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Title Assistant Professor Education Ph.D. Atmospheric Physics – University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2015 Previous Experience Dr. Rocha-Lima was previously a Postdoctoral Research at JCET/UMBC working at the Dynamic Lab in NASA Goddard from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, she was selected by the Pre-Professoriate Fellowship Program and joined the UMBC Physics Department as Research Assistant Professor. Professional Interests Dr. Rocha-Lima’s research includes the study of the microphysical, optical properties and composition of atmospheric particles, their fundamental interaction with light, and their effects in the atmosphere. This work is important to understand how particulate matter present in the Earth’s atmosphere interacts with solar radiation, their effects as atmospheric constituents, and their implications for air pollution, human health, and climate. Her primary research focuses on laboratory and in situ measurements of the properties of atmospheric particles, satellite data analysis, and evaluation of atmospheric models. One of the goals is to obtain an update and accurate database of optical properties of atmospheric particles to improve remote sensing and modelling. Another branch of Dr. Rocha-Lima’s research is to investigate how Earth’s atmospheric composition has been changing in the recent decades locally and globally, and which mechanisms associated to natural and/or anthropogenic sources have been driving those changes. For that, Dr. Rocha-Lima combines long term satellite observations of atmospheric components and key meteorological parameters with global simulations using the NASA Goddard Earth Observation System (GEOS) model in collaboration with scientists from the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Selected Publications Kok, J. F., Adebiyi, A. A., Albani, S., Balkanski, Y., Checa-Garcia, R., Chin, M., Colarco, P. R., Hamilton, D. S., Huang, Y., Ito, A., Klose, M., Li, L., Mahowald, N. M., Miller, R. L., Obiso, V., Pérez García-Pando, C., Rocha-Lima, A., and Wan, J. S.: “Contribution of the world’s main dust source regions to the global cycle of desert dust”, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 8169–8193, doi:10.5194/acp-21-8169-2021, 2021. Kok, J. F., Adebiyi, A. A., Albani, S., Balkanski, Y., Checa-Garcia, R., Chin, M., Colarco, P. R., Hamilton, D. S., Huang, Y., Ito, A., Klose, M., Leung, D. M., Li, L., Mahowald, N. M., Miller, R. L., Obiso, V., Pérez García-Pando, C., Rocha-Lima, A., Wan, J. S., and Whicker, C. A.: “Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance”, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 8127–8167, doi:10.5194/acp-21-8127-2021, 2021. Schuster, G.L., Espinosa, W.R., Ziemba, L.D., Beyersdorf, A.J., Rocha-Lima, A., Anderson, B.E., Martins, J.V., Dubovik, O., Ducos, F., Fuertes, D., Lapyonok, T., Shook, M., Derimian, Y., and Moore, R.H.: “A Laboratory Experiment for the Statistical Evaluation of Aerosol Retrieval (STEAR) Algorithms”, Remote Sens., 11, 498, doi:10.3390/rs11050498, 2019. Rocha-Lima, A., Martins, J. V., Remer, L. A., Todd, M., Marsham, J. H., Engelstaedter, S., Ryder, C. L., Cavazos-Guerra, C., Artaxo, P., Colarco, P., and Washington, R.: “A detailed characterization of the Saharan dust collected during the Fennec campaign in 2011: in situ ground-based and laboratory measurements”, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 1023-1043, doi:10.5194/acp-18-1023-2018, 2018. Rocha-Lima, A., Martins, J. V., Remer, L. A., Krotkov, N. A., Tabacniks, M. H., Ben-Ami, Y., and Artaxo, P.: “Optical, microphysical and compositional properties of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash”, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10649-10661, doi:10.5194/acp-14-10649-2014, 2014. Todd, M. C., Allen, C. J. T., Bart, M., Bechir, M., Bentefouet, J., Brooks, B. J., Cavazos-Guerra, C., Clovis, T., Deyane, S., Dieh, M., Engelstaedter, S., Flamant, C., Garcia-Carreras, L., Gandega, A., Gascoyne, M., Hobby, M., Kocha, C., Lavaysse, C., Marsham, J. H., Martins, J. V., McQuaid, J. B., Ngamini, J. B., Parker, D. J., Podvin, T., Rocha-Lima, A., Traore, S., Wang, Y., and Washington, R., “Meteorological and dust aerosol conditions over the western Saharan region observed at Fennec Supersite-2 during the intensive observation period in June 2011”, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 8426-8447, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50470, 2013. Marsham, J. H., Hobby, M., Allen, C. J. T., Banks, J. R., Bart, M., Brooks, B. J., Cavazos-Guerra, C., Engelstaedter, S., Gascoyne, M., Lima, A. R., Martins, J. V., McQuaid, J. B., O’Leary, A., Ouchene, B., Ouladichir, A., Parker, D. J., Saci, A., Salah-Ferroudj, M., Todd, M. C., and Washington, R., “Meteorology and dust in the central Sahara: Observations from Fennec supersite-1 during the June 2011 Intensive Observation Period”, J. Geophys, Res. Atmos., 118, 4069-4089, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50211, 2013. |
