Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Fellow, AAAS
NASA Senior Goddard Fellow
Verner Suomi Award
Roger Revelle Award
William Norberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences
Scientific career
Institutions
NASA, Atmospheric Chemistry Dynamics Lab
Anne Mee Thompson is an American scientist, who specializes in atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Her work focuses on how human activities have changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, climate forcing, and the Earth's oxidizing capacity. Thompson is an elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and AAAS.
Thompson has worked as a Physical Scientist for NASA from 1986 to 2004, and she returned in 2013 and is now part of the Atmospheric Chemistry Dynamics group.[4] In 1990, Thompson was on the Third Soviet-American Gas and Aerosols cruise which explored air-sea gas exchange and trace gases in remote marine areas.[5] Thompson was co-mission scientist for NASA's 1997 DC-8 SINEX (SASS Ozone and Nitrogen Oxides Experiment) and PI for SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes)[3] which used airborne instruments such as weather balloons carrying ozonesonde packages to measure humidity, temperature and other atmospheric factors.[6] Thompson has also conducted studies with fellow NASA scientist Bob Chatfield, to identify a wind current carrying human made pollution from Asia westward, creating areas of unusually high ozone levers far away from the true causes, these studies also use satellite and weather balloon data.[7]
As of 2022, Thompson is an emeritus scientist at NASA[4] and an adjunct professor of meteorology at Penn State University.[8]
Fellow, American Meteorological Society (AMS)[9][when?]
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2002[10]
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2003[11]
The SHADOZ research team won a NASA honor award for group achievement, 2004[citation needed]
Fulbright Scholar Award [12] which she used to study human pollution in South Africa, 2010
American Meteorological Society's Verner Suomi Award for “exceptional vision and leadership in deploying technologies that have significantly advanced the understanding of ozone dynamics in the atmosphere,” 2012[13]
Roger Revelle medal for “outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences, atmosphere-ocean coupling, atmosphere-land coupling, biogeochemical cycles, climate, or related aspects of the Earth system," 2015[15]
Goddard's William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences, 2018[16]
References
^Fleming, Mrs. Paul. "Along the Way", The Chatham Press, April 9, 1970. Accessed January 27, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Anne Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Thompson of 16 Deer Run Circle, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship for physical chemistry at Princeton University. A senior at Swarthmore College, she is a graduate of Chatham Township High School."
^"Thompson CV"(PDF). Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original(PDF) on June 9, 2011. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
^Johnson, J. E.; Koropalov, V. M.; Pickering, K. E.; Thompson, A. M.; Bond, N.; Elkins, J. W. (1993). "Third Soviet-American Gases and Aerosols (SAGA 3) experiment: Overview and meteorological and oceanographic conditions". Journal of Geophysical Research. 98 (D9): 16893. Bibcode:1993JGR....9816893J. doi:10.1029/93jd00566. ISSN0148-0227.
