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Steven B. Brooks, Ph.D.

Atmospheric Scientist,
Air Surface Exchange & Mercury Air Pollution

Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
456 S. Illinois Ave.; P.O. Box 2456
Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Office: (865) 576-9148
Fax: (865) 576-1327

Email: Steve.Brooks@noaa.gov


Educational Background

1995 - Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
1992 - M.S. in Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1987 - B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD


Certifications and Licenses

2000 - Wilderness First Responder
1982 - Private Pilot, FAA


Research Interest

Polar air pollution/ chemistry
Measurements of air-surface exchange
Instrumentation development


Selected Publications

Book Chapters

Brooks, S., S. Lindberg, J. Pacyna, J. Christensen, A. Gusev, K. Puckett, O. Travnikov, S. Wilson, V. Gordeev, R. Macdonald and S. Marcy. Chapter 3: Transport Pathways and Processes Leading to Environmental Exposure. In AMAP Heavy Metal Assessment 2003, Editor: Suzanne Marcy.

Journal Articles

Brooks, S. B., and M. J. Lewis, 1993: Nitric oxide emissions from the high-temperature viscous boundary layers of hypersonic aircraft within the stratosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research 98(D9): 16,755-16, 760.

Brooks, S. B. and A. Tozeren, 1997: Flow past an array of cells that are adherent to the bottom plate of a channel. Computers and Fluids 25(B): 741-757.

Brooks, S. B., T. L. Crawford, and W. Oechel, 1997: Measurement of carbon dioxide emission plumes from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska oil fields. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 27:197-207.

Brooks, S. B., E. J. Dumas and J. Verfaillie 2001. Development of the Sky Arrow Surface/Atmosphere Flux Aircraft for Global Ecosystem Research, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA 2001-0544, International Aerospace Abstracts, August 2001.

Brooks, S. B. and S. Hastings, 2001. Airborne springtime IOP measurements of radiative exchange and albedos in the Barrow, Alaska region and comparisons to growing season results. Journal of Geophysical Research 106(D14) 15357 - 15361.

Lindberg, S.E., S.B. Brooks, C-J Lin, K. Scott, T. Meyers, L. Chambers, M. Landis, and R. Stevens, 2002: Formation of reactive gaseous mercury in the arctic: evidence of oxidation of Hgo to gas-phase Hg-II compounds after arctic sunrise. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus, 1: 295-302.

Lindberg, S.E., S. Brooks, C-J Lin, K. Scott, M.S. Landis, R.K. Stevens, M. Goodsite, A. Richter, 2002: Dynamic Oxidation of Gaseous Mercury in the Arctic Troposphere at Polar Sunrise. Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 36, No. 6, pp. 1245 - 1256.

Lindberg, S. E., and S. Brooks 2002: Comments on “Atmospheric mercury specis in the European Arctic: measurements and modeling” by Berg et al. Atmospheric Environment 14 (2001) 2569-2582.

Oechel W. C., G. L. Vourlitis, S. B. Brooks, T. L. Crawford and E. J. Dumas 1998: Intercomparison between chamber, tower, and aircraft net CO2 exchange and energy fluxes measured during the Arctic system sciences land-atmosphere-ice interaction (ARCSS-LAII) flux study. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 28993-29003

Oechel, W. C., G. L. Vourlitis, J. Verfaillie, T. Crawford, S. Brooks, E. Dumas, A. Hope, D. Stow, B. Boynton, V. Nosov, and R. Zulueta, 2000: A scaling approach for quantifying the net CO2 flux of the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska. Global Change Biology 6 (Suppl. 1), 160-173.

Formal Reports (Peer-Reviewed)

Brooks, S. B., T. L. Crawford, R. T. McMillen, and E. Dumas, 1996: Airborne measurements of mass, momentum, and energy fluxes; Arctic landscape flux survey (ALFS) - 1994, 1995. NOAA Technical Memorandum ARL/ATDD-216.

Vourlitis, G., W. C. Oechel, S. B. Brooks, T. L. Crawford, E. J. Dumas et al. 1996. CO2 flux from arctic tundra measured at three scales by chamber, eddy correlation tower, and aircraft techniques: extrapolation to a watershed scale. Annals of Geophysics XX.

Brooks, S. B., T. P. Meyers, and S. E. Lindberg, 1999: Atmospheric mercury cycling at Barrow, Alaska. Proceedings of the AMAP meeting on Arctic Contaminants: Sources and Transport. Bergen, Norway, June 1999, Annex pp. 1-4.

Dumas, E. J., S. B. Brooks, and J. Verfaillie, 2001: Development and testing of a Sky Arrow 650 ERA aircraft for atmospheric research. Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation meeting, as part of the American Meteorological Society’s 81st Annual Meeting, January 14-19, 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Lindberg, S.E., S. Brooks, C-J Lin, K. Scott, T. Meyers, L. Chambers, M. Landis, and R. Stevens, 2000: Formation of reactive gaseous mercury in the Arctic: Evidence of oxidation of Hg0 to gas-phase Hg-II compounds after arctic sunrise. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Air-Surface Exchange of Gases and Particles, July 3 - 7, 2000, Edinburgh, England 9 pp.

Lindberg, S.E., S. Brooks, C-J Lin, K. Scott, A. Richter, T. Meyers, R. Stevens, and M. Landis. BAMS-2000: Studies of interactions between reactive gaseous mercury and elemental mercury vapor during polar spring at Point Barrow, Alaska. Proceedings of the US EPA/AWMA International Symposium on the Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, September 12 - 14, 2000, Durham, North Carolina 7 pp.

Lindberg, S. E., S. B. Brooks, C-J. Lin, and K. Scott. 2001. Recent research on missing sources and sinks in the global mercury cycle: the role of the Arctic. Proc. NIMD Forum-01, publ. by the National Institute of Minamata Disease Press, pp. 53-58.

Skov, H. C. Christensen, P. Wåhlin, M. Goodsite, M. Larsen, S. Brooks, G. Asmund, S. Nielsen, M. Sejr, S. Rysgaard, N. Rigaard-Petersen, T. Nielsen, R. Dietz, F. Riget, M. Olsen, C. Sonne, E. Born, F. Granjean, M. Kirkegaad, G. Asmund, H. Baagøe, D. Boertman, K. Falk, J. Fjeldsaa, C. Egevang, F. Wille, and S. Møller (2004) Fate of mercury in the Arctic (FOMA). National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark 38p.

Skov, H., S. Brooks, C. Christensen, M. Goodsite, M. Jensen, M. Larsen, K. Christiansen, J.Hansen, B. Daugaard, and C. Lohse. (2004) Fate of Mercury in the Arctic: Sub-project Atmosphere. Report of the National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark.

 
 
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