Emeritus Professor

Education BA 1967 - Occidental College - Chemistry MS 1968 - Northwestern University - Physical Chemistry Ph.D 1970 - Northwestern University - Physical Chemistry Research Interests Air-sea Exchange of Trace Gases, especially DMS (SOLA) Marine Aerosol Production, Growth, and Cloud Interactions (PASE, VOCALS) Climatic Impact of Organic and Elemental Carbon Aerosols (MLO) Radiative Properties of Biomass Burning Smoke Particles (BASE-ASIA) Airborne Aerosol Sampling Technologies (PELTI) Community Activities Int’l. SOLAS SSC and Executive Committee, 2002 – present US SOLAS SSC, 2005 - present VOCALS SSG, 2005 – present Associate Editor of Tellus, 1997-presen Keynote Speaker, Joint IGAC/CACGP/WMO Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry at Interfaces, Capetown, SA, 2006. IGAC SSC, 1991-98; IGAC-MAGE Convenor, 1989-2002 NAS/NRC Panel on Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate, 1993-95 CACGP, 1990-98 ACE-Asia Lead Scientist

Teaching Activites

• OCN 201 - Science of the Sea
• OCN 623 - Chemical Oceanography
• OCN 643 - Chemistry of the Marine Atmosphere

Selected Publications

• Simpson, R. M. C., S. G. Howell, B. W. Blomquist, A. D. Clarke, and B. J. Huebert (2014), Dimethyl sulfide: Less important than long-range transport as a source of sulfate to the remote tropical Pacific marine boundary layer, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 119, doi:10.1002/2014JD021643.
• Chin, M., et al. (2014), Multi-decadal aerosol variations from 1980 to 2009: a perspective from observations and a global model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14(7), 3657-3690, doi:10.5194/acp-14-3657-2014.
• Blomquist, B., B. Huebert, C. Fairall, L. Bariteau, J. Edson, J. Hare, and W. McGillils (2014), Advances in Air-Sea CO2 Flux Measurement by Eddy Correlation, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, online, doi:10.1007/s10546-014-9926-2.
• Tsay, S., et al. (2013), From BASE-ASIA toward 7-SEAS: A satellite-surface perspective of boreal spring biomass-burning aerosols and clouds in Southeast Asia, Atmospheric Environment. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.013
• Li, C., et al. (2012), Observation, Modeling and Impact Studies of Biomass Burning and Pollution in the SE Asian Environment, Atmos. Environ., ATMENV-D-11-01788.
• Blomquist, B. W., C. W. Fairall, B. J. Huebert, and S. T. Wilson (2012), Direct measurement of the oceanic carbon monoxide flux by eddy correlation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 5 (www.atmos-meas-tech.net/5/3069/2012/), 3069-3075, doi:doi: 10.5194/amt-5-3069-2012.
• Yang, M., B. Huebert, B. Blomquist, S. Howell, L. Shank, C. McNaughton, V. Kapustin, A. Clarke, L. Hawkins, L. Russell, D. Covert, J. Johnson, T. Bates, P. Quinn, N. Zagorac, A. Bandy, S. deSzoeke, P. Zuidema, S. A. Tucker, and W. Brewer (2011), Atmospheric Sulfur Cycling in the Southeast Pacific –Longitudinal Distribution, Diel Variability, and New Particle Formation Observed from VOCALS-REx, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 5079-5097 doi:5010.5194/acp-5011-5079-2011
• Fairall, C. W., M. Yang, L. Bariteau, J. B. Edson, D. Helmig, W. McGillis, S. Pezoa, J. E. Hare, B. Huebert, and B. Blomquist (2011), Implementation of the COARE flux algorithm with CO2, DMS, and O3, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 116, C00F09, doi:10.1029/2010JC006884.
• Wood, R., C. R. Mechoso, C. S. Bretherton, H. B. J. Huebert, and e. al. (2011), The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): goals, platforms, and field operations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 627-654 DOI: 610.5194/acp-5111-5627-2011.
