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Current Position
Fall 2019 |
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University |
Education
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PhD, Geography
Winter 2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Terrestrial-Atmospheric Exchange of Reduced Sulfur Compounds in Natural Ecosystems |
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BA, Chemistry and Political Science
Spring 2004 |
New College of Florida
The honors college of the state university system |
Appointments
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NSF-AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2015-2017 |
Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology
Stable Isotope Investigations of Soil Trace Gas Exchange for Better Quantification of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes |
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Postdoctoral Scholar
2014-2015 |
Sierra Nevada Research Institute
Deciphering Urban and Natural Exchanges of Carbon in the San Francisco Bay Area |
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Researcher, Facilitator
2013-2015 |
NSF Geoscience Education Program
Future Scientists Improving the Public’s Climate Literacy |
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Graduate Student Instructor
2007-2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Promoting Climate Literacy Global Warming Introduction to Ocean Sciences Introduction to Earth Science World Regions, Peoples, and States |
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Graduate Student Researcher
2007-2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Atmospheric Sustainability Laboratory |
Research Interests
biosphere-atmosphere interactions
biogeochemical cycling of S, C, and water
gas phase atmospheric chemistry
novel approaches for estimating carbon uptake
biogeochemical cycling of S, C, and water
gas phase atmospheric chemistry
novel approaches for estimating carbon uptake
publications
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Villalba, G, ME Whelan, S Montzka, P Cameron-Smith, M Fischer, A Zumkehr, T Hilton, J Stinecipher, I Baker, RP Bambha, HA Michelsen, B LaFranchi, C Estruch, E Campbell: “Using carbonyl sulfide to track the urban biosphere signal” JGR-Atmosphere [in press].
Parazoo, N, K Bowman, J Liu, M Lee, L Kuai, B Baier, Y Shiga, I Baker, ME Whelan, S Feng, M Krol, K Davis: Covariation of airborne biogenic tracers (CO2, COS, and CO) supports stronger than expected growing season photosynthetic uptake in the southeastern US, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, [in review]. Hu, L, S Montzka, A Kaushik, A Andrews, C Sweeney, J Miller, I Baker, S Denning, E Campbell, Y Shiga, P Tans, C Siso, M Crotwell, K McKain, K Thoning, B Hall, I Vimont, J Elkins, ME Whelan, P Suntharalingam: Gross primary production over the North American Arctic and Boreal region inferred from atmospheric carbonyl sulfide measurements, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021. 10.1073/pnas.2103423118 Maignan, F, C Abadie, M Remaud, LMJ Kooiijmans, K Kohonen, R Commane, R Wehr, JE Campbell, S Belviso, SA Montzka, N Raoult, U Seibt, YP Shiga, N Vuichard, ME Whelan, P Peylin: Carbonyl Sulfide: Comparing a Mechanistic Representation of the Vegetation Uptake in a Land Surface Model and the Leaf Relative Uptake Approach, Biogeosciences Discussions, 2021, https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-381/. Whelan, ME, LDL Anderegg, G Badgley, JE Campbell, R Commane, C Frankenberg, TW Hilton, L Kuai, N Parazoo, Y Shiga, Y Wang, J Worden: Two Scientific Communities Striving for a Common Cause: innovations in carbon cycle science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0306. Walker, AP, MG De Kauwe, A Bastos, S Belmecheri, K Georgiou, R Keeling, SM McMahon, BE Medlyn, DJP Moore, RJ Norby, S Zaehle, KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, G Battipaglia, RJW Brienen, KG Cabugao, M Cailleret, JE Campbell, J Canadell, P Ciais, ME Craig, D Ellsworth, G Farquhar, S Fatichi, JB Fisher, D Frank, H Graven, L Gu, V Haverd, K Heilman, M Heimann, BA Hungate, CM Iversen, F Joos, M Jiang, TF Keenan, J Knauer, C Körner, VO Leshyk, S Leuzinger, Y Liu, N MacBean, Y Malhi, T McVicar, J Penuelas, J Pongratz, AS Powell, T Riutta, MEB Sabot, J Schleucher, S Sitch, WK Smith, B Sulman, B Taylor, C Terrer, MS Torn, K Treseder, AT Trugman, SE Trumbore, PJ van Mantgem, SL Voelker, ME Whelan, PA Zuidema: Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2, New Phytologist, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16866. Berkelhammer, M, B Alsip, R Matamala, D Cook, ME Whelan, C Bernacchi, J Miller, T Meyers: