Jay M. Tomlin

Affiliation: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)

Branch: Atmospheric Science Branch (SGG)

Email: jay.m.tomlin@nasa.gov

Website: Google Scholar

Professional Biography

Jay is a NASA postdoctoral program (NPP) fellow, who specializes in quantifying gas fluxes using uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). His current work involves measuring volcanic gas fluxes with fixed-wing UAS and estimates methane emissions from thawing permafrost with multi-rotor UAS. He is experienced in chemical imaging of atmospheric particles, greenhouse gas quantification, and airborne flux analysis and interpretation, he has participated in several large-scale, multi-institutional field campaigns, accumulating ~260 research flight hours abroad crewed aircrafts. Outside of his research, he likes traveling, running, bouldering, and working out. He is currently trying to learn Japanese and enjoys listening to J-rock and J-pop music.

Education

Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Advisor: A. Laskin and P. B. Shepson

B.S. Chemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Minor Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Advisor: T. D. Vaden

Research Interests

Airborne greenhouse gas measurements, urban emissions, airborne eddy covariance flux measurements, airborne mass balance experiments, uncrewed aerial systems, scanning transmission X-ray microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, cavity ring down Spectroscopy, aerosol chemistry, single particle analysis

Awards/Honors

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship

Emerson Kampen Fellowship

William F. Epple Teaching Award

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Honorable Mention)

American Institute of Chemist Academic Award

Select Publications

Pitt, J., Lopez-Coto, I., Karion, A., Hajny, K., Tomlin, J., Kaeser, R., Jayarathne, T., Stirm, B., Floerchinger, C., Lougher, C., Commane, R., Gately, C., Hutyra, L., Gurney, K., Roest, G., Liang, J., Gourdji, S., Muller, K., Whetstone, J., Shepson, P. (2024). Underestimation of Thermogenic Methane Emissions in New York City. ES&T. Published May 2024. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.3c10307.

Rivera-Adorno, F., Tomlin, J., Fraund, M., Morgan, E., Laskin, M., Moffet, R., and Laskin, A. (2023). Estimating Viscosity of Individual Substrate-Deposited Particles from Their Height-to-Width Ratios. Aerosol Sci. Technol. 58(4). 401-410.  doi: 10.1080/02786826.2023.2270503.

Tomlin, J., Lopez-Coto, I., Hajny, K., Pitt, J., Kaeser, R., Stirm, B., Jayarathne, T., Floerchinger, C., Commane, R., and Shepson, P. (2023). Spatial Attribution of Airborne Mass Balance Experiment CO₂ Estimations for Policy-Relevant Boundaries: New York City. Elementa Sci Anthro. 11(1), 46-64. doi: 10.1525/elementa.2023.00046.

Hajny, K., Rudek, J., Lyon, D., Armstrong, A., Floerchinger, C., Jayarathne, T., Kaeser, R., Lavoie, T., Salmon, O., Stirm, B., Stuff, A., Tomlin, J., Wulle, B., Lopez-Coto, I., and Shepson, P. (2023). Assessing the Bias and Uncertainties in the Aircraft Mass Balance Technique for the Determination of Carbon Dioxide Emission Rates. Elementa Sci Anthrop. 11(1), 135-150. doi: 10.1525/elementa.2022.00135.

Morales, A., Tomlin, J., West, C., Rivera-Adorno, F., Peterson, B., Sharpe, S., Noh, Y., Sendesi, S., Boor, B., Howarter, J., Moffet, R., China, S., O’Callahan, B., El-Khoury, P., Whelton, A., and Laskin, A. (2022). Atmospheric Emission of Nanoplastics from Sewer Pipes Repair. Nat Nanotechnol. 17, 1171–1177. doi: 10.1038/s41565-022-01219-9.

Tomlin, J., Weis, J., Veghte, D., Swarup, C., Fraund, M., He, Q., Reicher, N., Li, C., Jankowski, K., Rivera-Adorno, F., Morales, A., Rudich, Y., Moffet, R., Gilles, M., and Laskin, A. (2022). Chemical Composition and Morphological Analysis of Atmospheric Particles from an Intensive Bonfire Burning Festival. RSC Environ Sci Atmos. 2(4), 616-633. doi:10.1039/D2EA00037G. (COVER ARTICLE).

Hajny, K., Floerchinger, C., Lopez-Coto, I., Pitt, J., Gately, C., Gurney, K., Hutyra, L., Jayarathne, T., Kaeser, R., Roest, G., Sargent, M., Stirm, B., Tomlin, J., Turner, A., Shepson, P., and Wofsy, S. (2022). A Spatially-Explicit Inventory Scaling Approach to Estimate Urban CO₂ Emissions. Elementa Sci Anthrop. 10(1), 121-138. doi: 10.1525/elementa.2021.00121.

Pitt, J., Lopez-Coto, I., Hajny, K., Tomlin, J., Kaeser, R., Jayarathne, T., Stirm, B., Floerchinger, C., Loughner, C., Gately C., Hutyra, L., Gurney, K, Roest, G., Liang, J., Gourdji, S., Karion, A., Whetsone, J., and Shepson, P. (2022). New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimated with Inverse Modelling of Aircraft Measurements. Elementa Sci Anthrop. 10(1), 82-95. doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.00082.

Tomlin, J., Jankowski, K., Veghte, D. , China, S., Wang, P., Fraund, M., Weis, J., Zheng, G., Wang, Y., Rivera-Adorno, F., Raveh-Rubin, S., Knopf, D., Wang, J., Gilles, M., Moffet, R., and Laskin, A. (2021). Impact of Dry Intrusion Events on Composition and Mixing State of Particles During Winter ACE- ENA Study. Atmos Chem Phys. 21(24), 18123-18146. doi:10.5194/acp-21-18123-2021.

Knopf, D., Barry, K., Brubaker, T., Jahl, L., Jankowski, K., Li1, J., Lu1, Y., Monroe, L., Moore, K., Rivera-Adorno, F., Sauceda, K., Shi, Y., Tomlin, J., Vepuri, H., Wang, P., Lata, N., Levin, E., Creamean, J., Hill, T., China, S., Alpert, P., Moffet, R., Hiranuma, N., Sullivan, R., Fridlind, A., West, M., Riemer, N., Laskin, A., DeMott, P., and Liu, X. (2021). Aerosol Ice Formation Closure: A Southern Great Plains Field Campaign. AMS BAMS. 1-50. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0151.1.

Hettiyadura, A., Garcia, V., Li, C., West, C., Tomlin, J., He, Q., