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This page lists current students and postdocs in the program, sorted alphabetically within each emphasis area, followed by recent graduates. Information on publications was provided for the recent graduates. This page has not been updated recently.  Please refer to the faculty homepages for additional information

Name and Advisor Project and Support
Emphasis Area: Volcano/Atmosphere Interactions
Doctoral  
John Lyons  (Bill Rose and Gregg Bluth)

Project: Open vent Activity of Fuego Volcano, Guatemala, Ph.D.
Support: NSF GRA

McCarthey, Emily (Matt Watson)

Project: Quantification of Volcanic Water Vapor Using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
Support:NASA GRA

(Gregg Bluth)   
Project: Volcanic Clouds of Miyake-Jima, Japan (M.S. in Geology)

Patricia Nadeau (Bill Rose)

Project: Degassing and Seismicity of open vent volcanoes, Ph.D.
Support: NSF GRA

Rüdiger Escobar Wolf (Bill Rose)

Project:Hazards of Almolonga Volcanic complex, Guatemala, Ph.D.
Support: NSF GRA

Master's  
Adam Blankenbicker (Bill Rose)

Project: Activity of Santiaguito Volcano, Guatemala
Support: NSF PC fellows

Luke Bowman (Bill Rose)

Support: NSF PC fellows

Kyle Brill (Bill Rose)

Support: NSF PC fellows

Anna Colvin (Bill Rose and Matt Patrick)

Project: Remote Sensing of Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador
Support: NSF GRA

Ellen Engberg (Bill Rose)

Project: Gas emissions of Colima Volcano Mexico
Support: U.S. Dept of Education E-Hazard Award

Jemile Erdem (Bill Rose and Greg Waite)

Project: Seismicity of Fuego Volcano, Guatemala
Support: NSF PC fellow

Ingrid Fedde (Bill Rose and Gregg Bluth)

Support: NSF PC fellow

Julie Herrick (Bill Rose)

Project: Volcanic geology of Comarca region, Western Panama
Support: NSF PC fellow

Lara Kopelanczyk (Bill Rose)

Support: NSF PC fellow

Karinne Knutsen (Bill Rose and Gregg Bluth)

Project: Hazards of La Yeguada Volcano, Panama
Support: NSF PC fellow

Hans Lechner (Bill Rose)

Project: Kinematic GPS survey of Coatepeque Volcano Complex, El Salvador
Support: NSF PC fellow

York Lewis (Bill Rose and Stan Vitton)

Project: Landslide Hazards of La Palma region, El Salvador
Support: NSF PC fellow

Lisa Linville (Bill Rose)

Support: NSF PC fellow

Otoniel Matias (Bill Rose)

Project:The 1961- 2007 eruption of Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala
Support: NSF GRA

Owen Mills (Bill Rose)

Project: 3D Shape determinations of volcanic ash from stereo SEM imagery

Jesse Silverman (Bill Rose)

Project: GPS field measurements of active faults in Guatemala
Support: NSF PC fellow and EHaz fellow

   
Area of Emphasis Atmospheric Chemistry
Doctoral  
Shen-Feng Chen (Richard Honrath) 

Project: Photochemistry in aged continental outflow (Ph.D.)
Support: NSF GRA
 

Chris Owen (Richard Honrath)

Project: Meteorological and chemical controls on carbon monoxide and ozone levels at the PICO-NARE station (Ph.D., Environmental Engineering)
Support: GRA

Project: Trajectory modeling of transport to the central North Atlantic lower free troposphere (M.S., Environmental Engineering)
Support: GRA

Publications:

An analysis of the mechanisms of North American pollutant transport to the central North Atlantic lower free troposphere, R. C. Owen, O. Cooper, A. Stohl, and R. E. Honrath, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23S58, doi:10.1029/2006JD007062, 2006

Evidence of significant large-scale impacts of boreal fires on ozone levels in the midlatitude Northern Hemisphere free troposphere, K. Lapina, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, and M. Val Martin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18015, doi:10.1029/2006GL025878, 2006.

Significant enhancements of nitrogen oxides, black carbon and ozone in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere resulting from North American boreal wildfires, M. Val Martin, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, G. Pfister, P. Fialho, and F. Barata, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23S60, doi:10.1029/2006JD007530, 2006.

