Paul J. DeMott
Senior
Research Scientist
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Department of
Atmospheric Science
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Welcome to my home page and thanks for visiting. This page includes both business and personal information. My research interests at CSU lie in the area of aerosol-cloud interactions, particularly ice formation in clouds. I am married to Charlotte, who is also a Research Scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science. We have two children: Maggie (age 14) and Connor (age 11). My personal interests include exercise, gardening, guitar, food and wine. This page is under construction (i.e., never up to date).
Research and professional activities
I am a member of Dr. Sonia Kreidenweis’s research group, within the Atmospheric Chemistry Program. Information on our research group may be found at those sites and on the Atmospheric Science Department home page. My current interests are mostly focused on ice phase transitions of atmospheric aerosol particles for conditions present in various regions of the troposphere, including lower tropospheric layer clouds in winter and cirrus clouds. The goals of my research are to understand the way that aerosol particles of natural or anthropogenic origin determine the ice phase composition of clouds and in turn how clouds impact the distribution and nature of ice nucleating aerosols in the atmosphere. This information is important to the fundamental issue of how aerosols affect climate indirectly by impacting the radiative properties of clouds, latent heating of the atmosphere, and precipitation. Other members of the ice phase transitions study group at CSU include Dr. Tony Prenni, Dr. Markus Petters, Dr. Matt Parsons, Matt Richardson, and Kirsten Koehler . Our research approach involves numerical modeling and laboratory and field studies using specialized instrumentation. Detailed descriptions of some of this research instrumentation and of field research efforts that I have participated in may be found in other links below and on the home page of my colleague, Dr. David Rogers.
Professional Resume
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