Scientific Advisory Board
To add breadth and depth to Picarro's internal expertise, the company looks to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The board includes world-renowned experts in engineering, physics, and chemistry, particularly technologies most closely aligned with Picarro's products and applications. The extensive and distinguished accomplishments of these scientists strengthens the company's development process and reduces time-to-revenue for new products.
In addition to regular quarterly meetings, the SAB provides advice and scientific expertise to the company on an on-going basis, particularly as it relates to Picarro technologies that are under development or in applying current technologies to new applications. The SAB also advises Picarro on individuals and institutions that would find the company's technology applicable to their scientific endeavors. The members of the SAB are:
Dr. Beverly Law
Professor, Change Forest Science in the College of Forestry & Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
Dr. Beverly Law's research focuses on the role of forests, woodlands and shrublands in the global carbon cycle. Her approach is interdisciplinary, involving in situ and remote sensing observations, and models to study the effects of climate and climate related disturbances (wildfire), land-use change and management that influence carbon and water cycling across a region over seasons to decades. As part of this research, Dr. Law studies the underlying biogeochemical and processes and trace gas exchanges between these ecosystems and the atmosphere. She is also an expert in instrumentation and methodology for Eddy Covariance / Flux research, a key tool for carbon and water cycle studies
Dr. Law has published dozens of peer-reviewed research articles as well as numerous conference presentations and posters. She currently serves as the Chair of the Global Terrestrial Observing System – Terrestrial Carbon Observations (supported by UNEP, UNESCO, WMO), and on the Science/Technology Committee of the Oregon Global Warming Commission. Until recently, she served ten years as the Science Chair of the AmeriFlux network of ~100 research sites, and six years on the Science Steering Groups of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program and the North American Carbon Program. She served on the National Research Council committee on Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements, and the committee on Air Quality Management in the U.S. She is the lead investigator on measurement and modeling programs to understand variation in terrestrial carbon sources and sinks in response to climate and disturbances from wildfires and management.
Bruce Vaughn
Co-Founder and Current Manager of the Stable Isotope Lab at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
INSTAAR, which is affiliated with the University of Colorado, is devoted to studying biogeochemical processes that control environmental change on human timescales, and works to develop new, automated techniques for measuring environmental stable isotopes. Prior to INSTAAR, Bruce was with the Water Resources Division of the USGS, Project Office Glaciology. He holds a M.Sc. in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has authored over 20 papers, primarily on paleoclimate research and glacier hydrology, and isotopic methods.
In addition, Bruce is an affiliate with the NOAA Carbon Cycle Green House Gas group at the Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, as well as the WMO/IAEA CO2 Experts group on Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Related Tracer Measurement Techniques. He is currently an Executive Committee member for Biogeosphere Atmosphere, Stable Isotope Network (BASIN), a Field Leader for West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Deep Ice Core Project and a INSTAAR Directorate member. He has also been a member of the Ice Core Working Group NSF Advisory Committee, and served on the technical oversight committee for the development of the NSF Deep Ice Core drill. He has also completed 8 polar field seasons in Greenland and Antarctica and has performed extensive work in equatorial Pacific, Alaska, Ecuador, Cascades and Rocky Mountains.
Professor Richard N. Zare
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and Chair of the Chemistry Department, Stanford University
Professor Zare began his career as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, but moved to the University of Colorado in 1966 where he held joint appointments in the departments of chemistry, and physics and astrophysics. In 1969 he was appointed to a full professorship in the chemistry department at Columbia University, becoming the Higgins Professor of Natural Science in 1975. In 1977 he moved to Stanford University. He was named Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University in 2005.
Professor Zare is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level. By experimental and theoretical studies he has made seminal contributions to the knowledge of molecular collision processes and contributed very significantly to solving a variety of problems in chemical analysis. His development of laser induced fluorescence as a method for studying reaction dynamics has been widely adopted in other laboratories.
Professor Zare has received numerous honors and awards for his accomplishments in chemical science and several awards for excellence in teaching. He holds honorary degrees from ten universities around the world and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and California Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Non-Resident Fellow of the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Professor Zare served as the Chair of the President's National Medal of Science Selection Committee 1997-2000, chaired the National Research Council's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,1992-1995, and was Chair of the National Science Board the last two years of his six years of service. He currently acts as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Annual Reviews, Inc.
Professor Zare has authored and co-authored over 700 publications and more than 50 patents, and he has published four books. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in chemical physics in 1964.
Steven C. Wofsy
Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry at Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Science and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Professor Wofsy is considered among the world's leaders in measurement of greenhouse gas dynamics and carbon emissions and cycling at local, regional and global levels. He is one of the pioneers of in-flight measurement of greenhouse gases and has also performed dozens of terrestrial research projects aimed at better modeling how greenhouse gases are emitted and cycle through the biosphere. His work has focused on changes in the composition of the stratosphere and troposphere, at first in theory and modeling and later in field and laboratory studies.
His current research emphasizes the effects of terrestrial ecosystems on the global carbon cycle, aircraft measurements of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the impacts of climate change and land use on ecosystems and atmospheric composition. Several projects focus on quantitative measurements of ecosystem carbon fluxes, for time scales spanning instantaneous to decadal and spatial scales from meters to thousands of kilometers, combining physical, chemical and biological methods. Other research interests include undertaking theoretical and modeling studies to understand depletion of stratospheric ozone in polar regions, to assess future impacts of pollutants injected into the stratosphere, and to examine ecological and historical factors affecting atmospheric concentrations of CO2.
In 2001, Dr. Wofsy received the Distinguished Public Service Medal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His other awards include AGU's McIlwane prize and NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal. He studied chemical physics at University of Chicago (BS, 1966) and Harvard (PhD 1971), shifting to atmospheric chemistry in 1971.
Eric Crosson
Chair of the SAB and Chief Technical Officer of Picarro
Prior to joining Picarro in 1999, Dr. Crosson held research positions at Stanford University, including Senior Research Associate at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (HEPL) where he directed research in the areas of medical applications, accelerator science, solid-state/surface science, molecular materials/chemistry, biophysics and free electron laser science. At Stanford, he developed a number of key cavity ring-down spectroscopy techniques.
Dr. Crosson has been a Project Manager at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at Duke University where he helped lead the design and construction of an atomic beam polarized ion source.
He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill