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Education

• Ph.D., December 2006, Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
• B.A., June 2000, Chemistry, Colby College, Waterville, ME

Honors and Awards

• IGAC Outstanding Paper Award [2008]
• AGU Outstanding Paper Award [2007]
• NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change [Fall 2007]
• ACCESS IX Participant, Yellowstone Wyoming [August 2007]
• NSF International Research Postdoctoral Fellowship [Declined 2007]
• Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center Graduate Fellowship [2005 - 2006]
• NASA Group Achievement Award (INTEX-NA, TC4) [2004]
• Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor [2004-2005]
• ACS Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry [1999]

Research Experience

• NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Thomas Ackerman and Prof. Joel Thornton, JISAO / University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA [Oct 2007 - Present]
• Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Ronald C. Cohen, University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA [December 2006 – October 2007]
• Graduate Researcher with Prof. Ronald C. Cohen, University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA [Fall 2001 – 2006]
• Research Technician with Prof. Barry Huebert, University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI [Fall 2000 – 2001]
• Research Assistant with Dr. Daniel Murphy, NOAA, Aeronomy Group, Boulder, CO [Summer 1999]
• Research Assistant with Prof. D. Whitney King, Colby College, Department of Chemistry, Waterville, ME [Fall 1998 – 2000]

Field Research Experience

• PELTI: Passing Efficiency of an Airborne Low Turbulence Aerosol Inlet (NCAR C130), St Croix, 2000 UCAR Site
• ACE-Asia: Aerosol Characterization Experiment-Asia (NCAR C130), Iwakuni, Japan 2001 NOAA Site
• INTEX-NA: Intercontinental Transport Experiment –North America (NASA DC-8), Portsmouth, N.H. 2004 NASA Site
• PAVE: Polar AURA Validation Experiment (NASA DC-8), Portsmouth, N.H. 2005 NASA Site
• MILAGRO / INTEX-B (NASA DC-8), Houston, TX, Honolulu, HI. and Anchorage, AK. 2006 NASA Site
• TC4: Tropospheric Clouds, Chemistry and Convection (NASA DC-8), San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 NASA Site
• NORAA: N2O5 Reactivity on Ambient Aerosol, Boulder, CO and Seattle, WA 2008

Teaching, Service and Leadership

• Member American Geophysical Union
• Reviewer for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Analytical Chemistry and Atmospheric Environment
• 2 time Captain of Colby College's Division I Nordic Ski Team
• Guest Lecturer: Colby College; Department of Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry [CH217]
• Guest Lecturer: Colby College; Department of Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis [CH332]
• Guest Lecturer: UC Berkeley; Department of Chemistry, Graduate Atmospheric Chemistry [CH295]
• Guest Lecturer: University of Washington; Dept. of Atmos. Science, Atmospheric Chemistry [ATMOS358]
• Teaching Assistant: UC Berkeley; Department of Chemistry, General Chemistry [CHEM1a, CHEM4a]

Peer Reviewed Publications

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Selected Oral Presentations

• Haverford College Chemistry Seminar; Haverford, PA. Observational Constraints on Ozone Production: Insights from Aircraft Measurements of Reactive Nitrogen. November 2008 invited
• Reed College Chemistry Seminar; Portland, OR. Observational Constraints on Ozone Production: Insights from Aircraft Measurements of Reactive Nitrogen. October 2008 invited
• Harvard Atmospheric Science Seminar; Cambridge, MA. Observational Constraints on the Transport and Partitioning of Reactive Nitrogen in the Free Troposphere. February 2008 invited
• Colby College Chemistry Seminar; Waterville, ME. Toward Unraveling the Complexity of the Atmosphere: New Tools in Atmospheric Chemistry. February 2008 invited
• AGU Fall Meeting; San Francisco, CA. Observations of Reactive Nitrogen over the North Pacific: Comparisons, Implications and Chemical Constraints. December 2007
• ACCESS IX Colloquium; Big Sky, MT. Sources, Partitioning and Transport of Reactive Nitrogen over the Continental United States. August 2007
• Atmospheric Chemistry Seminar; University of Washington. Sources, Partitioning and Transport of Reactive Nitrogen over the Continental United States. March 2007 invited
• Joint CACGP/IGAC/WMO Symposium; Cape Town South Africa. Convection Signatures and the Age of Air in the Upper Troposphere. September 2006