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FACULTY AND STAFF

PAUL VOSS, PH.D.

Associate Professor of Engineering

Area of Expertise

Air pollution transport, autonomous flight vehicles
   

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University (Earth and Planetary Sciences), 2000
   

Professional Experience

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
   

Selected Recent Publications

Apel, E. C., Emmons, L. K., Karl, T., Flocke, F., Hills, A. J., Madronich, S., Lee-Taylor, J., Fried, A., Weibring, P., Walega, J., Richter, D., Tie, X., Mauldin, L., Campos, T., Weinheimer, A., Knapp, D., Sive, B., Kleinman, L., Springston, S., Zaveri, R., Ortega, J., Voss, P., Blake, D., Baker, A., Warneke, C., Welsh-Bon, D., deGouw, J., Zheng, J., Zhang, R., Rudolph, J., Junkermann, W., and Riemer, D. D.: Chemical evolution of volatile organic compounds in the outflow of the Mexico City Metropolitan area, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 2353-2375, 2010

Subramanian, R., Kok, G. L., Baumgardner, D., Clarke, A., Shinozuka, Y., Campos, T. L., Heizer, C. G., Stephens, B. B., de Foy, B., Voss, P. B., and Zaveri, R. A.: Black carbon over Mexico: the effect of atmospheric transport on mixing state, mass absorption cross-section, and BC/CO ratios, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 219-237, 2010

Riddle, E.E, P.B. Voss, A Stohl. D. Holcomb, D. Maczka, K. Washburn, and R.W. Talbot, Trajectory model validation during ICARTT-2004 using newly developed altitude-controlled balloons, J. Geophys. Res., 111, 2006

Voss, P.B., E.E. Riddle, and M.S. Smith, Altitude Control of Planetary Balloons, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal of Aircraft, 43 (2), 478-482, 2005

   

Research Grants

2010-2011 Arctic Transport Study and CMET Balloon Flights
2005 - 2008 NOAA Targeted Winds Program and the AIRMAP Program at the University of New Hampshire, Durham Development of a long-term atmospheric research station in Western Massachusetts
2005 - 2007 NSF Atmospheric Chemistry Program Evolution of meteorology and ozone in the Mexico City pollution outflow
2005 - 2007 NSF Atmospheric Chemistry Program Evolution of meteorology and ozone in the Mexico City pollution outflow
2002 - 2005 NSF Physical Meteorology Program Lagrangian balloon for atmospheric research

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