Graduate student Meng Zhou received a research fellowship from NASA to study the concentration of nighttime aerosols.

Aerosol particles are an important measure of air quality — but right now they can only be measured during the daytime, leaving scientists in the dark .

University of Iowa graduate student Meng Zhou has received the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology fellowship in NASA’s Earth Science Division to solve the challenge of measuring aerosol particles at night.

Zhou is a graduate student working in the Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lab. [...]