UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Postgraduate Research Associate (2001-2002)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

Research Assistant: Prather Laboratory (1997-2001)

Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (ATOFMS):

• Particle Transmission in ATOFMS
• Study of heterogeneous reactions of Nitrogen Oxides with Sea Salt particles with ATOFMS
• Field Studies: SCOS’97, SIO 98, INDOEX, ACE-Asia

 

1995 - 1997: Teaching Assistant:

Outstanding Teaching Assistant 1995-96 Award

Physical Chemistry 110A

Physical Chemistry 110B

Quantum Chemistry 113

Research Assistant: Surface Chemistry Lab (1995-1997)

Partial Oxidation of methylene on Ni(100)

Alkyl Chain Propagation on Ni(100)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (INTI)

1988 - 1990: Department of Chemistry
Experience working with: X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, atomic absorption, IR spectrometry, NMR, GL Chromatography, Mass spectrometry, HPLC

Special Research : Development of Microencapsulation Technology for Carbonless paper

Special Research Development of Gas Chromatography technique for the analysis of vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride monomers in films and bottles. Development of isolation techniques for Vinblastine and Vincristine from Catharanthus Roseus.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY (INTI)

1990 - 1995: Packaging Technology Program (INTI-JICA) working in: Simulation techniques for product damage prediction during handling
-Residual solvents evaluation in film packaging by Head Space CGL
-Scientific and technical Japanese-English-Spanish translations
-Technical assistance for dangerous goods transportation- MERCOSUR

NESTLE S.A.

1986 - 1987: Training Scholarship 
Working in chemical, microbiological, pesticides, plaguicides laboratories

A1. Itami, H. and S.A. Guazzotti, "Actual State of the Glass Packaging Industry in Japan" Latin-American Glass   No.5 September/ November 1992, Colombia. (Research Article)

A2. Galli. M., S.A. Guazzotti, and K.A. Prather,  "Improved Lowe Particle Size Limit for Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry", Aerosol Science and Technology 34: 381-385, 2001. (Research Article)

A3. Guazzotti, S.A., J.R. Whiteaker, D.Suess, K.R. Coffee, and K.A. Prather “Real-Time Measurements of the Chemical Composition of Size-Resolved Fine Particles During a Santa Ana Winds Episode", Atmospheric Environment, 35, 3229-3240, 2001. (Research Article)

A4. Guazzotti, S.A., K.R. Coffee, and K.A. Prather, “Continuous Measurements of Size Resolved Particle Chemistry during INDOEX-Intensive Field Phase 99", Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 106 (D22), 28607-28627, 2001. (Research Article)

A5. Cantrell, W., S. Shaw, G.R. Cass, Z. Chowhury, L.S. Hughes, S.A. Guazzotti,  K.R. Coffe, and K.A. Prather,  “Closure between Aerosol Particles and Cloud Condensation Nuclei at Kaashidhoo Climate Observatory”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 106 (D22), 28711-28718, 2001. (Research Article)
 

                                                                                    B. Other Work

B1. “Controlling Particle Transmission in Transportable Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Sylvia H. Wood, and Kimberly A. Prather.  17th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1998. (Conference Proceeding)

B2. “Real Time Monitoring of Individual Aerosol Particles with a Transportable Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS) during the 1999 INDOEX-Intensive Field Phase” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather. European Aerosol Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1999. (Conference Proceeding)

B3. “Chemical Characterization of Individual Aerosol Particles during the 1999 INDOEX-Intensive Field Phase” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather. INDOEX Workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands, September 1999. (Conference Proceeding)

B4. “Real Time Monitoring of Single Aerosol Particles during INDOEX-IFP 99” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather, C4 External Advisory Panel Meeting, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, November 1999. (Panel Meeting)

B5.”Variations in the Single Particle Chemical Complexity of the Marine Aerosol during the Indian Ocean Experiment”, Keith R. Coffee, Sergio A. Guazzotti, and Kimberly A. Prather, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 1999. (Conference Proceeding)

B6. “Real Time Monitoring of Size-Resolved Single Particle Chemistry during INDOEX-IFP 99”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather, European Aerosol Conference, Dublin, Ireland,  September 2000. (Conference Proceeding)

B7. “Temporal Evolution of Aerosol Chemistry during the Indian Ocean Experiment”, Kimberly A. Prather, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Don-Y. Liu, and David P. Fergenson, European Aerosol Conference, Dublin, Ireland,  September 2000. (Conference Proceeding).

