| whelan_cv_180501.pdf |
|
Current Position
Dec 2017-2019 |
Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles and Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, CA |
Education
|
PhD, Geography
Winter 2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Terrestrial-Atmospheric Exchange of Reduced Sulfur Compounds in Natural Ecosystems |
|
BA, Chemistry and Political Science
Spring 2004 |
New College of Florida
The honors college of the state university system |
Appointments
|
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 |
|
Postdoctoral Scholar
2014-2015 |
Sierra Nevada Research Institute
Deciphering Urban and Natural Exchanges of Carbon in the San Francisco Bay Area |
|
Researcher, Facilitator
2013-2015 |
NSF Geoscience Education Program
Future Scientists Improving the Public’s Climate Literacy |
|
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 |
|
Graduate Student Researcher
2007-2013 |
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Atmospheric Sustainability Laboratory |
Research Interests
biosphere-atmosphere interactions
biochemical cycling
atmospheric chemistry
novel approaches for estimating carbon uptake
biochemical cycling
atmospheric chemistry
novel approaches for estimating carbon uptake
publications
|
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.
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. www.biogeosciences.net/15/3625/2018/ 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. 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. 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. 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., 16, 3711-3726, 2016. Whelan, ME, and Rhew, RC: Reduced sulfur trace gas exchange between a seasonally dry grassland and the atmosphere. Biogeochemistry, 128, 267–280, 2016. Pdf here: 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, 42, 2015GL063445, 2015. 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, 67, 2015. 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, 2014JG002661, doi:10.1002/2014JG002661, 2015. Rhew, RC, Whelan, ME and Min, D-H: Large methyl halide emissions from south Texas salt marshes, Biogeosciences, 11, 6427–6434, doi:10.5194/bg-11-6427-2014, 2014. Whelan, ME, Min, D-H and Rhew, RC: Salt marshes as a source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide, Atmospheric Environment, 131–137, 2013. 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, 118, 239–247, doi:DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20020, 2013. 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, 88, 581–586, doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2011.11.038, 2012. 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, 45, 977-985, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.10.053, 2011. |
Honors and awards
|
Carnegie Postdoc Innovation Award
|
2017
|
|
NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
|
2015 - 2017
|
|
Janet Witter Award for Environmental Science Research
|
2013
|
|
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
|
2012
|
|
Martin Foundation Research Funding Award
|
2012
|
|
UC Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant
|
2012
|
|
Graduate Student Association Community Leader Award
|
2010
|
Invited Seminars
|
USGS Rocky Mountain Research Science Seminar
Golden, CO Three ways to evaluate how well we know the carbon cycle |
Mar 2018
|
|
Carbonyl Sulfide Research Group Workshop
Hyytiälä, Finland Many paths to GPP estimates |
Sep 2016
|
|
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Biogeochemistry Seminar Series New approaches to evaluate land carbon models |
Sep 2016
|
|
Wayne State University
Department of Geology Seminar Series Intertwining the fast C and S cycles |
Apr 2016
|
|
Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Plant Biology Round Table Seminar Better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake using measurements of COS exchange |
Feb 2015
|
|
Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Global Ecology Seminar Soils, complexity, and ecosystem carbon exchange |
Oct 2014
|
|
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Connecting C and S biogeochemical cycles: GPP, mineralization in soil and rainfall events |
Jun 2013
|
Synergistic Activities
|
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
|
As Instructor
|
Promoting Climate Literacy
|
|
As Teaching Assistant
|
Introduction to Earth Science
Introduction to Oceans World Regions, Peoples, and States Global Warming |
|
As Guest Lecturer
|
Ecophysiology and Land Surface Processes (Stanford)
California Landscapes Gender and Climate Change The Ocean World |
Software Development Experience
Languages: Python (numpy/scipy), 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
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 Community, 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 and Aquarium, 2005-2006
