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Department/Program(s):
    Position: Faculty
    Title: Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
    Area(s):
    • Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
    Research Area(s):
    Climate; atmospheric sciences: sensors and remote sensing; cloud formation; the role of aerosol particles in atmospheric chemistry and air quality

    Office: C330 Engineering Quad C-Wing
    Phone: 609-258-5037

    Personal Webpage: http://zondlo.princeton.edu

    Mark Zondlo

    Education
     
    Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Colorado, 1999
    B.A., Chemistry, Rice University, 1994
     
     
    Research Interests
     
    Professor Zondlo’s group conducts research in global climate change and air quality by deploying novel optical sensors in the atmosphere and analyzing the data as part of field campaigns on local to global scales. Water vapor and ammonia are examples of two important trace gas species that are critical to aerosol and cloud particle processes. Recent advances in laser-based sensors allow for unprecedented capabilities to observe these and other trace gases in the atmosphere. Instrumentation developed in the laboratory is deployed as part of international field experiments on aircraft-, network-, and ground-based platforms. Specific research areas include cloud and aerosol particle formation, trends and distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere, and emissions of greenhouse gases to the troposphere.
     
    NSF Center for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (www.mirthecenter.org)
     
    Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (http://www.princeton.edu/prism)
     
     
    Courses
     
    CEE 501: Introduction to Environmental Engineering: Atmospheric and surface processes
    CEE 445/578: Air quality and aerosol processes
    CEE 311: Global air pollution

    Updated: May 6, 2009


    Recent Publications


    1. M. Diao and M.A. Zondlo, "Ice supersaturations near the extratropical tropopause during START08", in preparation, to be submitted to J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos.
    2. M.A. Zondlo, M.E. Paige, J.A. Silver, "Development, flight performance, and calibrations of the NSF Gulfstream-V vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) hygrometer", in preparation, to be submitted to J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres.
    3. J.A. Silver and M.A. Zondlo, "High precision CO2 sensor for meteorological balloons", Proc. SPIE, 6378, 63780J-1, 2006.
    4. Zondlo, M.A., R.L. Mauldin III, C.A. Cantrell, E. Kosciuch, and F.L. Eisele, "Development and characterization of an airborne-based instrument used to measure nitric acid during the NASA TRACE-P field experiment", J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D20), 8793, doi:10.1029/2002JD003234, 2003.
    5. Zondlo, M.A., P.K. Hudson, A.J. Prenni, and M.A. Tolbert, "Chemistry and microphysics of polar stratospheric clouds and cirrus clouds", Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 51, 473-499, 2000.