Joost de Gouw
Professor • Institute Fellow, CIRES • Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs
Chemistry • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Office: Cristol Chemistry 354

Lab: Cristol Chemistry 328

Education

MSc: Physics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1990

PhD: Physics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1994 (cum laude)

Postdoctoral Fellow: JILA, University of Colorado聽Boulder, 1994-1996

Postdoctoral Fellow: NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, 1997-1998

Areas of Expertise

Atmospheric Chemistry, Volatile Organic Compounds, Mass Spectrometry, Air Quality, Climate Change

Awards and Honors

  • 2024, Award for Excellence In Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • 2022, Co-recipient, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2022, Healthy Community Award, Boulder County Public Health
  • 2020, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
  • 2018, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the category Cross-Field
  • 2018, Honorable Mention, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2018, Recipient of 鈥淢ake Our Planet Great Again鈥 grant est. by President Macron (declined)
  • 2017, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the Geosciences
  • 2017, Co-recipient, Outstanding Paper Award, NOAA Oceanic & Atmospheric Research
  • 2014, Co-recipient,聽Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2012, Co-recipient,聽Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2007, CIRES Outstanding Performance Award
  • 1998, Recipient of FOM Springplank Fellowship
  • 1994, Cum Laude PhD graduate, University of Utrecht

Research

Emissions, chemistry and loss processes of organic carbon in both the gas and particle phases in the Earth's atmosphere. The atmospheric formation of secondary pollutants such as ozone and aerosol and their influence on air quality and climate. Development and use of mass spectrometric and other methods for measurements of volatile organic compounds.

  • de Gouw, J. A., Middlebrook, A. M., Warneke, C., Goldan, P. D., Kuster, W. C., Roberts, J. M., Fehsenfeld, F. C., Worsnop, D. R., Canagaratna, M. R., Pszenny, A. A. P., Keene, W. C., Marchewka, M., Bertman, S. B. and Bates, T. S.: Budget of organic carbon in a polluted atmosphere: Results from the New England Air Quality Study in 2002, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 110, D16305, doi:10.1029/2004JD005623, 2005.
  • de Gouw, J. A. and Warneke, C.: Measurements of volatile organic compounds in the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry, Mass Spec. Rev., 26, 223鈥257, 2007.
  • de Gouw, J. A., Middlebrook, A. M., Warneke, C., Ahmadov, R., Atlas, E. L., Bahreini, R., Blake, D. R., Brock, C. A., Brioude, J., Fahey, D. W., Fehsenfeld, F. C., Holloway, J. S., Le Henaff, M., Lueb, R., McKeen, S. A., Meagher, J. F., Murphy, D. M., Paris, C., Parrish, D. D., Perring, A. E., Pollack, I. B., Ravishankara, A. R., Robinson, A. L., Ryerson, T. B., Schwarz, J. P., Spackman, J. R., Srinivasan, A. and Watts, L. A.: Organic aerosol formation downwind from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Science, 331, 1295鈥1299, 2011.
  • Koss, A. R., Warneke, C., Yuan, B., Coggon, M. M., Veres, P. R. and de Gouw, J. A.: Evaluation of NO+ reagent ion chemistry for on-line measurements of atmospheric volatile organic compounds, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2909鈥2925, 2016.
  • Koss, A. R., Yuan, B., Warneke, C., Gilman, J. B., Lerner, B. M., Veres, P. R., Peischl, J., Eilerman, S., Wild, R., Brown, S. S., Thompson, C. R., Ryerson, T., Hanisco, T., Wolfe, G. M., St Clair, J. M., Thayer, M., Keutsch, F. N., Murphy, S. and de Gouw, J. A.: Observations of VOC emissions and photochemical products over US oil- and gas-producing regions using high-resolution H3O+ CIMS (PTR-ToF-MS), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2941鈥2968, doi:10.5194/amt-2017-103, 2017.
  • Yuan, B., Koss, A. R., Warneke, C., Coggon, M., Sekimoto, K. and de Gouw, J. A.: Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Atmospheric Sciences, Chem. Rev., 117(21), 13187鈥13229, doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00325, 2017.
  • Finewax, Z., de Gouw, J. A. and Ziemann, P. J.: Identification and quantification of 4-nitrocatechol formed from OH and NO3 radical-initiated reactions of catechol in air in the presence of NOx: implications for secondary organic aerosol formation from biomass burning, Environ. Sci. Technol., 52, 1981鈥1989, 2018.
  • McDonald, B. C., de Gouw, J. A., Gilman, J. B., Jathar, S. H., Akherati, A., Cappa, C. D., Jimenez, J. L., Lee-Taylor, J., Hayes, P. L., McKeen, S. A., Cui, Y., Kim, S.-W., Gentner, D. R., Isaacman-VanWertz, G. A., Goldstein, A. H., Harley, R. A., Frost, G., Roberts, J. M., Ryerson, T. B. and Trainer, M.: Volatile Chemical Products Emerging as Largest Petrochemical Source of Urban Organic Emissions, Science, 359, 760鈥764, doi:10.1126/science.aaq0524, 2018.
  • Koss, A. R., Sekimoto, K., Gilman, J. B., Selimovic, V., Coggon, M. M., Zarzana, K. J., Yuan, B., Lerner, B. M., Brown, S. S., Jimenez, J. L., Krechmer, J. E., Roberts, J. M., Warneke, C., Yokelson, R. J. and de Gouw, J. A.: Non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning: identification,聽quantification, and emission factors from PTR-ToF during the FIREX 2016 laboratory experiment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 3299鈥3319, doi:10.5194/acp-18-3299-2018, 2018.
  • Krechmer, J. E., Lopez-Hilfiker, F. D., Koss, A. R., Hutterli, M. A., Stoermer, C., Deming, B. L., Kimmel, J. R., Warneke, C., Holzinger, R., Jayne, J. T., Worsnop, D. R., Fuhrer, K., Gonin, M. and de Gouw, J. A.: Evaluation of a New Reagent-Ion Source and Focusing Ion-Molecule Reactor for use in Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry, Anal. Chem., Accepted, doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02641, 2018.