Deep and surface water sampling, trace element sampling (e.g. Fe),
in situ sample prep, boat piloting/trailering in inter-coastal waters
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 Community, 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 and Aquarium, 2005-2006
Deep and surface water sampling, trace element sampling (e.g. Fe),
in situ sample prep, boat piloting/trailering in inter-coastal waters
|
Whelan, M., B.W. LaFranchi, R. Bambha, H.A. Michelsen, M.L. Fischer, H.D. Graven, I. Baker, T. Guilderson and J.E. Campbell. Improved Carbon Flux Observations over Urban Areas Using Carbonyl Sulfide (COS) to Differentiate Contributions from Biosphere. Abstract B42B-06 presented at the 2016 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
Berry, J.A., J.E. Campbell, I. Baker, M. Whelan, T. Hilton. Carbonyl Sulfide: Is It an Isotope of CO2 on Steroids? Invited Oral Presentation. Abstract B54A-01 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Campbell, J.E., M.Whelan, J. Stinecipher, A. Zumkehr, J. Berry, T. Dawson, U. Seibt, T. Hilton, S. Kulkarni, R. Commane, W. Angevine, Y. Lu, S. Herndon, M. Zahniser. Understanding fog-plant interactions at the ecosystem scale using atmospheric carbonyl sulfide. Oral Presentation. Abstract A52E-07 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Hilton, T., M.E. Whelan, S. Kulkarni, A. Zumkehr, J.A. Berry, J.E. Campbell. (Uncertain) Carbonyl Sulfide Plant Fluxes Spatially Constrain (Even More Uncertain) CO2 GPP. Abstract B33C-0710 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Meredith, L, K. Boye, M. Whelan, E. Pang, C. von Sperber, N. Brueggemann, J. Berry, P. Welander. Microbial, Physical and Chemical Drivers of COS and 18O-CO2 Exchange in Soils. Oral Presentation. Abstract B22E-03 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Ogee, J., J. Sauze, J. Kesselmeier, B. Genty, M. Whelan, T. Launois, L. Wingate. A new mechanistic framework to predict OCS fluxes from soils. Oral Presentation. Abstract B54A-02 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Rastogi, B., C. Still, D. Noone, M. Berkelhammer, M. Whelan, C. Lai, D. Hollinger, M. Gupta, J.B. Leen, and Y. Huang. Continuous In-situ Measurements of Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS) and Carbon Dioxide Isotopes to Constrain Ecosystem Carbon and Water Exchanges. Oral Presentation. Abstract B22E-05 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Whelan, M., T. Hilton, J. Berry, M. Berkelhammer, A. Desai, B. Rastogi, J.E. Campbell. Overcoming uncertainty with carbonyl sulfide-based GPP estimates: observing and modeling soil COS fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Oral Presentation. Abstract B22E-07 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Wingate, L, R. Wehr, R. Commane, J. Ogee, J. Sauze, S. Jones, T. Launois, S. Wohl, M. Whelan, L. Meredith, B. Genty, T. Gimeno, J. Kesselmeier, A. Bosc, M. Cuntz, J. Munger, D. Nelson, S. Saleska, S. Wofsy, M. Zahniser. The impact of Carbonic Anhydrase on the partitioning of leaf and soil CO18O and COS gas exchange across scales. Invited Oral Presentation. Abstract B22E-04 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec. Whelan, M.E., R.C. Rhew, J.E. Campbell, T. Hilton, M. Berkelhammer, A. Zumkehr, J. Berry. Assessing soil fluxes of carbonyl sulfide to aid in ecosystem estimates of GPP. Abstract B53A-0152 presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 15-19 Dec. Whelan, M.E. and R.C. Rhew (2013). Exchange of carbonyl sulfide (COS), a potential tracer of gross primary productivity, between grassland ecosystem components and the atmosphere. Oral presentation. Abstract B54A-07 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 7-13 Dec. Whelan, M.E., and R.C. Rhew (2013).Connecting C and S biogeochemical cycles: mineralization in soil and rainfall events. Oral presentation. Abstract #43759 presented at 2013 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 3-9 Aug. Whelan, M.E., and R.C. Rhew (2012). Effect of rainfall on terrestrial fluxes of global cooling gases: carbonyl sulfide (COS) and its precursor dimethyl sulfide (DMS). Oral presentation. Abstract B44C-07 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 3-7 Dec. Whelan, M.E., M.A.H. Khan, K. Barnash, J. Vollering, R.C. Rhew (2011). DMS pulse and COS valley: the effect of simulated rainfall on sulfur gas exchange in dry soils of uncultivated marine terraces. Abstract B11A-0463. presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 5-9 Dec. Whelan, M.E., D. Min, Y. Liu, R.C. Rhew (2009). Diurnal fluxes of carbonyl sulfide (COS) in a subtropical salt marsh. Abstract B51A-0288 presented at 2009 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 14-18 Dec. Whelan, M.E., D. Min, R.C. Rhew (2008). Fluxes of methyl halides in subtropical salt marshes. Oral presentation. Abstract A44B-07 presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA., 15-19 Dec. |