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J. William Munger

J. WILLIAM MUNGER

Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-5361 (voice)
617-495-2768 (fax)
jwm@io.harvard.edu

Further Information: http://www-as.harvard.edu/people/staff/jwm/


EDUCATION

B. S. (Biology) summa cum laude University of Minnesota, 1976
M. S. (Ecology) University of Minnesota, 1981
Ph. D. (Environmental Engineering Science) Caltech, June 1989

APPOINTMENTS

Senior Research Fellow, 2002 - present, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Research Associate, 1991 - 2001, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
Research Fellow, 1988 - 1991, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
Graduate Research Assistant, 1984 - 1988, Environmental Engineering Science,
California Institute of Technology.
Associate Research Engineer, 1981 - 1984, Environmental Engineering Science,
California Institute of Technology.
Graduate Research Assistant, 1980 - 1981, Environmental Engineering Program,
Dept. of Civil and Mineral Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Graduate Research Assistant, 1977 - 1979, Dept. of Ecology and Behavioral Biology,
University of Minnesota.

MAJOR FIELD CAMPAIGNS

NASA LBA, ABLE-3B, and BOREAS
Harvard Forest Environmental Measurement Site
Northeast Oxidant and Particle Study, Air Quality measurements, Philadelphia
Shenandoah Cloud and Photochemistry Experiment; carbonyl measurements
Greenland Ice Sheet Project; NOy fluxes at Summit Greenland

HONORS

Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical. Research. Letters. (2001); ARCS Foundation Fellowship, (1987); ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry, Graduate Student Award, (1987)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Munger, J.W., D. J. Jacob, B. C. Daube, L. W. Horowitz, W.C. Keene and B. G. Heikes. 1995. Formaldehyde, Glyoxal, and Methylglyoxal in air and cloudwater at a rural mountain site in central Virginia, J. Geophys. Res. 100: 9325-9333

Hirsch, A. I., J.W. Munger, D. J. Jacob, L.W. Horowitz and A.H Goldstein. 1996. Seasonal variation of the ozone production efficiency per unit NOx at Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. J. Geophys. Res. 101: 12,659-12,666.

Munger, J.W., S.C Wofsy, P. S Bakwin, S.-M. Fan, M. L. Goulden, B. C. Daube, A.H Goldstein, K.E. Moore and D. R. Fitzjarrald. 1996. Atmospheric Deposition of Reactive Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone in a Temperate Deciduous Forest and a Sub-arctic Taiga Woodland. 1.Measurements and Mechanisms. J. Geophys. Res. 101: 12,639,12657.

Munger, J.W., S.-M. Fan, P. S. Bakwin, M. L. Goulden, A. H. Goldstein, A. S. Colman and S. C. Wofsy. 1998. Regional budgets for Nitrogen Oxides from Continental Sources: Variations of rates for oxidation and deposition with season and distance from source regions. J. Geophys. Res. 103: 8355-8368.

Dibb, J. E, R. W. Talbot, J. W. Munger, D. J. Jacob and S.-M. Fan. 1998. Air-snow exchange of HNO3 and NOy at Summit, Greenland. J. Geophys. Res. 103: 3475-3486.

Moody, J. L., J. W. Munger, A. H. Goldstein, D. J. Jacob and S. C. Wofsy. 1998. Harvard Forest regional-scale airmass composition by PATH (Patterns in atmospheric transport history). J. Geophys. Res. 103: 13,181-13,194.

Lefer, B. L., R. W. Talbot and J. W. Munger. 1999. Nitric acid and ammonia at a rural northeastern U.S. site. J. Geophys. Res. 104: 1645-1661.

Munger, J. W., D. J. Jacob, S.-M. Fan, A. S Colman and J. E. Dibb. 1999. Concentrations and Snow-Atmosphere Fluxes of Reactive Nitrogen at Summit, Greenland. J. Geophys. Res. 104: 13,721-13,734.

Potosnak, M. J. S. C. Wofsy, A. S. Denning, T. J. Conway, J. W. Munger and D. H. Barnes. 1999. Influence of biotic exchange and combustion sources on atmospheric CO2 concentrations in New England from observations at a forest flux tower. J. Geophys. Res. 104: 9561-9569.

Lerdau, M. T., J. W. Munger and D. J. Jacob. 2000. The NO2 flux conundrum. Science 289: 2291.

Lin, C. Y. C, D. J. Jacob, J. W. Munger and A. M. Fiore. 2000. Increasing background ozone in surface air over the United States, Geophys. Res. Lett. 3465-3468.

Hurst, J. M., D. J. Barket, Jr., O. Herrera-Gomez, T. L. Couch, P. B. Shepson, I. Faloona, D. Tan, W. Brune, H. Westberg, B. Lamb, T. Biesenthal, V. Young, A. H. Goldstein, J.W. Munger, M. A. Carroll and T. Thornberry. 2001. Investigation of the Nighttime Decay of Isoprene, J. Geophys. Res. 106: 24,335-24,346.

Barford, C. C., S. C. Wofsy, M. L. Goulden, J. W. Munger, E. H. Pyle, S. P Urbanski, L. Hutyra, S. R. Saleska, D Fitzjarrald and K. Moore. 2001. Factors Controlling Long- and Short-Term Sequestration of Atmospheric CO2 in a Mid-latitude Forest. Science 294: 1688-1691.

Munger, J. W., C. Barford and S. C. Wofsy. 2003. Exchanges between the forest and atmosphere, In: D. R. Foster and J. Aber (Eds.), Forests in Time: Ecosystem Structure and Function as a Consequence of 1000 Years of Change. Yale University Press, New Haven (In Press).