Former Group Members

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    Graduate Students

    The table below lists PhD candidates who have graduated from the group.

    Name Graduation Date Thesis & Publications
    Nasrin Pak 2022

    Thesis: Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Greater Toronto Area

    Mostafavi Pak, N., S. Heerah, J. Zhang, E. Chan, D. Worthy, F. Vogel, and D. Wunch (2021), The Facility Level and Area Methane Emissions inventory for the Greater Toronto Area (FLAME-GTA), Atmos. Environ., 252(March), 118319, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118319

    Mostafavi Pak, N., Hedelius, J. K., Roche, S., Cunningham, L., Baier, B., Sweeney, C., Roehl, C., Laughner, J., Toon, G., Wennberg, P., Parker, H., Arrowsmith, C., Mendonca, J., Fogal, P., Wizenberg, T., Herrera, B., Strong, K., Walker, K. A., Vogel, F., and Wunch, D.: Using portable low-resolution spectrometers to evaluate Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) biases in North America, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 1239–1261, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1239-2023, 2023.
    Sébastien Roche 2021

    Thesis: Measurements of Greenhouse Gases from Near-Infrared Solar Absorption Spectra

    Roche, S., Strong, K., Wunch, D., Mendonca, J., Sweeney, C., Baier, B., Biraud, S. C., Laughner, J. L., Toon, G. C., and Connor, B. J.: Retrieval of atmospheric CO2 vertical profiles from ground-based near-infrared spectra, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3087–3118, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3087-2021, 2021.

    The table below lists Master's students who have completed their Master's degrees.

    Name Graduation Date Thesis Title
    Jon-Paul Mastrogiacomo 2022 Methane enhancement ratios over Toronto
    Lawson Gillespie 2020 Measurements of Greenhouse Gases in the Greater Toronto Area

    Postdoctoral Fellows

    This table contains a list of former postdocs in the group, the dates they joined and left the group, and the publications that resulted form their postdoctoral work.

    Name Dates Publications
    Erik Lutsch 2019-2022 Lutsch et al. Can the data assimilation of CO from MOPITT or IASI constrain high-latitude wildfire emissions? A Case Study of the 2017 Canadian Wildfires. Under review.
    Sébastien Ars 2018-2019 Sébastien Ars, Felix Vogel, Colin Arrowsmith, Sajjan Heerah, Emily Knuckey, Juliette Lavoie, Christopher Lee, Nasrin Mostafavi Pak, Jaden L. Phillips, and Debra Wunch. Investigation of the Spatial Distribution of Methane Sources in the Greater Toronto Area Using Mobile Gas Monitoring Systems. Environmental Science & Technology 2020 54 (24), 15671-15679 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05386
    Joseph Mendonca 2017-2019 Mendonca, J., Nassar, R., O'Dell, C. W., Kivi, R., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Petri, C., Strong, K., and Wunch, D.: Assessing the feasibility of using a neural network to filter Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) retrievals at northern high latitudes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 7511–7524, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7511-2021, 2021.
    Jacob Hedelius 2017-2019

    Hedelius, J. K., Toon, G. C., Buchholz, R. R., Iraci, L. T., Podolske, J. R., Roehl, C. M., et al. (2021). Regional and urban column CO trends and anomalies as observed by MOPITT over 16 years. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033967. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033967

    Hedelius, J. K., He, T.-L., Jones, D. B. A., Baier, B. C., Buchholz, R. R., De Mazière, M., Deutscher, N. M., Dubey, M. K., Feist, D. G., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Iraci, L. T., Jeseck, P., Kiel, M., Kivi, R., Liu, C., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Oh, Y.-S., Ohyama, H., Pollard, D. F., Rettinger, M., Roche, S., Roehl, C. M., Schneider, M., Shiomi, K., Strong, K., Sussmann, R., Sweeney, C., Té, Y., Uchino, O., Velazco, V. A., Wang, W., Warneke, T., Wennberg, P. O., Worden, H. M., and Wunch, D.: Evaluation of MOPITT Version 7 joint TIR–NIR XCO retrievals with TCCON, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5547–5572, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5547-2019, 2019.

    Hedelius, Jacob; Wunch, Debra, 2019, "Mass conserving quartic-spline and linear interpolation techniques over variable width partitions", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/57ROYV, Scholars Portal Dataverse, V1