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Loretta J. Mickley
- Senior Research Fellow, Atmospheric Chemistry
Contact Information
| Office: | Pierce 109A |
| Email: | mickley [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu |
| Office Phone: | (617) 496-5635 |
| Office Fax: | (617) 495-4551 |
Education
- B.A. with honors, English, Marlboro College, Vermont, 1979
- Ph.D., Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 1996
- M.S., Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990
Research Interests
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- Energy & Environmental Systems
- Atmospheric and Climate Modeling
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- Pollution Monitoring
Positions & Employment
Senior research fellow, 2011-present
Research associate, 1999-2011
Postdoctoral fellow, 1996-1999
Other Experience
Convener, Interactions between tropospheric chemistry and climate, AGU, December 2010.
Member, Board on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, American Meteorological Society, 2010-
Author, Chapter on chemistry-climate issues for Integrated Science Assessment of ozone, EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment, 2010-
Reviewer, Projections Based on Emissions Scenarios for Long-Lived and Short-Lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols, U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.2, 2007.
Guest contributor to realclimate.org, 2005.
Contributing author, Atmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases, in the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2001
Honors
Science Scholars Fellowship, Bunting Institute (now Radcliffe Institute), 1998-1999
Participant in ACCESS IV (Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists), Boston College, 1997
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1996-1998
Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1990-1992
Special Merit Award for Teaching Freshman Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989
University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988-1989
Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987-1988
CEMM Industrial Scholar Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986, 1988
Selected Publications
Mickley, L.J., E.M. Leibensperger, D.J. Jacob, and D. Rind, Regional warming from aerosol removal over the United States: Results from a transient 2010-2050 climate simulation, Atmos. Env., 46, 545-553, 2012.
Hickman, J.E., S. Wu, L.J. Mickley, and M.T. Lerdau, Kudzu (Pueraria montana) invasion doubles emissions of nitric oxide and increases ozone pollution, Proceeding Nat. Acad. Sci., 107,, (22) 10115-1-119, 2010.
Weaver, C.P., et al. including D.J. Jacob, L.J. Mickley, and S. Wu, A preliminary synthesis of modeled climate change impacts on US regional ozone concentrations, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 1843-1863, Dec. 2009.
Spracklen, D. V., L. J. Mickley, J. A. Logan. R. C. Hudman, R. Yevich, M. D. Flannigan, and A. L. Westerling, Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD010966, 2009.
Pye, H. O. T., J. H. Seinfeld, H. Liao, S. Wu, L. J. Mickley, D. J. Jacob and D. K. Henze, Effect of changes in climate and emissions on future sulfate-nitrate-ammonium aerosol levels in the United States, J. Geophys. Res. 114, D01205, 2009.
Nolte, C.G., A.B. Gilliland, C. Hogrefe, and L.J. Mickley, Linking global to regional models to assess future climate impacts on surface ozone levels in the United States, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D14307, doi:10.1029/2007JD008497, 2008.
Mickley, L.J., A Future short of breath: Possible effects of climate change on smog, Environment 49, 34-43, 2007.
Liao, H., D. K. Henze, J. H. Seinfeld, S. Wu, and L. J. Mickley, Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol over the United States: Comparison of Climatological Simulations with Observations, J. Geophys. Res. 112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007813, 2007.
Spracklen, D.V, J.A. Logan, L.J. Mickley, R.J. Park, R. Yevich, A.L. Westerling, and D.A. Jaffe, Wildfires drive interannual variability of organic carbon aerosol in the western U.S. in summer, Geophys. Res. Let. 34, L16816, doi:10.0129/GL030037, 2007.
Gauss, M., G. Myhre, I. S. A. Isaksen, W. J. Collins, F. J. Dentener, K. Ellingsen, L. K. Gohar, V. Grewe, D. A. Hauglustaine, D. Iachetti, J.-F. Lamarque, E. Mancini, L. J. Mickley, G. Pitari, M. J. Prather, J. A. Pyle, M. G. Sanderson, K. P. Shine, D. S. Stevenson, K. Sudo, S. Szopa, O. Wild, and G. Zeng, Radiative forcing since preindustrial times due to ozone change in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere, Atmos. Chemistry & Physics, 6, 575-599, 2006.
