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Margaret Tolbert Research Group
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Analytical, Environmental, and Atmospheric Chemistry Division)
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
(CIRES)
CU Distinguished Professor, 2010
Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, 2009
Hazel Barnes Prize, 2007
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005
National Academy of Sciences Member, 2004
NASA Group Achievement Award, Crystal-Face Science Team, 2003
NASA Group Achievement Award, SOLVE Experiment, 2001
BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, 2001
Curriculum Vitae [ PDF ]
Office: CIRES 166
Tel: 303.492.3179
Email: tolbert@colorado.edu
We are a research group in the department of Chemistry and CIRES at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Our research is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the Earth's complex atmosphere. Specifically, work in our group specializes in understanding atmospheric heterogeneous chemistry. For example, the importance of heterogeneous chemistry in catalyzing stratospheric ozone loss has been firmly established. In the case of the ozone hole, reactions on polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are responsible for repartitioning chlorine reservoir species into photochemically active species capable of catalytically destroying ozone. However, significant questions still remain as to the composition, phase, nucleation mechanisms, and surface chemistry of PSCs. Traditionally, work in our group has been aimed at answering these questions.
Today, the research in our group has expanded in an attempt to answer similar questions about cirrus clouds and other particulate matter that exist in the troposphere. Currently, our research explores the chemistry of tropospheric aerosols, and the impact of such aerosols on climate and visibility. Finally, we are also probing aerosols in other planetary atmospheres and studying the possible role of aerosols on early Earth as life was developing. Research in our group is funded primarily through NASA and NSF. |
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In the News
Y. Heidi Yoon joins the group as a CIRES Visiting Fellow
Heidi Yoon is working in Margaret Tolbert’s group characterizing the optical properties of the aerosol particles in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. She will use spectroscopy to study how laboratory analogs of the particles absorb and scatter different wavelengths of light. [ source: News & Events]
Margaret Tolbert Named CU Distinguished Professor
The University of Colorado Board of Regents awarded Margaret Tolbert, Ph.D., a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), and two other CU professors the university’s highest faculty honor, designation as Distinguished Professor, Friday, Sept., 17, 2010. Distinguished Professors are CU faculty members who are leaders in their fields and are recognized for their outstanding contributions in teaching, research and distinguished scholarship or creative work. To date, 56 professors across the CU system hold the title. [ source: News & Events ]
Christa Hasenkopf Wins Fulbright to Mongolia
Christa Hasenkopf has received a 2010-11 Fulbright Grant to Mongolia. The 10 month grant will be used by Christa, in collaboration with the Mongolia University of Science and Technology, the National University of Mongolia, and the University of Colorado, to study aerosol pollution in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. [ source: News & Events ]
Margaret Tolbert Wins Prestigious ACS Award
CIRES Fellow Margaret Tolbert is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award recognizes "creativity in research and technology or methods of analysis to provide a scientific basis for informed environmental control decision-making processes, or to provide practical technologies that will reduce health risk factors."
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