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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1992 - Academy Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

J. A. de Gouw is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research centers on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main topics of work include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality monitoring and forecasting, fire effects on ecosystems, and indoor air quality and microbial exposure.

Frequent publication venues for J. A. de Gouw include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Oxygenated Aromatic Compounds are Important Precursors of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Biomass-Burning Emissions, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Satellite isoprene retrievals constrain emissions and atmospheric oxidation, 2020, Nature
  • Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

J. A. de Gouw has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • J. L. Jiménez
  • C. Warneke
  • Douglas A. Day
  • Barbara Dix
  • Abigail R. Koss

The researcher was awarded the Academy Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

In 2020, J. A. de Gouw was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissions.

    Brian C. McDonald;Brian C. McDonald;Joost A. De Gouw;Joost A. De Gouw;Jessica B. Gilman;Shantanu H. Jathar

  • Measurements of volatile organic compounds in the earth's atmosphere using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry.

    Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke

  • Budget of organic carbon in a polluted atmosphere: Results from the New England Air Quality Study in 2002

    J. A. de Gouw;J. A. de Gouw;A. M. Middlebrook;C. Warneke;C. Warneke;P. D. Goldan

  • The Indian Ocean Experiment: Widespread Air Pollution from South and Southeast Asia

    Jos Lelieveld;Paul J. Crutzen;V. Ramanathan;M. O. Andreae

  • Effects of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol formation from isoprene and monoterpenes in the southeastern United States

    Lu Xu;Hongyu Guo;Christopher M. Boyd;Mitchel Klein

  • A study of secondary organic aerosol formation in the anthropogenic-influenced southeastern United States

    Rodney J. Weber;Amy P. Sullivan;Amy P. Sullivan;Richard E. Peltier;Armistead Russell

  • Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Atmospheric Sciences

    Bin Yuan;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke;Matthew Coggon;Matthew Coggon

  • Review of Urban Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Gasoline and Diesel Motor Vehicle Emissions

    Drew R. Gentner;Shantanu H. Jathar;Timothy D. Gordon;Timothy D. Gordon;Roya Bahreini

  • Measurement of the mixing state, mass, and optical size of individual black carbon particles in urban and biomass burning emissions

    J. P. Schwarz;J. P. Schwarz;R. S. Gao;J. R. Spackman;J. R. Spackman;L. A. Watts;L. A. Watts

  • Source signature of volatile organic compounds from oil and natural gas operations in northeastern Colorado.

    J. B. Gilman;B. M. Lerner;W. C. Kuster;J. A. de Gouw

  • Organic aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere.

    Joost de Gouw;Jose L Jimenez

  • Evaluation of a New Reagent-Ion Source and Focusing Ion-Molecule Reactor for Use in Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry.

    Jordan Krechmer;Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Manuel Hutterli

  • Sensitivity and specificity of atmospheric trace gas detection by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry

    Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;Carsten Warneke;Thomas Karl;Gunter Eerdekens

  • Non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning: identification, quantification, and emission factors from PTR-ToF during the FIREX 2016 laboratory experiment

    Abigail R. Koss;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Jessica B. Gilman;Vanessa Selimovic

  • Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

    Ben H. Lee;Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Anna Lutz

  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban air: How chemistry affects the interpretation of positive matrix factorization (PMF) analysis

    Bin Yuan;Min Shao;Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;David D. Parrish

  • Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume.

    Pengfei Yu;Pengfei Yu;Pengfei Yu;Owen B. Toon;Charles G. Bardeen;Yunqian Zhu

  • Monoterpenes are the largest source of summertime organic aerosol in the southeastern United States

    Haofei Zhang;Haofei Zhang;Lindsay D. Yee;Ben H. Lee;Michael P. Curtis

  • Global budget of methanol : Constraints from atmospheric observations

    Daniel J. Jacob;Brendan D. Field;Qinbin Li;Qinbin Li;Donald R. Blake

  • Importance of secondary sources in the atmospheric budgets of formic and acetic acids

    F. Paulot;D. Wunch;J. D. Crounse;G. C. Toon

  • Organic aerosol formation in urban and industrial plumes near Houston and Dallas, Texas

    R. Bahreini;R. Bahreini;B. Ervens;B. Ervens;A. M. Middlebrook;C. Warneke;C. Warneke

  • Chemical and physical transformations of organic aerosol from the photo-oxidation of open biomass burning emissions in an environmental chamber

    C. J. Hennigan;M. A. Miracolo;G. J. Engelhart;A. A. May

  • Chemical data quantify Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon flow rate and environmental distribution

    Thomas B. Ryerson;Richard Camilli;John D. Kessler;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John S. Holloway
John S. Holloway National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jeff Peischl
Jeff Peischl Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Brian M. Lerner
Brian M. Lerner Aerodyne Research
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William C. Kuster
William C. Kuster National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
J. A. Neuman
J. A. Neuman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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