Ozone production from the 2004 North American boreal fires, G. G. Pfister, L. K. Emmons, P. G. Hess, R. Honrath, J.-F. Lamarque, M. Val Martin, R. C. Owen, M. A. Avery, E. V. Browell, J. S. Holloway, P. Nedelec, R. Purvis, R. B. Ryerson, G. W. Sachse, and H. Schlager, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24S07, doi:10.1029/2006JD007695

Regional and hemispheric impacts of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions on summertime CO and O3 in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, J. S. Reid, K. Lapina, P. Fialho, M. P. Dziobak, J. Kleissl, and D. L. Westphal, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D25310, doi:10.1029/2004JD005147, 2004.

The occurrence of upslope flows at the Pico mountain observatory: a case study of orographic flows on small, volcanic islands, J. Kleissl, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, and M. P. Dziobak, J. Geophys. Res., 2007.

David Tobias (Judith Perlinger)

Project: Parameterization of flux expressions for trace gases in coastal regions (Ph.D. Environmental Engineering)
Support: NSF GAANN (Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need), GRA

Publications:

Perlinger, J.A., Tobias, D.E., Zhu, B., and McDonald, C.P., Comparison of micrometeorological measurements of persistent bioaccumulative toxicant air-water exchange fluxes with two-film model estimates, Environ. Sci. Technol., in preparation.

Tobias, D.E., Doskey, P.V., and Perlinger, J.A., Performance of a thermally extractable diffusion denuder for semivolatile organic chemical atmospheric concentration measurement, Environ. Sci. Technol., in preparation.

Rowe, M.D., Tobias, D.E., and Perlinger, J.A., Prediction of collection efficiencies of gaseous and particle-associated semivolatile organic chemicals in multicapillary diffusion denuders, J. Chromatogr. A, in preparation.

Tobias, D.E., Morrow, P.S., Doskey, P.V., Perram, D.L., and Perlinger, J.A., Direct thermal desorption of semivolatile organic chemicals from diffusion denuders and gas chromatographic analysis for trace concentration measurement, J. Chromatogr. A, 1140, 1-12, 2007, doi=10.1016/j.chroma.2006.11.045.

Perlinger, J.A., Tobias, D.E., Morrow, P.S., and Doskey, P.V., Evaluation of novel techniques for measurement of air-water exchange of persistent bioaccumulative toxicants in Lake Superior, Environ. Sci. Technol., 39, 8411-8419, 2005; doi=10.1021/es050899q.

Master's  
Kateryna Lapina (R. Honrath)

Project: Large-scale impacts of forest fires on the lower free troposphere based on measurements at the PICO-NARE station (M.S. Environmental Engineering)
Support: GRA

Jessica Strane (Richard Honrath)

Project:  Clustering analysis of transport to the Pico Mountain station and the dependence of station observations upon transport pathways
Support: NSF GRA, GTA

Area of Emphasis Atmospheric Physics
Doctoral  
Amalia Anderson (Alex Kostinski)

Project: Statistical Analysis of Global Temperature Patterns (Ph. D. Physics) Support: NSF GRA

Jiang Lu (Raymond Shaw)

Project: Laboratory Studies of Particles in Turbulence Using Digital
Holography (Ph.D., Physics)
Support:  GRA

Eli  Ochshorn (Will Cantrell)

Project: Ph. D., Physics
Support:  GRA

Mark Rowe (Judith Perlinger) 

Project: Measurement and modeling of air-water exchange of semivolatile organic chemicals in the Great Lakes (Ph.D. Environmental Engineering)
Support:  Support: GRA

Publications:

Rowe, M.D., Perlinger, J.A., and Fairall, C.F., Modeling and measurement of atmospheric exchange of semivolatile organic chemicals and CO2 in the Great Lakes, in preparation.

Rowe, M.D., and Perlinger, J.A., Gas-phase cleanup method for analysis of trace atmospheric semivolatile organic compounds by thermal desorption from diffusion denuders, J. Chromatogr. A, in preparation.

