Vanessa Sun

@vanessainstem.bsky.social

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She/her 🇧🇷🇹🇼🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Atmospheric chemist & mathematician, studying air quality in Salt Lake City. Mostly sharing academic & COVID related posts. Clean Air Kits discount at: https://linktr.ee/vanessasun CUNY ➡️ MIT ➡️UUtah (PhDing 👩🏻‍💻)

Selfie of author of post, with a view from the chest up. She is posed with a side ponytail, and has a hand framing (below) her chin. Her t-shirt spells WHOI with coral and says Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution below. Pinned to the top right are a Pride Progress rainbow flag pin and a heart pin with the transgender flag colors. She is wearing black raincloud acrylic earrings with raindrop and lightning attachments dangling below the cloud.
Author of post standing in front of sign saying UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research, as well as directions to facilities. She is wearing a dark purple flowery dress with her hair tied in a ponytail over her left shoulder, and a white duckbill N95 respirator.
Overhead view of textbook with various colorful page flags sticking out the sides. On the white page is a small written message in black ink, saying: “To Vanessa Sun, I enjoyed reading your letter. You have a wonderful path ahead of you in atmospheric chemistry. I look forward to meeting you at some time in the future. All the Best, John H. Seinfeld. June 17, 2024.” There is a rainbow suncatcher refraction over the “To Vanessa Sun” of the message.
Author of tweet on left side of photo holding up white mug that says MIT Atmos Chem on it. She wears bronze and gold framed glasses and has short hair. Behind her is a dual monitor desk setup with a bigger and more yellow monitor on the left and smaller and whiter monitor on right. On the left monitor, Zotero is open with typed notes next to a paper. On the right monitor, Google Slides is open showing a slide titled F0AM Box Modeling.
A round table in the center of the photo with an open binder and some notes in the front left, a laptop and orange colored photo beneath the binder. Behind the binder, also on the table, is a closed translucent binder. In the background behind the table is an outdoor lounge with several silver chairs, tables, and benches.
Author of tweet sitting in front of a desk with her hand on her face, frowning. Behind her on the desk is a monitor showing excel spreadsheets with many rows of information.
Author of tweet sitting in front of a desk with her hand on her face, frowning. Behind her on the desk is a monitor showing excel spreadsheets with many rows of information.
Author of tweet in the center of the photo, holding up her laptop. She wears a silver necklace with star and a sword charm, silver hoop earrings, with amber framed glasses, and a black and rainbow velvet strapless top
Author of post sitting at a desk with a thumbs up, wearing a blue and white floral tank top, a large silver MIT university class ring, an orange bracelet, amber framed glasses, and a white Gerson 3230 duckbill N95 respirator. Behind her is a desk with a laptop next to a computer monitor showing a Youtube video of a weather presentation.
Set of 3 postcards spread out and held by a hand in the center. The left postcard is green with the words, “you are so good looking.” The middle postcard is bright yellow with the words, “your face is like sunshine.” The right postcard is pink with words, “you couldn’t be cooler if you tried.”
Screenshot of webpage from the National Centers for Environmental information. Shows a title heading of ### SCOPE_NAME### ###SECTION_TITLE### instead of the appropriate titles.
Selfie of author of post holding up an Aranet carbon dioxide monitor in purple casing attached to keys and plastic ID card holder. She wears a purple striped cardigan, a colorful MIT class ring called the Grad Rat, and a white duckbill Gerson N95 respirator. Behind her is a blue sky with a few clouds.
Selfie of author of post sitting on the right side of the photo, smiling and holding a mug in front of her face. The mug is navy with white contour lines and says MIT Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences on it. Behind her, on the wall, is a chalkboard atop a whiteboard with various trigonometric expressions written on them.
Selfie of author of tweet from head to waist level. She wears navy headphones, a blue colored ACI duckbill N95 respirator, and a heavy black winter coat over a baby blue cardigan, colorful blue-background overalls with bright orange, pink, and blue leaves, and a gray shirt underneath. Her hand is holding the right side of her jacket open and her ring finger features a silver beaver MIT class ring.
Selfie of author of tweet on the right side of the photo, holding a mug with a winter scene of animals acting like people such as a fox in a red scarf and green jacket pushing a wheelbarrow with a mouse on top, from Emma Bridgewater. She is smiling, showing teeth, and wears a gold necklace with a V initial, small gold hoop earrings, a white and mustard striped shirt, and amber and gold glasses. Her eye on her left side is closed in a wink. Her hair comes down over her shoulder on the left. Next to her is a chalkboard on top and a whiteboard on the bottom with various colorful writing. Behind her are markers in a basket mounted on the wall and a black feltboard with white lettering saying, “THE PRODUCT OF MY PH.D. IS ME.”
Selfie of author of tweet sitting in front of a bus window. She is wearing a Dentec ComfortAir elastomeric respirator with purple P100 filters. The silicone body is black, with a mask chain of plastic colorful bright stars (green, yellow, pink, blue) across the center. She also wears amber and gold glasses, a white tshirt saying “we can be anything” in capital handwritten letters across the center surrounded by bright pink smiley faces, and a purple circular pin saying “wear a mask for me” on the top and “i’m at risk” on the bottom. Her hair is in a ponytail over her left shoulder.
Screenshot of a white powerpoint slide that says in red, “Research Update for Group Meeting Fall 2024” and in smaller letters in grey, “Vanessa Sun.” On the bottom is a strip of small mountains depicted in light grey, running from all the way on the left to the right. In the bottom right corner, there is a big red U with UTAH on top, a shortened logo for the University of Utah