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Anne M. Thompson
Workplaces:NASA, Atmospheric Chemistry Dynamics Lab
Alma Mater:Ph.D. Bryn Mawr CollegeM.S. Princeton UniversityB.A. Swarthmore College
Known For:oxidation capacity of atmosphere, ozone dynamics
Awards:Fellow, American Meteorological SocietyFellow, American Geophysical UnionFellow, AAASNASA Senior Goddard FellowVerner Suomi AwardRoger Revelle AwardWilliam Norberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences

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) 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 and an adjunct professor of meteorology at Penn State University.[8]

Selected publications

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Fleming, Mrs. Paul. "Along the Way", The Chatham Press, April 9, 1970. Accessed January 27, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Anne Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Thompson of 16 Deer Run Circle, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship for physical chemistry at Princeton University. A senior at Swarthmore College, she is a graduate of Chatham Township High School."
  2. Web site: Thompson CV. https://web.archive.org/web/20110609102214/http://www.met.psu.edu/people/amt16/CV-Thompson-TQ510.pdf. June 9, 2011. February 13, 2022. Pennsylvania State University.
  3. News: Anne M. Thompson Receives 2015 Roger Revelle Medal - Eos. Eos. 2018-11-12.
  4. Web site: Anne M. Thompson. February 13, 2022. NASA.
  5. Johnson. J. E.. Koropalov. V. M.. Pickering. K. E.. Thompson. A. M.. Bond. N.. Elkins. J. W.. 1993. Third Soviet-American Gases and Aerosols (SAGA 3) experiment: Overview and meteorological and oceanographic conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research. 98. D9. 16893. 10.1029/93jd00566. 1993JGR....9816893J. 0148-0227.
  6. News: Pollution Knows No Borders. ScienceDaily. 2018-11-08.
  7. Web site: NASA - Top Story - NASA SATELLITES AND BALLOONS SPOT AIRBORNE POLLUTION "TRAIN" - May 03, 2004. www.nasa.gov. 2018-11-08.
  8. Web site: Anne M. Thompson. 2018-11-14. Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science.
  9. Web site: List of Fellows. 2022-02-13. American Meteorological Society. en.
  10. Web site: Elected Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2018-11-18.
  11. News: Thompson - Honors Program. Honors Program. 2018-11-18.
  12. News: Anne Thompson - Adventures in the Atmosphere - Part Two. Jenner. Lynn. 2014-05-13. NASA. 2018-11-14.
  13. News: Meteorologists Wyngaard, Thompson receive high honors Penn State University. 2018-11-12. 2018-11-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20181122011313/https://news.psu.edu/story/153496/2011/11/23/academics/meteorologists-wyngaard-thompson-receive-high-honors. dead.
  14. Web site: Current NPP Fellows. npp.usra.edu. 2018-11-08. 2017-03-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20170325004711/https://npp.usra.edu/fellows/current/. dead.
  15. News: Anne M. Thompson - Honors Program. Honors Program. 2018-11-18.
  16. Web site: Awards Won - Earth Sciences Division - 610. science.gsfc.nasa.gov. 2018-11-18.

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