Rowe, M.D., Tobias, D.E., and Perlinger, J.A., Prediction of collection efficiencies of gaseous and particle-associated semivolatile organic chemicals in multicapillary diffusion denuders, Environ. Sci. Technol., in preparation.

Rowe, M.D., Perlinger, J.A., and Urban, N.R., Modeling contaminant behavior in Lake Superior: A comparison of PCBs, PBDEs, and mercury, In State of Lake Superior, Ecovision World Monograph Series, M. Munawar (Ed.), International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, in press.

Ewe Wei Saw (Raymond Shaw)

Project: Laboratory and Field Studies of Cloud Droplet Clustering in
Turbulence Using Phase-Doppler Interferometry (Ph.D., Physics)
Support:

Project: Investigation of particle-turbulence interactions with
phase Doppler interferometry M.S.
Support: GRA support

Fugal, J. P., R. A. Shaw, E. W. Saw, and A. V. Sergeyev, 2004: Airborne digital holographic system for cloud particle measurements. Applied Optics, 43, 5987-5995.   GRA

Ashley Shackelford (Will Cantrell)

Project: Ph. D., Atmospheric Sciences.
Support:  GRA

Recent Graduates
Name and Advisor Degree, Thesis Citation & Publications
Emphasis Area: Volcano/Atmosphere Interactions
Doctoral  
Yvonne Branan (Bill Rose and Matt Watson)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation: Branan, Y. (2007) Investigating short-term variation in volcanic plume and shallow subsurface dynamics using high temporal resolution gas emission rate data

Sebastien Dartevelle (Bill Rose and Matt Watson)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation:Dartevelle, S. (2003) Numerical and Granulometric Approaches to Geophysical Granular Flows.

Dartevelle, S, W I Rose, J Stix, K Kelfoun and J W Vallance, 2004, Numerical Modeling of geophysical granular flows: 2. Computer simulations of plinian clouds and pyroclastic flows and surges, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 5 (8) ISSN; 1525-2027.

Adam Durant (Bill Rose, Raymond Shaw)

Degree title: Ph. D. Geology
Thesis citation: A.J. Durant (2007) "On Water in Volcanic Clouds"

Publications:

Rose, W I, S Self, P J Murrow, G G J Ernst C Bonadonna and A J Durant, 2007, Pyroclastic fall deposit from the October 14, 1974 eruption of Fuego Volcano, Guatemala, Bull Volcanol, in press.

Durant, A J, R A Shaw and W I Rose, 2007, Ice nucleation and overseeding of ice in volcanic clouds, J Geophys Res, in press.

Durant, Adam, Bill Rose, Crystal Mann and John Stix, 2007, Multi-university Internet video-conferencing course provides novel approach to student-directed learning, Leading Edge, in press.

Yingxin Gu (Gregg Bluth, Bill Rose)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation:Gu, Y. (2004) Atmospheric particle retrievals using satellite remote sensing: Applications for sandstorms and volcanic clouds Ph. D. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.

Gu, Y, W I Rose, D J Schneider, G J S Bluth and I M Watson, 2005, Advantageous GOES IR results for ash mapping at high latitudes: Cleveland eruptions 2001, Geophys Res Lett 32: L02305

Gu, Y., W I Rose and G J S Bluth, 2003, Retrieval of mass and sizes of particles in sandstorms using two MODIS IR bands:A case study of April 7, 2001 sandstorm in China, Geophys Res Lett, 30: 1805-9.

Song Guo
(Bill Rose and Gregg Bluth)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation:Guo S. (2003) Pinatubo's climactic 1991 eruption from a satellite perspective Ph. D. Thesis, Michigan Technological University

Guo, S, W I Rose, G J S Bluth and I M Watson, 2004, Particles in the great Pinatubo volcanic cloud of June 1991: the role of ice, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol 5, no 5 Q05003, doi: 10.1029/2003GC000655

Guo, S, GJS Bluth, W I Rose, I M Watson and A J Prata, 2004, Reevaluation of SO2 release of the climactic June 15, 1991 Pinatubo eruption using TOMS and TOVS satellite data, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 5, No. 4, Q04001 DOI 10.1029/2003GC000654

Colleen Riley (Gregg Bluth and Bill Rose)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation: Riley, C. (2002) Investigation of Volcanic Ash Fallout. Ph. D. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.


