Contact Information
Mail: 408 ATG Building
Box 351640
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Office Phone: 206-543-4010
Email: thornton@atmos.uw.edu
Education
2002 Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
1996 B.A., Dartmouth College; Magna Cum Laude, Honors in Chemistry
Employment and Appointments
2009 – present Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
2012 – present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle
2004 – 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
2002 – 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Awards and Achievements
2012 Henry G. Houghton Award, American Meteorological Society
2010 Annual Teaching Award, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
2008 NSF CAREER Award
2008 NASA Group Achievement Award for for INTEX-B Campaign
2008 UW Student Technology Fee Award for Student Machine Shop
2006 The Henry and Camille Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry
2005 UW Curriculum Development Award
2003 Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists
2002 University of California Club of San Francisco Fellowship
2000 Teaching Effectiveness Award (UC, Berkeley campus-wide competition)
2004-2007 NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science
1999-2002 NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow
1999 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (Dept. of Chemistry, UC, Berkeley)
1996 American Chemical Society Award for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry
Professional Activities and Service
Co-Editor of the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics since 2006
FCSD Advisory Committee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 2012
Co-Chair Tropospheric Halogens and Multiphase Chemistry, AGU 2011 Fall Meeting
Co-Chair Physical Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes ACS 2008 Spring Meeting
Co-Chair Heterogeneous Chemistry and Aerosol Phase Transitions, AGU 2006 Fall Meeting
PNNL Aerosol Climate Initiative Advisory Panel 2006 – 2008
PNNL EMSL Recapitalization Workshop/Panel 2005
Co-Chair Tropospheric Chemistry, AGU 2004 Spring Meeting
Member of the Following Professional Societies: American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, European Geosciences Union
Atmospheric Chemistry Field Campaigns and Science Teams:
ClearFlo – London Air Quality Campaign, sponsored by DOE ASR 2012
NACHTT – Tall tower study of nighttime nitrogen oxide and halogen activation chemistry (UW and NOAA ESRL collaboration); February 2011
CALNEX 2010 – A coupled air quality and climate forcing study. Participating on NOAA-led cruise, LA ground site, and Bakersfield ground site
NORAA II – Nitrogen Oxide Reactivity on Ambient Aerosols: SIO Pier, August – Sept 2009
ACCRONIM 2009 – Activation of Continental Chloride by Reactive Oxides of Nitrogen in wInter tiMe: Boulder, Co, February 2009 (UW –NOAA ESRL collaboration)
NORAA I – Nitrogen Oxide Reactivity on Ambient Aerosols: Boulder, Co and Seattle, WA, July – August 2008 (UW –NOAA ESRL –NOAA PMEL Collaboration)
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Land Study: Deployment at Paposo Land Site 2008
ICEALOT – International Chemistry Experiment in the Arctic Lower Troposphere (Part of International Polar Year): March – April 2008 on the Research Vessel Knorr
BEARPEX – Biosphere Effects on Aerosols and Photochemistry Experiment: Blodgett Forest, CA, July – October 2007 and June – July 2009
INTEX-B – Intercontinental Transport Experiment–B: Deployment at Mt. Bachelor Observatory April – May 2006
TEXAQS – Texas Air Quality Study: Houston, TX, August – September, 2000
TOPSE – Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring Equinox: aboard NCAR C-130 aircraft January – May, 2000
SOS99 – Southern Oxidants Study: Nashville, TN June 15 – July 15, 1999
Teaching and Mentoring Activities
2004-current Courses Taught: Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Aerosols and Multiphase Chemistry,Climate and Climate Change, Instruments and Observations, Exploring the Atmospheric Sciences
Research Advising (cumulative) 6 undergraduates, 7 graduate students, and 5 postdoctoral fellows
1996-1999 Graduate Student Instructor, UC, Berkeley, Teaching assistant for three undergraduate level courses in the Dept. of Chemistry