CSL

My research is focused on improving the ability of satellites to measure smoke particles from space. Forest fires have existed for as long as there have been forests, and that means that the smoke particles put into the atmosphere have been affecting the climate for just as long. Because wildfires tend to happen in the wild, day and night, all over the world, the only practical way to measure how many/how big/how black or white or brown the smoke particles are that are going into our atmosphere is by using satellites. 

• Atmospheric chemistry
• Biomass burning
• Gas kinetics
• Photochemistry
• Air quality

My research focuses on utilizing real-world observations and model simulations to understand how radiative energy flows into, out of, and within the Earth-atmosphere system. These radiative energy flows are ultimately responsible for driving virtually all atmospheric circulations (i.e. our weather) and determining longer term changes in the equilibrium state of Earth.

I am a CIRES research scientist working in the Cloud, Aerosol, and Climate group in NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory.

Air quality, tropospheric chemistry, cavity-enhanced spectroscopy, cavity ringdown spectroscopy, nitrogen oxides, aerosol optical properties

I have worked at NOAA since 2014 in Tropospheric Chemistry, working on the development and deployment of the Mobile Laboratory. I then moved over to Atmospheric Remote Sensing in 2015, where I primarily work on instrument development and deployment, of mostly Doppler Wind Lidar systems.