Publications:

Rose W I, C M Riley and S Dartevelle, 2003, Sizes and shapes of 10 ma distal ashfall pyroclasts in the Ogalalla Group, Nebraska, J Geology, 111:115-124.

Riley, C M, W I Rose and G J S Bluth, 2003, Quantitative shape measurements of distal volcanic ash, Jour Geophys Res 108, no B10, 2504 Riley, CM, W I Rose and GJS Bluth, Quantitative shape measurements of volcanic ash, J Geophys Rev, in review.

Riley, CM, L Mankowski, R G McGimsey, W I Rose, GGJ Ernst, G J S Bluth, D J Schneider, Origin of fallout distribution features in the August 1992 Spurr eruption deposits, Geol Soc Amer Bull, in review

Rose W I, C M Riley and S Dartevelle, 2002, Sizes and shapes of 10 ma
distal ashfall pyroclasts in the Ogalalla Group, Nebraska, J Geology, in
press.

Lizette Rodriguez (Bill Rose and Matt Watson)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation:Rodriguez, L (2007) SO2 production and fate at volcanoes in differing environments. Ph. D. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.

Rodríguez, L.A., Watson, I.M., Rose, W.I., Branan, Y.K., Bluth, G.J.S., Chigna, G., Matías, O., Escobar, D., Carn, S.A. and Fischer, T., 2004, SO2 emissions to the atmosphere from active volcanoes in Guatemala and El Salvador, 1999-2002, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 138 (3-4), pp. 345-364.

David Schneider (Bill Rose)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation: D. Schneider (2000) Satellite observations of explosive volcanic
eruptions, 99 pp.

Publications:

Schneider, D. J., W. I. Rose, L. R. Coke, G. J. S. Bluth, I. Sprod and A. J. Krueger, 1999, Early Evolution of a stratospheric volcanic eruption cloud as observed with TOMS and AVHRR, J. Geophys. Res., 104;
4037-4050.

Schneider, D. J., W. I. Rose and L. Kelley, 1995, Tracking of 1992
eruption clouds from Crater Peak of Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska, using
AVHRR, U. S. Geol. Survey Bull 2139: 27-36.

Prata, AJ, GJS Bluth, W I Rose, DJ Schneider and A Tupper, 2001,
Comments on "Failures in detecting volcanic ash from a satellite
based-technique", Remote Sensing of the Environment, 78: 341-346.

Oscar Sorenson (Bill Rose)

Degree title: Ph D in Geology
Thesis citation: Oscar Sorensen III 2003, Lahar hazard modeling at Tunguragua Volcano, Ecuador. M. S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.

Tianxu Yu (Bill Rose)

Degree title: PhD Geology
Thesis citation: Tianxu Yu (2001) Improved algorithms for volcanic cloud remote sensing, Ph D dissertation, Michigan technological University, 104 pp.

Publications:

Yu, T W I Rose and A J Prata, 2001, Atmospheric correction for satellite-based volcanic ash mapping and retrievals using "split window" IR data from GOES and AVHRR, J Geophys Res, 106: in press.

Yu, T and W I Rose, 2000, Retrieval of sulfate and silicate ash masses in young (1-4 days old) eruption clouds using multiband infrared HIRS/2 data, AGU Monograph 116 --Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism, ed by P Mouginis-Mark, J Crisp and J Fink, pp. 87-100.

Master's  
Emily Constantine (Bill Rose and Gregg Bluth)

Degree title: M.S. Geological Engineering
Thesis citation: Constantine, E. (1998) Remote sensing of the August, 1991 Cerro Hudson volcanic eruption clouds. M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 123 pp.

Publications:

Constantine, E.K., G.J.S. Bluth, and W.I. Rose, (2000) TOMS and AVHRR observations of drifting volcanic clouds from the August 1991 eruptions
of Cerro Hudson. Geophysical Monograph Series 116, Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism, American Geophysical Union, 45-64.

Schultz, D.M., K.M. Kanak, J.M. Straka, R.J. Trapp, B.A. Gordon, D.S. Zrnic, G.H. Bryan, A.J. Durant, T.J. Garrett, P. M. Klein and D. K. Lilly (2006), The Mysteries of Mammatus Clouds: Observations and Formation Mechanisms, J. Atmos. Sci., 63(10), 2409–2435.

