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Paul Voss, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Paul Voss is a mechanical engineer and atmospheric scientist with interests in pollution transport, climate, and miniature flight vehicles. He has developed unique meteorological balloons that can be flown for thousands of miles as they measure pollutants, temperature structure, and winds. Voss and his students have participated in major atmospheric research campaigns in New England, Houston, Mexico, and the Arctic. (www.science.smith.edu/cmet)
 Currently, he is building a state-of-the-art atmospheric research station at Smith College. This site will be part of the regional AIRMAP network that provides real-time air pollution data to scientists and the public. (www.airmap.unh.edu)
Prior to joining the Smith faculty, Voss was a research assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Funded by a grant from the NSF Physical Meteorology Program, he developed novel altitude-controlled scientific balloons and supervised more than 15 undergraduate research projects.
Voss graduated in 1990 from Brown University with a B.S. in engineering and a B.A. in visual arts. On a year-long fellowship in Italy, he studied ancient Rome's aqueducts and water distribution system. Motivated by the dramatic changes in the landscape that have occurred since antiquity, Voss decided to apply his knowledge of engineering and design to the study of the environment. Returning to the United States, he enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University where he developed field and laboratory experiments to study the effects of carbon dioxide on forest regeneration under a NASA Global Change Fellowship. His graduate research evolved to develop instruments for NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft and modeling stratospheric chlorine chemistry.
Voss and his wife, Susan, also a member of the Picker faculty, live in Northampton with their two children and dog. He enjoys biking, snow and bungee boarding, and adventures with his family.
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