Jamison A. Smith, Ph. D.

Jamison A. Smith, Ph. D.
Research Associate
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder

Ph. D. Chemistry, University of Colorado
B. S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin

LASP/CU-Boulder
392 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
(303)492-5882 (office)
(303)492-6946 (fax)

Jamison hails from America’s Dairyland. He successfully defected to Colorado in 1996 and has been busy clmbing rocks and pounding moguls ever since. In his spare time, he studies aerosol plumes and clouds. Some time ago, he managed to wrangle a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado. He also took a few courses from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences pertaining to things like the atmosphere, clouds and climate.

His past research projects have included:

- Porous ceramics for separations and catalysis
- Photoelectrochemical cells
- Laser ablation and mass spectrometry for measuring the kinetics of physical processes on ice surfaces and within the bulk (e.g. desorption and diffusion)
- Simulation of water vapor transport and isotopic fractionation in convective clouds

Jamison is currently a research associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His current efforts are aimed at improving the treatment of aerosol plumes and clouds in general circulation models and simulating the life, death and procreation of aerosol particles within individual clouds.