• Salter, M., R. C. Upstill-Goddard, P. D. Nightingale, B. J. Huebert, M. X. Yang, B. W. Blomquist, D. T. Ho, and P. Schlosser (2011), Impact of an artificial surfactant release on air-sea gas fluxes during Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment II, J Geophys Res - Oceans, 116, C11016, DOI: 11010.11029/12011JC007023
• Yang, M., B. W. Blomquist, C. W. Fairall, S. D. Archer, and B. J. Huebert (2010), Air-sea Exchange of Dimethylsulfide (DMS) in the Southern Ocean – Measurements from SO GasEx Compared to Temperate and Tropical Regions, JGR, 116 (C4), DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006526
• Huebert, B. J., B. W. Blomquist, M. X. Yang, S. D. Archer, P. D. Nightingale, M. J. Yelland, J. Stephens, R. W. Pascal, and B. I. Moat (2010), Linearity of DMS Transfer Coefficient with Both Friction Velocity and Wind Speed in the Moderate Wind Speed Range, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L01605.
• Blomquist, B. W., B. J. Huebert, C. W. Fairall, and I. Faloona (2010), Determining the sea-air flux of dimethylsulfide by eddy correlation using mass spectrometry, Atmos. Meas. Tech. 3, 1-20.
• Yang, M. X., B. W. Blomquist, and B. J. Huebert (2009), Constraining the Concentration of the Hydroxyl Radical in a Stratocumulus-topped Marine Boundary layer from Sea-to-air Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements of Dimethylsulfide, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 9225-9236.
• Yang, M., S. Howell, J. Zhuang, and B. Huebert (2009), Attribution of Aerosol Light Absorption to Black Carbon, Brown Carbon, and Dust in China – Interpretations of Atmospheric Measurements during EAST-AIRE, Atmos. Chemistry and Physics, 9, 2035-2050.
• Saito, T., K. Kawamura, U. Tsunogai, T.-Y. Chen, H. Matzueda, T. Nakatsuka, T. Gamo, M. Uematsu, and B. J. Huebert (2009), Photochemical histories of non-methane hydrocarbons inferred from their stable carbon isotope ratio measurements over East Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D11303.
• Brooks, I. M., M. J. Yelland, R. C. Upstill-Goddard, P. D. Nightingale, S. Archer, E. d’Asaro, R. Beale, C. Beatty, B. Blomquist, A. A. Bloom, B. J. Brooks, J. Cluderay, D. Coles, J. Dacey, M. DeGrandpre, J. Dixon, W. M. Drennan, J. Gabriele, L. Goldson, N. Hardman-Mountford, M. K. Hill, M. Horn, P.-C. Hsueh, B. Huebert, G. d. Leeuw, T. G. Leighton, M. Liddicoat, J. J. N. Lingard, C. McNeil, J. B. McQuaid, B. I. Moat, G. Moore, C. Neil, S. J. Norris, S. O’Doherty, R. W. Pascal, J. Prytherch, M. Rebozo, E. Sahlee, M. Salter, U. Schuster, I. Skjelvan, H. Slagter, M. H. Smith, P. D. Smith, M. Srokosz, J. A. Stephens, P. K. Taylor, M. Telszewski, R. Walsh, B. Ward, D. K. Woolf, D. Young, and H. Zemmelink (2009), Physical Exchanges at the Air–SeSea Interface: UK–SOLAS Field Measurements, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 629-644.
• Bailey, K. E., D. A. Toole, B. Blomquist, R. G. Najjar, B. Huebert, D. J. Kieber, R. P. Kiene, R. Matrai, G. R. Westby, and D. A. del Valle (2008), Dimethylsulfide production in Sargasso Sea eddies, Deep-Sea Res Pt Ii, 55, 1491-1504.
• Hammes, K., M. W. I. Schmidt, R. J. Smernik, L. A. C. (Ret.), W. P. Ball, T. H. Nguyen, P. Louchouarn, S. Houel, O. r. Gustafsson, M. Elmquist, G. Cornelissen, J. O. Skjemstad, C. A. Masiello, J. Song, P. a. Peng, S. Mitra, J. C. Dunn, P. G. Hatcher, W. C. Hockaday, D. M. Smith, C. Hartkopf-Fröder, A. Böhmer, B. Lüer, B. J. Huebert, W. Amelung, S. Brodowski, L. Huang, W. Zhang, P. M. Gschwend, D. X. Flores-Cervantes, C. Largeau, J.-N. l. Rouzaud, C. Rumpel, G. Guggenberger, K. Kaiser, A. Rodionov, F. J. Gonzalez-Vila, J. A. Gonzalez-Perez, J. M. d. l. Rosa, D. A. C. Manning, E. López-Capél, and L. Ding (2007), Comparison of quantification methods to measure fire-derived (black/elemental) carbon in soils and sediments using reference materials from soil, water, sediment and the atmosphere, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 21, doi:10.1029/2006GB002914.
