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    • About CIRA
      • Jobs
      • Letter from Christian Kummerow:
      • Map & Directions
      • Organizational Structure
      • Reports
      • Room Schedules
      • Staff Directory
      • Strategic Plan
      • Vision & Mission Statement
    • Themes
      • Climate and Weather Processes
      • Competitive Projects
      • Data Assimilation
      • Data Distributions
      • Education and Outreach
      • Modeling Systems Research
      • NOAA Projects
      • Satellite Algorithm Development, Training and Education
      • Societal and Economic Impact Studies
    • Collaborative Groups
      • Colorado Climate Center
      • National Park Service
      • Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch
  • Teams
    • Colorado Teams:
      • NOAA/Earth System Research Lab (ESRL) – Boulder, CO
      • Air Quality – Fort Collins, CO
      • Atmospheric Science (ATS) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Carbon – Fort Collins, CO
      • CIRA Software Engineering Group (CSEG) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Data Assimilation (DA) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Data Processing Centers (DPC) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Independent – Fort Collins, CO
      • MetSat – Fort Collins, CO
      • Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Training – Fort Collins, CO
      • Tropical Cyclone – Fort Collins, CO
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      • National Hurricane Center – Miami, FL
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Dr. Jenny Hand

CIRA Fellow

Job Title:
Senior Research Scientist, CIRA
CIRA Teams:
  • Air Quality

Email Address:
Jenny.Hand@colostate.edu
Phone Number:

970-491-3699

Fax Number:

970-491-8241

Mailing Addresss:
Dr. Jenny Hand
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Colorado State University
1375 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375
Office Location:
CIRA Room 102C
About Me:

Jenny Hand received her double B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Kansas (1995) and her M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2001) in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University. Her research interests include characterizing the physico-chemical, radiative, and hygroscopic properties of atmospheric aerosols using techniques ranging from single-particle analysis to remote sensing. She has investigated the role of aerosols in visibility degradation in national parks using novel techniques for analyzing in situ measurements of aerosol physical and optical properties. In 2001 she was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Advanced Studies Program at the National Center of Atmospheric Research where she studied the transport and deposition of mineral dust aerosols and bioavailable iron to the remote oceans using remote sensing and in situ observations and a global transport model. In 2003 she joined CIRA as a research scientist, working full time with the National Park Service (NPS) group. Since joining CIRA she has characterized the physical and optical properties of tar balls, a specific type of organic biomass smoke aerosol, using single particle analysis and bulk measurements. She has also examined the single particle characteristics and hygroscopic and optical properties of laboratory generated biomass smoke particles as part of the FLAME (Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment) study. In 2005 Jenny co-lead a project that included evaluating and refining protocols applied in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Haze Rule, a mandate that tracks trends in visibility in protected visual environments. In 2005 and 2006 she served as a science mentor with the SOARS program and collaborated with a student to characterize dust sources in the under-studied desert regions of northern Mexico using remote sensing techniques. During 2012 she served as a science mentor to a student in the CMMAP program who examined trends in mineral dust concentrations across the Southwest. Currently she is involved in the analysis of long-term trends of major aerosol species at remote and urban sites across the U.S. This work also includes investigating the spatial and seasonal variations in urban and remote aerosols, including urban excess, using combined data from the IMPROVE and CSN networks. Jenny serves as the PI for the NPS/CIRA cooperative agreement.

 

Research Interests:

Characterizing the physico-chemical, radiative, and hygroscopic properties of atmospheric aerosols using techniques ranging from single-particle analysis to remote sensing. She has investigated the role of aerosols in visibility degradation in national parks using novel techniques for analyzing in situ measurements of aerosol physical and optical properties. In 2001 she was appointed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Advanced Studies Program at the National Center of Atmospheric Research where she studied the transport and deposition of mineral dust aerosols and bioavailable iron to the remote oceans using remote sensing and in situ observations and a global transport model.

 

In 2003 she joined CIRA as a research scientist, working full time with the National Park Service (NPS) group. Since joining CIRA she has characterized the physical and optical properties of tar balls, a specific type of organic biomass smoke aerosol, using single particle analysis and bulk measurements. She has also examined the single particle characteristics and hygroscopic and optical properties of laboratory generated biomass smoke particles as part of the FLAME (Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment) study. In 2005 Jenny co-lead a project that included evaluating and refining protocols applied in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Haze Rule, a mandate that tracks trends in visibility in protected visual environments. In 2005 and 2006 she served as a science mentor with the SOARS program and collaborated with a student to characterize dust sources in the under-studied desert regions of northern Mexico using remote sensing techniques.

During 2012 she served as a science mentor to a student in the CMMAP program who examined trends in mineral dust concentrations across the Southwest. Currently she is involved in the analysis of long-term trends of major aerosol species at remote and urban sites across the U.S. This work also includes investigating the spatial and seasonal variations in urban and remote aerosols, including urban excess, using combined data from the IMPROVE and CSN networks. Jenny serves as the PI for the NPS/CIRA cooperative agreement.

Past Work

Transmission electron microscopy image of a biomass smoke particle.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Transmission electron microscopy image of a biomass smoke particle.Transmission electron microscopy image of a biomass smoke particle generated in a laboratory setting from the burning of Poplar. The particle is amorphous carbon surrounded by a layer of graphitic carbon, with spherules of graphitic carbon attached. Photo obtained at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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