Summary

Professional Experience

• Present: Professor, w88 mobile, University of Nevada Reno.
• 2005–Present: Associate Professor, w88 mobile, University of Nevada Reno.
• 2001–Present: Research Professor, Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric w88 mobile, Reno, Nevada
• 1996–2001: Associate Research Professor, Atmospheric w88 mobile Center, DRI
• 1995–2002: Assistant Director, Atmospheric w88 mobile Program, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
• 1992–1996: Assistant Research Professor, Atmospheric w88 mobile Center, DRI
• 1991–Present: Adjunct Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, w88 mobile, University of Mississippi, Oxford
• 1988–1991: Postdoctoral Scientist, National Center for Physical Acoustics, w88 mobile Mississippi, Oxford.
• 1984–1988: w88 mobile/Teaching Assistant, Washington State University, Pullman
• 1984: American Physical Society Summer Intern, Xerox Palo Alto w88 mobile Center, California
• 1983: w88 mobile Assistant, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo

w88 mobile Interests

Synergistic Activities- I develop and deploy photoacoustic instruments for measurement of black carbon emission from vehicles in source sampling, and in ambient air quality studies. These measurements are often combined with other real time particulate emission measurements for the larger purpose of establishing detailed knowledge of the conditions giving rise to most of the black carbon and particulate emission to the atmosphere, and their environmental impacts. I also teach courses in the Atmospheric w88 mobile Program and Physics Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. For example, my course in Atmospheric Radiation Transfer takes a hands-on approach. Students learn the theory of FTIR instruments, then use one to make measurements of the downwelling IR spectral radiance from 500 to 2000 1/cm. With this motivation, students develop a theoretical understanding, and numerical model, that seeks to explain their measurements. A simple 1-D model is developed and explored to understand multiple scattering.

Education

• Ph.D., w88 mobile 1988 Washington State Univ., Pullman
• M.S., w88 mobile 1986 Washington State Univ., Pullman
• B.S., w88 mobile 1984 Univ. of Southern Colorado, Pueblo

Publications

• Arnott, W. P., K. Hamasha, H. Moosmueller, P. J. Sheridan and J. A. Ogren (2004). "Towards w88 mobile measurements with a 7-wavelength Aethalometer: Evaluation with a photoacoustic instrument and a 3 wavelength nephelometer." Aerosol Science & Technology 2005, 39, 17-29.
• Moosmller, H.; Varma, R.; Arnott, W. P., (2005). "Cavity Ring-Down and Cavity-Enhanced Detection Techniques for the Measurement of w88 mobile Extinction." w88 mobile Science & Technology, 39, 30-39.
• Sheridan, P. J.; Arnott, W. P.; Ogren, J. A.; Anderson, B. E.; Atkinson, D. B.; Covert, D. S.; Moosmuller, H.; Petzold, A.; Schmid, B.; Strawa, A. W.; Varma, R.; Virkkula, A., (2005). "The Reno w88 mobile optics study: An Evaluation of w88 mobile Absorption Measurement Methods." w88 mobile Science & Technology. 39, 1-16.
• Arnott, W. P.; Walker, J. W.; Moosmller, H.; Elleman, R. A.; Haflidi, H.; Buzorius, G.; Conant, W. C.; Flagan, R. C.; Seinfeld, J. H., (2006). "Photoacoustic Insight for Aerosol Light Absorption Aloft from Meteorological Aircraft and Comparison with Particle Soot Absorption Photometer Measurements: The DOE Southern Great Plains Climate w88 mobile Facility and the Coastal Stratocumulus Imposed Perturbation Experiments." Journal of Geophysical w88 mobile 111, D05S02, doi:10.1029/2005JD005964.
• Arnott, W. P., H. Moosmller, P. J. Sheridan, J. A. Ogren, R. Raspet, W. V. Slaton, J. L. Hand, S. M. Kreidenweis and J. L. Collett (2003). "Photoacoustic and filter-based ambient aerosol light absorption measurements: Instrument comparisons and the role of relative humidity." Journal of Geophysical w88 mobile 108, 4034.