AGAGE network celebrates 45 years of measuring ozone-depleting and climate-warming gases

AGAGE scientists, collaborators and invited guests from research institutions around the world—many representing dozens more researchers at their home institutions—at the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network’s 45th anniversary conference on October 8-13 at the MIT Endicott House (Photo by Mark Dwortzan)

AGAGE scientists, collaborators and invited guests from research institutions around the world—many representing dozens more researchers at their home institutions—at the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network’s 45th anniversary conference on October 8-13 at the MIT Endicott House (Photo by Mark Dwortzan)

AGAGE co-leader (and ALE and GAGE leader) Ronald Prinn, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT; keynote speaker Jack Kaye, Associate Director for Research at NASA’s Earth Science Division; and invited speakers Noelle Selin (MIT), Arlene Fiore (MIT) and Steve Wofsy (Harvard). Susan Solomon (MIT) was also an invited speaker. (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

AGAGE co-leader (and ALE and GAGE leader) Ronald Prinn, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT; keynote speaker Jack Kaye, Associate Director for Research at NASA’s Earth Science Division; and invited speakers Noelle Selin (MIT), Arlene Fiore (MIT) and Steve Wofsy (Harvard). Susan Solomon (MIT) was also an invited speaker. (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Paul Fraser, an atmospheric chemist who established the network’s first mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere measurements of CFCs in Tasmania in the late-1970s, and AGAGE co-leader Ronald Prinn helped found the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Paul Fraser, an atmospheric chemist who established the network’s first mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere measurements of CFCs in Tasmania in the late-1970s, and AGAGE co-leader Ronald Prinn helped found the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Anita Ganesan, an associate professor at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, has contributed to the development of new AGAGE network measurements and data emissions estimation methods (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Anita Ganesan, an associate professor at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, has contributed to the development of new AGAGE network measurements and data emissions estimation methods (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Professor Sunyoung Park of Kyungpook National University, who runs the South Korean Gosan AGAGE station that detected recent upward and downward CFC-11 emissions spikes in eastern China (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Professor Sunyoung Park of Kyungpook National University, who runs the South Korean Gosan AGAGE station that detected recent upward and downward CFC-11 emissions spikes in eastern China (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Martin Vollmer, a senior scientist at Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Martin Vollmer, a senior scientist at Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Chris Lunder, a senior scientist at the climate and environmental research institute NILU (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Chris Lunder, a senior scientist at the climate and environmental research institute NILU (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Paul Krummel, Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry Research Group Leader at CSIRO Environment in Australia (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Paul Krummel, Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry Research Group Leader at CSIRO Environment in Australia (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Ray Weiss, a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, and co-leader of AGAGE since the early 1990s (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Ray Weiss, a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, and co-leader of AGAGE since the early 1990s (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Meeting session at the MIT Endicott House during conference celebrating the 45th anniversary of AGAGE (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Meeting session at the MIT Endicott House during conference celebrating the 45th anniversary of AGAGE (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Along with Ronald Prinn, Ray Weiss and Paul Fraser (among others), Peter Simmonds (shown here) helped found the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Along with Ronald Prinn, Ray Weiss and Paul Fraser (among others), Peter Simmonds (shown here) helped found the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

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