Abdus Salam, a Post Doctoral Researcher and Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry of Dhaka University, was a Ph.D student under Professor Michael Mozurkewich and visiting scholar for the last two years. Abdus and his team have successfully established an observatory at the Island of the Bay of Bengal (Bhola), Bangladesh for aerosol studies. There he has been collecting samples with PM2.5 samplers (EnviroTech) and an Aeronet sunphotometer (NASA). This is the latest Aeronet station of two in Bangladesh. The first Aeronet station was built at Dhaka University, Bangladesh in June 2012.
For more information on the 1st Aeronet station, click here.
For more information on the 2nd Aeronet station, click here.