Shaw, R.A., A.J. Durant and Y. Mi (2005), Heterogeneous surface crystallization observed in undercooled water. J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 9865-9868.

Durant, A.J., and R.A. Shaw (2005), Evaporation Freezing by Contact Nucleation Inside-Out, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L20814, doi:10.1029/2005GL024175.

A. Durant, R. Shaw and Y. Mi: Sastry (2005), Water: Ins and outs of ice nucleation, Nature, 438(7069), 746.

Demetrio Escobar (Bill Rose)

Degree title: M.S. in Geology
Thesis citation: Escobar, D. (2003) Hazards of San Miguel Volcano, El Salvador. M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.

Gari Mayberry (Bill Rose)

Degree title: M.S. in Geology
Thesis citation: Mayberry, G.C. (1999) Dynamics of the volcanic and meteorological clouds produced by the December 26, 1997 eruption of Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat, W.I. M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 69 pp.

Publications:

Mayberry, G.C., W.I. Rose and G.J.S. Bluth (2001) Dynamics of the volcanic and meteorological clouds produced by the December 26, 1997 eruption of Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat, W.I. Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, The 1995-99 eruptions of Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, ed. by T. Druitt, S. Young and P. Kokelaar, in press.

Rose, W I and G C Mayberry, 2000, Use of GOES thermal infrared imagery for eruption scale measurements, Soufrière Hills, Montserrat, Geophys Res Lett, 27: 3097-3100.

Bonadonna, C, ES Calder, C Choux, P Jackson, AM Lejeune, S Loughlin, GC Mayberry, G Norton, WI Rose, G Ryan, RSJ Sparks and SR Young, 2001,
Tephra fall in the 1995-1998 eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, The 1995-99 eruptions of Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, ed by T Druitt, S Young and P Kokelaar, in press.

Heather Shocker (Bill Rose and Gregg Bluth)

Degree title: M.S. in Geology
Thesis citation: Shocker, H. (1996) Evolution of volcanic clouds from the 1993 Lascar Chile eruption. M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 67 pp.

Publications:

Shocker, H.L., W.I. Rose, G.J.S. Bluth, A.J. Prata, and J.G. Viramonte (2001, in review) Lascar volcanic clouds of 1993: Merging of satellite-based remote sensing from TOMS, AVHRR, and ATSR during three days of atmospheric residence. Submitted to International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Area of Emphasis Atmospheric Chemistry
Doctoral  
Dr. Jan Kleissl (R. Honrath)

Interests: Atmospheric boundary layer; large eddy simulation
Prior PhD: Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Regional and hemispheric impacts of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions on summertime CO and O3 in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, J. S. Reid, K. Lapina, P. Fialho, M. P. Dziobak, J. Kleissl, and D. L. Westphal, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D25310, doi:10.1029/2004JD005147, 2004.

The occurrence of upslope flows at the Pico mountain observatory: a case study of orographic flows on small, volcanic islands, J. Kleissl, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, and M. P. Dziobak, J. Geophys. Res., 2007.

Amy Hamlin (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: Ph.D. Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: A. Hamlin (2002) A modeling study of tropospheric ozone and its precursors in winter-spring arctic outflow, 304 pp.

Publications:

Hamlin, A. J., and R. E. Honrath, A modeling study of the impact of winter-spring arctic outflow on the NOx and O3 budgets of the North Atlantic troposphere, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D16), 4305, doi:10.1029/2001JD000453, 2002.

M. C. Peterson, A. Hamlin, and M. Val Martin,
Transport of anthropogenic pollutants within the marine boundary layer of the central and northwestern North Atlantic, IGACtivities Newsletter, 24, pp. 5-6, August 2001.

A modeling study of the impact of winter-spring arctic outflow on the NOx and O3 budgets of the North Atlantic troposphere, A. J. Hamlin and R. E. Honrath, J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi: 10.1029/2001JD000453, 2002.

Matt Peterson (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: Ph.D. Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: M. C. Peterson (1999) Nitrogen oxides in the remote North Atlantic troposphere: Measurements and diagnostic modeling, 128 pp.

