Anne M. Thompson

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Anne M. Thompson
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Alma materPh.D. Bryn Mawr College

M.S. Princeton University

B.A. Swarthmore College
Known foroxidation capacity of atmosphere, ozone dynamics
AwardsFellow, American Meteorological Society

Fellow, American Geophysical Union Fellow, AAAS NASA Senior Goddard Fellow Verner Suomi Award Roger Revelle Award

William Norberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences

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Scientific career
InstitutionsNASA, Atmospheric Chemistry Dynamics Lab

Anne Mee Thompson is an American scientist, who specializes in atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Her work focuses on how human activities have changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, climate forcing, and the Earth's oxidizing capacity. Thompson is an elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and AAAS.

Early life and education

Thompson was born in Pennsylvania, but spent most of her youth growing up in New Jersey and New York State. She grew up in Chatham Township, New Jersey and graduated from Chatham Township High School. [1] Thompson received her bachelor's degree in Chemistry, with honors, from Swarthmore College in 1970. She received her master's degree in chemistry from Princeton University in 1972 and then went on to get her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College in 1978. She did postdoctoral research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, then at UC San Diego with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, CO. [2] During her postdoctoral work, Thompson's research focus shifted from physical chemistry to atmospheric chemistry, with influence from Ollie Zafiriou and Ralph Cicerone. [3]

Career

Thompson has worked as a Physical Scientist for NASA from 1986 to 2004, and she returned in 2013 and is now part of the Atmospheric Chemistry Dynamics group. [4] In 1990, Thompson was on the Third Soviet-American Gas and Aerosols cruise which explored air-sea gas exchange and trace gases in remote marine areas. [5] Thompson was co-mission scientist for NASA's 1997 DC-8 SINEX (SASS Ozone and Nitrogen Oxides Experiment) and PI for SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes) [3] which used airborne instruments such as weather balloons carrying ozonesonde packages to measure humidity, temperature and other atmospheric factors. [6] Thompson has also conducted studies with fellow NASA scientist Bob Chatfield, to identify a wind current carrying human made pollution from Asia westward, creating areas of unusually high ozone levers far away from the true causes, these studies also use satellite and weather balloon data. [7]

As of 2022, Thompson is an emeritus scientist at NASA [4] and an adjunct professor of meteorology at Penn State University. [8]

Selected publications

Awards

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