Research

My research focuses on using modeling to understand and describe atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and links to climate change. I develop and use 1D chemistry-transport models, 3D regional chemical transport models, meteorological models, and Lagrangian particle dispersion models, with a primary focus on understanding atmospheric chemistry in polar regions of the Earth.

Research Highlights

• Louis Marelle, Jennie L. Thomas, Shaddy Ahmed et al., Implementation and Impacts of Surface and Blowing Snow Sources of Arctic Bromine Activation Within WRF-Chem 4.1.1 + code available on GitHub and Zenodo, 2021.

• Katie Tuite, Jennie L. Thomas, et al., Quantifying nitrous acid formation mechanisms using measured vertical profiles during the CalNex 2010 campaign and 1D column modeling + code available on GitHub and Zenodo, 2021.

• Jennie L. Thomas et al., Fostering multidisciplinary research on interactions between chemistry, biology, and physics within the coupled cryosphere-atmosphere system, 2019.

• Jennie L Thomas, Christopher M Polashenski, et al., Quantifying black carbon deposition over the Greenland ice sheet from forest fires in Canada, 2017.

• Megan D Willis, Julia Burkart, Jennie L Thomas, et al., Growth of nucleation mode particles in the summertime Arctic: a case study, 2016.

Short Curriculum Vitae

Past

• Undergraduate degree (B.S.) in Chemistry, University of Washington

• Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young

• PhD in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

• Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Los Angeles

• AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, US National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)

• CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)

Present

• CNRS Researcher, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement in Grenoble (IGE)