Publications:

M. C. Peterson and R. E. Honrath.
NOx and NOy over the northwestern North Atlantic: Measurements and measurement accuracy. J. Geophys. Res., 104:,695-11,707, 1999.


M. C. Peterson, R. E. Honrath, D. D. Parrish, and S. J. Oltmans. Measurements of nitrogen oxides and a simple model of NOy fate in the remote North Atlantic marine atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 103:,489-13,503, 1998.

P. Kasibhatla, H. Levy II, W. J. Moxim, S. N. Pandis, J. J. Corbett, M. C. Peterson, R. E. Honrath, G. J. Frost, K. Knapp, D. D. Parrish, and T. B. Ryerson.
Do emissions from ships have a significant impact on concentrations of nitrogen oxides in the marine boundary layer? Geophys. Res. Lett., 27:-2232, 2000.

M. C. Peterson, A. Hamlin, and M. Val Martin,
Transport of anthropogenic pollutants within the marine boundary layer of the central and northwestern North Atlantic, IGACtivities Newsletter, 24, pp. 5-6, August 2001.

Observations of rapid photochemical destruction of ozone in snowpack interstitial air, M. C. Peterson and R. E. Honrath, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3, 511-514, 2001.

Photostationary state deviation-estimated peroxy radicals and their implications for HOx and ozone photochemistry at a remote northern Atlantic coastal site, J. Yang, R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, D. D. Parrish, and M. Warshawsky, J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2003JD003983, 2004.

Maria Val Martin (Richard Honrath)

Degree title:Ph.D., Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: M. Val Martin (2007) Nitrogen oxides in the North Atlantic troposphere: Impacts of boreal wildfire and anthropogenic emissions, 140 pp.
M.S.: M. Val Martin (2002) Transport of ozone and nitrogen oxides from North America over the North Atlantic Ocean, 87 pp.

Publications:

Significant enhancements of nitrogen oxides, black carbon and ozone in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere resulting from North American boreal wildfires, M. Val Martin, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, G. Pfister, P. Fialho, and F. Barata, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D23S60, doi:10.1029/2006JD007530, 2006.

Evidence of significant large-scale impacts of boreal fires on ozone levels in the midlatitude Northern Hemisphere free troposphere, K. Lapina, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, and M. Val Martin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18015, doi:10.1029/2006GL025878, 2006.

Ozone production from the 2004 North American boreal fires, G. G. Pfister, L. K. Emmons, P. G. Hess, R. Honrath, J.-F. Lamarque, M. Val Martin, R. C. Owen, M. A. Avery, E. V. Browell, J. S. Holloway, P. Nedelec, R. Purvis, R. B. Ryerson, G. W. Sachse, and H. Schlager, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24S07, doi:10.1029/2006JD007695


Regional and hemispheric impacts of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions on summertime CO and O3 in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, J. S. Reid, K. Lapina, P. Fialho, M. P. Dziobak, J. Kleissl, and D. L. Westphal, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D25310, doi:10.1029/2004JD005147, 2004.

The occurrence of upslope flows at the Pico mountain observatory: a case study of orographic flows on small, volcanic islands, J. Kleissl, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, and M. P. Dziobak, J. Geophys. Res., 2007.

M. C. Peterson, A. Hamlin, and M. Val Martin, Transport of anthropogenic pollutants within the marine boundary layer of the central and northwestern North Atlantic, IGACtivities Newsletter, 24, pp. 5-6, August 2001.

Beibei Zhu (Judith Perlinger)

Degree title:Ph.D., Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: Zhu, B. (2003) Recent Air- and Water-Phase Concentrations and Fluxes for Slected PCBs and Pesticides in Lake Superior. Ph. D. Thesis, Michigan Technological University

Publications:

Perlinger, J.A., Tobias, D.E., Zhu, B., and McDonald, C.P., Comparison of micrometeorological measurements of persistent bioaccumulative toxicant air-water exchange fluxes with two-film model estimates, Environ. Sci. Technol., in preparation.

Master's  
Chris Edlin (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: M.S. Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: C. Edlin (2001) Characterization of an instrument system capable of continuous remote measurement of carbon monoxide and ozone, 65 pp.

