Professor

Education

• BA 1967 - Occidental College - Chemistry
• MS 1968 - Northwestern University - Physical Chemistry
• Ph.D 1970 - Northwestern University - Physical Chemistry

• Air-sea Exchange of Trace Gases, especially DMS (SOLAS)

• 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-present
• 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 Activities

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

• 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.

Research Funding

• Title: Elucidation of atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorous pathways to the Hawaiian Islands. Agency: Mellon Fndn. PIs: Huebert, Benitez-Nelson, Blomquist. Amount: $600,000. Period: 1/00- 12/03.
• Title: Measurements of aerosol chemical composition vs size from the NCAR C-130 in ACE-Asia. Agency: NSF- ATM. PIs: Huebert, Blomquist, Howell. Amount: $463,505 +$91,946 supp. Period: 12/00- 11/03.
• Title: Collaborative research: Integrated studies of morphological, chemical, optical, and radiative properties of multi-component aerosol containing mineral dust in the ACE-Asia region. Agency: NSF- ATM. PIs: Huebert. Amount: $116,087. Period: 1/01- 12/02.
• Title: Tropospheric aerosols at MLO. Agency: NSF- ATM. PIs: Huebert & Blomquist. Amount: $59,973. Period: 1/01- 12/02.
• Title: Direct measurement of the DMS sea-air flux and exchange coefficient. Agency: NSF-ATM & OCE. PIs: Huebert & Blomquist. Amount: $403,794. Period: 3/03 - 2/05.

• Title: Optical, chemical, and physical properties of brown and black carbon aerosols in Southeast Asian smoke plumes. Agency: NASA-OES. PI: Huebert. Amount: $420,000. Period: 02/04 – 01/07

• Title: A comparison of aerosol organic carbon measurements and models in the free troposphere at MLO. Agency: NSF-ATM. PI: Huebert. Amount: $699,440. Period: 12/04 – 11/09.

•  Title: Measurement of DMS air-sea exchange by eddy covariance. Agency: NSF-ATM. PIs: Blomquist and Huebert. Amount: $673,319. Period: 10/05 – 09/09.