Courses Taught at Bowdoin

Physics of the Environment (Physics 81): Spring '02, '05, '07, '09, '12
Introductory Physics I (Physics 103): Fall, '02, '06, '09, '11
Introductory Physics II (Physics 104): Spring '01, '10 Fall '01, '08
Statistical Mechanics (Physics 229): Spring '00, '01, '02, '03, '05, '06, '12, '13
Acoustics (Physics 250): Fall '00, '07
Physical Oceanography (Physics 255): Fall '00, '02, '05
Atmospheric Physics (Physics 256): Fall '01, '04, '06
Atmosphere & Ocean Dynamics (Physics 257): Fall '08, '11
Physics of Particles and Nuclei (Physics 280): Spring '03, '09
Electric Fields and Circuits (Physics 223): Fall '05, '07, '09, '12
Fields & Circuits Lab (Physics 223L): Fall '04
Methods of Experimental Physics (Physics 301): Spring '06, '07, '08
Physics of Climate (Physics 357): Spring '08, '10, '13

Students I Have Supervised (and their projects)

Jesse Bastide (Surdna Fellow) Summer '00, Spring '01: Firn air sampling and analysis from the South Pole.
Carrie Simonds (Physics Research Fellow) Summer '00, Summer '01, Spring '01, Spring '02: Design and construction of AARDVARK4 automatic air sampling unit
Eric Walker (NCUR/Lancy Fellow) Summer '00: Modelling of diffusion and convection in the polar firn for highly seasonal species
Blake Sturtevant (Surdna Fellow) Summer '02, Fall '02: Design and construction of AARDVARK5 automatic air sampling unit
George Hubbard (Honors Project) Fall '02, Spring '03: Historical records of leaf-out as a proxy temperature record
Aaron Donohoe (Honors Project) Fall '02, Spring '03: Artifacts in simulated interannual variability of atmospheric CO2 and O2 signals due to unrealistic sampling of atmospheric transport models.
John Carpenter (DOE/NIGEC Fellow) Summer '03: Design and construction of the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system
Becca Perry (Physics Research Fellow) Summer '04: Construction and Testing of the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system
Will Morris (Independent Study) Spring '05: Alternative fuels for automobiles: technologies and economic prospects.
Eric Sofen (Physics Research Fellow) Summer '05: Construction and Installation of the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system
Jacob Scheckman (Indepdendent Study) Fall '05, Spring '06: Data management and hardware development of the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system.
Jayme Woodgerd (Physics Research Fellow) Summer '06: Data analysis software for the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system.
Meaghan Tanguay (Physics Research Fellow/NSF) Summer '06: Firn air sampling at Summit, Greenland and data analysis
Eric Sofen (Physics Research Fellow/NSF, Honors Project) Summer '06, Fall '06, Spring '07: A study of gases in Arctic and Antarctic firn.
Ryan Hart (Physics Research Fellow/DOE, Independent Study) Summer '07, Fall '07, Spring '08: Data analysis and hardware upgrades for the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system.
Kristina Sorg (Physics Research Fellow/NSF) Summer '08: Firn air sampling at Summit, Greenland and data analysis.
Zane Davis (Independent Study) Fall '08, Spring '09: Data analysis and hardware maintenance for the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system.
Elizabeth Chertavian (Honors Project, joint with mathematics, Mary Lou Zeeman and Adam Levy) Fall '08, Spring '09: Inversion of a firn air diffusion model to determine atmospheric gas concentration histories.
Sasha David (Physics Research Fellow/DOE) Summer '09: Data analysis software for the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system.
David Plotkin (Physics Research Fellow/NSF) Summer '09: Development and application of forward and inverse models of gas transport in polar firn.
Karina Greater (Maine Space Grant Consortium, Women in the Physical Sciences Fellowship) Summer & Fall '12: Data management and instrument calibration of the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system.
Sam Seekins (Maine Space Grant Constorium Fellowship) Summer '12: Pressure-imbalance compensation in the ArMADillo O2-CO2 measurement system
Greg Talpey (Computational Sustainability/NSF fellowship, independent study course) Summer & Fall '12: Determining the historical interhemispheric gradient in CH4 using Antarctic & Greenlandic firn air records and inverse modeling.