Loretta J. Mickley
Senior Research Fellow
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617-496-5635
mickley at fas dot harvard dot edu
mickley at seas dot harvard dot edu
Loretta Mickley co-leads the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group at Harvard. Her research focuses on chemistry-climate interactions in the troposphere. Key topics of her research include:
- Impacts of wildfire smoke on human health and regional climate.
- Effects of climate change on air quality and implications for human health.
- Influence of aerosol trends on regional climate.
- Oxidation capacity and fire activity in preindustrial and paleo atmospheres.
Twelve Selected Publications, 2021-2023
- Overlooked long-term atmospheric chemical feedbacks alter the impact of solar geoengineering: Implications for tropospheric oxidative capacity
- Prescribed burns as a tool to mitigate future wildfire smoke exposure: Lessons for states and rural environmental justice communities
- Health impacts of smoke exposure in South America: Increased risk for populations in the Amazonian Indigenous territories
- Cascading delays in the monsoon rice growing season and postmonsoon agricultural fires likely exacerbate air pollution in north India
- A new approach for determining optimal placement of PM2.5 air quality sensors: Case study for the contiguous United States
- Contribution of biomass burning to black carbon deposition on Andean glaciers: Consequences for radiative forcing
- Aerosol-radiation interactions in China in winter: Competing effects of reduced shortwave radiation and cloud-snowfall-albedo feedbacks under rapidly changing emissions
- Improved estimates of preindustrial biomass burning reduce the magnitude of aerosol climate forcing in the Southern Hemisphere
- Rapid rise in premature mortality due to anthropogenic air pollution in fast-growing tropical cities from 2005 to 2018
- Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States
- Human-driven temporal shifts in fire activity: Southwest Russia and north Australia as case study regions
- Detection of delay in post-monsoon agricultural burning across Punjab, India: Potential drivers and consequences for air quality