Current Group Members
Niki Jacobs, Ph.D. Candidate:
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Niki started in Fall 2015 and is working on climate gases (methane and carbon dioxide) in the Arctic / Boreal region. She wrote and received an Alaska Space Grant Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year and analyzed historic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) data from Poker Flat, Alaska. She is continuing this work for her Ph.D. project. |
Kristian (KC) Nattinger, M.S. Candidate:
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KC started in Summer 2014 and is working on Air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska. Specifically, he is looking at the composition of fine aerosol particles (PM2.5) to improve our understanding of their sources. KC will orally defend his thesis in late April and will finish off the edits in the summer. |
Will Swanson, Ph.D. Candidate:
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Will Swanson entered the Ph.D. program in Fall 2015 and will be continuing the O-Buoy project work. |
Bill Simpson, Principal Investigator:
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Bill is working with students on the projects in the lab. Current interests are basic chemical processes in the Arctic, how they differ from lower-latitude atmospheric chemistry, and how they may change as the Arctic undergoes climate change. Bill’s CV is here. |
Recent graduates:
Justine Burd, M.S. Candidate: GRADUATE!
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Justine started in Summer 2014 and is working on the seasonal cycle of halogens in the Arctic as observed by our O-Buoys. Her work will focus on multi-year seasonal cycles to understand both average behavior, variability, and possibly trends in the seasonal cycle as the sea ice changes. She defended her thesis in March 2016 and completed in the Spring 2016 semester. Way to go Justine! |
Peter Peterson, Ph.D. Candidate: GRADUATE!
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Peter is working on analysis of field data from Barrow and drifting O-Buoys that measure halogen gases in the Arctic by MAXDOAS spectroscopy. Peter has deployed multiple O-Buoys and has also worked on our laboratory studies project examining microstructure of ice surfaces. Peter’s CV can be found here |
Students/Postdocs finishing projects
Deanna Donohoue, Postdoctoral associate: Deanna has worked with the O-Buoy data and also ARCTAS field data from the International Polar Year and is completing publications of this work. She is currently an assistant professor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. — Congrats to Deanna on her tenure-track position.
Recent Group Graduates
| Person | Position at UAF | Post UAF Job |
| Erin Gleason | M.S. Environmental Chemistry | AECOM Air Quality |
| Eyal Saiet | B.S. Chemistry | UAF Unmanned Aircraft Center |
| Simeon Schum | B.S. Chemistry | Michigan Tech PhD |
| Patrick Joyce | M.S. Environmental Chemistry | Environmental Consulting |
| Deanna Donohoue | Postdoctoral Scholar | UEA / Lawrence University |
| Dea Huff | Ph.D. Environmental Chemistry | Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation |
| Dan Carlson | M.S. Environmental Chemistry | Medical School / Doctor |
| Randy Apodaca | Ph.D. Environmental Chemistry | U.C.Berkeley Postdoc / Picarro / Healthcare |
| Laura Alvarez-Aviles (Krnavek) | Ph.D. Environmental Chemistry | EPA / Consulting |
| Andrew Paluch | Summer Undergraduate Researcher | Graduate School at Notre Dame and now Assistant Professor at Miami University of Ohio |
| Gavin Phillips | Postdoctoral Scholar | Hydrology Center UK |
| Zachary Plovanic | Summer Undergraduate Researcher | Computer Science grad school |
| James Ayers | Postdoctoral Scholar | Colorado Mesa University |
| Andy Elsberg | B.S. Chemistry | Medical School / Doctor |
| Mark Angerhofer | M.S. Chemistry | Colorado DEC |