Joel A. Thornton

Joel Thornton received his B.A. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, which was on the detection and chemistry of nitrogen oxide radicals in the atmosphere. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto he joined the faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 2004. His research interests center around understanding how emissions from both human and natural activities perturb the composition of the atmosphere and how those changes affect air quality and climate. He has been the recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the American Meteorological Society.