Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Atmospheric biogeochemistry and mass spectrometry

Atmospheric chemistry; Instrument development & high resolution mass spectrometry; Field and laboratory measurements of reactive trace gases, pesticides and particles; Oxidation of organic compounds in the atmosphere; Biosphere-atmosphere exchange.

Farmer, D.K., A.E. Perring, P.J. Wooldridge, D. Blake, A. Baker, S. Meinardi, L.G. Huey, D. Tanner, O. Vargas, R.C. Cohen. 2011. Impact of organic nitrates on urban ozone production. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 11, 4085-4094, doi:10.5194/acp-11-4085-2011. Farmer, D.K., A. Matsunaga, K.S. Docherty, J.D. Surratt, J.H. Seinfeld, P.J. Ziemann, and J.L. Jimenez. 2010. Response of the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer to organonitrates and organosulfates and implications for field studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 107:6670-6675. Farmer, D.K., J.R. Kimmel, G. Phillips, K.S. Docherty, D.R. Worsnop, D. Sueper, E. Nemitz, and J.L. Jimenez. 2011. Eddy-Covariance Measurements with High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometry: A New Approach to Chemically-Resolved Aerosol Fluxes. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4, 1275-1289, doi:10.5194/amt-4-1275-2011.