Ph.D., Astrogeophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1975
M.S., Astrophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969
B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1966
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 Interests
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
Publications
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
