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to my website! I'm a research scientist studying the atmospheric chemistry of organic molecules at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Lab. Here you can learn more about me, read about my research, view my CV, peruse my peer-reviewed publications, check out my conference presentations and posters, and take a look at my non-science activities. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
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4/1/22 - 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.
1/6/22 - If you happen to be in Davis, CA, come watch me play the Emcee in the Davis Musical Theater Company's production of Cabaret! Every Fri-Sat-Sun through January 29th.
12/6/22 - A new manuscript is out for review! (And for public perusal -- thanks EGU). In this work led by Harvard grad student Laura Yang, we compare modeled and measured nitrogen dioxide profiles over Korea and discuss implications for satellite retrievals.
12/4/22 - Conference season is upon us! I'll be presenting our recent work on the role of the sulfate radical in atmospheric particle chemistry (see the announcement about the PNAS paper on 8/29/22 below) at the Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms conference in Davis and the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in Chicago.
11/29/22 - Stoked to give an informal (virtual) seminar at MIT today on our recent combined lab and modeling studies of nighttime terpene oxidation. Just wish I could be there in person!
8/29/22 - Our recent work at UC Davis exploring photo-induced sulfate radical formation in atmospheric particles has just been published in PNAS.
7/17/22 - I'm headed to beautiful Steamboat Springs, CO, for the NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellowship Summer Institute. Can't wait to see what all the current postdocs are working on!
6/5/22 - Excited to be en route to my first in-person conference in two and a half years! At the 10th International GEOS-Chem Conference, hosted by Washington University in St. Louis, I'll be presenting my ongoing work on the sources & chemistry of atmospheric ethanol.
3/29/22 - New paper alert! In this work led by Jinkyul Choi of CU Boulder, we constrain VOC emissions over Korea using inverse modeling with data from satellites and the KORUS-AQ flight campaign, and find that VOC emissions in existing inventories need to be revised upward by almost 50%.
3/19/22 - In a new paper led by recent Caltech PhD Hannah Allen, we demonstrate the utility of measured H2O2 and CH3OOH mixing ratios as tracers of remote atmospheric hydrogen oxide radical chemistry, and show that model biases related to convection events can be substantial.
2/8/22 - Some really exciting new work on the role of formaldehyde in particulate matter formation is now out in PNAS! We show that a little bit of formaldehyde can go a long way toward the oxidation of sulfur in particles by forming a hydroxy-hydroperoxide intermediate.
1/31/22 - In a new manuscript published in ACP, we demonstrate the importance of the reactive fates of peroxy radicals in governing aerosol and organonitrate formation the nighttime oxidation of alpha-pinene. Over 50 environmental chamber experiments went into this paper!
1/23/22 - If you've ever wondered why models tend to overestimate organic aerosol while underestimating formic and acetic acid mixing ratios in the Southeast US in summer, tune in to my talk this week at the American Meteorological Society conference! I'm also co-hosting a session on links between atmospheric chemistry and boundary layer dynamics.
1/3/22 - This quarter I'll be teaching my very own class for the first time -- Air Quality, to grad students in Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Davis. A little daunting but mostly an exciting new adventure!
For older news click here
1/6/22 - If you happen to be in Davis, CA, come watch me play the Emcee in the Davis Musical Theater Company's production of Cabaret! Every Fri-Sat-Sun through January 29th.
12/6/22 - A new manuscript is out for review! (And for public perusal -- thanks EGU). In this work led by Harvard grad student Laura Yang, we compare modeled and measured nitrogen dioxide profiles over Korea and discuss implications for satellite retrievals.
12/4/22 - Conference season is upon us! I'll be presenting our recent work on the role of the sulfate radical in atmospheric particle chemistry (see the announcement about the PNAS paper on 8/29/22 below) at the Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms conference in Davis and the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in Chicago.
11/29/22 - Stoked to give an informal (virtual) seminar at MIT today on our recent combined lab and modeling studies of nighttime terpene oxidation. Just wish I could be there in person!
8/29/22 - Our recent work at UC Davis exploring photo-induced sulfate radical formation in atmospheric particles has just been published in PNAS.
7/17/22 - I'm headed to beautiful Steamboat Springs, CO, for the NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellowship Summer Institute. Can't wait to see what all the current postdocs are working on!
6/5/22 - Excited to be en route to my first in-person conference in two and a half years! At the 10th International GEOS-Chem Conference, hosted by Washington University in St. Louis, I'll be presenting my ongoing work on the sources & chemistry of atmospheric ethanol.
3/29/22 - New paper alert! In this work led by Jinkyul Choi of CU Boulder, we constrain VOC emissions over Korea using inverse modeling with data from satellites and the KORUS-AQ flight campaign, and find that VOC emissions in existing inventories need to be revised upward by almost 50%.
3/19/22 - In a new paper led by recent Caltech PhD Hannah Allen, we demonstrate the utility of measured H2O2 and CH3OOH mixing ratios as tracers of remote atmospheric hydrogen oxide radical chemistry, and show that model biases related to convection events can be substantial.
2/8/22 - Some really exciting new work on the role of formaldehyde in particulate matter formation is now out in PNAS! We show that a little bit of formaldehyde can go a long way toward the oxidation of sulfur in particles by forming a hydroxy-hydroperoxide intermediate.
1/31/22 - In a new manuscript published in ACP, we demonstrate the importance of the reactive fates of peroxy radicals in governing aerosol and organonitrate formation the nighttime oxidation of alpha-pinene. Over 50 environmental chamber experiments went into this paper!
1/23/22 - If you've ever wondered why models tend to overestimate organic aerosol while underestimating formic and acetic acid mixing ratios in the Southeast US in summer, tune in to my talk this week at the American Meteorological Society conference! I'm also co-hosting a session on links between atmospheric chemistry and boundary layer dynamics.
1/3/22 - This quarter I'll be teaching my very own class for the first time -- Air Quality, to grad students in Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Davis. A little daunting but mostly an exciting new adventure!
For older news click here
© Kelvin Bates, April 2023
