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Lori A. Del Negro > Biographical Sketch

Lori Del Negro earned a chemistry degree from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY before carrying out doctoral work in analytical atmospheric chemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory.  The focus of her doctoral work was the impact of reactive nitrogen species on the gas phase and heterogeneous chemistry of stratospheric ozone, as determined through high-altitude aircraft fieldwork aboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft.  A National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship enabled her to expand her expertise to ground-based measurements of ozone-depleting gases using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry at the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory.  On beginning her career in the chemistry department at Lake Forest College in 2003, her research focus shifted to measurements of urban air toxics through an ongoing collaboration with the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.  Recent fieldwork includes the Texas Air Quality Study 2006 in Houston, TX, and preliminary measurements of benzene gradients in the Chicago area.