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Welcome
to my website! I'm a new assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder, where I teach undergraduate chemistry and graduate air quality courses. My research focuses on the chemistry of organic molecules in the atmosphere and the processes that lead to harmful air pollution. I'm actively recruiting motivated students and researchers – if you're interested in joining my lab as a graduate student (in Mechanical or Environmental engineering), undergraduate, or postdoc, please reach out!
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News
8/19/24 - It's the first day of school again - today I start my appointment as an assistant professor in CU's Mechanical Engineering Department!
7/14/24 - We're off on another round of field measurements, this time to Salt Lake City as part of NOAA's Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS) Campaign. I'll be running the proton transfer reaction (PTR) mass spectrometer aboard our mobile lab as we drive around the Salt Lake Valley.
5/29/24 - The AGES+ workshop is starting today here in Boulder -- excited to hear all the work that's being done at NOAA and beyond with data from last summer's field campaigns (including AEROMMA)
2/20/24 - New paper alert! In this manuscript I show how the simulated global burdens of important atmospheric trace gases like ozone, OH, nitrogen oxides, and peroxyacetyl nitrate change when GEOS-Chem is updated with the latest state-of-the-science oxidation rates and mechanisms.
1/28/24 - I'm off to Baltimore to present my GEOS-Chem modeling work on the global atmospheric ethanol budget, aided by field data from the NASA ATom Campaign, at the American Meteorological Society's annual conference.
8/26/23 - After over 150 flight hours on the DC-8 over Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Detroit, and California's Central Valley, we've finally wrapped up the AEROMMA campaign. Now to analyze all this data!
5/29/23 - Let the fieldwork begin -- today we head to Palmdale, CA to start integrating our mass spectrometers onto NASA's DC-8 in preparation for our summer measurements!
4/1/23 - I've started a new job! I'm now a research scientist at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, working in the tropospheric chemistry group at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory. I'll be helping to deploy gas- and aerosol-phase mass spectrometers on a NASA DC-8 aircraft based in Palmdale CA and Dayton OH during the AEROMMA campaign this summer.
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7/14/24 - We're off on another round of field measurements, this time to Salt Lake City as part of NOAA's Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS) Campaign. I'll be running the proton transfer reaction (PTR) mass spectrometer aboard our mobile lab as we drive around the Salt Lake Valley.
5/29/24 - The AGES+ workshop is starting today here in Boulder -- excited to hear all the work that's being done at NOAA and beyond with data from last summer's field campaigns (including AEROMMA)
2/20/24 - New paper alert! In this manuscript I show how the simulated global burdens of important atmospheric trace gases like ozone, OH, nitrogen oxides, and peroxyacetyl nitrate change when GEOS-Chem is updated with the latest state-of-the-science oxidation rates and mechanisms.
1/28/24 - I'm off to Baltimore to present my GEOS-Chem modeling work on the global atmospheric ethanol budget, aided by field data from the NASA ATom Campaign, at the American Meteorological Society's annual conference.
8/26/23 - After over 150 flight hours on the DC-8 over Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Detroit, and California's Central Valley, we've finally wrapped up the AEROMMA campaign. Now to analyze all this data!
5/29/23 - Let the fieldwork begin -- today we head to Palmdale, CA to start integrating our mass spectrometers onto NASA's DC-8 in preparation for our summer measurements!
4/1/23 - I've started a new job! I'm now a research scientist at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, working in the tropospheric chemistry group at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory. I'll be helping to deploy gas- and aerosol-phase mass spectrometers on a NASA DC-8 aircraft based in Palmdale CA and Dayton OH during the AEROMMA campaign this summer.
For older news click here
© Kelvin Bates, August 2024