Curriculum Vitae for C.D. Cappa

EDUCATION
• Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2005 (with Ronald C. Cohen and Richard J. Saykally)
• B.S. with Honors, major in Chemistry, minor in Environmental Science, 2000, Hope College (Research with Matthew J. Elrod)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Earth System Research Laboratory Chemical Sciences Division, 2005-2007 (with A. R. Ravishankara)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (2007-…)
    Courses taught include: Global Climate Change (ECI 289A), Air Pollution Control System Design (ECI 150)
• Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley,
    Chemistry 1A, General Chemistry (2000)
    Chemistry 4B, General Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis (2002)
    Chemistry 125, Physical Chemistry Laboratory (2003)
• Teaching Assistant, Hope College
    Inorganic Chemistry (1998)
    Analytical Chemistry (1999)
    Introduction to World Religions (1998-99)

HONORS AND AWARDS
• Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship in Residence (2004-2005)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2001-2004)
• NASA Earth System Science Fellowship (2001, Declined)
• Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center Fellowship (2001)
• AMS/DOE ARM Program Graduate Fellowship (2000-2001)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention (2000, 2001)
• Phi Beta Kappa, Hope College Chapter (2000)
• Pharmacia-Upjohn Research Award at Hope College (2000)
• Gene Van Tamelen Award for Creativity in the Sciences at Hope College (2000)
• Sigma Xi (2000)
• Junior Chemistry Journal Award at Hope College (1999)
• Jaeker Chemistry Scholarship at Hope College (1998-2000)

PUBLICATIONS (listed by date)
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RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Understanding gas-particle partitioning of organic aerosols: Evaporation of very low volatility compounds and multi-component mixtures.” Atmospheric Chemistry Division Seminar, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 23 April 2007 (Invited).

“Determination of the evaporation rates and vapor pressures of very low-volatility compounds: a study of the C4-C10 dicarboxylic acids,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2006 (oral)

“Determination of the evaporation rates and vapor pressures of very low-volatility compounds: a study of the C4-C10 dicarboxylic acids,” International Conference on Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms, UC Davis, December 2006 (poster)

“A method for the measurement of evaporation rates and vapor pressures of aerosol related compounds,” Methods in Chemistry Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, December 2006 (Invited)

“Aqueous Solvation of Ions: Insights from X-ray Spectroscopy,” Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry Graduate Group Seminar, UC Davis, November 20, 2006 (Invited)

“Isotope fractionation of water during evaporation without condensation,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2005 (poster).

“Isotope fractionation of water during evaporation without condensation,” Gordon Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Big Sky, Montana, September 2005 (poster).

“X-ray absorption spectroscopy of aqueous salt solutions,” Scientific Support Group Lecture Series, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, August 2005 (oral).

“Effect of sodium halide salts on the hydrogen bond network of liquid water,” 52nd Annual Western Spectroscopy Association Conference, Asilomar, California, January 2005 (poster).

“Effect of sodium halide salts on the hydrogen bond network of liquid water,” Gordon Conference on Water and Aqueous Solutions, New Hampshire, July 2004 (poster).

“Raman lasing and cavity resonances in water micro-droplets: Possible effects on shortwave cloud forcing,” National American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, California, December 2003 (poster).

“Isotope Fractionation during evaporation of water,” Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Symposium, October 2002 (poster).

WORKSHOPS
“Biogenic hydrocarbons: emissions, aerosol formation and climate impacts,” NCAR, Boulder, CO October 20-21, 2006

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
• American Geophysical Union

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
• Journal Reviewer for “Geochemical Journal” (2006)
• Journal Reviewer for “Journal of Physical Chemistry”
• Journal Reviewer for “Thermochimica Acta”
• Journal Reviewer for “The Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry”

REFERENCES
Contact CDC for references

Last updated 11/15/07