Contact Info
Heather Arkinson
Graduate Student
Ph.D. Advisor - Russell Dickerson (current)

The principal research goal leading to my Ph.D. degree is to augment existing analytical means of exploring the sources and quantities of ozone, formaldehyde, and related species that generate smog and affect air quality.  

 

EDUCATION

M., Eng, University of Alaska Anchorage

B.E., University of Alaska Anchorage

M.S., North Carolina State University

B.S., McGill University-Montreal (CANADA)

Research Papers/Presentations/Posters:

  • Brent, L.C., Thorn, W.J., Gupta, M., Leen, B., Stehr, J.W., He, H., Arkinson, H.L., Weinheimer,
    A., Garland, C., and Pusede, S.E., Wooldridge, P.J., Cohen, R.C., & Dickerson, R.R. (2015).
    Evaluation of the use of a commercially available cavity ringdown absorption spectrometer
    for measuring NO2 in flight, and observations over the Mid-Atlantic States, during
    DISCOVER-AQ. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 72, 503–521.
  • Buchard, V., da Silva, A.M., Colarco, P., Krotkov, N., Dickerson, R.R., Stehr, J.W., Mount, G.,
    Spinei, E., Arkinson, H.L., & He, H. (2014). Evaluation of GEOS-5 sulfur dioxide
    simulations during Frostburg, MD 2010 field campaign. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,
    14, 1929–1941.
  • Cazorla, M., Wolfe, G.M., Bailey, S.A., Swanson, A.K., Arkinson, H.L., & Hanisco, T.F. (2015).
    A new airborne laser-induced fluorescence instrument for in situ detection of formaldehyde
    throughout the troposphere and lower stratosphere. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8,
    541–552.
  • He, H., Loughner, C.P., Stehr, J.W., Arkinson, H.L., Brent, L.C., Follette-Cook, M.B., Tzortziou,
    M.A., Pickering, K.E., Crawford, J.H., Weinheimer, A.J., Lee, P., Hains, J.C., & Dickerson,
    R.R. (2014). An elevated reservoir of air pollutants over the Mid-Atlantic States during the
    2011 DISCOVER-AQ campaign: Airborne measurements and numerical simulations.
    Atmospheric Environment, 85, 18–30.
  • Marais, E.A., Jacob, D.J., Jimenez, J.L., Campuzano-Jost, P., Day, D.A., Hu, W., Krechmer, J.,
    Zhu, L., Kim, P.S., Miller, C.C., Fisher, J.A., Travis, K., Yu, K., Hanisco, T.F., Wolfe, G.M.,
    Arkinson, H.L., Pye, H.O.T., Froyd, K.D., Liao, J., & McNeill, V.F. (2016). Aqueous-phase
    mechanism for secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene: Application to the
    southeast United States and co-benefit of SO2 emission controls. Atmospheric Chemistry and
    Physics, 16, 1603–1618.
  • Wolfe, G.M., Hanisco, T.F., Arkinson, H.L., Bui, T.P., Crounse, J.D., Dean-Day, J., Goldstein,
    A., Guenther, A., Hall, S.R., Huey, G., Jacob, D.J., Karl, T., Kim, P.S., Liu, X., Marvin,
    M.R., Mikoviny, T., Misztal, P.K., Nguyen, T.B., Peischl, J., Pollack, I., Ryerson, T., St.
    Clair, J.M., Teng, A., Travis, K.R., Ullmann, K., Wennberg, P.O., & Wisthaler, A. (2015).
    Quantifying sources and sinks of reactive gases in the lower atmosphere using airborne flux
    observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 8231–8240.

Poster Presentations

  • Poster Presentation - January 2020 AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA - Lagrangian Analysis of Ozone Production in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Based on Air Parcel Trajectories and In Situ Airborne Measurements from the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ
  • Campaign Poster Presentation - December 2020 AGU Annual Meeting (Online) - Lagrangian Analysis of Ozone Production in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Based on Air Parcel Trajectories and In Situ Airborne Measurements from the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign

Oral Presentations

  • May 2015 AGU Joint Assembly Meeting in Montreal, QC. -- Lagrangian Analysis of Ozone Production in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Based on Air Parcel Trajectories and In Situ Airborne Measurements from the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ 
  • April 2014 RAMMPP Quarterly Meeting at MDE in Baltimore, MD. -- Ozone Transport Analysis: An Example Case
  • August 2014 RAMMPP Quarterly Meeting at MDE in Baltimore, MD. -- Preliminary Ozone Production Rates Calculated Based on Direct Observations from the July 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign
  • November 2014 RAMMPP Quarterly Meeting at MDE in Baltimore, MD. -- Ozone Production Rates Calculated Based on Direct Observations from the July 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign