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| Education | ||
| Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry |  Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) |
2005 |
| Anticipated PhD in Chemistry |  University of California San Diego (La Jolla, California) |
2010 |
| Graduate Research Experience | ||
| PhD graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Kimberly Prather, UCSD | 2005-Present | |
| Studying the chemical, physical, and optical properties of particles in the atmosphere through the use of ATOFMS | ||
| Led preliminary CalWater Measurements in the Sierra Mountains with ATOFMS mobile laboratory studying aerosol-precipitation interactions (2/20/2009 - 3/11/2009) | ||
| Led San Diego Bay Mobile Study investigating the spatial variabilitiy of particle aroudn San Diego Bay (2/10/2009 - 2/17/2009 and 3/13/2009 - 3/16/2009) | ||
| Participated in August Mini-Intensive Gas-Aerosol Study (AMIGAS) in Atlanta, Georgia (8/1/2008 - 8/22/2008) | ||
| Led Los Angeles Basin Mobile Study II (LABMS II) (11/11/2007 - 11/26/2007) | ||
| Led Los Angeles Basin Mobile Study I (LABMS I) (8/15/2007 - 9/7/2007) | ||
| Participated in the PACific Dust EXperiment (PACDEX) in conjunction with Prof V. Ramanathan (4/1/2007 - 5/15/2007) | ||
| Led the first mobile laboratory study in conjunction with Sharon Qin (12/16/2006 - 12/19/2006) | ||
| Led the SIO Pier 2006 field campaign (8/15/2006 - 10/3/2006) | ||
| Teaching assistant for Atmospheric Chemistry, Analytical Instrumentation Laboratory (twice), and General Chemistry | ||
| Awards | ||
| 2009 Global Change Education Program (GCEP) Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship (GREF) – tuition and stipend for 1-3 years to work with Dr. Rahul Zaveri of Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL) on coupling single particle measurements and models | 2009 | |
| San Diego Association of Environmental Professionals Honorarium as part of the 2009 student scholarship awards ($500) | 2008 | |
| Unified Port of San Diego - Environmental Committee Grant Award – $10,000 grant for study examining "Real-time Source Apportionment of Atmospheric Particles Impacting the San Diego Bay" | 2007-2009 | |
| Urey Fellowship – awarded for promise in graduate studies presented by the UCSD Chemistry Department | 2005-2006 | |
| I.M. Kolthoff Award - presented by the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society for excellence in undergraduate research | 2005 | |
| Membership in Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society | 2005 | |
| Publications | ||
| Ault, A.P.; Zhu, A.; Ramanathan, V.; Prather, K.A. Analysis of Regionally Transported Particles in Gosan, Korea by Single Particle Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atomspheres in prep. | ||
| Ault, A.P.; Creamean, J.M.; Mayer, J.E.; Prather, K.A. Mobile Laboratory Observations of Spatial Variability within the Urban Aerosol in a Coastal Environment Atmospheric Environment in prep | ||
| Yandell, M.; Ault, A.P.; Pratt, K.A.; Wang, Y.; Zauscher, M; Gaston, C.J.; Prather, K.A. Characterization of secondary species in an aged urban environment after transport. Enivironmental Science and Technology in prep. | ||
| Creamean, J.M.; Pratt, K.A.; Ault, A.P.; Qin, X.; Gaston, C.J.; Shields, L.G; Prather, K.A. Inter-annual comparison of real-time, single-particle ambient aerosol measurements using ATOFMS in Riverside, CA. Environmental Science and Technology in prep. | ||
| Ault, A.; Gaston, C.; Wang, Y.; Dominguez, G.; Thiemens, M.; Prather, K. Characterization of the Single Particle Mixing State of Individual Ship Plume Events measured in the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Environmental Science and Technology in prep. | ||
| Ault, A., Moore, M., Furutani, H., Prather, K. Impact of Emissions from the Los Angeles Port Region on San Diego Air Quality during Regional Transport Events. Environmental Science and Technology (2009), 43(10) 3500–3506. | ||
| Rogers, Joy E.; Hall, Benjamin C.; Hufnagle, David C.; Slagle, Jonathan E.; Ault, Andrew P.; McLean, Daniel G.; Fleitz, Paul A.; Cooper, Thomas M. Effect of platinum on the photophysical properties of a series of phenyl-ethynyl oligomers. Journal of Chemical Physics (2005), 122(21) | ||
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Platform Presentations |
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| Ault, A.; Gaston, C; Wang, Y.; Prather, K; Single Particle Observations of Variability within the Urban Aerosol. AAAR 27th Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, United States, October 20-24, 2008. | ||
| Ault, A.P.; Zhu, A.; Ramanathan, V; Prather, K.A. ATOFMS Measurements from Gosan, Korea Seminar at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, May 20, 2007 | ||
| Poster Presentations | ||
| Ault, Andrew P.; Gaston, Casandra; Wang, Ying; Prather, Kimberly A. Observation and Characterization of Individual Ship Plumes by Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry 25th Symposium on Kinetic and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere, Univeristy of California Los Angeles, February 20, 2008 | ||
| Ault, A.; Zhu, A.. Ramanthan, V.; Prather, K Single Particle ATOFMS Measurements of the physical and chemical properties of polluted and fresh air masses in Gosan, Korea, 2007. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007. | ||
| Ault, Andrew P.; Dominguez, G.; Furutani, H.; Thiemens, M.; Prather, K A Mass Spectral Fingerprint of Ship Emission Particles by Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. AAAR 26th Annual conference, Reno, NV, United States, September 24-28, 2007. | ||
| Gross, Deborah S.; Ault, Andrew P.; Yuen, Melanie; Schmitt, Alexandra M.; Frontiera, Renee; Olson, Mark L.; Schauer, James J.; Hall, Britt. Trends in 0.2-3μm ambient particles and their relationship to atmospheric mercury. 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005. | ||
| Gross, Deborah S.; Yuen, Melanie; Ault, Andrew P.; Musicant, David R.; Anderson, Ben J.; Ritz, Anna; Schauer, James J.; Ramakrishnan, Raghu; Chen, Lei; Chen, Bee-Chung. Analysis of complex real-time atmospheric data sets: A data mining approach. 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005. | ||
| Undergraduate Research Experience | ||
| Undergraduate Research for Professor Deborah Gross, Carleton College Chemistry Department | 2004-2005 | |
| Undergraduate Research as part of Sea Education Association (SEA) aboard the Robert C. Seamans SSV (scientific sailing vessel) as part of class 193 studying oxygen and chlorophyll profiles on a transect from Hawaii to Prince Rupert BC, Canada (click here for cruise report) | 2004 | |
| Undergraduate Research for Dr. Paul Fleitz, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Labs Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio | 2003 | |
| Laboratory Skills | ||
| Aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ATOFMS) | ||
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Aerosol instrumentation
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| Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Measurements | ||
| Gas Chromatography (GC) | ||
| High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) | ||
| Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) | ||
| Ion Chromatography (IC) | ||
| Infrared and UV-Vis Spectroscopic Measurements | ||
| Software Skills | ||
| Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Frontpage), Chemdraw, Matlab, Igor, Hysplit, many types of instrument specific software | ||