Timothy Bertram
Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry
Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry
Contact Information
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office: Urey Hall
Phone:
Email: thbertram@ucsd.edu
Web: bertramgroup.ucsd.edu
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Office: Urey Hall
Phone:
Email: thbertram@ucsd.edu
Web: bertramgroup.ucsd.edu
Group: View group members
Education
2006 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
2000 B.A., Colby College
2006 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
2000 B.A., Colby College
Awards and Academic Honors
2012
NSF CAREER Award
2012
NASA New Investigator Award
2011
DOE Early Career Award
2007-2009
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests
Research in the Bertram group is designed to provide direct experimental and observation based constraints for a host of chemical processes. These include:
- The time evolution of the source-sink relationship for greenhouse gases.
- The heterogeneous processing of reactive trace gases.
- The interaction of the atmosphere, biosphere and the oceans.
- The time evolution of the source-sink relationship for greenhouse gases.
- The heterogeneous processing of reactive trace gases.
- The interaction of the atmosphere, biosphere and the oceans.
Primary Research Area
Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Interdisciplinary interests
Atmospheric and Environmental
Outreach Activities
Actively promote diversity in higher education through acting as a mentor for female graduate students, one from an underrepresented group. Further, I actively encourage their participation in on-campus groups that promote diversity and scientific advancement of undergraduate students from underrepresented groups.
As part of our Phase I, Chemical Center for Innovation, my group participates in an array of outreach activities at local elementary and high schools. These activities target traditionally underrepresented groups within the sciences. More Information: http://caice.ucsd.edu/Outreach.html
Actively participate in Socrates program by giving seminars, and providing research support for projects. More Information: http://sciencebridge.ucsd.edu/programs/socrates/who-we-are/2012-2013
As part of our Phase I, Chemical Center for Innovation, my group participates in an array of outreach activities at local elementary and high schools. These activities target traditionally underrepresented groups within the sciences. More Information: http://caice.ucsd.edu/Outreach.html
Actively participate in Socrates program by giving seminars, and providing research support for projects. More Information: http://sciencebridge.ucsd.edu/programs/socrates/who-we-are/2012-2013
Image Gallery
Nocturnal processing of nitrogen oxides.
Forward trajectories originating from NYC (left) and the corresponding tropospheric column NO2 for the same time period (right).
Nocturnal processing of nitrogen oxides.
Forward trajectories originating from NYC (left) and the corresponding tropospheric column NO2 for the same time period (right).
Selected Publications
- T. H. Bertram, J. R. Kimmel, T. A. Crisp, O. S. Ryder, R. L. N. Yatavelli, J. A. Thornton, M. J. Cubison, M. Gonin, and D. R. Worsnop, "A field-deployable, chemical ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer: application to the measurement of gas-phase organic and inorganic acids", AMTD 4, 1963-1987, (2011).
- TH Bertram and JA Thornton, "Toward a general parameterization of N2O5 reactivity on aqueous particles: the competing effects of particle liquid water, nitrate and chloride" Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 8351-8363, (2009).
- TH Bertram et al., "An Experimental Technique for the Direct Measurement of N2O5 Reactivity on Ambient Particles", Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2, 1-12, (2009).
- TH Bertram et al., "Direct Observations of N2O5 Reactivity on Ambient Aerosol Particles", Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 19 (2009).
- T.H. Bertram et al., "Direct Measurement of the Convective Recycling of the Upper Troposphere", Science,DOI: 10.1126/science.1134548, (2007).
- T.H. Bertram et al., "Satellite measurements of daily variations in soil NOx emissions", Geophys. Res. Lett. 32 L24812, doi:10.1029/2005GL024640 (2005).