Dr. George Mount
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Professor Emeritus Phone: (509) 335-3790 |
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Astrogeophysics, 1975 - University of Colorado, Boulder
- M.S., Astrophysics, 1969 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- B.A., Mathematics, 1966 - University of California, Los Angeles
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, 1997-present
- Executive Committee Member, Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach (CEREO), 2007 - Present
- Director, WSU Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach, 2007 - 2009
- Supervisory Physicist, Group Chief, and Director, Fritz Peak Observatory, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 1985-97
- Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Ultraviolet Measurements Branch, Washington, D.C., 1983-85
- Research Scientist, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1978-83
- Lecturer, Department of Astrogeophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1979-83
- Post doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1975-78
- Research Assistant, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1969-75
- Research student, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AR, summer 1969
AWARDS
- Outstanding Research Faculty, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2010
- WSU Outstanding Mentor of the Year award from the Women and Leadership Alliance, 2007.
- WSU research mentor of the year award, 2006
- Dept of CEE Leon Luck Award for Most Effective Faculty Member, 2006
- NASA achievement award for work on the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment satellite, 2004
- Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 1998, 2003
- Department of Commerce Outstanding Performance Award: 1986, 1987, 1989
- NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories Outstanding Publication Award: 1987, 1989, 1995
- NASA Achievement Award for optics work on the International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite program, 1978
- NASA Achievement Award for design and implementation of instruments on the NASA Solar Mesosphere Explorer Satellite, 1982
RESEARCH
- Atmospheric spectroscopy for measurement of trace gases
- Spectroscopic instrumentation
- Tropospheric trace gas chemistry
- Atmospheric radiation and radiative transfer
- Stratospheric ozone depletion
- Tropospheric/stratospheric hydroxyl
- Measurement of tropospheric trace gases from space
TEACHING
- Environmental Measurements
- Advanced Topics in Environmental Engineering
- Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere
- Professionalism and Ethics in Engineering
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Dr. Mount has published more than 85 referred papers:
- Cambaliza, M., G. Mount, J. Marshall, B. Lamb, and H. Westberg, 2010, J. of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in prep., A new Fourier-transform infrared instrument for measurement of temporal and vertical distribution of 13C – CO2 2. Measurement of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of isotopic carbon dioxide using disjunct eddy covariance
- Cambaliza, M., G. Mount, J. Marshall, B. Lamb, and H. Westberg, 2010, J. of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, in prep., A new Fourier-transform infrared instrument for measurement of temporal and vertical distribution of 13C – CO2 1. An overview of results from measurements in a managed poplar forest in northern Oregon.
- Herron-Thorpe, F.L., J.K. Vaughan, B.K. Lamb, and G.H. Mount, 2009, Atmos. Chem. Phys., submitted, Evaluation of a regional air quality forecast model for tropospheric NO2 columns using the OMI/AURA satellite tropospheric NO2 product.
- Wang, S., Pongetti, T., Sander, S., E. Spinei, G. H. Mount, A. Cede, and J. Herman, 2009, J. Geophys. Res., in press, Direct sun measurements of NO2 column abundances from Table Mountain, California: Intercomparison of low and high resolution spectrometers
- Spinei, E., S. Carn, N. Krotkov, G. H. Mount, K. Yang, and A. Krueger, 2009, J. Geophys. Res., in press, Validation of OMI SO2 measurements in the Okmok volcanic plume over Pullman, WA, July 2008
- Cambaliza, O. L. M., B. Harlow, N. Ubierna, G. H. Mount, J. D. Marshall, and R. D. Evans, 2009, Rapid Comm. In Mass Spectrometry, 23,3868, Analysis of low-concentration gas samples with continuous-flow IRMS: eliminating sources of contamination to achieve high precision
- Herman, J., A. Cede, E. Spinei, G. Mount, N. Abushassan, 2009, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D13307. NO2 Column Amounts from Ground-based Pandora and MFDOAS Spectrometers using the Direct-Sun DOAS Technique: Intercomparisons and Application to OMI Validation
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