Kristie Boering

Kristie Ann Boering (born October 6, 1963) is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science and the Lieselotte and David Templeton Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. She studies atmospheric chemistry and mass transport in the extraterrestrial atmosphere using kinetics and photochemistry. Boering was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Kristie Boering
Born
Kristie Ann Boering

June 10, 1963
Redwood City, California
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
Stanford University
Spouse(s)Ronald C. Cohen
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisExperimental Investigations of Intermolecular Vibrational Energy Transfer: Collisional Excitation and Relaxation of Gas Phase Molecular Ions (1991)
Doctoral advisorJohn I. Brauman
InfluencesSteven Wofsy
Websiteboeringgroup.weebly.com

Early life and education

Boering is the daughter Shirley Drake Lambeth.[1] She was born in Redwood City, California.[1] Her mother was a Curriculum Coordinator for the San Bernardino County Department of Education.[1] Boering studied at the University of California, San Diego.[2] She earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry, specializing in earth science, magna cum laude in 1985.[1] Boering moved to Stanford University to complete a doctorate in physical chemistry, working with John I. Brauman on non-reactive conditions between gas-phase anions.[2] She was supported by the National Science Foundation and earned her PhD in 1991.[2]

Research and career

Boering was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she worked with Steven Wofsy.[2] At Harvard, Boering developed instrumentation to measure carbon dioxide mixing ratios in the upper troposphere.[2] Boering used U-2 spy planes with high-altitude balloons, and made observations in Brazil, New Mexico, Alaska and New Zealand.[2] In 1995 she was a scholar in the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.[2]

Boering was appointed to the faculty at University of California, Berkeley in 1998.[2] She was made an Associate Professor with tenure in 2005. Boering works on photochemical isotope effects.[2] She combines measurements from aircraft, high-altitude balloons and ground-based instruments to study atmospheric chemistry and climate.[2] Boering combines global-scale measurements with computer simulations to study stable isotopes. Boering uses isotopes as tracers of atmospheric chemistry, for example, the triple isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen can be used to monitor biosphere productivity.[2][3] She has also studied radiocarbon in the stratosphere.[4] She is also interested in two and three-dimensional chemical transport models in the stratosphere.[5][6] She investigates the exchange between biosphere and atmosphere gases on million and billion year timescales, studying the atmosphere, ice cores and rocks.[6][7] Boering also studies the climate on other planets.[8]

Boering demonstrated that the use of fertilizer was responsible for dramatic increases in the amount of nitrous oxide in the Earth's atmosphere.[9] She studied firn air, an air sample from antarctic ice that was stored in Cape Grim.[9] By studying the levels of nitrous oxide, Boering identified a well-known seasonal cycle, but surprisingly saw the same thing using isotope-ratio mass spectrometry.[9]

Boering held an honorary professorship at the University of Copenhagen from 2008 to 2013.[10] During 2014 she was an academic visitor at the Earth-Life Science Institute, working with Naohiro Yoshida.[11]

Awards and honours

Personal life

Boering is married to Ronald C. Cohen who is Director Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center.[1][16] Cohen is the son of Adele Cohen.[1] Boering and Cohen have two children, one of whom was born a few days after she submitted her package for tenure.[17]

References
  1. "WEDDINGS; Kristie Boering, Ronald Cohen". The New York Times. 1998-01-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  2. "Kristie A. Boering | College of Chemistry". chemistry.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  3. Boering, Kristie A.; Thiemens, Mark H.; Bender, Michael L.; Barkan, Eugeni; Luz, Boaz (1999). "Triple-isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity". Nature. 400 (6744): 547–550. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..547L. doi:10.1038/22987. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4345679.
  4. "Professor Boering's New Article in GRL". Earth and Planetary Science. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  5. Hall, Timothy M.; Waugh, Darryn W.; Boering, Kristie A.; Plumb, R. Alan (1999). "Evaluation of transport in stratospheric models". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 104 (D15): 18815–18839. Bibcode:1999JGR...10418815H. doi:10.1029/1999JD900226. ISSN 2156-2202.
  6. "Kristie Boering | Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  7. Zumdahl, Steven S.; DeCoste, Donald J. (2012-01-01). Chemical Principles. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781111580650.
  8. "Center for Integrative Planetary Science | Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  9. "Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere | Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  10. "PAOC Colloquium - Kristie A. Boering (UC Berkeley) | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences". eapsweb.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  11. "ELSI". www.elsi.jp. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  12. "Boering, Kristie A." The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  13. "Professor Kristie Boering received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award". Earth and Planetary Science. 2013-04-08. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  14. S, Robert; ers; May 1, Media relations|; 2018May 1; 2018 (2018-05-01). "National Academy of Sciences adds five Berkeley faculty members to its ranks". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2019-05-04.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. "Kristie Boering". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  16. "Science and love". The Berkeley Science Review. 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  17. "Boering profile". Finding Your Balance. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
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