OWEN B. TOON - UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER

Campus Box 392, Boulder, CO 80309-0392
Phone:  303-429-1534     Fax:  303-492-6946     Email:  Toon@lasp.colorado.edu

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for the studies involving whether impacts created the Martian valley river networks, the runaway greenhouse studies for Mars and Venus-like planets.

Related Experience Summary

O. B. Toon, University of Colorado, is an authority on radiative transfer, climatology, and the environmental effects of large impacts.

Employment History

• Research Scientist, NASA, Ames Research Center, 1978-1997.
• Professor, Department of Astrophysical Planetary and Atmospheric Science/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Aug. 1997-present.
• Director, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Colorado, 2000-present.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, A.B., Physics 1969
Cornell University, Ph.D., Physics, 1975

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society

Awards and Honors

• 1983 NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
• 1986 Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest - American Physical Society
• 1989 NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement
• 1991 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
• 1992 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
• 1995 Doctorate of Science Honoris Causa-University of Southern Utah
• 2001 Group Achievement Award for SAGE-3 Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment Science Team-NASA
• 2002 Highly Cited Researchers Award, ISI Thomson Scientific one of the 100 most referenced researchers in Geoscience.

Selected Relevant Publications

RECENT CLOSELY RELATED PUBLICATIONS (out of 230 total):

T. Segura, O. B. Toon, A. Colaprete, and K. Zahnle (2002) "Environmental effects of large impacts on Mars, Science, 198, 1977-1980.

A Colaprete, and O. B. Toon, (2003) "Carbon dioxide clouds in an early dense Martian atmosphere", J. Geophys. Res., In press

D. Glandorf, A. Colaprete, M. A. Tolbert, O. B. Toon (2003) "The condensation of carbon dioxide on water ice: Implications for the Martian atmosphere", Icarus, in press.

A. Colaprete, O. B. Toon, (2002) "Carbon dioxide snow storms during the polar night on Mars", J. Geophys. Res. 107, 10.1029/2001JE001758.

A. Colaprete and Owen B. Toon, (2000) "The radiative effects of Martian water ice clouds on the local atmospheric temperature profile", Icarus, 145, 524-532.

O. Kalashnikova, M. Horanyi, G. E. Thomas, and O. B. Toon (2000) "Meteoric smoke production in the atmosphere", Geophys. Res. Lett., 27,3293-3296.

A. Colaprete, O. B. Toon and J. A. Magalhaes (1999) "Cloud formation under Mars Pathfinder conditions", J. Geophys. Res., 104, 9043-9053.

O. B. Toon (1998) "Environments of Earth and other worlds" in Carl Sagan's Universe, ed. Y. Terzian and E. Bilson, Cambridge University Press.

L. P. James, O. B. Toon, G. Schubert (1997) "A numerical microphysical model of the condensational Venus cloud" Icarus, 129, 147-171.

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