Charles E. Kolb

Dr. Kolb has extensive experience in atmospheric and environmental chemistry, combustion chemistry and the chemistry and physics of rocket and aircraft exhaust plumes.  He has authored or coauthored  over 200 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these and related topics, including gas-phase and heterogeneous (gas-surface) chemical kinetics, quantitative trace gas spectroscopy and computer simulations of chemically reacting systems. He also initiated ARI's efforts in the development of advanced laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry sensors for atmospheric trace gaess, aerosol particles and soil contaminants, and the measurement of ambient concentrations and emissions and deposition fluxes of atmospheric pollutants.

He has been a member of numerous government and National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council boards and committees and was recognized as a National Associate of the National Academies in 2003.  He received the 1997 Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology from the American Chemical Society and has been elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as the atmospheric sciences editor of the journal, Geophysics Research Letters (1995-1999) and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics (1990-1992)  and Environmental Science & Technology (2011-).