Ann Marie Carlton

Dr. Carlton received an M.S. in Bioresource Engineering from Rutgers in 1999, went to work for the Environmental Protection Agency and then returned in 2003 to earn her Ph.D. (2006), funded by a prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. Her adviser was Barbara Turpin. She is now a Research Scientist in the Atmospheric Modeling Division of the U.S. EPA.

Dr. Carlton’s research verified that organic aerosols form through cloud processing due to the oxidation of isoprene and its products. She has worked at EPA to revise its chemical transport models to account for this, demonstrating that this process contributes significantly to concentrations of organic particles in the atmosphere. This work is central to the understanding of the relationship between air pollution and climate change.

Ann Marie Carlton has won several awards and invitations from her peers and is already recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in secondary organic aerosol modeling. The awards committee chose her from among a large and very competitive pool of nominees for the Graduate School-New Brunswick award for early career accomplishments.