Welcome
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. I work on aerosol-cloud interactions, specifically on ice nucleation using lab and field campaign measurements.
Experience
- 2025–present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Colorado State University (Kreidenweis group).
- 2019–2025: Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University (Brooks group).
- 2014–2019: B.S., Geography and Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
Selected Publications
- Chen, B., Thompson, S. A., Matthews, B. H., Sharma, M., Li, R., Nowotarski, C. J., … 2025. A new technique to retrieve aerosol vertical profiles using micropulse lidar and ground-based aerosol measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
- Lei, Z., Peña, T., Thompson, S. A., Chen, B., Matthews, B. H., Li, R., Rapp, A. D., … 2025. Aerosol physicochemical mixing state and cloud nucleation potential during Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER) campaign. Environmental Science & Technology 59(29):15305–15318.
- Thompson, S. A., Chen, B., Matthews, B. H., Li, R., Nowotarski, C. J., Rapp, A. D., … 2025. Characterizing Greater Houston's aerosol by air mass during TRACER. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 130(14):e2025JD043353.
- Jensen, M. P., Flynn, J. H., Gonzalez-Cruz, J. E., Judd, L. M., Kollias, P., Kuang, C., … Chen, B., 2025. Studying Aerosol, Clouds, and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeastern Texas. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
- Rapp, A. D., Brooks, S. D., Nowotarski, C. J., Sharma, M., Thompson, S. A., Chen, B., … 2024. TAMU TRACER: Targeted mobile measurements to isolate the impacts of aerosols and meteorology on deep convection. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 105(9):E1685–E1702.
- Chen, B., Mirrielees, J. A., Chen, Y., Onasch, T. B., Zhang, Z., Gold, A., Surratt, J. D., … 2023. Glass Transition Temperatures of Organic Mixtures from Isoprene Epoxydiol-Derived Secondary Organic Aerosol. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 127(18):4125–4136.
- Mirrielees, J. A., Chen, B., Moreno, M. R., Brooks, S. D., 2021. What to wear: the filtration performance of alternative materials used to construct do-it-yourself masks. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 21(8):200633.
Contact info
Bo Chen
Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
email: bo.chen@colostate.edu
Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
email: bo.chen@colostate.edu