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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Zender, C. S., et al., Atmospheric absorption during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Enhanced Shortwave Experiment (ARESE), J. Geophys. Res., 102(D25), 29901–29915, 1997.

NSF MRI: “Acquisition of an Earth System Modeling Facility for Coupled Climate, Chemistry, and Biogeochemistry Studies”, $1105k, PI, UCI share $1,105,000, 2003–2006.

NSF: “Using Measurements from the Columbia Plateau Eolian System to Improve Global-Scale Models of Mineral-Dust Aerosols”, $300,000, Co-I, UCI share $90,000, 2002–2005.

NASA NIP: Influence of Mineral Dust Aerosol on the Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere, PI, $330,000, 2001–2004.