Terry Deshler, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science, will present "The Magic of Dust" as the featured speaker for the 2005 President's Speaker Series on April 18
Peace Corps Online:
Peace Corps News:
Peace Corps Library:
Physics:
April 10, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Science: Physics: Environment: Ozone Layer: Global Warming: University of Wyoming: Kenya RPCV Terry Deshler, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science, will present "The Magic of Dust" as the featured speaker for the 2005 President's Speaker Series on April 18
Kenya RPCV Terry Deshler, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science, will present "The Magic of Dust" as the featured speaker for the 2005 President's Speaker Series on April 18
Kenya RPCV Terry Deshler, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science, will present "The Magic of Dust" as the featured speaker for the 2005 President's Speaker Series on April 18
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE PROFESSOR TO GIVE PRESIDENT'S SERIES LECTURE
April 10, 2005 - Terry Deshler, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science, will present "The Magic of Dust" as the featured speaker for the 2005 President's Speaker Series.
Deshler's free public lecture begins at 4 p.m. Monday, April 11, in Room 308 of the UW Classroom Building. He will give the same lecture in Casper on Monday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in Room 150 of the UW Outreach Center, 951 North Poplar.
The UW President's Speakers Series honors faculty members who are exemplary in balancing the university's educational, research and service goals; and who have made important contributions to the university's national standing. For more information, call the UW Office of Research at (307) 766-5353; or in Casper call UW/CC at (307) 268-2713.
Deshler's presentation will focus on how dust -- dirt, haze, particles, pollen, pollution -- in the atmosphere plays a pivotal and critical role in the earth's hydrologic, radiative, and chemical balance. By illustrating some of dust's "good qualities" and discussing some of its surprising influences, his talk aims to improve dust's reputation and shed light on this "minor constituent of the air we breathe."
Dr. Terry Deshler
A UW graduate, Deshler has been a UW faculty member since 1991. He is recognized as an authority on in situ measurements of atmospheric aerosols and polar stratospheric clouds using balloon-borne platforms.
He has collaborated with numerous international research groups during measurement campaigns aimed at understanding the role of these particles in stratospheric ozone destruction.
During the past 20 years, Deshler and other scientists have used high altitude balloons to carry a variety of specialized instruments into the stratosphere to monitor formation of the ozone hole over Antarctica and the less severe ozone depletion events that occur at Arctic latitudes. Deshler has written and contributed to nearly a hundred articles detailing this research for scientific journals.
During his career Deshler has obtained millions of dollars in external funding from several agencies and organizations, with much his research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA. In 1999, Deshler and colleagues in the Department of Atmospheric Science received an $800,000 grant from the W. W. Keck Foundation to fund the department's aerosol research facility.
Dr. Terry Deshler
"While the importance of aerosols in cloud processes, control of visibility, and air pollution has been realized for some time, new examples of the impact of aerosols on the atmosphere, such as on the earth's heat balance and on stratospheric ozone, are being continuously discovered," says Deshler, who served as principal investigator for the grant proposal team. "Recent realizations about the importance of aerosol particles in global processes have fueled a renewed interest in obtaining more complete descriptions of atmospheric aerosol through refinement of current measurements, development of new measurements, and increasing the global coverage of measurements."
Dozens of graduate students have participate in the international scientific effort. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate atmospheric science courses, Deshler also participates in the Engineering Science Program, the Natural Science Program, the UW Honors Program, and the Summer Engineering Program.
Deshler earned a B.S. degree in mathematics from the university in 1969. After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kisii, Kenya, he returned to UW in 1972, earning an M.S. degree in atmospheric science (1975) and a Ph.D. in physics (1982). In 2002, he received the College of Engineering's Outstanding Graduate Teaching/Research Award.
News story by: UW News Service, February 5, 2005
When this story was posted in April 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
 | The Peace Corps Library
Peace Corps Online is proud to announce that the Peace Corps Library is now available online. With over 30,000 index entries in 500 categories, this is the largest collection of Peace Corps related stories in the world. From Acting to Zucchini, you can find hundreds of stories about what RPCVs with your same interests or from your Country of Service are doing today. If you have a web site, support the "Peace Corps Library" and link to it today. |
 | RPCVs and Friends remember Pope John Paul II
Tony Hall found the pope to be courageous and capable of forgiving the man who shot him in 1981, Mark Gearan said the pope was as dynamic in person as he appears on television, Maria Shriver said he was a beacon of virtue, strength and goodness, and an RPCV who met the pope while serving in the Solomon Islands said he possessed the holiness of a man filled with a deep love and concern for humanity. Leave your thoughts here. |
 | Friends of the Peace Corps 170,000 strong
170,000 is a very special number for the RPCV community - it's the number of Volunteers who have served in the Peace Corps since 1961. It's also a number that is very special to us because March is the first month since our founding in January, 2001 that our readership has exceeded 170,000. And while we know that not everyone who comes to this site is an RPCV, they are all "Friends of the Peace Corps." Thanks everybody for making PCOL your source of news for the Returned Volunteer community. |
 | Crisis Corps arrives in Thailand
After the Tsunami in Southeast Asia last December, Peace Corps issued an appeal for Crisis Corps Volunteers and over 200 RPCVs responded. The first team of 8 Crisis Corps volunteers departed for Thailand on March 18 to join RPCVs who are already supporting relief efforts in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and India with other agencies and NGO's. |
 | RPCVs in Congress ask colleagues to support PC
RPCVs Sam Farr, Chris Shays, Thomas Petri, James Walsh, and Mike Honda have asked their colleagues in Congress to add their names to a letter they have written to the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee, asking for full funding of $345 M for the Peace Corps in 2006. As a follow-on to Peace Corps week, please read the letter and call your Representative in Congress and ask him or her to add their name to the letter. |
 | Add your info now to the RPCV Directory
Call Harris Publishing at 800-414-4608 right away to add your name or make changes to your listing in the newest edition of the NPCA's Directory of Peace Corps Volunteers and Former Staff. Then read our story on how you can get access to the book after it is published. The deadline for inclusion is May 16 so call now. |
 | March 1: National Day of Action
Tuesday, March 1, is the NPCA's National Day of Action. Please call your Senators and ask them to support the President's proposed $27 Million budget increase for the Peace Corps for FY2006 and ask them to oppose the elimination of Perkins loans that benefit Peace Corps volunteers from low-income backgrounds. Follow this link for step-by-step information on how to make your calls. Then take our poll and leave feedback on how the calls went. |
Read the stories and leave your comments.
Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of the copyright owner for the non-profit purposes of criticism, comment, education, scholarship, and research under the "Fair Use" provisions of U.S. Government copyright laws and they may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner. Peace Corps Online does not vouch for the accuracy of the content of the postings, which is the sole responsibility of the copyright holder.
Story Source: University of Wyoming
This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; COS - Kenya; Science; Physics; Environment; Ozone Layer; Global Warming
PCOL19859
53
.