• Arimoto, R., Y. J. Kim, Y. P. Kim, P. K. Quinn, T. S. Bates, T. L. Anderson, S. Gong, I. Uno, M. Chin, B. J. Huebert, A. D. Clarke, Y. Shinozuka, R. J. Weber, J. R. Anderson, S. A. Guazzotti, R. C. Sullivan, D. A. Soderman, K. A. Prather, and I. Sokolik. Characterization of Asian dust during ACE-Asia. Global and Planetary Change, 52, 23-56, 2006.
• Bailey, K. E., D. A. Toole, B. Blomquist, R. G. Najjar, B. J. Huebert, D. J. Kieber, R. Kiene, P. Matrai, G. Westby, and D. A. delValle, 2006: Estimation of dimethylsulfide production in Sargasso Sea eddies. Deep Sea Research, In press.
• Blomquist, B.W., C.W. Fairall, B.J. Huebert, D.J. Kieber, and G.R. Westby, DMS sea-air transfer velocity: Direct measurements by eddy covariance and parameterization based on the NOAA/COARE gas transfer model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi 10.1029/2006GL025735, 2006.
• Huebert, B.J., B.W. Blomquist, J.E. Hare, C.W. Fairall, J.E. Johnson, and T.S. Bates, Measurement of the sea-air DMS flux and transfer velocity using eddy correlation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021567, 2004.
• Huebert, B.J., T. Bates, P.B. Russell, G.Y. Shi, Y.J. Kim, K. Kawamura, G. Carmichael, and T. Nakajima, An overview of ACE-Asia: Strategies for quantifying the relationships between Asian aerosols and their climatic impacts, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108 (D23), 10.1029/2003JD003550, 2003.
• Huebert, B., T. Bertram, J. Kline, S. Howell, D. Eatough, and B. Blomquist, Measurements of organic and elemental carbon in Asian outflow during ACE-Asia from the NSF/NCAR C-130, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 109 (D19), doi: 10.1029/2004jd004700, 2004.
• Heald, C.L., D.J. Jacob, R.J. Park, L.M. Russell, B.J. Huebert, J.H. Seinfeld, H. Liao, and R.J. Weber, A large organic aerosol source in the free troposphere missing from current models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (doi:10.1029/2005GL023831), L18809, 2005.
• Huebert, B.J., S.G. Howell, D. Covert, T. Bertram, A. Clarke, J.R. Anderson, B.G. Lafleur, W.R. Seebaugh, J.C. Wilson, D. Gesler, B. Blomquist, and J. Fox, PELTI: Measuring the passing efficiency of an airborne low turbulence aerosol inlet, Aerosol Science and Technology, 38 (8), 803-826, 2004.
• Carrillo, J.H., M.G. Hastings, D.M. Sigman, and B.J. Huebert, Atmospheric deposition of inorganic and organic nitrogen and base cations in Hawaii, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16, 1076, doi: 10.1029/2002GB001892, 2002.
• Chadwick, O.A., L.A. Derry, P.M. Vitousek, B.J. Huebert, and L.O. Hedin (1999) Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development. Nature, 397 491-497.
• Huebert, B.J., C.A. Phillips, L. Zhuang, E. Kjellstrom, H. Rodhe, J. Feichter, and C. Land, Long-term measurements of free-tropospheric sulfate at Mauna Loa: comparison with model simulations, J. Geophys. Res . 106 (D6), 5479-5492, 2001.
• Huebert, B.J., and R.J. Charlson, Uncertainties in data on organic aerosols, Tellus, 52B (5), 1249-1255, 2000.
• Huebert, B., P. Vitousek, J. Sutton, T. Elias, J. Heath, S. Coeppicus, S. Howell, and B. Blomquist, Volcano fixes nitrogen into plant-available forms, Biogeochem., 47, 111-118, 1999.
• Huebert, B.J., D.J. Wylie, L. Zhuang, and J.A. Heath, Production and loss of methanesulfonate and non-sea salt sulfate in the equatorial Pacific marine boundary layer, Geophysical Research Letters, 23 (7), 737-740, 1996.
• Huebert, B.J., and C.H. Robert, The dry deposition of nitric acid to grass, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90 (D1), 2085-90, 1985.