Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Congratulations to Ryan Cole, who has received a grant from the National Science Foundation EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (EMBRACE) program. The project, entitled EMBRACE-AGS-Growth: Advancing Temperature-Dependent Absorption Models to Support Next-Generation Remote Sensing, involves the development of a low-temperature spectroscopy facility at Bates to enable sensitive studies of methane spectra in the laboratory. The project will support a collaboration with researchers at UC Boulder who will perform similar experiments in a high-temperature test environments to enable broadband, high accuracy methane reference spectroscopy over temperatures spanning -40 to over 700°C. Funding from the project will support several Bates undergraduate researchers, and through the collaboration with UC Boulder, provide Bates students with technical training on state-of-the-art, NSF-funded laboratory and field-measurement resources.