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Shane M. Murphy is affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Mechanics of Materials, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of Murphy's work center on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and the interactions within atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Additional interests include air quality and health impacts, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, atmospheric ozone and climate, as well as CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Murphy has contributed to a range of publications in notable scientific venues. These frequent publication sources include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Recent significant papers by Murphy highlight their involvement in quantifying and characterizing aerosols and methane emissions:

  • "Quantification of organic aerosol and brown carbon evolution in fresh wildfire plumes," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "New Mexico Permian Basin Measured Well Pad Methane Emissions Are a Factor of 5-9 Times Higher Than U.S. EPA Estimates," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Investigating Carbonaceous Aerosol and Its Absorption Properties From Fires in the Western United States (WE-CAN) and Southern Africa (ORACLES and CLARIFY)," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Constraining the accuracy of flux estimates using OTM 33A," 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques

Collaborative efforts have been a significant part of Murphy's research outputs. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Rudra P. Pokhrel
  • Lauren A. Garofalo
  • Delphine K. Farmer
  • Yingjie Shen
  • T. Campos

Best Publications

  • Organic aerosol components observed in Northern Hemispheric datasets from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

    N.L. Ng;M.R. Canagaratna;Q. Zhang;Q. Zhang;J.L. Jimenez

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene photooxidation.

    Jesse H. Kroll;Nga L. Ng;Shane M. Murphy;Richard C. Flagan

  • Chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol formed from the photooxidation of isoprene

    Jason D. Surratt;Shane M. Murphy;Jesse H. Kroll;Nga L. Ng

  • Effect of NO x level on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from the photooxidation of terpenes

    N. L. Ng;P. S. Chhabra;A. W.H. Chan;Jason D Surratt

  • Chamber studies of secondary organic aerosol growth by reactive uptake of simple carbonyl compounds

    Jesse H. Kroll;Nga L. Ng;Shane M. Murphy;Varuntida Varutbangkul

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene photooxidation under high-NOx conditions

    Jesse H. Kroll;Nga L. Ng;Shane M. Murphy;Richard C. Flagan

  • High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin

    Peter M. Edwards;Steven S. Brown;James M. Roberts;Ravan Ahmadov

  • Secondary aerosol formation from atmospheric reactions of aliphatic amines

    S. M. Murphy;A. Sorooshian;J. H. Kroll;N. L. Ng

  • Apportionment of primary and secondary organic aerosols in southern California during the 2005 study of organic aerosols in riverside (SOAR-1).

    Kenneth S. Docherty;Elizabeth A. Stone;Ingrid M. Ulbrich;Peter F. DeCarlo

  • Constraining the contribution of organic acids and AMS m/z 44 to the organic aerosol budget: On the importance of meteorology, aerosol hygroscopicity, and region

    Armin Sorooshian;Shane M. Murphy;Scott Hersey;Roya Bahreini

  • Quantification of organic aerosol and brown carbon evolution in fresh wildfire plumes

    Brett B. Palm;Qiaoyun Peng;Carley D. Fredrickson;Ben H. Lee

  • Oxalic acid in clear and cloudy atmospheres: Analysis of data from International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation 2004

    Armin Sorooshian;Varuntida Varutbangkul;Fred J. Brechtel;Barbara Ervens;Barbara Ervens

  • Contribution of isoprene-derived organosulfates to free tropospheric aerosol mass

    K. D. Froyd;S. M. Murphy;D. M. Murphy;J. A. de Gouw

  • Parameterization of Single Scattering Albedo (SSA) and Absorption Angstrom Exponent (AAE) with EC/OC for Aerosol Emissions from Biomass Burning

    Rudra P. Pokhrel;Nick L. Wagner;Justin M. Langridge;Daniel A. Lack

  • Flight-based chemical characterization of biomass burning aerosols within two prescribed burn smoke plumes

    K.A. Pratt;K.A. Pratt;K.A. Pratt;Shane Murphy;Shane Murphy;R. Subramanian;P.J. Demott

  • Comprehensive simultaneous shipboard and airborne characterization of exhaust from a modern container ship at sea.

    Shane M. Murphy;Harshit Agrawal;Armin Sorooshian;Luz T. Padró

  • Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing

    Hunter Brown;Xiaohong Liu;Xiaohong Liu;Rudra Pokhrel;Rudra Pokhrel;Shane Murphy

  • Air quality concerns of unconventional oil and natural gas production

    R. A. Field;J. Soltis;S. Murphy

  • Comprehensive airborne characterization of aerosol from a major bovine source

    A. Sorooshian;A. Sorooshian;S. M. Murphy;S. Hersey;H. Gates

  • Characterization of 2-methylglyceric acid oligomers in secondary organic aerosol formed from the photooxidation of isoprene using trimethylsilylation and gas chromatography/ion trap mass spectrometry.

    Rafal Szmigielski;Jason D. Surratt;Reinhilde Vermeylen;Katarzyna Szmigielska

  • Observation of playa salts as nuclei in orographic wave clouds

    Kerri A. Pratt;Kerri A. Pratt;Cynthia H. Twohy;Shane M. Murphy;Shane M. Murphy;Ryan C. Moffet

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Armin Sorooshian
Armin Sorooshian University of Arizona
Richard C. Flagan
Richard C. Flagan California Institute of Technology
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nga L. Ng
Nga L. Ng Georgia Institute of Technology
Haflidi H. Jonsson
Haflidi H. Jonsson Naval Postgraduate School
Kerri A. Pratt
Kerri A. Pratt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bin Yuan
Bin Yuan Jinan University

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