Elisabeth Moyer
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Department of the Geophysical Sciences
t:+1.773.834.2992 5734 S. Ellis Ave. moyer (at) uchicago (dot) edu
f:+1.773.702.9505 Chicago, IL 60637 geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer
Education
Ph.D., Planetary Science, California Insitute of Technology, 2001
B.S., Physics, with honors , Stanford University, 1990
A.B., Anthropology (Archaeology), with honors , Stanford University, 1990
Positions Held
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 2007-present
Research associate, Harvard University, 2003-2007
(lead scientist, Harvard ICOS Isotope Instrument)
Prof. James Anderson (Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology)
Postdoctoral scholar, Harvard University, 2001-2003
Research assistant, California Institute of Technology,1995-2000
Prof. Yuk Yung (Dept. of Geological and Planetary Sciences)
Research assistant, California Institute of Technology,1995-2000
Honors
NASA Group Achievement Award, TC4 mission, 2008
NASA Group Achievement Award, SAGE III Science Team, 2001
NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change, 2000
(UCAR Visiting Scientist Program)
NASA Group Achievement Award, POLARIS mission, 1998
NASA Graduate Fellowship in Global Change Science, 1995
NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1992
Phi Beta Kappa, 1989
President's Award, 1987, Stanford University
Fairclough Prize, 1986, Stanford University
Boothe Prize, 1986, Stanford University
Select Invited Presentations
FLAIR (Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research) International Confence, Sept. 2007
“The Harvard ICOS Isotope Instrument”
SPARC-GEWEX/GCSS-IGAC Invitational Workshop on Deep Convection and the TTL, June 2006
“First in-situ measurements of water vapor isotopic composition across the tropical tropopause”
UCAR 100th Postdoc Celebration, Apr. 2005
"Tracking the sources of stratospheric water: new measurements of isotopic markers
of deep convection"
Gordon Conference in Atmospheric Chemistry, Jun. 2001
Discussion leader: "Stratospheric chemistry and dynamics: water vapor transport"
American Geophysical Union, Fall Conference, Dec. 1998
WISP (Water Isotope SPectrometer): a tunable diode laser spectrometer for diagnosis
of transport and water vapor origin in the uppermost troposphere by measurement
of water vapor isotopic composition"
Special session: "Use of isotopes in constraining atmospheric chemistry and transport"
Aircraft and Balloon Campaigns
CR-AVE (Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment)
San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan.-Feb. 2006
AVE-WIIF (Aura Validation Experiment / Water Isotope Intercomparison Flights)
Houston, TX, Jun.-Jul. 2005
Harvard Isotope Instrument test flights
Houston, TX, Nov. 2004-Jan. 2005
CWVCS (Clouds and Water Vapor in the Climate System)
San Jose, Costa Rica, Jul.-Aug. 2001
ACCENT (Atmospheric Chemistry of Combustion Emissions Near the Tropopause)
WISP test flights, Houston, TX, Aug.-Sep. 1999
OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere)
Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil, Nov. 1997
OMS (Observations of the Middle Stratosphere)
Ft. Sumner, NM, Oct. 1997
POLARIS (Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region In Summer)
Fairbanks, AK, Mar.-Sep. 1997
