Loretta J. Mickley
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
109A Pierce Hall, Harvard University
29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617-496-5635
fax: 617-495-9837
mickley at fas dot harvard dot edu
ljm at io dot harvard dot edu

I am a research associate in the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group at Harvard. The goal of my research is to understand how short-lived gases and particles in the atmosphere interact with climate. For example, I study how 21st-century climate change could affect the intensity or duration of smog episodes. I also examine how the projected decline in particle concentrations over the United States in coming decades could amplify the warming due to greenhouse gases. In recent work, I am investigating changes in atmospheric composition during the last ice age. In all these studies, I use global models of the atmosphere together with observations from the recent or distant past.

For more information, see my Current and Past research pages and my Publications.

I currently mentor these students at Harvard: Eric Leibensperger, Lee Murray, Amos P.K. Tai, and Moeko Yoshitomi. Past students include Shiliang Wu (now assistant professor at Michigan Tech) and Julie Sygiel (summer intern). I work closely with Daniel Jacob, Jennifer Logan, and in recent years, Harvard alumni Rynda Hudman and Dominick Spracklen. These collaborators and others around the planet have enriched my work life. See also my Curriculum vitae.