Dr. Shari Yvon-Lewis

Bio

Research Interests

• Global oceanic uptake and emission of climatically important trace species
• Developing HCFCs as water mass tracers
• Air/sea exchange and coastal air quality/water quality

Projects

• Developing hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) as new water mass age tracers
• Coastal fluxes of halobarbons and alkyl nitrates
• Modeling of methyl bromide in response to the phaseout

Experience

• 2004-present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
• 1997-2004 Research Chemist, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL.
• 1996-1997 Research Associate, Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO.
• 1994-1996 DOE Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO.

Publications

• Dahl, E. E., S. A. Yvon-Lewis, and E. S. Saltzman, Saturation anomalies of alkyl nitrates in the tropical Pacific Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L20817, doi:10.1029/2005GL023896, 2005.
• Butler, J. H., D. B. King, J. M. Lobert, S. A. Montzka, S. A. Yvon-Lewis, B. D. Hall, N. J. Warwick, D. J. Mondeel, M. Aydin, and J. W. Elkins, Oceanic distributions and emissions of short-lived halocarbons, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 21, GB1023, doi:10.1029/2006GB002732, 2007.
• Dahl, E. E., S. A. Yvon-Lewis, and E. S. Saltzman, Alkyl nitrate (C1-C3) depth profiles in the tropical Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C01012, doi:10.1029/2006JC003471, 2007.
• Saltzman, E.S., M. Aydin, W.J. De Bruyn, D.B. King and S.A. Yvon-Lewis, Methyl bromide in pre-industrial air: measurements from an Antarctic ice core, J. Geophys. Res., 109 D05301, doi:10.1029/2003JD004157, 2004.
• Yvon-Lewis, S.A., D.B. King, R. Tokarczyk, K.D. Goodwin, E.S. Saltzman, and J.H. Butler, Methyl bromide and methyl chloride in the Southern Ocean, J. Geophys Res., 109, C02008, doi:10.1029/2003JC001809, 2004.
• Tokarczyk, R. E.S. Saltzman, R.M. Moore, and S.A. Yvon-Lewis, Biological degradation of methyl chloride in coastal seawater, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 17(2), 1057, doi:10.1029/2002GB001949, 2003.
• King, D.B. J.H. Butler, S.A. Yvon-Lewis, and S.A. Cotton, Predicting oceanic methyl bromide saturation from sea surface temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(24), 2199, doi:10.1029/2002GL016091, 2002.
• Yvon-Lewis, S. A., and J. H. Butler, Effect of oceanic uptake on atmospheric lifetimes of selected trace gases, J. Geophys. Res., 107 (D20), 4414, doi:10.1029/2001JD001267, 2002.
• Yvon-Lewis, S. A., J. H. Butler, E. S. Saltzman, P. A. Matrai, D. B. King, R. Tokarczyk, R. M. Moore, and J.-Z. Zhang, Methyl bromide cycling in a warm-core eddy of the North Atlantic Ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16(4), 1141, doi:10.1029/2002GB001898, 2002.
• King, D.B., J.H. Butler, S.A. Montzka, S. A. Yvon-Lewis, and J.W. Elkins, Implications of methyl bromide supersaturations in the temperate North Atlantic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 105 (D15), 19763-19769, 2000.
• Lobert, J. M., S. A. Yvon-Lewis, J. H. Butler, S. A. Montzka, and R. C. Myers, Undersaturations of CH3Br in the southern ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24(2), 171-172, 1997.
• Yvon-Lewis, S. A. and J. H. Butler, The potential effect of oceanic biological degradation on the lifetime of atmospheric CH3Br, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24(10), 1227-1230, 1997.
• Yvon, S. A. and J. H. Butler, An improved estimate of the oceanic lifetime of atmospheric CH3Br, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23(1), 53-56, 1996.
• Yvon, S. A., and E. S. Saltzman, Atmospheric sulfur cycling in the tropical Pacific marine boundary layer (12°S, 135°W): A comparison of field data and model results 2. Sulfur dioxide, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 6899-6910, 1996.
• Yvon, S. A., J. M. C Plane, C.-F. Nien, D. J. Cooper, and E. S. Saltzman, The interaction between the nitrogen and sulfur cycles in the polluted marine boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 1379-1386, 1996.
• Yvon, S. A., E. S. Saltzman, T. S. Bates, and D. J. Cooper, Atmospheric sulfur cycling in the tropical Pacific marine boundary layer (12°S, 135°W): A comparison of field data and model results 1. Dimethylsulfide, J. Geophys. Res. 101, 6911-6918, 1996.
• Saltzman, E. S., S. A. Yvon and P. A. Matrai, Low level atmospheric sulfur dioxide measurements using HPLC/fluorescence, J. Atmos. Chem., 17, 73-90, 1993.
• Thompson, A. M., J. E. Johnson, A. L. Torres, A. C. Kelly, E. Atlas, J. Greenberg, N. M. Donahue, S. A. Yvon, E. S. Saltzman, B. G. Heikes, B. W. Mosher, A. A. Shashkov and V. I. Yegorov, Ozone observations and a model of marine boundary layer photochemistry during SAGA-3, J. Geophys Res., 98, 16,955-16,968, 1993.
• Yvon, S. A., E. S. Saltzman, D.J. Cooper, and V. Koropalov, Atmospheric hydrogen sulfide over the equatorial Pacific (SAGA-3), J. Geophys. Res, 98, 16,979-16,983, 1993.

Awards

• U.S. Dept. of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (1994-1996)
• NASA Graduate Student Global Change Fellowship (1992-1994)
• Koczy Fellowship (1992-1993)
• Admirals of the Fleet Award (1990)
• Rosenstiel Fellowship (1989-1990)