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NCAR GV
taking off from Guam airport, 19 Jan 2014, for Research Flight 4 of the
NSF CONTRAST field campaign
Anyone needing a photo of me
is
welcome to use this image.
Please contact me if you need something else.
Education
B.S., Applied and
Engineering Physics, 1981, Cornell University
Ph.D., Applied Physics,
1987, Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow and
Research Associate, 1988 to 1994, Harvard University
Professional Experience
2007 to present: Joint appointment with:
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Department of Atmospheric and
Oceanic Science
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Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
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Earth System Science
Interdisciplinary Center
at
the University of Maryland, College Park
2005 to 2007: Visiting Faculty Associate, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA
1994 to
2007:
Research Scientist, NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, CA
Research Interests
Quantification of the effects of human activity on
the composition of Earth’s atmosphere by the development of computer
models used to analyze a wide variety of observations. Focus on
climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion
and recovery, air quality, and the global carbon cycle. Participant in
numerous atmospheric chemistry field campaigns and
Earth Observing Satellite missions, including
the Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST)
field campaign conducted in Guam during Jan and Feb 2014, and the
on-going
FLAGG-MD effort to quantify the fluxes of
atmospheric greenhouse gases in Maryland and nearby regions.
Major Recognitions and Honors
Professional
Service and Outreach
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Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial Panel,
Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space,
National Academy of Sciences
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Review
Editor,
Climate Science Special Report,
U.S.
Global Change Research Program, to be published Fall 2017.
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Air Quality Control Advisory Council, Maryland Department of the
Environment
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University Park
Community Solar LLC, Board Member
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Frequent speaker at community schools,
environmental summits, and town hall meetings, such as that pictured
below:
Yours
truly, with community members and activists at a meeting entitled "Think
Globally/ Act Locally"
held
April 2017, Church of the Brethren, University Park, Maryland. About 100
people attended this
far
ranging, ~2 hour long discussion sponsored by the Prince George's
Country Resist Coalition.
Students
Mentored
Presently
supervising the research of 7 graduate students and 2 faculty
research assistants at UMD who are working on a wide range of
research topics related to atmospheric chemistry and climate. In the
past have had close collaboration with a dozen graduate students at
Caltech, University of Colorado, and Harvard as well as supervision
of research studies of 5 postdoctoral fellows.
Contact Info
Phone:
301
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A little fun
for those who have scrolled so far.
I have benefited from many great
instructors at Cornell and Harvard, as well as
Fallstaff Elementary (especially Ms. Wood, who emphasized that
hard work was the most important ingredient for success) and Pimlico Junior High
School (especially Mr. Moody, my first teacher to instruct that it
was important to question authority). My future was shaped by the
outstanding education at
Baltimore Polytechnic
Institute (BPI) a premier public high school (especially Mr. Gneiting
and Mr.
Sanford, who taught me how to appreciate science at a deep level
including self-education, and Ms. Strickland, who taught chemistry
as an elegant science). At the time I attended, BPI was in the midst
of a most remarkable transformation. My senior
class had N
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1
men, and 1 woman, because a courageous young lady who had graduated the year
before threatened a lawsuit if she could not attend. As a
result, there was also 1 woman in my graduating class.
Below is a picture of my home room
class, Ae1, senior year, taken on the day of our Boiler
Project presentations. My group described the results of our
rendition of the Millikan Oil Drop experiment, which we conducted
with the help of a Professor of Physics at nearby
Morgan State
University. I'll be impressed if you can identify me
in this photo.
A click will reveal what I looked while in
high school. User beware!
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The University of Maryland
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