Conference Agenda

10:45am - 11:00am
FR1-5: 1

Contribution of free and combined amino acids and nucleobases to the organic matter on Antarctic peninsula aerosol particles and their influencing factors

Christina Breitenstein, Manuela Van Pinxteren, Sebastian Zeppenfeld, Hartmut Herrmann

Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Germany

11:00am - 11:15am
FR1-5: 2

Study of the mineral dust in the Antarctic plateau: the SIDDARTA project

Silvia Nava¹, Giulia Calzolai¹, Fabio Giardi¹, Franco Lucarelli¹, Stefano Bertinetti², Mery Malandrino², Francisco Ardini³, Marco Grotti³, David Cappelletti⁴, Chiara Petroselli⁴, Federica Bruschi⁴, Marco Massetti⁴, Rita Traversi⁵, Silvia Becagli⁵

¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence and INFN; ²Department of Chemistry, University of Turin; ³Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genoa; ⁴Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia; ⁵Department of Chemistry, University of Florence

11:15am - 11:30am
FR1-5: 3

Preliminary Findings on Microbial Life in Antarctic Precipitation: Insights into Atmospheric River-Associated Microbes

Sharath Chandra Thota^1,2, Ksenija Vučković¹, Catarina Magalhães^1,2, Irina Gorodetskaya¹

¹CIIMAR- Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Porto, 4450-208, Portugal; ²Department of science, University of Porto, Porto, 4169-007, Portugal

11:30am - 11:45am
FR1-5: 4

Summertime particle concentrations in coastal Antarctica from aircraft and tethered balloon in situ observations

Michael Lonardi¹, Yolanda Temel¹, Zsofia Juranyi², René Forsberg³, Andreas Rønne Stokholm³, Julia Schmale¹

¹Extreme Environments Research Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Sion, Switzerland; ²Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; ³Department of Space Research and Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

11:45am - 12:00pm
FR1-5: 5

From phytoplankton to clouds – understanding the complex atmospheric processes in the pristine region of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

Ruhi Humphries^1,2, Melita Keywood^1,2, Gerald Mace³, Roger Marchand⁴, Marc Mallet², Sonya Fiddes², Alain Protat⁵, Erin Dunne¹, Emily Franklin¹, Caleb Mynard^1,6, Salvatore Sodano^2,1, Sarah Prior⁵, Branka Miljevic⁷, Jennifer Powell¹

¹CSIRO Environment, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; ³Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America; ⁴College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America; ⁵Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ⁶Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ⁷Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia