Short
Bio
I
teach physics and study the Earth's atmosphere at the New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT). The Physics
Department at NMT has been my home since 1994. We have a robust
and challenging program with about 80 undergraduate students and
30 graduate students working on research topics in primarily
astrophysics or atmospheric/planetary physics. I've taught
courses across the physics curriculum at NMT, from introductory
classes in climate and sustainability to graduate-level quantum
mechanics.
My
research activities include ground-based and balloon measurements
of atmospheric composition, retrievals of atmospheric properties
from satellite observations, analysis of global atmospheric
measurements from space, and computer modeling of atmospheric
phenomena. This work touches on research topics in climate,
stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, photochemistry, the
thermosphere and space weather.
|