Research Summary
Chemical reactions that take place in the atmosphere control the severity of two of the most challenging environmental crises: air pollution and climate change. My research focuses on understanding how the chemical composition of the atmosphere will change in response to our efforts to control anthropogenic emissions and seeks to explain Utah's wintertime and summertime air pollution / air quality issues by using state of the art, global chemical transport models and observations.
Biography
Jessica Haskins is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences focuses on research in the field of Atmospheric Chemistry. Originally from rural GA, she was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with Prof. Colette Heald. She received her B.Sc. in Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences from MIT in 2014, and graduated with her Ph’D in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 2020. She is broadly interested in utilizing data from a variety of sources to better understand variability in air quality and climate to help guide realistic representations of physical and chemical phenomenon in global climate models.