Annmarie Grover Carlton
Biography
Annmarie Grover Carlton, Ph.D., is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. She received a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Rutgers University in 2006. Carlton served as a Fellow and Special Government Employee in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2021 to 2023, and previously held positions as a Physical Scientist at the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development and as a Research Physical Scientist at NOAA Air Resources Laboratory.
Carlton's research focuses on atmospheric chemistry, particularly multiphase chemistry and secondary organic aerosol formation. She served as lead investigator for the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS), a large field campaign supported by NSF, NOAA, EPA, and EPRI that examined atmospheric chemistry in the southeastern United States. Her work has examined the role of aerosol liquid water in organic aerosol formation, the controllability of biogenic secondary organic aerosol, and the development of chemical mechanisms for air quality models including the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model.
Carlton was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2024. She received the Susanne V. Hering Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research in 2023, the ASCENT Award from the Atmospheric Sciences section of the American Geophysical Union in 2017, and was named a Rising Star by the American Chemical Society in 2019. She served as elected Co-Chair of the Gordon Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry from 2019 to 2023 and has been an Editor for Reviews of Geophysics since 2016.
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- Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Rutgers University, 2006
- M.S. in Bioenvironmental Engineering, Rutgers University, 1999
- B.S. in Bioresource Engineering, Rutgers University-College of Engineering, 1995
Distinctions
- American Geophysical Union, elected fellow, 2024
- AAAS Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship, 2021-2022
- ASCENT Award, Atmospheric Sciences of the American Geophysical Union, 2017
- Rising Star, American Chemical Society, 2019
- American Association for Aerosol Research Susanne V. Hering Award, 2023
- Violet Diller Award for Professional Excellence, Iota Sigma Pi, 2022
- AEESP Plenary Lecture at American Association for Aerosol Research, 2020
- Dennis M. Fenton Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, 2017
- Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2016
- American Assoc. Women Geoscientists (AWG) – Distinguished Lecturer, 2011-2012
Areas of Expertise
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
- Multiphase Chemical Mechanisms
- Biogenic Emission Modeling
- Aerosol Liquid Water Dynamics
- Agricultural Air Pollution Impacts
- Cloud Processing Chemistry
Recent Publications
- Smith E.N., Baker K.R., El-Sayed M.M., Hennigan C.J., Rosanka S., Carlton A.G., “Gas-Phase Water-Soluble Organic Carbon: CMAQ Model Evaluation in Baltimore County” (opens in new tab), ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, vol. 9, pp. 1501-1509, 2025.
- Fahey K.M., Sareen N., Carlton A.G., Hutzell W.T., “Updated In-Cloud Secondary Aerosol Production in the Northern Hemisphere Predicted by the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System” (opens in new tab), ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, vol. 9, pp. 1043-1059, 2025.
- Tavakoli M., Chiu Y.T.T., Carlton A.M., Van Vranken D., Baldi P., “Chemically Informed Deep Learning for Interpretable Radical Reaction Prediction” (opens in new tab), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 65, pp. 1228-1242, 2025.
- S.H. Rosanka, M.M. Flesch, Y.T. Chiu, A.G. Carlton, “Chemically specific sampling bias: the ratio of PM2.5 to surface AOD on average and peak days in the U.S.” (opens in new tab), Environmental Science: Atmospheres, vol. 4, pp. 57, 2024.
- Chiu Y.T.T., Burns A.M., Rosanka S., Hu T., Hennigan C.J., Carlton A.G., “Chloride Interferences in Wet Chemical Oxidation Measurements: Plausible Mechanisms and Implications” (opens in new tab), ACS Es and T Water, vol. 4, pp. 5399-5407, 2024.
- A.M. Burns, G.J. Chandler, K. Dunham, A.G. Carlton, “The Data Gap: Air Quality Networks Miss Air Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” (opens in new tab), Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 57, no. 49, pp. 20718-20725, 2023.
- Y.T. Chiu, A.G. Carlton, “Aerosol Thermodynamics: Nitrate Loss from Regulatory PM2.5 Filters in California”, Environmental Science & Technology: Air, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 25-32, 2023.
- M. Tavakoli, Y.-T. Chiu, P. Baldi, A.G. Carlton, D. Van Vranken, “RMechDB: A Public Database of Elementary Radical Reaction Steps” (opens in new tab), Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 1114-1123, 2023.
- M.M. Flesch, A.E. Christiansen, A.M. Burns, V.P. Ghate, A.G. Carlton, “Ambient aerosol is physically larger on cloudy days in Bondville, IL” (opens in new tab), ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 2910-2918, 2022.
- V.P. Ghate, A.G. Carlton, T. Surleta, A.M. Burns, “Changes in aerosols, meteorology and radiation in the southeastern U.S. warming hole region during 2000-2019” (opens in new tab), Journal of Climate, vol. 35, pp. 4125-4137, 2022.
- V. Pratap, A.G. Carlton, A.E. Christiansen, C.J. Hennigan, “Partitioning of ambient organic gases to inorganic salt solutions: influence of salt identity, ionic strength, and pH” (opens in new tab), Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 24, pp. e2021GL095247, 2021.
- Y. Li, A.G. Carlton, M. Shiraiwa, “Diurnal and seasonal variations in the phase state of secondary organic aerosol material over the contiguous US simulated in CMAQ” (opens in new tab), ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 1971-1982, 2021.
Most Cited Publications
- A.G. Carlton, C. Weidinmyer, J. Kroll, “A Review of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Isoprene” (opens in new tab), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 9, pp. 4987-5005, 2009.
- A.G. Carlton, “Atmospheric Oxalic Acid and SOA Production from Glyoxal: Results of Aqueous Photooxidation Experiments” (opens in new tab), Atmospheric Environment, vol. 41, pp. 7588-7602, 2007.
- H. Guo, A.G. Carlton, “Particle water and pH in the southeastern United States” (opens in new tab), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 15, pp. 5211-5228, 2015.
- H-J Lim, A.G. Carlton, B.J. Turpin, “Isoprene Forms Atmospheric Particulate Matter through Cloud/Fog Processing: Model Simulations” (opens in new tab), Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 39, pp. 4441-4446, 2005.
- A.G. Carlton, “Model Representation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in CMAQv4.7” (opens in new tab), Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 44, pp. 8553-8560, 2010.
- A.G. Carlton, “Link between Isoprene and Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA): Pyruvic acid oxidation yields low volatility organic acids in clouds” (opens in new tab), Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, pp. L06822, 2006.
- K. Altieri, A.G. Carlton, “Oligomers formed through in-cloud methylglyoxal reactions: Chemical composition, properties, and mechanisms investigated by ultra-high resolution FT-ICR mass spectrometry” (opens in new tab), Atmospheric Environment, vol. 42, no. 7, pp. 1476-1490, 2008.
- A.G. Carlton, “To what extent can 'biogenic' SOA be controlled?” (opens in new tab), Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 44, pp. 3376-3380, 2010.
- B.E. Ervens, A.G. Carlton, “Secondary organic aerosol yields from cloud processing upon isoprene oxidation” (opens in new tab), Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, pp. L02816, 2008.
- H.O.T. Pye, A.G. Carlton, “On the implications of aerosol liquid water and phase separation for organic aerosol mass” (opens in new tab), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 17, pp. 343-369, 2017.
Contact Information
Website: https://annmariecarlton.com
Email: agcarlto@uci.edu
Phone: (949) 824-5651
Address: 380B Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-2025
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Last updated on 2/17/2026.