Biographical Sketch
Charles S. (Charlie) Zender

Department of Earth System Science zender@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender
Irvine, CA  92697-3100 Voice/Fax: (949) 824-2987/3874

i. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Harvard University, Cambridge MA Physics B.A. 1990
University of Colorado at Boulder Astrophys., Planetary, & Atmospheric Sci. M.S. 1993
University of Colorado at Boulder Astrophys., Planetary, & Atmospheric Sci. Ph.D. 1996

ii. APPOINTMENTS

2005–

Associate Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine

2000–2006

Affiliate Scientist of the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO

1999–2005

Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine

1998–1999

Visiting Scientist in Atmospheric Chemistry and CGD Divisions, NCAR

1996–1998

Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Studies Program, NCAR

1991–1996

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Colorado at Boulder

1990–1991

Visiting Faculty in Physical Sciences, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME

iii. (a). FIVE PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PROPOSED TOPIC

Zender, C. S., and J. Talamantes (2006), Solar Absorption by Mie Resonances in Cloud Droplets, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 98(1), 122–129, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2005.05.084.

Flanner, M. G., and C. S. Zender (2006), Linking Snowpack Microphysics and Albedo Evolution, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D12), D12208, doi:10.1029/2005JD006834.

Zender, C. S., H. Bian, and D. Newman (2003), Mineral Dust Entrainment And Deposition (DEAD) model: Description and 1990s dust climatology, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D14), 4416, doi:10.1029/2002JD002775.

Zender, C. S. (1999), Global climatology of abundance and solar absorption of oxygen collision complexes, J. Geophys. Res., 104(D20), 24471–24484.

Zender, C. S., B. Bush, S. K. Pope, A. Bucholtz, W. D. Collins, J. T. Kiehl, F. P. J. Valero, and J. Vitko Jr. (1997), Atmospheric absorption during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Enhanced Shortwave Experiment (ARESE), J. Geophys. Res., 102(D25), 29901–29915.

iii. (b). FIVE ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Randerson, J. T., H. Liu, M. G. Flanner, S. D. Chambers, Y. Jin, P. G. Hess, G. Pfister, M. C. Mack, K. K. Treseder, L. R. Welp, F. S. Chapin, J. W. Harden, M. L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J. C. Neff, E. A. G. Schuur and C. S. Zender (2006), The Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate Warming, In Press in Science.

Mahowald, N. M., D. Muhs, S. Levis, P. Rasch, M. Yoshioka, C. S. Zender, and C. Luo (2006), Change in atmospheric mineral aerosols in response to climate: last glacial period, preindustrial, modern, and doubled carbon dioxide climates, J. Geophys. Res., 111(D10), D10202, doi:10.1029/2005JD006653.

Flanner, M. G., and C. S. Zender (2005), Snowpack Radiative Heating: Influence on Tibetan Plateau Climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(6), L06501, doi:10.1029/2004GL022076.

Bian, H., and C. S. Zender (2003), Mineral dust and global tropospheric chemistry: Relative roles of photolysis and heterogeneous uptake, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D21), 4672, doi:10.1029/2002JD003143.

Collins, W. D., P. J. Rasch, B. E. Eaton, D. W. Fillmore, J. T. Kiehl, C. T. Beck, and C. S. Zender (2002), Simulation of Aerosol Distributions and Radiative Forcing for INDOEX: Regional Climate Impacts, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D19), 8028, doi:10.1029/2000JD000032.

iv. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

  1. Author and maintainer, Dust Entrainment and Deposition (DEAD) Model
  2. Author and maintainer, netCDF Operators (NCO)
  3. Director, UCI Earth System Modeling Facility (ESMF)
  4. Member, NCAR CCSM Atmospheric and Biogeochemistry Working Groups
  5. Annual speaker, NSF Math Science Partnership FOCUS (Faculty Outreach Collaborations Uniting Scientists, Students and Schools) K–12 teacher training program
  6. Annual speaker, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

v. (a) COLLABORATORS (past 48 months) & CO-EDITORS (past 24 months)

S. Behseta (CSUB), H. Bian (NASA/UMBC), A. Busacca (WSU), P. Chýlek (LANL), P. Colarco (NASA GSFC), M. Dubey (LANL), J. Famiglietti (UCI), C. Folland (Hadley Centre), D. Gaylord (WSU), A. Grini (U. Oslo), S. J. S. Khalsa (NSIDC), S. Jenks (UCI), F. Kuester (UCI), Z. Levin (TAU), C. Luo (UCI), N. M. Mahowald (NCAR), C. Measures (U. Hawaii), R. Miller (NASA GISS), J. K. Moore (UCI), D. Muhs (USGS), R. Pajarola (UCI), T. Painter (NSIDC), J. Randerson (NCAR), P. J. Rasch (NCAR), R. Reynolds (USGS), J. Talamantes (CSUB), I. Tegen (LITR), O. Torres (NASA GSFC), M. Yoshioka (NCAR)

v. (b) GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISORS

G. T. Thomas (CU), J. T. Kiehl (NCAR), W. A. Cooper (NCAR)

v. (c) THESIS ADVISOR AND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLAR SPONSOR

Chair or co-Chair of Thesis committee: Scott Capps (UCI), Mark Flanner (UCI), Dr. Alf Grini (U. Oslo), Qin Han (UCI), Mike Tosca (UCI), Daniel Wang (UCI)
Member of Thesis committee: Dr. Aaron Berg (UCI), Dr. Huisheng Bian (UCI), Rick Hansell (UCLA), Dr. Brian Kahn (UCLA), Dr. Marco Rodriguez (UCI)
Postdoctoral scholars supervised: Dr. Huisheng Bian (now at NASA GSFC).
Total number of graduate students supervised: 5.
Total number of postgraduate scholars sponsored: 1.