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Sonia Kreidenweis

Sonia Maria Kreidenweis is an American Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University. Her research considers aerosols and their impact on weather and the climate. She has previously served as President of the American Association for Aerosol Research and was a board member of the American Meteorological Society. She was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019.

Sonia Maria Kreidenweis
Other namesSonia Maria Kreidenweis-Dandy
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
Manhattan College
Scientific career
InstitutionsColorado State University
San Jose State University
ThesisExperimental and theoretical studies of binary nucleation and condensation (1989)
Doctoral advisorJohn H. Seinfeld

Early life and education edit

Kreidenweis grew up in New York City.[1] As a child she was aware of air pollution, and became interested in investigating smog. She studied chemical engineering at Manhattan College in 1983.[2] She was the first in her family to complete a Bachelor's degree.[1] During her undergraduate degree she decided she would pursue studying, and chose to for academics who were becoming increasingly interested in air quality and environmental issues.[1] She moved to California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, earning a Master's degree in 1985 and a doctorate in 1989.[1] She was supervised by John H. Seinfeld and worked on binary nucleation.

Research and career edit

After earning her PhD, Kreidenweis was appointed to San Jose State University as an Assistant Professor.[3] She worked simultaneously as a consultant for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she advised on chemical interactions in the atmosphere. Kreidenweis joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 1991.[3] She spent 1999 as a visiting fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center and remains affiliated with the Airborne Science Program.[3][4] Her research considers the physical, chemical and optical properties of atmospheric particles.[5] She has investigated the interactions of atmospheric aerosol on climate and visibility, as well as how aerosols interact with water vapour. She has developed several new scientific approaches to study aerosols and atmospheric particulates. She has created the methodologies to evaluate the consequences of pollution on precipitation, leading to a better understanding of the impact of aerosols on cloud formation and evolution.[6][7] Her work has focussed on air pollution in US National Parks.

In 2015 Kreidenweis was awarded a $7.5 million United States Naval Research Laboratory grant to characterise aerosol particles in coastal regions.[8] She has investigated cloud condensation nuclei and their representation in climate models.[9] In this capacity, she is a member of the National Science Foundation program Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN).[10] The program looks to understand the chemistry in western wildfire smoke, which has significant impacts on air quality, climate, weather and nutrient cycles.[11] Kreidenweis leads the cloud condensation nuclei counter.[12]

Kreidenweis is interested in the characteristics of atmospheric particles that are responsible for compromised visibility, and has extensively studied the impacts of wildfires. She has investigated how breathable particles grow and form new particles during wild fires, performing open burns of biomass at the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab.[13]

She was made a University Distinguished Professor in 2014.[6] In 2015 she served as Dean for Research at the Colorado State University College of Engineering.[5][14] She serves on the Membership Committee of the American Meteorological Society.[15]

Awards and honours edit

Her awards and honours include;

Selected publications edit

Her publications include;

  • Kreidenweis, Sonia M. (2007-04-18). "A single parameter representation of hygroscopic growth and cloud condensation nucleus activity" (PDF). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 7 (8): 1961–1971. Bibcode:2007ACP.....7.1961P. doi:10.5194/acp-7-1961-2007.
  • Kreidenweis, Sonia M. (2003). "African dust aerosols as atmospheric ice nuclei". Geophysical Research Letters. 30 (14): 1732. Bibcode:2003GeoRL..30.1732D. doi:10.1029/2003GL017410. hdl:2060/20040034050.
  • Kreidenweis, Sonia M. (2010). "Predicting global atmospheric ice nuclei distributions and their impacts on climate". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (25): 11217–11222. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10711217D. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910818107. PMC 2895116. PMID 20534566.

Kreidenweis is Associate Editor of the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Dr. Sonia Kreidenweis, retrieved 2019-08-20
  2. ^ "Class of 1983 Donors | Honor Roll of Donors | Manhattan College | Riverdale, NY". manhattan.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Sonia M. Kreidenweis – University Distinguished Professor – Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University". Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  4. ^ "Sonia M. Kreidenweis | NASA Airborne Science Program". airbornescience.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  5. ^ a b Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and; Sciences, Division on Engineering and Physical; Board, Space Studies; Space, Committee on the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from (2019-01-20). Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space. National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309467575.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b "Outstanding faculty recognized at Celebrate! Colorado State Awards". CSU Ventures. 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  7. ^ "ASR Projects". asr.science.energy.gov. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  8. ^ "Office of Naval Research awards Colorado State University $7.5 million for aerosol research | Metro Denver". www.metrodenver.org. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  9. ^ Sonia Kreidenweis - Cloud microphysics and parameterizing cloud condensation nuclei, retrieved 2019-08-20
  10. ^ "WE-CAN Science Team | Earth Observing Laboratory". www.eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  11. ^ "Quick Questions for WE-CAN PIs | Earth Observing Laboratory". www.eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  12. ^ "WE-CAN Instrument Teams | Earth Observing Laboratory". www.eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  13. ^ Kreidenweis, Sonia (2017-12-18). "New grants bolster CSU expertise in wildfire smoke impacts". Eureka Alert. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  14. ^ "Council of Research Associate Deans". Vice President for Research. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  15. ^ "Membership Committee". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  16. ^ Anonymous (2006-09-19). "2005 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 87 (38): 388. Bibcode:2006EOSTr..87..388.. doi:10.1029/2006EO380005.
  17. ^ "College Award Recipients". Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  18. ^ "2015 Announcements – Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University". Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  19. ^ "Recognizing 2015 Reviewers for the American Geophysical Union". Eos. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  20. ^ "2018 Announcements – Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University". Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  21. ^ "2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced". Eos. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
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