B8. “Size-Resolved Single Particle Chemistry over the Indian Ocean Region” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather, International Workshop on Tropical Environmental Problems, Palampur, India, October 2000. Invited by the Center of Clouds, Chemistry and Climate. (Conference Proceeding)

B9. “Shipboard Measurements of Size-Resolved Single Particle Chemistry with a Transportable Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS) during the 2001 ACE-Asia Intensive Field Operations” (Funds requested: $ 312,096), P.I.: Kimberly A. Prather. Granted by the National Science Foundation (ATM0080721)).

B10. “Pushing the Envelop: Most Recent ATOFMS Developments”, Sergio A. Guazzotti and Kimberly A. Prather, European Aerosol Conference, Leipzig, Germany, September 2001. Invited by TSI Incorporated, Particle Instruments. (Conference Proceeding)

B11. “Chemical Properties of Aerosol Particles during ACE-Asia: A Single Particle Perspective”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather, European Aerosol Conference, Leipzig, Germany, September 2001. (Conference Proceeding)

B12. “Real-Time Characterization of Individual Aerosol Particles during the Nighttime Aerosol/Oxidant Plume Experiment (NAOPEX): Influence of Single Particle Size and Composition on Heterogeneous Reactions” (Funds requested: $ 703,437), P.I.: Kimberly A. Prather.  Submitted for consideration to the Department of Energy. (Proposal)

B13. “Single Particle Analysis during INDOEX”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, David T. Suess, and Kimberly A. Prather, Annual American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2001. (Conference Proceeding)

B14. “Chemical Characterization of Single Aerosol Particles Sampled during ACE-Asia”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2001. (Conference Proceeding)

B15. “Spatial and Temporal Variability of Transformations Occurring on Particles during INDOEX and ACE-Asia”, Kimberly A. Prather, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and David A. Sodeman, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2001. (Conference Proceeding)

B16. “Investigating Single Particles from Volcanic Emissions during ACE-Asia”, David A. Sodeman, Sergio A. Guazzotti, and Kimberly A. Prather, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2001. (Conference Proceeding)

B17. “Characterization of Airbone Pollution is San Diego County” (Funds requested $49,780), PI: Kimberly A. Prather. Submitted for consideration to the Blasker Grants Program, The San Diego Foundation. (Proposal)

B18. “Development of Aircraft Capabilities for Single Particle Analysis with ATOFMS” (Funds requested $681,760), PI: Kimberly A. Prather, Co-PI: Sergio A. Guazzotti. Submitted for consideration to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Climate and Global Change Program, Aerosol-Climate Interactions Program Element. (Proposal)

B19. “Recent Developments in Single-Particle Analysis using Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (ATOFMS)”, Sergio A. Guazzotti and Kimberly A. Prather, 19th Symposium on Aerosol Science and Technology, Kyoto, Japan, August 2002. (Conference Proceeding)

B20. “Chemical Characteristics of Single Aerosol Particles over East Asia and the Northwest Pacific during ACE-Asia”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather, Joint International Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry within the Earth System: From Regional Pollution to Global Change, 7th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC), Crete, Greece, September 2002. (Conference Proceeding)

B21. “Characterization of Pollution Outflow from India and Arabia: Biomass Burning and Fossil Fuel Combustion”, Armin Hansel, Armin Wisthaler, Jeff W. Stehr, Russell R. Dickerson, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather, Joint International Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry within the Earth System: From Regional Pollution to Global Change, 7th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC), Crete, Greece, September 2002. (Conference Proceeding)

B22. “Regional and Temporal Variability in the Chemical Composition of Individual Particles Sampled during ACE-Asia”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, David T. Suess, Ryan Moffet, and Kimberly A. Prather, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2002. (Conference Proceeding)

B23. “The Radiative Impacts of Multicomponent Aerosols Containing Dust (MCA-D) over the ACE-Asia Study Domain”, Irina N. Sokolik, Jim Anderson, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather,
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2002. (Conference Proceeding)
 

                                                                                C. Work in Progress

C1. Dickerson, R.R., J.P. Burrows, L. Granat, S.A. Guazzotti, K.A. Prather, A. Hansel, J.E. Johnson, C. Neusuess, P.K. Quinn, D. Savoie, E.J. Welton, V. Wagner, A. Zhan, “Overview: The Cruise of the Research Vessel Ronald H. Brown during the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) 1999”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, submitted. (Research Article)

