Steven Brown

  • Professor Adjoint
  • Researcher, NOAA
  • CHEMISTRY
  • NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA)
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Address

Office: Cristol 153
Lab: NOAA

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1989

Areas of Expertise

Aircraft and ground-based field studies with a focus on nitrogen oxides, heterogeneous chemistry, and regional air quality. Laboratory studies in support of field observation interpretation, spectroscopy, and spectroscopic instrument development.

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, 2023
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2022
  • Colorado Governor’s Award for High Impact Research, 2022
  • Boulder County Healthy Community Award, 2022
  • NOAA Bronze Medal Award (Highest level granted by the Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmospheres), 2020, 2018
  • NOAA Office of Atmospheric Research, Best Scientific Paper Award, 2017
  • Harold I. Schiff Lecture, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 2015
  • Colorado Governor’s Award for High Impact Research, 2014
  • McElvain Lecture, University of Wisconsin, 2013
  • CIRES Outstanding Performance Award, University of Colorado, 2003
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2002

For more information about Professor Brown's research, please visit his Research page  

  • Bourgeois, I., J. Peischl, J.A. Neuman, S.S. Brown, C.R. Thompson, K.C. Aikin, H.M. Allen, H. Angot, E.C. Apel, C.B. Baublitz, J.F. Brewer, P. Campuzano-Jost, R. Commane, J.D. Crounse, B.C. Daube, J.P. DiGangi, G.S. Diskin, L.K. Emmons, A.M. Fiore, G.I. Gkatzelis, A. Hills, R.S. Hornbrook, L.G. Huey, J.L. Jimenez, M. Kim, F. Lacey, K. McKain, L.T. Murray, B.A. Nault, D.D. Parrish, E. Ray, C. Sweeney, D. Tanner, S.C. Wofsy, and T.B. Ryerson, Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021. 118(52): p. e2109628118. 
  • Veres, P.R., J.A. Neuman, T.H. Bertram, E. Assaf, G.M. Wolfe, C.J. Williamson, B. Weinzierl, S. Tilmes, C.R. Thompson, A.B. Thames, J.C. Schroder, A. Saiz-Lopez, A.W. Rollins, J.M. Roberts, D. Price, J. Peischl, B.A. Nault, K.H. Møller, D.O. Miller, S. Meinardi, Q. Li, J.-F. Lamarque, A. Kupc, H.G. Kjaergaard, D. Kinnison, J.L. Jimenez, C.M. Jernigan, R.S. Hornbrook, A. Hills, M. Dollner, D.A. Day, C.A. Cuevas, P. Campuzano-Jost, J. Burkholder, T.P. Bui, W.H. Brune, S.S. Brown, C.A. Brock, I. Bourgeois, D.R. Blake, E.C. Apel, and T.B. Ryerson, Global airborne sampling reveals a previously unobserved dimethyl sulfide oxidation mechanism in the marine atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. 117(9): p. 4505. 
  • Ng, N.L., S.S. Brown, A.T. Archibald, E. Atlas, R.C. Cohen, J.N. Crowley, D.A. Day, N.M. Donahue, J.L. Fry, H. Fuchs, R.J. Griffin, M.I. Guzman, H. Herrmann, A. Hodzic, Y. Iinuma, J.L. Jimenez, A. Kiendler-Scharr, B.H. Lee, D.J. Luecken, J. Mao, R. McLaren, A. Mutzel, H.D. Osthoff, B. Ouyang, B. Picquet-Varrault, U. Platt, H.O.T. Pye, Y. Rudich, R.H. Schwantes, M. Shiraiwa, J. Stutz, J.A. Thornton, A. Tilgner, B.J. Williams, and R.A. Zaveri, Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms, and organic aerosol. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2017. 17(3): p. 2103-2162. 
  • Washenfelder, R.A., A.R. Attwood, C.A. Brock, H. Guo, L. Xu, R.J. Weber, N.L. Ng, H.M. Allen, B.R. Ayres, K. Baumann, R.C. Cohen, D.C. Draper, K.C. Duffey, E. Edgerton, J.L. Fry, W.W. Hu, J.L. Jimenez, B.B. Palm, P. Romer, E.A. Stone, P.J. Wooldridge, and S.S. Brown, Biomass burning dominates brown carbon absorption in the rural southeastern United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015. 42(2): p. 2014GL062444. 
  • Simpson, W.R., S.S. Brown, A. Saiz-Lopez, J.A. Thornton, and R.v. Glasow, Tropospheric Halogen Chemistry: Sources, Cycling, and Impacts. Chemical Reviews, 2015. 115(10): p. 4035-4062. 
  • Edwards, P.M., S.S. Brown, J.M. Roberts, R. Ahmadov, R.M. Banta, J.A. deGouw, W.P. Dube, R.A. Field, J.H. Flynn, J.B. Gilman, M. Graus, D. Helmig, A. Koss, A.O. Langford, B.L. Lefer, B.M. Lerner, R. Li, S.-M. Li, S.A. McKeen, S.M. Murphy, D.D. Parrish, C.J. Senff, J. Soltis, J. Stutz, C. Sweeney, C.R. Thompson, M.K. Trainer, C. Tsai, P.R. Veres, R.A. Washenfelder, C. Warneke, R.J. Wild, C.J. Young, B. Yuan, and R. Zamora, High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin. Nature, 2014. 514: p. 351-354. 
  • Brown, S.S. and J. Stutz, Nighttime Radical Observations and Chemistry. Chem. Soc. Reviews, 2012. 41: p. 6405-6447. 
  • Thornton, J.A., J.P. Kercher, T.P. Riedel, N.L. Wagner, J. Cozic, J.S. Holloway, W.P. Dubé, G.M. Wolfe, P.K. Quinn, A.M. Middlebrook, B. Alexander, and S.S. Brown, A large atomic chlorine source inferred from mid-continental reactive nitrogen chemistry. Nature, 2010. 464: p. 271-274. 
  • Osthoff, H.D., J.M. Roberts, A.R. Ravishankara, E.J. Williams, B.M. Lerner, R. Sommariva, T.S. Bates, D. Coffman, P.K. Quinn, J.E. Dibb, H. Stark, J.B. Burkholder, R.K. Talukdar, J.F. Meagher, F.C. Fehsenfeld, and S.S. Brown, High levels of nitryl chloride in the polluted subtropical marine boundary layer. Nature Geosciences, 2008. 1: p. 324-328. 
  • Brown, S.S., T.B. Ryerson, A.G. Wollny, C.A. Brock, R. Peltier, A.P. Sullivan, R.J. Weber, J.S. Holloway, W.P. Dubé, M. Trainer, J.F. Meagher, F.C. Fehsenfeld, and A.R. Ravishankara, Variability in nocturnal nitrogen oxide processing and its role in regional air quality. Science, 2006. 311: p. 67-70.