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Biographical Sketch
CHARLES S. ZENDER

Department of Earth System Science zender@uci.edu
University of California http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender
Irvine, CA  92697-3100 Voice/Fax: (949) 824-2987/3256

i. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Harvard University, Cambridge MA Physics B.A. 1990
University of Colorado, Boulder CO Atmospheric Sciences M.S. 1993
University of Colorado, Boulder CO Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. 1996

ii. APPOINTMENTS

1999–now

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

2000–2006

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

1998–1999

Visiting Scientist in Atmospheric Chemistry and CGD Divisions, NCAR

1996–1998

Postdoc in Advanced Studies Program, NCAR

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., H. Bian, and D. Newman, Mineral Dust Entrainment And Deposition (DEAD) model: Description and 1990s dust climatology, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D14), 4416, doi:10.1029/2002JD002775, 2003. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘ZBN03.pdf)

Zender, C. S., D. Newman, and O. Torres, Spatial Heterogeneity in Aeolian Erodibility: Uniform, Topographic, Geomorphic, and Hydrologic Hypotheses, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D17), 4543, doi:10.1029/2002JD003039, 2003. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘ZNT03.pdf)

Bian, H., and C. S. Zender, Mineral dust and global tropospheric chemistry: Relative roles of photolysis and heterogeneous uptake, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D21), 4672, doi:10.1029/2002JD003143, 2003. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘BiZ03.pdf)

Bian, H., and C. S. Zender, Heterogeneous impact of dust on tropospheric ozone: Sensitivity to season, species, and uptake rates, Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2003. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘BiZ04.pdf)

Mahowald, N. M., C. Luo, and J. del Corral, and C. S. Zender, Interannual variability in Atmospheric Mineral Aerosols from a 22-year Model Simulation and Observational Data, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D12), 4352, doi:10.1029/2002JD002821, 2003. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘MLD03.pdf)

iii. (b). FIVE ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Ammann C. M., J. T. Kiehl, C. S. Zender, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, and R. S. Bradley: Coupled simulations of the 20th century including external forcing, In Press in J. Climate, 2004. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘AKZ03.pdf)

Grini, A., C. S. Zender, and P. Colarco, Saltation sandblasting behavior during mineral dust aerosol production, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(18), 1868, doi:10.1029/2002GL015248, 2002. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘GZC02.pdf)

Mahowald, N. M., C. S. Zender, C. Luo, D. Savoie, O. Torres, and J. del Corral, Understanding the 30 year Barbados desert dust record, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D21), 4561, doi:10.1029/2002JD002097, 2002. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘MZL02.pdf),

Grini, A., and C. S. Zender, Roles of saltation, sandblasting, and wind speed variability on mineral dust aerosol size distribution during the Puerto Rican Dust Experiment (PRIDE), In Press in J. Geophys. Res., 2004. (http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr˘GrZ04.pdf)

Ammann, C. M., G. A. Meehl, W. M. Washington, and C. S. Zender, A Monthly and Latitudinally Varying Volcanic Forcing Dataset in Simulations of 20th Century Climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(12), 1657, doi:10.1029/2003GL016875, 2003.

iv. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

1. Director, UCI Earth System Modeling Facility (http://www.ess.uci.edu/esmf).
2. Author, NCO netCDF Operators, a freely available geophysical data manipulation toolkit used at all major climate modeling centers (http://nco.sf.net).
3. NASA New Investigator Grant to study chemical impacts of mineral dust and to integrate satellite data into science breadth courses.
4. Member, NCAR CCSM Atmospheric and Biogeochemistry Working Groups.
5. Maintainer, NCAR Column Radiation Model (http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/crm).

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

C. A. Ammann (NCAR), H. Bian (NASA/UMBC), G. B. Bonan (NCAR), A. Busacca (WSU), P. Chavez (USGS), P. Colarco (NASA GSFC), W. D. Collins (NCAR), J. Famiglietti (UCI), D. Gaylord (WSU), A. Grini (U. Oslo), J. T. Kiehl (NCAR), F. Kuester (UCI), N. M. Mahowald (NCAR), J. Meyer (UCI), J. K. Moore (UCI), G. Okin (U. Virginia), R. Pajarola (UCI), K. Purvis (Claremont), P. J. Rasch (NCAR), R. Reynolds (USGS), O. Torres (NASA GSFC), F. P. J. Valero (Scripps), S. Yu (Duke)

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

Member of Thesis committee: Aaron Berg (UCI), Huisheng Bian (UCI), Alf Grini (University of Oslo), Brian Hahn (UCLA), Marco Rodriguez (UCI)
Chair of Thesis committee: Mark Flanner (UCI)
Postdoctoral scholars supervised: Huisheng Bian (now at NASA GSFC).
Total number of graduate students supervised: 3.
Total number of postgraduate scholars sponsored: 1.