Lynn Russell is a professor of

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at the

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a division of the

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Education and career

Russell has a B.S. in chemical engineering and an A.B. in international relations from

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. She earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from

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in 1995. She was a postdoctoral investigator at the

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(NCAR). From 1997 to 2003, Russell was on the faculty at

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; she unsuccessfully sued the trustees of Princeton for sex discrimination after her 2002 tenure application was denied. Russell moved to Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2003. In 2017, Russell was appointed a

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members). AGU's acti ...

for "pioneering contributions to the fundamental science of organic aerosols through innovative theory, instrumentation, measurements, and modeling".

Research

Russell's research is on how particles in the atmosphere effect climate, particularly aerosols from pollution sources such as automobiles. While Russell was at Princeton she developed the use of remote-controlled aircraft to collect atmospheric data. She has examined the factors controlling the production of organic aerosol particles in the atmosphere and the impact of aerosols on global warming. Russell's research has defined the composition of organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols and linked the presence of aerosol particles in the atmosphere to the underlying seawater. Russell has examined dust particles at multiple locations. Yang Yang and Russell used the

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to study aerosols above eastern China and observed that variability in the dust particles impacted the level of haze in the region. Within the United States, Russell has tracked aerosol particles from Las Vegas, Nevada into California. Russell has also demonstrated the feasibility of using biofuels during research cruises by replacing the diesel fuel with

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on the research vessel R.V. ''Robert Gordon Sproul'' and examining the resulting production of NO compounds, particulate material, and hydroxy radicals.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

* Innovator under 35, MIT Technology Review (1999) *Kenneth T. Whitby Award, American Association for Aerosol Research (2003) *Fellow, American Association for Aerosol Research (2013) *Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2017)

References

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