| US Mailing Address: Joel Thornton Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences 408 ATG Building University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 Phone/fax: 206-543-4010 |
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Joel
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Assistant
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| Photo courtesy of Frank Jenkins |
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Scientific Interests: atmospheric
chemistry, air pollution, climate change
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2002-2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University
of Toronto
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2006
The Henry and Camille Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral
Program in Environmental Chemistry 2005 UW Curriculum Development Award 2004-2007 NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science 2003 Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Scientists 1999-2002 NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow 2002 University of California Club of San Francisco Fellowship 2000 Teaching Effectiveness Award (UC, Berkeley campus-wide competition) 1999 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (Dept. of Chemistry, UC, Berkeley) 1996 American Chemical Society Award for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry |
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Co-Editor
of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Science Team Member of Following
Field Campaigns: SOS99, TOPSE 2000, TEXAQS 2000, INTEX-B 2006, BEARPEX
2007, POLARCAT (ICEALOT) 2008, BEARPEX 2009 Member of Following Professional
Societies: American Geophysical Union, European Geosciences Union,
American Chemical Society |
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| Teaching and Mentoring Activities |
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2004 - current
Courses Taught: Global
Atmospheric Chemistry, Fundatmentals of Atmospheric Chemistry,
Atmospheric
Aerosols and Multiphase
Chemistry, Climate and Climate
Change |
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| Publications (as
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Song, C., R. A. Zaveri, M.
L. Alexander, J. A. Thornton, S. Madronich, J. V. Ortega, A.
Zelenyuk,
X. Y. Yu, A. Laskin, and D. A. Maughan (2007), Effect of hydrophobic
primary
organic aerosols on secondary organic aerosol formation from ozonolysis
of
alpha-pinene, Geophysical Research
Letters, 34(20), L20803 Thornton, J. A.,* L. Jaegle, and V. F. McNeill (2008), Assessing known pathways for HO2 loss in aqueous atmospheric aerosols: Regional and global impacts on tropospheric oxidants, Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 113(D5), D05303. Wolfe, G. M., J. A. Thornton,*
V. F. McNeill, D. A. Jaffe, D. Reidmiller, D. Chand, J. Smith, P.
Swartzendruber, F. Flocke, and W. Zheng (2007), Influence of
trans-Pacific
pollution transport on acyl peroxy nitrate abundances and speciation at
Mount
Bachelor Observatory during INTEX-B, Atmospheric
Chemistry And Physics, 7(20),
5309-5325 McNeill, V.F.; G.M. Wolfe; J.A.
Thornton* Oxidation of Oleate in Sub-Micron Aqueous Salt Particles:
Evidence of a Surface Process. Journal Of
Physical Chemistry A, 111, 1073-1083,
2007. McNeill, V.F., J.
Patterson,
G.M. Wolfe, and J.A. Thornton*, The effect of varying levels of
surfactant on the reactive uptake of N2O5 to
aqueous
aerosol, Atmospheric Chemistry And
Physics, 6, 1635-1644, 2006. Thornton, J.A.*,
Abbatt, J.P.D., N2O5 reaction on submicron sea
salt
aerosol: Kinetics, products, and the effect of surface active organics,
Journal Of Physical Chemistry A,
109,
10004-10012, 2005. Thornton, J.A.*, Abbatt,
J.P.D., Measurements of HO2 uptake to aqueous aerosol: Mass
accommodation coefficients and net reactive loss, Journal
Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 110, D08309, 2005. Kwamena, N.O.A., J.A.
Thornton, and J.P.D. Abbatt,
Kinetics of surface-bound benzo[a]pyrene and ozone on solid organic and
salt
aerosols, Journal Of Physical Chemistry A, 108(52),
11626-11634, 2004. Murphy, J.G., J.A. Thornton,
P.J. Wooldridge, D.A. Day, R.S. Rosen, C. Cantrell, R.E. Shetter, B.
Lefer, and
R.C. Cohen, Measurements of the sum of HO2NO2 and
CH3O2NO2
in the remote troposphere, Atmospheric
Chemistry and Physics, 4,
377-384, 2004. Rosen,
R.S., E.C. Wood, P.J. Wooldridge, J.A. Thornton, D.A. Day, W. Kuster, E.J. Williams, B.T.
Jobson, and R.C. Cohen, Observations of total alkyl nitrates during
Texas Air
Quality Study 2000: Implications for O3 and alkyl nitrate
photochemistry, Journal of Geophysical
Research-Atmospheres, 109 (D7),
2004. Thornton, J.A.*,
C.F. Braban, and J.P.D. Abbatt, N2O5
hydrolysis on sub-micron organic aerosols: the effect of relative
humidity,
particle phase, and particle size, Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5 (20),
4593-4603, 2003. Thornton, J.A.,
P.J. Wooldridge, R.C. Cohen, E.J. Williams, D.
Hereid, F.C. Fehsenfeld, J. Stutz, and B. Alicke, Comparisons of in
situ and
long path measurements of NO2 in urban plumes, Journal
of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D16),
2003 Thornton, J.A.,
P.J. Wooldridge, R.C. Cohen, M. Martinez, H.
Harder, W.H. Brune, E.J. Williams, S.R. Hall, R.E. Shetter, B.P. Wert,
B.
Henry, A. Fried, and F.E. Fehsenfeld, Observations of ozone production
rates as
a function of NOx abundances and HOx production
rates in
the Nashville urban plume, Journal of
Geophysical Research, 107 (D12),
2002. Day, D.A., P.J. Wooldridge,
M.B. Dillon, J.A. Thornton, R.C. Cohen, A thermal dissociation
– laser
induced fluorescence instrument for in situ detection of NO2,
peroxy(acyl)nitrates, alkylnitrates, and HNO3, Journal
of
Geophysical Research, 107 (D6), 2002. Thornton, J.A.,
P.J. Wooldridge, and R.C. Cohen, Appendix D:
Laser-induced fluorescence detection of NO2, in Recommended
Methods for Ambient Air Monitoring of NO, NO2,
NOy, and Individual NOz Species, edited by
W.A.
McClenny, pp. 62-68, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park,
2001. |
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