Jim Elkins: a brief bio

February’s presentation will feature LAS member Jim Elkins. In his day job Jim serves as Group chief, Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species Group for NOAA. Jim has essentially been scientist since high school, and in atmospheric sciences since undergraduate days at the University of Virginia. Pursuit of greater understanding in the field as taken Jim to such places as NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in the Laboratory of Planetary Atmospheres, graduate school in the Division of Applied Physics and Engineering at Harvard University,  the Center for Analytical Chemistry at the National Bureau of Standards (currently, NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, and in In 1986, he joined the Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change Program as the chief of the Nitrous Oxide and Halocarbons Group at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, CO. The group has between 10 and 12 employees and has become the Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species Group. Along the way he has authored or co-authored over 90 publications in the fields of global warming and the depletion of stratospheric ozone. His research has covered measurements of atmospheric trace species from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the heights of the stratosphere, and earned him numerous awards. [Read his full bio here: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/staff/James.W.Elkins/  ; excerpts of which were copied for this brief introduction.]