Raman Gopalan (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: M.S. Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: R. Gopalan (2002), Report: Development of a system for remote data acquisition and control of atmospheric chemistry measurements at remote field sites

Song Guo (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: M.S. Environmental Engineering Science
Thesis citation: S. Guo (1999) Evidence for production of NOx (NOx=NO+NO2) from NO3- photolysis on the surface of artificially createda snow particles, 87 pp.

Publications:
R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, S. Guo, J. E. Dibb, P. B. Shepson, and B. Campbell. Evidence of NOx production within or upon ice particles in theGreenland snowpack. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26:-698, 1999.

R. E. Honrath, S. Guo, M. C. Peterson, M. P. Dziobak, J. E. Dibb, and M. Arsenault. Photochemical production of gas-phase NOx from sunlightirradiation of ice-crystal NO3-. J. Geophys. Res., 105:,183-24,190, 2000.

Kateryna Lapina (R. Honrath)

Project: Large-scale impacts of forest fires on the lower free troposphere based on measurements at the PICO-NARE station (M.S. Environmental Engineering)
Support: GRA

Publications:

Evidence of significant large-scale impacts of boreal fires on ozone levels in the midlatitude Northern Hemisphere free troposphere, K. Lapina, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, and M. Val Martin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18015, doi:10.1029/2006GL025878, 2006

Regional and hemispheric impacts of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions on summertime CO and O3 in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, M. Val Martin, J. S. Reid, K. Lapina, P. Fialho, M. P. Dziobak, J. Kleissl, and D. L. Westphal, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D25310, doi:10.1029/2004JD005147, 2004.

Yanyan Lu (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: M.S. Environmental Engineering Science
Thesis citation: Y. Lu (2002) The production of NOx from snowpack surfaces and calculation of the NOx vertical flux at Summit, Greenland, 95 pp.

Publications:

R. E. Honrath, Y. Lu, M. C. Peterson, J. E. Dibb, M. Arsenault, N. J. Cullen, and K. Steffen. Vertical fluxes of NOx, HONO, and HNO3 above the snowpack at Summit, Greenland. Atmos. Environ., 36:-2640, 2002.

R. Qiu, S. A. Green, R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, Y. Lu, and M. Dziobak. Measurements of J(NO3-) in snow by nitrate-based chemical actinometry. Atmos. Environ., 36:-2571, 2002.

Patrick Morrow (Judith Perlinger)

Degree title:M.S. Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: Morrow, P.S. (2003) A Diffusion Denuder for Measurement of Vapor-Phase SOC Concentrations, M.S. Thesis, Michigan Technological University.

R. Qiu (Sarah Green)

Degree title:M.S. Chemistry
Thesis citation: R. Qiu, 2000, Comparison of chemical actinometers and actinometric measurements of integrated photon flux in snow, 92 pp.

Publications:
R. Qiu, S. A. Green, R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, Y. Lu, and M. Dziobak. Measurements of J(NO3-) in snow by nitrate-based chemical actinometry. Atmos. Environ., 36:-2571, 2002.

Jie Yang (Richard Honrath)

Degree title: M.S. Environmental Engineering
Thesis citation: J. Yang (1999) Evaluation of NOx-CO-CH4-O3 chemistry at a remote northern Atlantic coastal site, 92 pp.

Publications:
J. Yang, R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, J. E. Dibb, A. L. Sumner, P. B. Shepson, M. Frey, H.-W. Jacobi, A. Swanson, and N. Blake. Impacts of snowpack emissions on deduced levels of OH and peroxy radicals at Summit, Greenland. Atmos. Environ., 36:-2534, 2002.

Photostationary state deviation-estimated peroxy radicals and their implications for HOx and ozone photochemistry at a remote northern Atlantic coastal site, J. Yang, R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, D. D. Parrish, and M. Warshawsky, J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2003JD003983, 2004.

