Elisabeth Moyer
 
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Elisabeth Moyer
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

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    Education
 
  • Ph.D., Planetary Science, California Insitute of Technology, 2001
  • B.S., Physics, with honors , Stanford University, 1990
  • A.B., Anthropology (Archaeology), with honors , Stanford University, 1990
 
    Positions held
 
  • Research associate, Harvard University, 2003-present
    • (lead scientist, Harvard ICOS Isotope Instrument)
    • Prof. James Anderson (Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
  • Postdoctoral scholar, Harvard University, 2001-2003
  • Research assistant, California Institute of Technology,1995-2000
    • Prof. Yuk Yung (Dept. of Geological and Planetary Sciences)
  • NSF graduate fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1993-1995
 
    Honors and awards
 
  • NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change, 2000
    • (UCAR Visiting Scientist Program)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, POLARIS mission, 1998
  • Caltech /JPL President's Fund research grant, lead author, 1997
    • "In-situ spectroscopy of atmospheric water vapor isotopes"
    • (PIs: Y.L. Yung and R.D. May)
  • NASA Graduate Fellowship in Global Change Science, 1995
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1992
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1989
  • President's Award, 1987, for academic achievement, Stanford University
  • Fairclough Prize, 1986, for excellence in classics, Stanford University
  • Boothe Prize, 1986, University writing award, Stanford University
 
    Selected invited presentations
 
  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, R.S.A., 2006
    • Lecturer, "Introduction to climate modeling" (Dec. 2006)
    • Lecturer, "Environmental modeling" (Feb.-Mar. 2006)
  • Cargese International Summer School on the UT/LS, Oct. 2005
    • Lecturer, "Observations of water in the UT/LS"
  • UCAR 100th Postdoc Celebration, Apr. 2005
    • "Tracking the sources of stratospheric water: new measurements of isotopic markers of deep convection"
  • Gordon Conference in Atmospheric Chemistry, Jun. 2001
    • Discussion leader: "Stratospheric chemistry and dynamics: water vapor transport"
  • American Geophysical Union, Fall Conference, Dec. 1998
    • WISP (Water Isotope SPectrometer): a tunable diode laser spectrometer for diagnosis of transport and water vapor origin in the uppermost troposphere by measurement of water vapor isotopic composition''
    • Special session: "Use of isotopes in constraining atmospheric chemistry and transport"
 
    Aircraft & balloon campaigns
 
  • CR-AVE (Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment)
    • San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan.-Feb. 2006
  • AVE-WIIF (Aura Validation Experiment / Water Isotope Intercomparison Flights)
    • Houston, TX, Jun.-Jul. 2005
  • Harvard Isotope Instrument test flights
    • Houston, TX, Nov. 2004-Jan. 2005
  • CWVCS (Clouds and Water Vapor in the Climate System)
    • San Jose, Costa Rica, Jul.-Aug. 2001
  • ACCENT (Atmospheric Chemistry of Combustion Emissions Near the Tropopause)
    • + WISP test flights, Houston, TX, Aug.-Sep. 1999
  • OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere)
    • Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil, Nov. 1997
  • OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere)
    • Ft. Sumner, NM, Oct. 1997
  • POLARIS (Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region In Summer)
    • Fairbanks, AK, Mar.-Sep. 1997