Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at the University of Colorado
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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)
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Margaret Tolbert Professor, 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 |
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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