Seasonal evolution of canopy stomatal conductance for a prairie and maize field in the midwestern US from continuous carbonyl sulfide fluxes, GRL, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085652 Meredith, LK, J Ogée, K Boye, E Singer, L Wingate, C von Sperber, A Sengupta, ME Whelan, E Pang, M Keiluweit, N Brüggemann, JA Berry, and PV Welander: Soil exchange rates of COS and CO18O differ with the diversity of microbial communities and their carbonic anhydrase enzymes, ISME Journal, 2019. https://rdcu.be/baB7C Whelan, ME, ST Lennartz, TE Gimeno, R Wehr, G Wohlfahrt, Y Wang, L Kooijmans, TW Hilton, S Belviso, P Peylin, R Commane, W Sun, H Chen, L Kuai, I Mammarella, K Maseyk, M Berkelhammer, K-F Li, D Yakir, A Zumkehr, Y Katayama, J Ogée, FM Spielmann, F Kitz, B Rastogi, J Kesselmeier, J Marshall, K-M Erkkilä, L Wingate, LK Meredith, W He, R Bunk, T Launois, T Vesala, JA Schmidt, CG Fichot, U Seibt, S Saleska, ES Saltzman, SA Montzka, JA Berry, and JE Campbell: Reviews and Syntheses: Carbonyl Sulfide as a Multi-scale Tracer for Carbon and Water Cycles, Biogeosciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3625-2018 Rastogi, B, M Berkelhammer, S Wharton, ME Whelan, FC Meinzer, D Noone, and CJ Still: Ecosystem fluxes of carbonyl sulfide in an old-growth forest: temporal dynamics and responses to diffuse radiation and heat waves, Biogeosciences, 2018. https://www.biogeosciences.net/15/7127/2018/ Campbell, JE, J Kesselmeier, D Yakir, JA Berry, P Peylin, S Belviso, T Vesala, K Maseyk, U Seibt, H Chen, ME Whelan, TW Hilton, SA Montzka, MB Berkelhammer, ST Lennartz, L Kuai, G Wohlfahrt, Y Wang, NJ Blake, DR Blake, J Stinecipher, I Baker, and S Sitch: Assessing a New Clue to How Much Carbon Plants Take Up, EOS, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO075313 Meredith, L, K Boye, C Youngerman, ME Whelan, J Ogée, J Sauze, and L Wingate: Coupled Biological and Abiotic Mechanisms Driving Carbonyl Sulfide Production in Soils, Soil Systems, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems2030037 Zumkehr, A, TW Hilton, ME Whelan, S Smith, L Kuai, J Worden, JE Campbell, Global gridded anthropogenic emissions inventory of carbonyl sulfide, Atmospheric Environment, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.03.063 Campbell, JE, ME Whelan, JA Berry, TW Hilton, A Zumkehr, J Stinecipher, Y Lu, A Kornfeld, U Seibt, TE Dawsome, SA Montzka: Coastal redwood sink of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide provides a new biogeochemical tracer for coastal fog-mediated processes, JGR-Biogeosciences, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003703 Hilton, TW, ME Whelan, A Zumkehr, S Kulkarni, JA Berry, I Baker, SA Montzka, C Sweeney, BR Miller, JE Campbell: Peak growing season gross uptake of carbon in North America is largest in the Midwest, USA, Nature Climate Change, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3272 Zumkehr, A, TW Hilton, ME Whelan, S Smith, JE Campbell: Gridded anthropogenic emissions inventory and atmospheric transport of carbonyl sulfide in the U.S., JGR-Atmospheres, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025550 Whelan, ME, Hilton, TW, Berry, JA, Berkelhammer, M, Desai, AR, Campbell, JE: Carbonyl sulfide exchange in soils for better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2016. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3711-2016 Whelan, ME, and Rhew, RC: Reduced sulfur trace gas exchange between a seasonally dry grassland and the atmosphere. Biogeochemistry, 2016. https://rdcu.be/6gbH. Campbell, JE, Whelan, ME, Seibt, U, Smith, SJ, Berry, JA, and Hilton, TW: Atmospheric carbonyl sulfide sources from anthropogenic activity: Implications for carbon cycle constraints. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063445 Hilton, TW, Zumkehr, A, Kulkarni, S, Berry, J, Whelan, ME, Campbell, JE: Large variability in ecosystem models explains uncertainty in a critical parameter for quantifying GPP with carbonyl sulphide. Tellus B, 2015. https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v67.26329 Whelan, ME, and Rhew, RC: Carbonyl sulfide produced by abiotic thermal and photo-degradation of soil organic matter from wheat field substrate, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JG002661 Rhew, RC, Whelan, ME and Min, D-H: Large methyl halide emissions from south Texas salt marshes, Biogeosciences, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6427-2014 Whelan, ME, Min, D-H and Rhew, RC: Salt marshes as a source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide, Atmospheric Environment, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.02.048 Khan, MAH, Rhew, RC, Zhou, K and Whelan, ME: Halogen biogeochemistry of invasive perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) in a peatland pasture, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrg.20020 Khan, MAH, Whelan, ME, and Rhew, RC: Analysis of low concentration reduced sulfur compounds (RSCs) in air: storage issues and measurement by gas chromatography with sulfur chemiluminescence detection, Talanta, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2011.11.038 Khan, MAH, Rhew, RC, Whelan, ME, Zhou, K and Deverel, SJ: Methyl halide and chloroform emissions from a subsiding Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta island converted to rice fields, Atmospheric Environment, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.10.053 |
