Margaret A. Tolbert

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Margaret A. Tolbert
Alma mater California Institute of Technology
University of California
Grinnell College
Known for Atmospheric chemistry
Spouse Owen Toon
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
NASA Group Achievement Award
Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Scientific career
Institutions University of Colorado Boulder
Thesis Mechanisms and Energetics of Alkane Activation by Transition Metal Ions in the Gas Phase  (1986)
Doctoral advisor Jesse L. Beauchamp
Website https://cires.colorado.edu/research-groups/margaret-tolbert-group

Margaret A. Tolbert is an American atmospheric chemist, specializing in polar stratospheric clouds.

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Early life and education

Margaret Tolbert grew up in Boulder, Colorado. [1] She is the daughter of Bert Mills Tolbert, a chemistry professor at University of Colorado Boulder, and sister of Elizabeth Tolbert, Caroline Tolbert, and Sarah Tolbert. [2]

Tolbert received a bachelor degree from Grinnell College in 1979 and a master degree in chemistry from University of California in 1985. [3] [4] She received a PhD in chemistry from University of Colorado Boulder in 1986, under the direction of Jesse L. Beauchamp. [5] She completed post-doctoral research at Stanford Research Institute under the direction of David M. Golden. [6] [7]

Career

Tolbert conducted research at Stanford Research Institute before joining the faculty of University of Colorado Boulder in 1991, teaching environmental chemistry courses to nonscience majors from 1992 to 2006. [8] She was awarded Distinguished Professor in 2010. [4] She is a Fellow and Associate Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint venture between University of Colorado Boulder and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [9]

Her research focuses on study of atmospheric chemistry, in particular polar stratospheric clouds [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] and planetary atmospheres. [16] [17] [18] She co-authored the book "Stratospheric Ozone Depletion" with Ann M. Middlebrook. [19] She was featured in the book "I Want to be an Environmentalist". [20]

Awards and honors

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  6. ↑ Tolbert, Margaret A.; Rossi, Michel J.; Malhotra, Ripudaman; Golden, David M. (1987-11-27). "Reaction of Chlorine Nitrate with Hydrogen Chloride and Water at Antarctic Stratospheric Temperatures". Science. 238 (4831): 1258–1260. Bibcode:1987Sci...238.1258T. doi:10.1126/science.238.4831.1258. ISSN   0036-8075.
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  10. ↑ Tolbert, Margaret A.; Koehler, Birgit G.; Middlebrook, Ann M. (1992). "Spectroscopic studies of model polar stratospheric cloud films". Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy. 48 (9): 1303–1313. Bibcode:1992AcSpA..48.1303T. doi:10.1016/0584-8539(92)80267-Z.
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  14. ↑ Zondlo, Mark A.; Hudson, Paula K.; Prenni, Anthony J.; Tolbert, Margaret A. (2000). "Chemistry and Microphysics of Polar Stratospheric Clouds and Cirrus Clouds". Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 51 (1): 473–499. Bibcode:2000ARPC...51..473Z. doi:10.1146/annurev.physchem.51.1.473. ISSN   0066-426X. PMID   11031290.
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  16. ↑ Trainer, Melissa G.; Pavlov, Alexander A.; DeWitt, H. Langley; Jimenez, Jose L.; McKay, Christopher P.; Toon, Owen B.; Tolbert, Margaret A. (2006). "Organic haze on Titan and the early Earth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (48): 18035–18042. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608561103 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   1838702 . PMID   17101962.
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