{"id":1224,"date":"2017-08-09T22:51:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/?page_id=1224"},"modified":"2024-11-17T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T00:26:42","slug":"the-thornton-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thornton Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1809 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-thornton-group-1.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the Thornton Lab, we use a combination of laboratory-based studies, field studies, and computational studies to (1) help develop a detailed understanding of the chemical and physical processes occurring in the atmosphere and (2) assess the potential for current and future human activities to cause global atmospheric change.<\/p>\n<p>Aerosols, or particles suspended in air,\u00a0contribute to poor air quality, both through direct emissions and secondary chemical processing. Aerosols also have the most uncertainty associated with its contribution to Earth&#8217;s energy budget. We specifically investigate aerosol particle sources and chemistry, wildfire emissions and processing, aerosol-cloud interactions, and atmosphere-biosphere interactions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Research Topics<\/h1>\n<table style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/research\/aerosol-sources-chemistry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1671 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Aerosols-300x276.png\" alt=\"Aerosol particle sources and chemistry\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Aerosols-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Aerosols.png 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/research\/wildfire-emissions-processing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1674 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Wildfires-300x281.png\" alt=\"Wildfire emissions and processing\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Wildfires-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Wildfires.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/research\/aerosol-cloud-interactions\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1673 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Clouds-300x276.png\" alt=\"Aerosol-cloud interactions\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Clouds-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Clouds.png 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/research\/atmosphere-biosphere-interactions\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1672 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Biosphere-300x275.png\" alt=\"Atmosphere-biosphere interactions\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Biosphere-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Research_Biosphere.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/values_horizontal.png\" alt=\"In this group, we believe: science is real, love is love, black lives matter, feminism is for everyone, immigrants are welcome, atmospheric chemistry is cool\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/values_horizontal.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/values_horizontal-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/values_horizontal-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/values_horizontal-1024x540.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the Thornton Lab, we use a combination of laboratory-based studies, field studies, and computational studies to (1) help develop a detailed understanding of the chemical and physical processes occurring in the atmosphere and (2) assess the potential for current and future human activities to cause global atmospheric change. Aerosols, or particles suspended in air,\u00a0contribute to poor air quality, both through direct emissions and secondary chemical processing. Aerosols also have the most uncertainty associated with its contribution to Earth&#8217;s energy budget. We specifically investigate aerosol particle sources and chemistry, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1224","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1224\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atmos.washington.edu\/~thornton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}