Brief Bio

My name is Olivia Clifton and I am a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. I was most recently an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 2018 through March 2021. I received my PhD in 2018 from Columbia University where I worked with Arlene Fiore. My interests include land-atmosphere interactions and atmospheric chemistry, in particular the dry deposition of reactive gases and aerosols relevant for air quality, ecosystems, and climate.

Research Interests

Positions/Employment

Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer Atmospheric Aerosols, Columbia University, 2018.

Guest Lecturer Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, Columbia University, 2017. 

Teaching Assistant Earth’s Environmental System: Climate, Columbia University, 2016.

Teaching Assistant Quantitative Models of Climate-Sensitive Natural and Human Systems, Columbia University, 2014.

Teaching Assistant Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, Columbia University, 2014.

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2018. 

B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mathematics, 2012.

Professional Societies

Professional Service

Current

• Co-organizer Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Special Issue: AQMEII4: a detailed assessment of atmospheric deposition processes from point models to regional-scale models, 2020-
• Member Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) Steering Group 4, 2018- 
• Member 2020 International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Early Career Short Course Organizing Committee (Invited), 2019-

Awards

• NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2021 (Declined).
• NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, 2020.
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Biogeosciences, 2020.
• 15th Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XV), 2019.
• NCAR Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018.
• AMS First Place Oral Presentation, Third Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, 2016.
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2015 (Honorable Mention, 2014).
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Holstrom Environmental Scholarship, 2012.

Publications

Refereed

Clifton, O. E., and E. G. Patton. 2021. "Does Organization in Turbulence Influence Ozone Removal by Deciduous Forests?" Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126 (6): [10.1029/2021jg006362]

Clifton, O. E., F. Paulot, A. M. Fiore, et al. L. W. Horowitz, G. Correa, C. B. Baublitz, S. Fares, I. Goded, A. H. Goldstein, C. Gruening, A. J. Hogg, B. Loubet, I. Mammarella, J. W. Munger, L. Neil, P. Stella, J. Uddling, T. Vesala, and E. Weng. 2020. "Influence of Dynamic Ozone Dry Deposition on Ozone Pollution." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (8): [10.1029/2020jd032398]

Baublitz, C. B., A. M. Fiore, O. E. Clifton, et al. J. Mao, J. Li, G. Correa, D. M. Westervelt, L. W. Horowitz, F. Paulot, and A. P. Williams. 2020. "Sensitivity of Tropospheric Ozone Over the Southeast USA to Dry Deposition." Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (7): [10.1029/2020gl087158]

Fiore, A. M., E. V. Fischer, G. P. Milly, et al. S. Pandey Deolal, O. Wild, D. A. Jaffe, J. Staehelin, O. E. Clifton, D. Bergmann, W. Collins, F. Dentener, R. M. Doherty, B. N. Duncan, B. Fischer, S. Gilge, P. G. Hess, L. W. Horowitz, A. Lupu, I. A. MacKenzie, R. Park, L. Ries, M. G. Sanderson, M. G. Schultz, D. T. Shindell, M. Steinbacher, D. S. Stevenson, S. Szopa, C. Zellweger, and G. Zeng. 2018. "Peroxy acetyl nitrate (PAN) measurements at northern midlatitude mountain sites in April: a constraint on continental source–receptor relationships." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18 (20): 15345-15361 [10.5194/acp-18-15345-2018]