Difference between revisions of "Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at the University of Colorado"
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| align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Hannigan.jpg]] || '''Michael Hannigan''' <br> Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering <br> Ph.D., Caltech, 1997 <br> ''Interests:'' Characterization of air pollution, impact of air quality on health, <br> energy links to air quality. <br> [http://spot.colorado.edu/~hannigan/index.html homepage] | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Hannigan.jpg]] || '''Michael Hannigan''' <br> Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering <br> Ph.D., Caltech, 1997 <br> ''Interests:'' Characterization of air pollution, impact of air quality on health, <br> energy links to air quality. <br> [http://spot.colorado.edu/~hannigan/index.html homepage] | ||
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+ | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Helmig.jpg]] || '''Detlev Helmig''' <br> Associate Research Professor, INSTAAR <br> Ph.D., University of Duisburg, 1989 <br> ''Interests:'' Surface-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric chemistry and transport, <br> atmospheric measurements, polar chemistry, oceanic gas fluxes. <br> [http://instaar.colorado.edu/people/bios/helmig.html homepage] | ||
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+ | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Hynes.jpg]] || '''James T Hynes''' <br> Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., Princeton University, 1969 <br> ''Interests:'' Theoretical chemistry, relaxation problems; reactions in solution,<br> interfaces, and in biomolecules, solvationdynamics. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/hynesj.html homepage] | ||
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| align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Jimenez.jpg]] || '''Jose-Luis Jimenez''' <br> Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., M.I.T, 1999 <br> ''Interests:'' Atmospheric particle characterization (e.g., composition, size distributions, <br>particle morphology), aerosol climatology, advanced aerosol instrumentation. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/jimenezjl.html homepage] | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Jimenez.jpg]] || '''Jose-Luis Jimenez''' <br> Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., M.I.T, 1999 <br> ''Interests:'' Atmospheric particle characterization (e.g., composition, size distributions, <br>particle morphology), aerosol climatology, advanced aerosol instrumentation. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/jimenezjl.html homepage] | ||
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| align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Miller.jpg]] || '''Shelly L. Miller''' <br> Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering <br> Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996<br> ''Interests:'' Indoor air quality, engineering controls for air pollutants, <br>aerosols and bioaerosols, source apportionment methods. <br> [http://spot.colorado.edu/~milford/index.html homepage] | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Miller.jpg]] || '''Shelly L. Miller''' <br> Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering <br> Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996<br> ''Interests:'' Indoor air quality, engineering controls for air pollutants, <br>aerosols and bioaerosols, source apportionment methods. <br> [http://spot.colorado.edu/~milford/index.html homepage] | ||
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− | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Tolbert.jpg]] || '''Margaret Tolbert''' <br> Professor, | + | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Ravishankara.jpg]] || '''A. R. Ravishankara''' <br> Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, NOAA CSR Director <br> Ph.D., University of Florida, 1975<br> ''Interests:'' Climate change (greenhouse effect), and regional air quality, <br> and stratospheric ozone changes. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/ravishankara.html homepage] |
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+ | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Sievers.jpg]] || '''Robert E. Sievers''' <br> Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1960<br> ''Interests:'' Analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical science, aerosols, microparticles and <br> nanoparticles, inhalable vaccines and antibiotics, and supercritical fluids. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/sieversr.html homepage] | ||
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+ | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Solomon.jpg]] || '''Susan Solomon''' <br> Senior Scientist, NOAA/ERL<br> Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981<br> ''Interests:'' Atmospheric chemistry and its links to climate. <br> [http://cires.colorado.edu/people/solomon/ homepage] | ||
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+ | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Tolbert.jpg]] || '''Margaret Tolbert''' <br> Professor, of Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., Caltech, 1986<br> ''Interests:'' Heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, focusing on the chemical, <br> physical and optical properties of atmospheric particulate. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/tolbertm.html homepage] | ||
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+ | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Toohey.jpg]] || '''Darin Toohey''' <br> Professor, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences <br> Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988<br> ''Interests:'' Kinetics, spectroscopic, and field measurements of atmospheric trace species; <br> fast-response in situ instrumentation. <br> [http://atoc.colorado.edu/people/toohey.php homepage] | ||
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| align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Volkamer.jpg]] || '''Rainer Volkamer''' <br> Assistant Professor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, 1996<br> ''Interests:'' Laboratory investigations of heterogeneous chemistry, instumentation, <br> field campaigns, organic aerosol. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/volkamerr.htm homepage] | | align="center" bgcolor="lightgrey"|[[File:fac_Volkamer.jpg]] || '''Rainer Volkamer''' <br> Assistant Professor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry <br> Ph.D., Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, 1996<br> ''Interests:'' Laboratory investigations of heterogeneous chemistry, instumentation, <br> field campaigns, organic aerosol. <br> [http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/volkamerr.htm homepage] |
Revision as of 16:23, 9 March 2009
Overview
Boulder is arguably one of the world's centers in the fields of Atmospheric Chemistry & Air Pollution Research, thanks to the high concentration and quality of faculty and researchers at the University of Colorado (CU), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory ESRL, plus the added critical mass from researchers at nearby Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of Denver (DU) .
This page attemps to summarize the opportunities available to beginning graduate students (and postdocs) at the University of Colorado.
