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Stanley Sander
Group Supervisor

Education
  • B.A. in Physics, Pomona College (1974)
  • M.S. in Environmental Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology (1975)
  • Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology (1980)

Research Interests
  • Laboratory photochemistry, spectroscopy and kinetics studies of elementary processes important in the atmospheres of Earth and the planets
  • Measurements of atmospheric composition by ground-based remote sensing using advanced instrumental methods such as UV-Visible-NIR interferometry, polarimetry and high resolution spectroscopy
  • Analysis of global satellite data to understand mechanisms of atmospheric transformations, dynamics and long-term trends important for tropospheric air quality, solar radiation and climate change

Projects

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TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer) is one of four science instruments aboard NASA's Aura satellite, which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on July 15, 2004.

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Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies

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JIFRESSE is a scientific collaboration between UCLA and JPL to improve understanding and to develop future projections about global climate change for the Southwest US, particularly California.


Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    • Senior Research Scientist (1996-Present)
    • Lead Scientist, Atmospheric Chemistry Research Element (1994-1996)
    • Manager, Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Section (1992-1994)
    • Leader, Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry Group (1988-Present)
    • Member of the Technical Staff (1979-1988)
    • Research Assistant, Physics Section (1971-1979)
  • University of California at Los Angeles
    • Fellow Joint Institute for Regional Earth Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) (2008-Present)
    • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Atmospheric Sciences 1996
  • California Institute of Technology
    • Visiting Associate in Planetary Science and Environ. Engineering Science 1998-Present
    • Lecturer in Planetary Science and Environmental Engineering Science 1998-Present
    • Visiting Associate in Chemical Engineering 1980-1981

Selected Publications
  1. Beer, R; Shephard, M.; Kulawik, S.; Clough, S.; Eldering, A.; Bowman, K.; Sander, S.; Fisher, B.; Payne, V.; Luo, M.; Osterman, G.; Worden, J. First satellite observations of lower tropospheric ammonia and methanol, Geophys. Res. Lett. 2008, 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL033642.
  2. Celarier, E.; Brinksma, E.; Gleason, J.; Veefkind, J.; Cede, A.; Herman, J.; Ionov, D.; Goutail, F.; Pommereau, J.-F.; Lambert, J.-C.; van Roozendael, M.; Pinardi, G.; Wittrock, F.; Schoenhardt, A.; Richter, A.; Imbrahim, O.; Wagner, T.; Bojkov, B.; Mount, G.; Spinei, E.; Chen, C.; Pongetti, T.; Sander, S.; Bucsela, E.; Wenig, M.; Swart, D.; Volten, H.; Kroon, M.; Levelt, P. Validation of Ozone Monitoring Instrument nitrogen dioxide columns, J. Geophys. Res. 2008, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD008908.
  3. Pickett, H.; Drouin, B.; Canty, T.; Salawitch, R.; Fuller, R.; Perun, V.; Livesey, N.; Waters, J.; Stachnik, R.; Sander, S.; Traub, W.; Jucks, K.; Minschwaner, K. Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder OH and HO2 measurements, J. Geophys. Res. 2008, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JD008775.
  4. Hanson, J. C.; Friedl, R. R.;Sander, S.P. Kinetics of the OH+ClOOCl and OH+Cl2O reactions: experiment and theory, J. Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 9229-9237.
  5. Wang, S.; Pickett, H.; Pongetti, T.; Cheung, R.; Yung, Y.; Shim, C.; Li, Q.; Canty, T.; Salawitch, R.; Jucks, K.; Drouin, B. and Sander, S. Validation of Aura MLS OH measurements with FTUVS total OH column measurements at Table Mountain, California, J. Geophys. Res., 2008, 113, doi:10.1029/2008JD009883
  6. Cheung, R.; Li, K.; Wang, S.; Pongetti, T.; Cageao, R.; Sander, S. and Yung, Y.; An improved retrieval method for atmospheric hydroxyl (OH) abundances from ground-based ultraviolet solar spectra, Appl. Optics, 2008, 47, 6277-6284.
  7. Santee, M. L.; Sander, S. P.; Livesey, N. J. and Froidevaux, L. Constraining the chlorine monoxide/chlorine peroxide equilibrium constant from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder measurements of nighttime ClO, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2010, 107 6588-6593.
  8. Noell, A.C.; Alconcel, L. S.; Robichaud, D. J.; Okumura, M. and Sander, S. P.; Near-IR kinetic spectroscopy (IR-KS) of the HO2 and C2H5O2 self and cross reactions, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114, 6983-6995.
  9. Wang; S.; Pongetti; T. J.; Sander S. P. et al.; Direct sun measurements of NO2 column abundances from Table Mountain, California: Intercomparison of low and high resolution spectrometers, J. Geophys. Res., 2010, doi:10.1029/2009JD013503.
  10. Mollner, A. K.; Valluvadasan, S.; Feng, L.; Sprague, M. K.; Okumura, M.; Milligan, D. B.; Bloss, W. J.; Sander, S. P.; Martien, P. T.; Harley, R. A.; McCoy, A. C. and Carter, W. P. L.; Rate of gas phase association of hydroxyl radical and nitrogen dioxide, Science, 2010, 330, 646-649.
  11. Andersen, M. P. S.; Sander, S. P.; Nielsen, O. J.; Wagner, D. S.; Sanford, T. J.; and Wallington, T. J. ; "Inhalation anesthetics and climate change", British J. Anaesthesia, 2010, 105, 760-766.
  12. Zhang, X.; Sander, S. P.; Chaimowitz, A.; Ellison; G. B.; and Stanton, J. F.; "Detection of vibrational bending mode v/v8 and overtone bands of the propargyl radical, HCCCH2, ˜X 2B1, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114, 12021-12027.
  13. Andersen, M. P. S.; Andersen V. F.; Nielsen O. J.; Sander S. P. and Wallington, T. J.; Atmospheric chemistry of HCF2O(CF2CF2O)xCF2H (x=2-4): Kinetics and mechanisms of the chlorine atom initiated oxidation", Chem. Phys. Chem., 2010, 11, 4035-4041.
  14. Garland, E. R.; Mollner, A. K.; Sprague, M. K.; Bloss, C.; Bean, B. D.; Okumura, M. and Sander, S. P.; Kinetics of butoxy and pentoxy radicals and detection of isomerization products using pulsed laser photolysis-cavity ringdown spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. A, submitted.
  15. Chen, C. M.; Cageao, R. P.; Lawrence, L.; Stutz, J.; Salawitch, R. J.; Jourdain, L.; Li, Q.; and Sander, S. P.; "Diurnal variation of midlatitudinal NO3 column abundance over Table Mountain Facility, California", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2011, 11, 963-978.
  16. Zhang, X. and Sander, S. P.; Infrared absorption spectra of CO2/H2O complex in a cryogenic nitrogen matrix  detection of a new bending frequency, J. Phys. Chem. A, submitted.
  17. Grieman, F. J.; Noell, A. C.; Davis-Van Atta, C.; Okumura, M. and Sander, S. P.; Determination of equilibrium constants for the reaction between acetone and HO2 using infrared kinetics spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. A., submitted.
  18. Sander, S. P., J. Abbatt, J. R. Barker, J. B. Burkholder, R. R. Friedl, D. M. Golden, R. E. Huie, C. E. Kolb, M. J. Kurylo, G. K. Moortgat, V. L. Orkin and P. H. Wine "Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies, Evaluation No. 17," JPL Publication 10-6, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 2011 http://jpldataeval.jpl.nasa.gov.

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