Rainer Volkamer
Professor • Institute Fellow, CIRES
Chemistry • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Rainer.Volkamer@colorado.edu
303-492-1843

Office: Ekeley M325
Lab: E M342, M322, M309
Lab Phone: 303-735-2235
Fax: 303-492-5894

Education

Ph.D.: Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Areas of Expertise

Trace Gases & Radicals, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric/Astrochemistry, Aerosols & Clouds, Atmospheric Field Studies, Instrument Development

Awards and Honors

  • NSF CAREER Award recipient, 2009
  • Feodor-Lynen Fellow (2005-2007)
  • Henry & Camille Dreyfus Fellow (2002-2004)
  • Marie Curie Fellow (1998-2000)
  • Erasmus Fellow (1992-1993)

Research Interests

Rainer’s general interest is the study of atmospheric chemistry in air quality and climate science, using a combination of in-situ and remote sensing measurement techniques, which he and his group are developing and deploying in polluted urban and pristine atmospheric environments from ships, research aircrafts, and autonomous ground-based networks, and in simulation chamber experiments to develop and test the mechanistic understanding represented in atmospheric models used to manage air resources and climate.

Current Research

Ocean-Atmosphere interactions over the Tropical Pacific Ocean (NSF-SGER); Coastal Halogen Atmospheric Research of Mercury Depletion (EPRI Technology Innovation); Remote Sensing of ozone and secondary organic aerosol precursor gases (NSF-CAREER); Development of Optical Spectroscopic Instrumentation for use in field and laboratory studies; Numerical Modeling of fast photochemical processes of relevance to Air Quality

Volkamer, R., J. Ziemann, and J. Molina. . 2009, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 1907-1928, 2009.

Barnard, R., R. Volkamer, and E.I. Kassianov. , 2008, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8(22), 6665-6679. 

Myriokefalitakis, S., M. Vrekoussis, K. Tsigaridis, F. Wittrock, A. Richter, C. Bruehl, R. Volkamer, J. P. Burrows, and M. Kanakidou, , 2008, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,8(16), 4965-4981.

Volkamer, R., F. San Martini, D. Salcedo, L. T. Molina, J. L. Jimenez, and M. J. Molina, , 2007, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L19807.

Volkamer, R.; Jimenez, J.L.; Dzepina, K.; Salcedo, D.; SanMartini, F.M.; Molina, L.T.; Worsnop, D.R.; Molina, M.J.; Secondary Organic Aerosol formation from Anthropogenic Air Pollution: Rapid and higher than expected. 2006, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17811. doi: 10.1029/2006GL026899.

Volkamer, R.; Molina, L.T.; Molina, M.J.; Shirley, T.; Brune, W.H.; DOAS measurement of Glyoxal as a new marker for fast VOC chemistry in urban air. 2005, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08806. doi: 10.1029/2005GL022616.