Bio
I grew up in Larchmont, and Brooklyn NY. My parents were urban
planners who both had an interest in science, and I always pictured
myself becoming a scientist, but wanted to do something useful. I
got the idea to try atmospheric science from reading a great 1986 New
Yorker magazine article about the discovery of the Antarctic Ozone
Hole. I went college at Yale, and got my Ph.D in Meteorology working
with Prof. Richard Lindzen at MIT. I was mostly doing climate work by
then, but wound up post-doc'ing in Jim Anderson's group at
Harvard. Anderson had made some of the key observations that proved
that human made chlorofluorocarbons were responsible for the Ozone
Hole. I worked on stratospheric water vapor there, a topic at the
intersection of climate dynamics and stratospheric chemistry. Since
2002, I've been here in the department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Science at the University of Maryland.
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