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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kimberly A. Prather is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant work in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses (2021, Science)
  • Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2021, The Lancet)
  • Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2020, Science)
  • Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (2020, Science)

Frequent coauthors in Kimberly A. Prather's research include:

  • Christopher Lee
  • Jon S. Sauer
  • Kathryn J. Mayer
  • Vicki H. Grassian
  • Francesca Malfatti

They publish regularly in the following venues:

  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Kimberly A. Prather has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2010 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2009.

Best Publications

  • Indian Ocean Experiment: An integrated analysis of the climate forcing and effects of the great Indo-Asian haze

    V. Ramanathan;P. J. Crutzen;J. Lelieveld;A. P. Mitra

  • Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses.

    Chia C. Wang;Chia C. Wang;Kimberly A. Prather;Josué Sznitman;Jose L. Jimenez;Jose L. Jimenez

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

    Kimberly A. Prather;Chia C. Wang;Robert T. Schooley

  • Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Jose L Jimenez;Kimberly A Prather;Zeynep Tufekci

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

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

  • Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.

    Jessie M. Creamean;Kaitlyn J. Suski;Daniel Rosenfeld;Alberto Cazorla

  • Real-Time Analysis of Individual Atmospheric Aerosol Particles: Design and Performance of a Portable ATOFMS

    Eric Gard;Joseph E. Mayer;Brad D. Morrical;Tas Dienes

  • Bringing the ocean into the laboratory to probe the chemical complexity of sea spray aerosol

    Kimberly A. Prather;Timothy H. Bertram;Vicki H. Grassian;Grant B. Deane

  • Sea spray aerosol as a unique source of ice nucleating particles

    Paul J. DeMott;Thomas C. J. Hill;Christina S. McCluskey;Kimberly A. Prather

  • Postsynthetic ligand exchange as a route to functionalization of ‘inert’ metal–organic frameworks

    Min Kim;John F. Cahill;Yongxuan Su;Kimberly A. Prather

  • In situ detection of biological particles in cloud ice-crystals

    Kerri A. Pratt;Paul J. DeMott;Jeffrey R. French;Zhien Wang

  • Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle.

    Janice Brahney;Natalie Mahowald;Marje Prank;Gavin Cornwell

  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

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  • Direct observations of the atmospheric processing of Asian mineral dust

    R. C. Sullivan;S. A. Guazzotti;D. A. Sodeman;D. A. Sodeman;K. A. Prather

  • In-situ measurements of the mixing state and optical properties of soot with implications for radiative forcing estimates.

    Ryan C. Moffet;Kimberly A. Prather

  • Real-time characterization of individual aerosol particles using time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Kimberly A. Prather;Trent. Nordmeyer;Kimberly. Salt

  • Chemistry and related properties of freshly emitted sea spray aerosol.

    Patricia K. Quinn;Douglas B. Collins;Vicki H. Grassian;Vicki H. Grassian;Kimberly A. Prather

  • Direct Observation of Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Atmosphere

    Eric E. Gard;Michael J. Kleeman;Michael J. Kleeman;Deborah S. Gross;Deborah S. Gross;Lara S. Hughes;Lara S. Hughes

  • Classification of Single Particles Analyzed by ATOFMS Using an Artificial Neural Network, ART-2A

    Xin-Hua Song;Philip K. Hopke;David P. Fergenson;Kimberly A. Prather

  • Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

    Kimberly A. Prather;Linsey C. Marr;Robert T. Schooley;Melissa A. McDiarmid

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Vicki H. Grassian
Vicki H. Grassian University of California, San Diego
Andrew P. Ault
Andrew P. Ault University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kerri A. Pratt
Kerri A. Pratt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Timothy H. Bertram
Timothy H. Bertram University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ryan C. Moffet
Ryan C. Moffet University of the Pacific
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Ryan C. Sullivan
Ryan C. Sullivan Carnegie Mellon University
Christopher D. Cappa
Christopher D. Cappa University of California, Davis
Thomas C. J. Hill
Thomas C. J. Hill Colorado State University

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