Laboratory for Atmospheric Research

Faculty

LAR Faculty & Staff:

  • Serena Chung (Assistant Research Professor) - air quality modeling, secondary aerosol modeling, aerosol radiative forcing, aerosol-climate interactions

  • Candis Claiborn (Dean and Professor, College of Engineering and Architecture) - sampling and characterization of atmospheric aerosols, receptor modeling, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, airborne particulate matter

  • Alex Guenther (Adjunct Full Professor) - phytogeography and biogeochemistry, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, developing and applying trace gas and aerosol flux measurement techniques

  • Tom Jobson (Associate Professor) - trace organic gases in the atmosphere, trace gas instrumentation, tropospheric photochemistry, biogeochemical cycling, global climate change

  • Brian Lamb (Regents Professor) - regional grid modeling of photochemical air quality and wind-blown dust, application of atmospheric tracer techniques, biogenic emissions, 3D turbulence modeling, greenhouse gas emissions

  • Fok-Yan Leung (Assistant Research Professor) - transport and chemistry of boreal forest fire emissions using global chemical transport models (GEOS-CHEM) and satellite data (MISR)

  • George Mount (Professor) - radiative transfer, molecular physics, trace gas measurements in troposphere and stratosphere, atmospheric spectroscopy and instrumentation, remote sensing of the atmosphere using spectroscopic techniques

  • Shelley Pressley (Assistant Research Professor) - trace gas measurements, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, eddy covariance flux measurements, biogenic hydrocarbon emissions and modeling

  • Hal Westberg (Professor Emeritus) - measurement of trace organic species in the atmosphere, mechanism of atmospheric oxidation reactions, greenhouse gas emissions

  • Tim VanReken (Assistant Professor) - biogenic secondary organic aerosol formation, aerosol/cloud interactions, instrument development, ice nucleation theory

  • Joe Vaughan (Assistant Research Professor) - development of air quality modeling systems, and air quality forecast verification

Research/Technical Support Staff:

  • Eugene Allwine - hydrocarbon and SF6 tracer analytical and sampling instrumentation and field operations

  • Lee Bamesberger (Emeritus) - analytical instrumentation, computer operations

  • Jennifer Hinds - web design and support

Civil & Environmental Engineering, PO Box 642910, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164-2910, 509-335-2576