Joost de Gouw
· Professor • Chair • Institute Fellow, CIRESUniversity of Colorado Boulder · Chemistry
Active 1990–2026
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About
Joost de Gouw is a Professor and Chair at the University of Colorado Boulder, affiliated with the Institute Fellow of CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences). His educational background includes a MSc in Physics and a PhD in Physics from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, with his PhD awarded cum laude. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory. His research focuses on atmospheric chemistry, specifically the emissions, chemistry, and loss processes of organic carbon in both the gas and particle phases in the Earth's atmosphere. He investigates the formation of secondary pollutants such as ozone and aerosol and their influence on air quality and climate. De Gouw develops and utilizes mass spectrometric and other measurement methods for volatile organic compounds and analyzes satellite remote sensing data related to Earth's atmospheric composition. His work contributes to understanding air quality, climate change, and the impact of various emission sources on atmospheric chemistry.
Research topics
- Environmental science
- Chemistry
- Atmospheric sciences
- Meteorology
- Climatology
- Environmental chemistry
- Geography
- Organic chemistry
- Geology
- Oceanography
Selected publications
Environmental Science & Technology · 2020 · 179 citations
= 0.69) enhancement ratios observed across 11 chamber experiments. Despite abundant emissions, heterocyclic compounds that included furans contribute to ∼20% of the total SOA. The use of pyrolysis-temperature-based or averaged emission profiles to represent SOA precursors, rather than those specific to each fire, provide similar results to within 20%. Our findings demonstrate the necessity of accounting for oxygenated aromatics from biomass-burning emissions and their SOA formation in chemical m…
Satellite isoprene retrievals constrain emissions and atmospheric oxidation
Nature · 2020 · 177 citations
Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States
Scientific Reports · 2020 · 150 citations
1st authorCorrespondingProduction of oil and natural gas in North America is at an all-time high due to the development and use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Methane emissions associated with this industrial activity are a concern because of the contribution to climate radiative forcing. We present new measurements from the space-based TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) launched in 2017 that show methane enhancements over production regions in the United States. In the Uintah Basin in Utah…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 142 citations
, background pollutant levels, the timing and location of emissions changes, and climate feedbacks on air quality, such as wildfires and the ozone climate penalty.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2021 · 31 citations
Wintertime episodes of high aerosol concentrations occur frequently in urban and agricultural basins and valleys worldwide. These episodes often arise following development of persistent cold-air pools (PCAPs) that limit mixing and modify chemistry. While field campaigns targeting either basin meteorology or wintertime pollution chemistry have been conducted, coupling between interconnected chemical and meteorological processes remains an insufficiently studied research area. Gaps in understandi…
Recent grants
Evolution in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Urban Atmosphere
NSF · $941k · 2022–2026
New Mass Spectrometer Technology for Analysis of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
NSF · $410k · 2006–2010
Frequent coauthors
- 1963 shared
C. Warneke
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
- 895 shared
J. B. Gilman
- 627 shared
B. M. Lerner
Aerodyne Research
- 592 shared
Abigail R. Koss
- 569 shared
P. R. Veres
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 551 shared
W. C. Kuster
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 544 shared
Jeff Peischl
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 542 shared
J. S. Holloway
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Education
- 1990
M.S., Physics
University of Utrecht
- 1994
Ph.D., Physics
University of Utrecht
- 1994
Other
JILA, University of Colorado Boulder
- 1997
Other
NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory
Awards & honors
- Award for Excellence In Research, Scholarly and Creative Wor…
- Co-recipient, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Rese…
- Healthy Community Award, Boulder County Public Health (2022)
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2020)
- Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the category Cross…
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