Honors and awards
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AGU Caregiver Award
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2018
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Carnegie Postdoc Innovation Award
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2017
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NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
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2015 - 2017
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Janet Witter Award for Environmental Science Research
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2013
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Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
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2012
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Martin Foundation Research Funding Award
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2012
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UC Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant
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2012
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Graduate Student Association Community Leader Award
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2010
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Invited Seminars
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Rutgers Department of Ecology and Evolution
New Brunswick, NJ What do plants do all day? |
Apr 2021
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University of Delaware
Department of Geography and Geosciences The Persistent Mystery of Land Carbon Uptake |
Mar 2021
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Lamont-Doherty Observatory
Palisades, NY Unraveling the Carbon Cycle with Carbonyl Sulfide |
Oct 2020
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NASA Goddard GISS Group
New York, New York Tracers in the Trees: Innovations in Carbon Cycle Tools |
Mar 2020
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NASA ECOSTRESS Science Team Meeting
Ventura, CA New Estimates of Terrestrial Carbon and Water Fluxes |
Feb 2020
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Keynote talk: 2nd International OCS Workshop
Obergurgl, Austria What we don’t know about OCS-specific uncertainties |
Nov 2019
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ORNL Integrating Evidence for CO2 Fertilization, Biosphere II
Oracle, AZ Carbon fertilization from the ice core record |
Sept 2018
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USGS Rocky Mountain Research Science Seminar
Golden, CO Three ways to evaluate how well we know the carbon cycle |
Mar 2018
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Carbonyl Sulfide Research Group Workshop
Hyytiälä, Finland Many paths to GPP estimates |
Sep 2016
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Biogeochemistry Seminar Series New approaches to evaluate land carbon models |
Sep 2016
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Wayne State University
Department of Geology Seminar Series Intertwining the fast C and S cycles |
Apr 2016
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Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Plant Biology Round Table Seminar Better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake using measurements of COS exchange |
Feb 2015
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Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Global Ecology Seminar Soils, complexity, and ecosystem carbon exchange |
Oct 2014
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Connecting C and S biogeochemical cycles: GPP, mineralization in soil and rainfall events |
Jun 2013
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Synergistic Activities
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Mentoring. Trained 12 undergraduate research assistants in laboratory-based and field-based gas analyses; advised 4 undergraduate students in the completion of their honors theses.
