2021 – present: Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Colorado State University
2018 – 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Science Division, LBNL
2012 – 2018: PhD Chemistry, University of Toronto
2007 – 2011: BSc Chemistry & Math, Vancouver Island University
I was drawn into environmental chemistry at Vancouver Island University, where I was fortunate to receive a research-oriented undergraduate education. I went on to complete my PhD at the University of Toronto, in Jon Abbatt’s research group, where I studied urban aerosol chemistry in Toronto, industrial emissions in the Athabasca Oil Sands, and the sources and chemistry of aerosol in Arctic spring and summer. During the NETCARE project, I used airborne aerosol mass spectrometry to understand the influence of increasing open water area and long-range pollution transport on Arctic aerosol chemistry and chemistry-climate interactions. I then moved from the field into the lab as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, working in Kevin Wilson’s research group, on multiphase chemistry in levitated droplets and the kinetics of ozone reactions at the air-water interface. My research at CSU bridges atmospheric chemistry in the field and the lab, where my group focuses on atmospheric chemical mechanisms and multiphase chemistry across a range of environments, from the remote marine atmosphere to indoor and urban atmospheres. To do this, we use field observations, laboratory studies and kinetic models to understand chemical processes that control trace gas fate and shape the aerosol population.
Collaborative & Community Activities
The Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) Working Group #163 “Coupling of ocean-ice-atmosphere processes: from sea-Ice biogeochemistry to aerosols and Clouds” (CIce2Clouds, CIce2Clouds.org) launched in fall 2021. We bring together international expertise in the ocean and sea-ice oriented community with the atmospheric chemistry community. We aim to (1) synthesize and refine our conceptual representation of processes at the ocean-ice-snow-atmosphere interface, (2) address key uncertainties in the biological and chemical controls on atmospheric chemistry, aerosol, and clouds in polar ocean environments, and (3) guide future interdisciplinary modelling and observational (lab & field) efforts.
The “Cryosphere and ATmospheric CHemistry” (CATCH) is an International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project activity, co-sponsored by the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). Our mission is to facilitate atmospheric chemistry research within the international community, with a focus on natural processes specific to cold regions of the Earth. Cold regions include areas which are seasonally or permanently covered by snow and ice, from the high mountains to the polar ice sheets and sea ice zones.