C2. Guazzotti, S.A., S.H. Pastor and K.A. Prather,  "Optimization of Aerodynamic Particle Sizing in Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers", to be submitted to Aerosol Science and Technology. (Research Article)

C3. Guazzotti, S.A., D.T. Suess, K.R. Coffee, K.A. Prather, P.K. Quinn, T.S. Bates, A. Wisthaler, A. Hansel, W. Ball, R.R. Dickerson, C. Neusuess, and P.J. Crutzen, “Characterization of Pollution Outflow from India and Arabia: Biomass Burining and Fossil Fuel Combustion”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, submitted. (Research Article)

C4. Coffee, K.R., S.A. Guazzotti and K.A. Prather, “Variations in the Dust Aerosol Complexity during the Indian Ocean Experiment”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, to be submitted. (Research Article).

C5. Coffee, K.R., S.A. Guazzotti, D.A. Sodeman, and K.A. Prather, “Evidence of Reduced Sulfur Reservoir Species on Aerosol Particles in the Nighttime Remote Marine Boundary Layer”, Geophysical Research Letters, to be submitted. (Research Article).

C6. Guazzotti, S.A., D. A. Sodeman, and K.A. Prather, “Chemical Characteristics of Single Aerosol Particles over East Asia and the Northwest Pacific during ACE-Asia”, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, to be submitted. (Research Article).

Reviewer, Atmospheric Environment, 2001

Poster Presentation at the 17th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1998. “Controlling Particle Transmission in Transportable Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Sylvia H. Wood, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Poster Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1999. “Real Time Monitoring of Individual Aerosol Particles with a Transportable Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (ATOFMS) during the 1999 INDOEX-Intensive Field Phase” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Oral Presentation at the INDOEX Workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands, September 1999. “Chemical Characterization of Individual Aerosol Particles during the 1999 INDOEX-Intensive Field Phase” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Oral Presentation at the C4 External Advisory Panel Meeting, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, November 1999. “Real Time Monitoring of Single Aerosol Particles during INDOEX-IFP 99” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Oral Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 2000. “Real Time Monitoring of Size-Resolved Single Particle Chemistry during INDOEX-IFP 99”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Oral Presentation at the International Workshop on Tropical Environmental Problems, Palampur, India, October 2000. “Size-Resolved Single Particle Chemistry over the Indian Ocean Region” Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, and Kimberly A. Prather. Invited by the Center of Clouds, Chemistry and Climate.

Participant, ACE-Asia Science Team Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2000.

Participant, U.S. Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Meeting, Potomac, Maryland, May 2001.

Invited Oral Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference, Leipzig, Germany, September 2001. “Pushing the Envelop: Most Recent ATOFMS Developments”, Sergio A. Guazzotti and Kimberly A. Prather. Invited by TSI Incorporated, Particle Instruments.

Poster Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference, Leipzig, Germany, September 2001. “Chemical Properties of Aerosol Particles during ACE-Asia: A Single Particle Perspective”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Oral presentation at the Annual American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2001. “Single Particle Analysis during INDOEX”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, Keith R. Coffee, David T. Suess, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Participant, First ACE-Asia Data Workshop, Pasadena, California, October 2001.

Poster Presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2001. “Chemical Characterization of Single Aerosol Particles Sampled during ACE-Asia”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Participant, National Aerosol-Climate Interactions Program Meeting, La Jolla, California, January 2002.

Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2002

Reviewer, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 2002

Invited Oral Presentation at the 19th Symposium on Aerosol Science and Technology, Kyoto, Japan, August 2002. “ Recent Developments in Single-Particle Analysis using Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (ATOFMS)” (presented in japanese), Sergio A. Guazzotti and Kimberly A. Prather.  Invited by the Japan Association of Aerosol Science and Technology, and Kanomax Inc.

Poster Presentation at the Joint International Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry within the Earth System: From Regional Pollution to Global Change, 7th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC), Crete, Greece, September 2002. “Chemical Characteristics of Single Aerosol Particles over East Asia and the Northwest Pacific during ACE-Asia”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, and Kimberly A. Prather.

Participant, Project Asian Brown Cloud Meeting, La Jolla, California, November 2002.

Oral Presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 2002. “Regional and Temporal Variability in the Chemical Composition of Individual Particles Sampled during ACE-Asia”, Sergio A. Guazzotti, David A. Sodeman, David T. Suess, Ryan Moffet, and Kimberly A. Prather.