Laboratory For Atmospheric Chemistry

This page is currently under construction; however, in the near future you will be able to read about exciting activities going on in the lab for atmospheric chemistry.

Molina Lab:

Physical chemistry of heterogenous reactions.
Homogenous gas phase reactions.

Prinn Lab:

Our laboratory contains gas chromatographs, selective chemical, electrical, and optical detectors, and a mass spectrometer for measuring a wide variety of trace gases including halocarbons, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur gases, and ozone in urban and remote atmospheres. Long-term (1978-present) global measurements of over thirty greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases are being carried out in the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE). The laboratory includes a 32-processor Beowulf cluster providing powerful computational capability for running three-dimensional global chemical transport models, and mesoscale coupled convection and chemistry models, which are used to interpret atmospheric observations using forward and inverse modelling techniques.

How to reach us:

Professor Ron Prinn,
MIT Rm. 54-1312A,
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02186
TEL:(617) 253-2452

Professor Mario Molina
MIT Rm. 54-1810,
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02186
TEL:(617) 253-5081

For more info about this page, please contact Frances Goldstein.