People & Facilities
At CSD, over 120 individuals work as a team to study the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere. This includes scientists, technicians, engineers, administrative and technical support staff, students, post-doctoral researchers, and visitors from other national and international institutions. About a third of the personnel are federal employees. Most of the others are employees of the Joint Institute known as the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Sponsored jointly by the University of Colorado at Boulder and NOAA, CIRES is a research institute whose programs are aimed at understanding a variety of basic and applied problems associated with the physics and chemistry of the solid earth and its atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere. CSD also has staff associated with NOAA's Joint Institute at Colorado State University, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA).
| To identify or contact Staff, please refer to the ESRL Staff Listings. | ||
| Dr. A.R. Ravishankara is Director of CSD. Dr. James F. Meagher is Deputy Director. Assisting in the Director's Office are: | ||
| Jeanne S. Waters | Secretary | |
| Dr. Christine Ennis | Scientific and Technical Assistant | |
| The Program Leaders of CSD and their research areas are: | ||
| Dr. Daniel M. Murphy | Cloud & Aerosol Processes | |
| Dr. R. Michael Hardesty | Atmospheric Remote Sensing | |
| Dr. Michael K. Trainer | Regional Chemical Modeling | |
| Dr. David W. Fahey | Atmospheric Composition & Chemical Processes | |
| Dr. Fred C. Fehsenfeld | Tropospheric Chemical Observations | |
| Dr. Susan Solomon | Chemistry & Climate Processes | |
| Coordinating and providing administrative and technical support for CSD are: | ||
| Debra R. Wilson | Administrative Officer | |
| Joanne Mordhorst | Administrative Assistant | |
| Joan M. Brundage | Computing and Networking Resources | |
| Richard McLaughlin | Instrument Shops | |
| Debra Daily-Fisher | Graphics/Publishing/Outreach/EEO/Diversity | |
| Cathy Burgdorf | Webmaster/Field IT/Logistics | |
| NOAA Program roles by scientists at CSD: | ||
| Dr. A.R. Ravishankara | Lead, Understanding Climate Processes capability, Climate Research and Modeling Program, NOAA's Climate Goal | |
| Dr. James F. Meagher | Program Manager, Air Quality Program, NOAA's Weather & Water Goal | |
Home: Boulder, Colorado. Latitude 39.99°N, Longitude 105.26°W, Elevation 1700m. All groups of CSD are located on the Broadway Campus of the Department of Commerce (DoC) Laboratories. The staff and their laboratories and offices are in the north block of the David Skaggs Research Center on this site. Included are airborne instrument development and testing labs, photochemical reaction labs, optical techniques labs, radar instrumentation labs, and computer workstations used in modeling of the chemistry of the atmosphere.
Other Facilities: Scientific observations of CSD go far beyond the home site and, in fact, have at times extended from "pole to pole" on the Earth. Other facilities, namely the research aircraft, enable CSD scientists to carry their instrumentation into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. These aircraft include the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center WP3-D and the NASA WB-57. Field missions have taken CSD scientists to Antarctica, Greenland, Nova Scotia, and numerous other places - literally "to the ends of the Earth and points in between."
Clockwise from top: chartered DC-3 aircraft; NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown; NOAA Aircraft Operations Center WP-3D aircraft; NASA WB-57 high altitude research aircraft