Rainer Volkamer Inside the Aircraft (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Rainer Volkamer Inside the Aircraft

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CIRES Fellow Rainer Volkamer, shown here inside a research aircraft, is co-author of a new paper finding that halogens, natural chemicals from the ocean, can contribute to much more vigorous atmospheric chemistry than previously understood. The discovery may help explain levels of mercury contamination in the air, on land and in the oceans, and some climate mysteries as well. More: cires.colorado.edu/news/press/halogenchem

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