Community. Initialized and authored a comprehensive review paper for best practices applying the carbonyl sulfide tracer technique. Organized an international organization of researchers to focusing on new approaches to measuring photosynthesis. Maintain community website (cosanova.org) and facilitate semi-annual meetings. Peer Review. Review papers for PNAS, Frontiers in Ecology, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (EGU), Biogeosciences (EGU), and Atmospheric Environment. Public educational institutions. Subject specialist for NSF-sponsored Promoting Climate Literacy Project with the Lawrence Hall of Science; developed course curriculum to teach climate change outreach to informal audiences by undergraduate and graduate students University educational outreach. Delivered physical science-focused guest lectures in 4 social sciences courses to promote cross-discipline dialogue; graduate student instructor for 5 courses |
Teaching experience
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As Instructor
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Atmospheric Chemistry
Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Promoting Climate Literacy |
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As Teaching Assistant
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Introduction to Earth Science
Introduction to Oceans World Regions, Peoples, and States Global Warming |
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As Guest Lecturer
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Ecophysiology and Land Surface Processes (Stanford)
California Landscapes Gender and Climate Change The Ocean World |
Software Development Experience
Languages: Python, Matlab
Modeling: WRF, STILT, ESMF (ESMPy regridding)
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux
Modeling: WRF, STILT, ESMF (ESMPy regridding)
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux
FieldWORK Experience
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Howland Forest, Orono, ME: 2021-continuing
Installation of laser spectrometer, soil chambers, gradient method OCS, CH4, CO2, and N2O; in collaboration with Daniel Oberst at UMass Lowell and Roisin Commane at Columbia University. Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil: INPE, 2018-continuing Installation and calibration of laser spectrometer; method development for programmable flask sampling for flights over the Amazon, in collaboration with Joe Berry of the Carnegie Institution, Elliott Campbell of UC Santa Cruz, Luciana Gatti of INPE, and John Miller of NOAA. Boulder Creek, CA: Big Basin State Park, 2016-continuing Design and construction of instrument platform, installed 65 m up at the top of redwood tree, for continuous observation of OCS, CO, and CO2. Soil, litter, and lichen collection and incubation. Urbana, IL: Bondville FLUXNET site, 2015-2016 Deployment of re-designed soil auto-sampling chambers to assess agricultural soil COS fluxes in situ, supported by lab incubation experiments, in collaboration with Max Berkelhammer at the University of Illinois Chicago. Big Sur, CA: Big Creek UC Reserve, 2015-2016 Design and construction of “Trees-not-Towers” gas sampling device, diurnal observation of trace gases from different canopy heights in a coastal redwood forest in collaboration with Todd Dawson of University of California, Berkeley and Elliott Campbell, current advisor Wind River, WA: Wind River Experimental Forest, 2015 Re-design of Li-Cor autosampling chambers for COS soil sampling, continuous surface COS fluxes in old growth forest, in collaboration with Chris Still and Bharat Rastogi of Oregon State University Santa Cruz, CA: Wilder Ranch State Park, 2012-2014 Conducted monthly trace gas sampling campaigns on marine terraces in collaboration with USGS scientist Marjorie Schulz Puerto Rico: Luquillo Experimental Forest, 2010 Design and construction of chemically inert chambers for reduced sulfur compound sampling, in situ rainforest soil trace gas measurements with Whendee Silver of University of California, Berkeley Sacramento Bay Delta, CA: Sherman Island, 2009-2010 Conduct year-long monthly field campaign with 4 research assistants, chamber sampling halogenated compounds using isotope tracer technique Port Aransas, TX: Mollie Beattie Coastal Habitat, 2008-2009 Wetland sampling of sulfur and halogenated compounds with Dong-Ha Min of the University of Texas at Austin Manhattan, KS: Konza Prairie Long Term Ecological Research Station, 2007 Diurnal sampling of halogenated gases using chamber technique Barrow, AK: Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, 2007 Construction and deployment of ebullition chambers, high frequency chamber sampling of methane with laser technique, coastal permafrost erosion methane sampling with Joe von Fischer of Colorado State University Gulf of Mexico: Mote Marine Laboratory, 2005-2006 Deep and surface water sampling, trace element sampling (e.g. Fe), in situ sample prep, boat piloting/trailering in inter-coastal waters |