Murphy Research Group
The Murphy Group has been hard at work for the past few weeks and we're excited for the winter break. We wish everyone a happy holiday season and we hope you all have a restful and rejuvenating break! See you in the new year! ❄️🎁🌲
Happy Halloween! 👻🎃 The Smurphsters participated in the annual ChemClub pumpkin carving and costume contests, taking home 2nd place in both of them!! Our winning pumpkin design featured Jackson Lanterns, a country pumpkin with a dream to make it big in Nashville 🪕 Stay tuned for next year!
The Murphy group went out for bubble tea to celebrate Alex's birthday! And a warm welcome to our two new students, Lucas (MSc student) and Catherine (MChem exchange student)!!
The Murphy Group did a takeover on the Graduate Department of Chemistry's Instagram account this week! Check out @chemgraduoft on Instagram to learn more about our group and our research!
Congrats to Dr. Xiaoying Yang who defended her PhD thesis today! Her thesis was titled "Ammonia and Amines: Oxidation Chemistry in Aqueous Phase and Atmospheric Measurement in Urban Canada". We wish you all the best in your future endeavours!
Congrats to our summer students—Charlotte, Soveren, Bennett, and Gabrielle—who all presented fantastic posters at the Annual Chemistry Summer Poster Session! What a great way to end off a productive summer of research :) Charlotte was also honoured with a ChemClub poster prize for the exceptional qu...
The Murphy group has two new additions for the remainder of the summer! Gabrielle is joining us from Imperial College London on a summer research placement, while Purity is joining us for a summer research internship, facilitated by Visions of Science. Welcome to the two of them!
A Murphster group outing to Dolce Gelato in Kensington Market to celebrate our fearless leader's birthday!
Last week, at the 24th Environmental Chemistry Colloquium, the current graduate students in the Murphy Group presented talks on the research they've been conducting over the past year. It was a great 1.5 days filled with learning about the different research being done by all of the graduate student...
A warm welcome to some new (and returning) faces! We have three new undergraduate students joining us for the summer (Layla, Bennett, and Soveren) and one undergraduate student returning (Charlotte) to the group after completing CHM395 over the 2024-25 academic year.
To all our colleagues, friends, and fans, the long awaited update is here. Pictured: mental health walking (and jumping), pumpkin carving, and of course, bubble tea-ing.
Last week, Isabelle, Olivia, and Xiaoying all gave oral presentations at the 2024 AGU meeting, and got to meet several alumni from the group who were also attending.
All smiles in the Murphy group as we welcome our new members, Camille (MSc student) and Shyam (MSci student from Imperial College London).
Today, Dr. Matthew Davis successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "An Investigation of Local and Regionally Significant Non-Agricultural Sources of Ammonia in Toronto and the Great Lakes Region." Join us in wishing him good luck at his new position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CSU Fort Collins.
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A Murphy Group coffee outing to celebrate Ye's birthday, during a rare period of February sunshine!
One of our undergraduate researchers, Filip, on exchange from Imperial College London, is pictured having set up his rooftop sampling mat to study ammonia deposition in the snowpack! It's a great day for it (brrrr ❄️☃️)!
The group enjoyed a delicious Thai meal in December to celebrate the successful PhD defence of Mark Panas, whose thesis focused on measurements of N2O from stratospheric balloons. Congratulations and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!!
There was a Murphster Seminar Double Feature these past two weeks! Congratulations to Gavin (left) for delivering his final seminar and finishing up his MSc!! And congratulations to Brendan (right) for completing a major milestone in the Environmental Chemistry PhD program by presenting his Research...
A Murphster outing to celebrate our favorite Virgo (Xiaoying) and Libras (Mark and Alex) while the weather's still nice :)
The Murphy group went for coffee to celebrate the arrival of our new PhD students (Isabelle and Alex) and undergraduate exchange student (Filip) :) Welcome to the group!
On May 1st, the Murphsters and UofT joined scientists across the nation in a walkout to advocate for increased federal investments in graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. We marched on the office of the Minister of Finance to demand a living wage for the students and postdocs who move science...
The Murphy Group is so proud of our undergraduate researchers, who are both completing their B.Sc.'s this spring and then taking graduate studies by storm! Alex (left) will be taking it to the next level at UofT, and Zoë (right) is headed to the University of British Columbia after spending some tim...
Back in 2017, the group had the chance to collaborate with colleagues at NOAA, U Utah and U Washington to measure air pollution over the Salt Lake region in the winter. A recent publication led by Carrie Womack (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05376) focuses on the impact of halogen emissions fr...
A Murphster outing to Almond Butterfly in the snow to celebrate the birth of the group's top bird photographer!
The Murphy group did some Fall cleaning around the lab and celebrated our hard work with pizza on the Lash Miller lawn!
Last week, our own Prof. Jen Murphy and Mark Panas traveled to Timmins, ON, where they helped coordinate the first stratospheric balloon launch of the Canadian Space Agency's Strato-Science 2022 campaign. This project uses laser absorption spectroscopy to obtain reliable measurements of greenhouse g...
