Dr. George Mount
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Professor 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
- Director, WSU Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach, 2007 - Present
- 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
- 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
- Space based measurements of air pollution
- Molecular physics and radiative transfer
- Trace gas measurements in troposphere and stratosphere
- Atmospheric spectroscopy
- Spectroscopic instrumentation
- Climate change
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 75 referred papers:
- B. Rumburg, G. Mount, et al. (2006), "Atmospheric flux of ammonia from sprinkler application of dairy waste", Atmospheric Environment, 2006, 40, 7246-7258.
- J. Filipy, B. Rumburg, G. Mount, H. Westberg, and Brian Lamb (200). "Identification and quantification of volatile organic compounds from a dairy", Atmospheric Environment, 40, 1480-1494.
- M. Dobber, G. Mount, et al. (2005). "Ground-based Zenith Sky Abundances and Insitu Gas Cross Sections for Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide with the EOS Aura OMI Instrument", Applied Optics;44, 2846.
- G. Mount et al. (2002). "The Measurement of Atmospheric Ammonia at a Dairy Using Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy in the Midultraviolet", Atmospheric Environment, 36:1799.
- F.L. Eisele, G. Mount, et al. (1997). "Understanding the Production and Interconversion of the Hydroxyl Radical During the Tropospheric OH Photochemistry Experiment",.J. Geophys. Res., 102:6457.
- G. Mount, J. Brault, P. Johnston, E. Marovich, R. Jakoubek, C. Volpe, J. Harder, and J. Olson (1997). "The Measurement of Tropospheric OH by Long Path Laser Absorption at Fritz Peak Observatory, Colorado during the OH photochemistry Experiment, Fall 1993", J. Geophys. Res., 102:6393.
- P. Wennberg, J. Brault, T. Hanisco, R. Salawitch, and G. Mount (1997). "An Upper Limit for the Atmospheric Column Abundance of IO: Implications for Stratospheric Ozone Depletion", J. Geophys. Res., 102:8887.
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