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Her research interests include atmospheric gases and particles and their impacts on air quality, ecosystem health and climate. She is an expert on integrating global models and observations from all scales to investigate atmospheric composition. Early research by Heald demonstrated that there was
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in the atmosphere which led to considerable scientific investigation in this area, including her own work on reactive organic carbon in the atmosphere. She is also known for her work on natural aerosol sources (bioaerosol, sulfate from DMS, smoke from fires) and how land use change impacts
162:. She moved to MIT in 2012, where she held positions in both the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. She was head of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition Research group at MIT.. In 2024, Heald moved to 297: 287: 151: 96: 302: 292: 155: 139: 307: 159: 101: 179: 166:
to lead the Atmospheric Chemistry group in the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science..
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Queen's University (B.Sc., 2000), Harvard University (Ph.D, 2005)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
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Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship at the
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and become a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
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Montreal, Quebec
ETH Zurich
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colorado State University
ETH Zurich
Montreal
Ottawa
BSc
Queen's University
PhD
Harvard University
NOAA
University of California, Berkeley
Colorado State University
ETH Zurich
aerosols
James B. Macelwane Medal


"There's something in the air"
"Colette L. Heald"
"Heald Group at MIT"
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Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Harvard University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty

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