Paths to a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry / Air Pollution at CU Boulder
There are three main paths to a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado with research in the areas of atmospheric chemistry & air pollution:
- Through the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences
- Through the Department of Chemistry
- Through the Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Air Quality track
CU Faculty Carrying Out Atmospheric Chemistry / Air Pollution Research
- Faculty (Table in progress)
Linnea M. Avallone Associate Professor, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993 Interests: Stratospheric and tropospheric halogen chemistry, field studies, instrumentation and cloud processes. homepage | |
Veronica M. Bierbaum Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1974 Interests: Development of new techniques in physical and organic chemistry and their application to studies of gas phase ion chemistry. homepage | |
John W. Birks Professor Emeritus, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974 Interests: Development of light-weight instruments for vertical profiling of atmospheric species using kites, balloons, and light aircraft. homepage | |
William D. Collins Adjunct Professor, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988 Interests: Interactions of clouds and aerosols with solar and terrestrial radiation, and modeling their impacts on global climate change. homepage | |
John W. Daily Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975 Interests: Biomass gasification, wild land fire chemistry, MEMS for propulsion, optical cancer detection, laser diagnostics of reacting flows, combustion. homepage | |
Ray R. Fall Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1970 Interests: VOC production, biosynthesis and emission, biological rationales for formation of organic compounds. homepage | |
Michael Hannigan Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Caltech, 1997 Interests: Characterization of air pollution, impact of air quality on health, energy links to air quality. homepage | |
Detlev Helmig Associate Research Professor, INSTAAR Ph.D., University of Duisburg, 1989 Interests: Surface-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric chemistry and transport, atmospheric measurements, polar chemistry, oceanic gas fluxes. homepage | |
James T Hynes Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., Princeton University, 1969 Interests: Theoretical chemistry, relaxation problems; reactions in solution, interfaces, and in biomolecules, solvationdynamics. homepage | |
Jose-Luis Jimenez Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., M.I.T, 1999 Interests: Atmospheric particle characterization (e.g., composition, size distributions, particle morphology), aerosol climatology, advanced aerosol instrumentation. homepage | |
Daven K. Henze Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Caltech, 2007 Interests: Aerosols and air quality, climatology and atmospheric chemistry, adjoint sensitivity analysis, aata assimilation and remote sensing. homepage | |
Jana B. Milford Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1988 Interests: Photochemical air quality modeling, source apportionment of air pollution, air quality management. homepage | |
Shelly L. Miller Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996 Interests: Indoor air quality, engineering controls for air pollutants, aerosols and bioaerosols, source apportionment methods. homepage | |
A. R. Ravishankara Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, NOAA CSR Director Ph.D., University of Florida, 1975 Interests: Climate change (greenhouse effect), and regional air quality, and stratospheric ozone changes. homepage | |
Robert E. Sievers Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1960 Interests: Analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical science, aerosols, microparticles and nanoparticles, inhalable vaccines and antibiotics, and supercritical fluids. homepage | |
Susan Solomon Senior Scientist, NOAA/ERL Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1981 Interests: Atmospheric chemistry and its links to climate. homepage | |
Margaret Tolbert Professor, of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., Caltech, 1986 Interests: Heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry, focusing on the chemical, physical and optical properties of atmospheric particulate. homepage | |
Darin Toohey Professor, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988 Interests: Kinetics, spectroscopic, and field measurements of atmospheric trace species; fast-response in situ instrumentation. homepage | |
Rainer Volkamer Assistant Professor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ph.D., Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, 1996 Interests: Laboratory investigations of heterogeneous chemistry, instumentation, field campaigns, organic aerosol. homepage |
- Table of faculty sortable by research interests and affiliations
Faculty Member | CU Department and/or Research Institute | G | A | C | HC | EM | U | Tr | St | CM | Lab | F | F-A | ID | Sat | Th |
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Avallone, Linnea | ATOC & LASP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Bierbaum, Veronica | Chemistry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Birks, John W. | Chemistry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Collins, William D. | ATOC & NCAR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Daily, John W. | Mechanical Eng. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Fall, Ray | Chemistry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Gille, John C. | ATOC & NCAR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Hannigan, Michael P. | Mechanical Eng. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Helmig, Detlev | ATOC & INSTAAR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Hynes, James T. | Chemistry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Jimenez, Jose-Luis | Chemistry & CIRES | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Milford, Jana B. | Mechanical Eng. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Miller, Shelly L. | Mechanical Eng. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Ravishankara, A. R. | Chemistry & NOAA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sievers, Robert E. | Chemistry & CIRES | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Solomon, Susan | CIRES & NOAA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Tolbert, Margaret A. | Chemistry & CIRES | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Toohey, Darin | ATOC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
O. Toon, Brian | ATOC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Vaida, Veronica | Chemistry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Volkamer, Rainer | Chemistry & CIRES | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Key to research areas:
- By phase
- G: gas-phase species and kinetics
- A: Aerosols
- C: Clouds
- HC: Heterogenous chemistry
- By location in the atmosphere
- EM: Characterization of emissions sources (gases and/or aerosols)
- U: Urban areas
- Tr: Troposphere
- St: Stratosphere
- By research technique
- CM: Computational modeling
- Lab: Laboratory experiments
- F: Field experiments
- F-A: Field experiments from aircraft
- ID: Instrument development
- Sat: Satellite instrument development and/or data analysis
- Th: Theoretical atmospherical chemistry