Luke Ziemba – NASA Langley Research Center Science Directorate

Luke Ziemba (NASA)

Title: Research Physical Scientist

Technical Focus Areas: Airborne Science, Atmospheric Composition, Chemistry & Dynamics, Air Quality & Weather

Mission/Project: LARGE

Study Topics: In-situ aerosol properties

About:

Dr. Luke Ziemba grew up in northern New York and attended the Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in Chemistry. He later obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Earth Sciences from the University of New Hampshire with Dr. Robert Griffin and Dr. Jack Dibb. Subsequently, Dr. Ziemba did post-doctoral work at NASA Langley Research Center with Dr. Bruce Anderson and the Langley Aerosol Research Group (LARGE), where he currently works full-time making airborne in-situ chemical, microphysical, and optical property measurements of ambient aerosols.

Publication Bibliography:

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Select Publications:

Airborne observations of aerosol extinction by in situ and remote‐sensing techniques: Evaluation of particle hygroscopicity: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012GL054428
Biofuel blending reduces particle emissions from aircraft engines at cruise conditions: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21420 3. Evolution of brown carbon in wildfire plumes: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL063897
Heterogeneous conversion of nitric acid to nitrous acid on the surface of primary organic aerosol in an urban atmosphere: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231008011576
Airborne characterization of subsaturated aerosol hygroscopicity and dry refractive index from the surface to 6.5 km during the SEAC4RS campaign: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD024498
Airborne observations of bioaerosol over the Southeast United States using a Wideband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD024669
The impacts of aerosol loading, composition, and water uptake on aerosol extinction variability in the Baltimore–Washington, D.C. region: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/16/1003/2016/
Observational evidence for the convective transport of dust over the Central United States: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023789
An intercomparison of aerosol absorption measurements conducted during the SEAC4RS campaign: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02786826.2018.1500012
Development and characterization of a high-efficiency, aircraft-based axial cyclone cloud water collector: https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/11/5025/2018/

Professional Memberships:

American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Education:

B.S. Rochester Institute of Technology (2002)
M.S. University of New Hampshire (2005)
Ph.D. University of New Hampshire (2009)

Related Websites:

https://science-data.larc.nasa.gov/large/

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