News

February 2024

Cold Fog Is Capricious, but Not for Long

Grace Van Deelan, EOS, 13 February 2024

 

January 2024

Uncovering layers of marine fog

Vaisala.com/meteorology

 

October 2023

Journey Through the Fog

Emily Reily, New York Times

 

June 2023

KIOST Reveals Secrets About Sea Fog

 

September 2022

Heading to the foggiest place on Earth — Atlantic Canada — to better predict marine fog 

Article and podcast.

CBC Radio interviewed Fatima researcher Trevor VandenBoer about his work on the chemistry of fog formation. The article appears ~3/4 of the way down the page and his interview is at ~41 minute mark in the Quirks and Quarks podcast (accessible from the link at the top of the page).

 

July 2022

What fog researchers are learning off Atlantic Canada's coastline.

Video. CBC, Newfoundland, 18 July 2022

 

June 2022

Scientists head to one of the foggiest places on Earth to study mysterious phenomenon: Fog can be predicted only a few hours in advance, if at all, because it's not well understood what causes it.

by Paul Withers, CBC, Nova Scotia, 21 June 2022. 

 

Scientists descend on Sable Island for massive study of fog

(story with video, Paul Withers, CBC, Nova Scotia, 30 June 2022)

 

Scientists head to one of the foggiest places on Earth to study mysterious phenomenon

(Audio, CHED Mid-morning with Shaye Ganam, 23 June 2022)  

 

Grand Banks Field Campaign news updates

 

January 2022

Professor’s research provides a clearer understanding of fog 

by Simon Vogel, The Observer,  Friday, November 5, 2021, https://ndsmcobserver.com/2021/11/professors-research-provides-a-clearer-understanding-of-fog/

 

September 2021

Defense Department Commissions Marine Fog Study

Mayfield and Roaten, 2021. News Briefs. National Defense. p. 16. 

 

June 2021

Fog Over Sable Island

Cheng, et al. 2021. Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. https://bulletin.cmos.ca/fog-over-sable-island/

 

Marine Fog Comes Under Focus in New Five-Year Study

AAAS EurekAlert!: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uond-mfc060921.php

Phys.org on Science X: https://phys.org/news/2021-06-marine-fog-focus-five-year.html

University of Notre Dame Research Press: https://research.nd.edu/news/marine-fog-comes-under-focus-in-new-five-year-study

(Also published under ND College of Engineering News and ND Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences News)

 

 

April 2021

SAFL Director involved in new $7.5M DoD MURI project

https://cse.umn.edu/safl/news/safl-director-involved-new-75m-dod-muri-project

 

 

February 2021

FATIMA Project awarded funding in DoD's 2021 MURI Competition

https://www.cto.mil/2021-muri/