Emily V. Fischer

About

Emily V. Fischer is an atmospheric chemist interested in how air pollutants are transported around the globe and how the atmosphere's self-cleansing capacity will respond to climate change. She received a BSc in atmospheric science from the University of British Columbia in 2002, an MS in Earth sciences from the University of New Hampshire in 2004, and a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington in 2010. Her MS research used ozone and aerosol data from the summit of Mount Washington to identify the meteorological controls on these air pollutants. Her PhD research explored the impact of Asian air pollution on United States air quality and climate using observations from the summit of Mount Bachelor, a dormant volcano in central Oregon. During her graduate work, she held a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship and received the 2009 DOE Wesely Research Award for collaboration. As an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University, she worked with Daniel Jacob of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to explore atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions, focusing on the processes controlling the distribution of the most important atmospheric oxidants, the hydroxyl radical and ozone.

Research topics

• Meteorology
• Environmental science
• Geography
• Chemistry
• Atmospheric sciences
• Environmental chemistry
• Environmental health
• Geology
• Medicine
• Internal medicine

Selected publications

• Creating Opportunities in the Earth Sciences: High School Partnership as a Tool for Broadening Participation

  Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01

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• Engaging High School Students in Earth Science Through Interactive Workshops on Paleoclimate and Critical Minerals

  Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Western wildfire Experiment for Cloud chemistry, Aerosol absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN)

  NSF · $1.9M · 2017–2021

• Collaborative Research: Improving the recruitment and persistence of women in the Geosciences: Exploring deliberate mentoring approaches aimed at undergraduate students

  NSF · $1.6M · 2014–2020

• Collaborative Research: Ammonia Phase PARtitioning and Transport (APART)

  NSF · $865k · 2020–2024

Frequent coauthors

• I. B. Pollack

  Colorado State University

  60 shared

• Jeffrey R. Pierce

  Colorado State University

  52 shared

• Alexander A. P. Pszenny

  University of New Hampshire

  46 shared

• F. Flocke

  NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

  39 shared

• Bonne Ford

  Colorado State University

  39 shared

• Katelyn O’Dell

  George Washington University

  36 shared

• Vivienne H. Payne

  35 shared

• Lu Hu

  University of Montana

  35 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences

  University of Washington

Awards & honors

• United States Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Research E…
• 2009 DOE Wesely Research Award

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