Area of Emphasis Atmospheric Physics
Doctoral  
Larry Coke (Alex Kostinski)

Degree title: Ph.D, Physics
Thesis citation: L. Coke (1994) "A Computational Study of Time-Dependent Driven Cavity Flow"

Jacob Fugal (Raymond Shaw)

Degree title: Ph.D. Engineering Physics
Thesis citation: J. P. Fugal (2007) In-situ Measurement and Characterization of Cloud Particles with Digital In-line Holography

Fugal, J. P., R. A. Shaw, E. W. Saw, and A. V. Sergeyev, 2004: Airborne
digital holographic system for cloud particle measurements. Applied
Optics, 43, 5987-5995.

Alan Koivunen (Alex Kostinski)

Degree title: Ph.D, Physics
Thesis citation: A. Koivunen (1999) "Decorrelation Approach to Performance Improvement of a Doppler Weather Radar: Computational Studies"

Publications:
A. Koivunen and A.B. Kostinski, ``A Feasibility of Data Whitening to Improve
Performance of Weather Radar'', Journal of Applied Meteorology, vol.38, no.6, 1999, pp.741-749.

A.B. Kostinski and A. Koivunen, "On the Condition Number of Gaussian Sample
Covariance Matrices'', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Jan. 2000, vol.38, no.1, pp.329-332.

Manish Kulkarni (Alex Kostinski)

Degree title: Ph.D, Physics
Thesis citation: M. Kulkarni (1994) "Signal Processing of Random Phasors: Remote Sensing Applications"

Publications:
M. D. Kulkarni and A. B. Kostinski, ``A Simple Formula for Monitoring Quadrature
Phase Error with Arbitrary Signals'', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 33, no.3, May 1995, pp. 799-802.

B. H. Suits, A. B. Kostinski, and M. D. Kulkarni, ``Monitoring Quadrature Phase
Error and Gain Mismatch Using Noise'', J. of Magnetic Resonance, Series A, 108, pp.. 230-233, 1994.

John Kwiatkowski (Alex Kostinski))

Degree title: Ph.D, Physics
Thesis citation: J. Kwiatkowski (1995) "Applications of Polarized Waves in Radar Sensing of Precipitation"

Publications:

J. M. Kwiatkowski, A. B. Kostinski, and A. Jameson ``The Use of Optimal
Polarizations for Studying the Microphysics of Precipitation'', J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol.12, pp. 196-214, Feb. 1995.

A. B. Kostinski, J. M. Kwiatkowski, and A. Jameson, "Spaceborne Radar Sensing of Precipitation Above an Ocean Surface: Polarimetric Contrast Study", J. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, October 93.

A. B. Kostinski, C. R. Givens, and J. M. Kwiatkowski, ``Constraints on Mueller
matrices of polarization optics'', Applied Optics, vol. 32, no. 9, 20 March, 1993, pp.1646 - 1651.

Michael Larsen (Alex Kostinski)

Degree title: Ph. D. Physics 
Thesis citation: M. L. Larsen (2006) Studies of Discrete Fluctuations in Atmospheric Phenomena

A.B. Kostinski, M.L. Larsen and A. R. Jameson: ``The texture of rain: Exploring stochastic micro-structure at small scales'', Journal of Hydrology, 2006, vol. 328, pp.38-45

M. L. Larsen, A.B. Kostinski and A. Tokay, ``Observations and Analysis of Uncorrelated Rain'', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2005, vol. 62, pp. 4071-4083.

M.L. Larsen, W. Cantrell, A.B. Kostinski, J. Kannosto,  “Response from Authors to Comment on ‘Detection of Spatial Correlations Among Aerosol Particles’” Aerosol Science and Technology, 2004, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 129-130.

R.A. Shaw, A.B. Kostinski and M.L. Larsen, “Toward Quantifying Droplet Clustering in Clouds'', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,  2002, vol. 128, no. 582, pp. 1043-1057.

Master's  
Aleksand Sergeyev (Jacek Borysow, Raymond Shaw)

Degree title: M. S. Physics
Thesis citation: A. Sergeyev (2004) Generation and Characterization of Laboratory Aerosol Particles.

Mi Youshi (Raymond Shaw)

Degree title: M. S. Physics 
Thesis citation: Youshi Mi  (2004)  Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation on Volcanic Ash

Shaw, R. A., A. J. Durant, and Y. Mi, 2005: Heterogeneous surface crystallization observed in undercooled water. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 9865-9868.

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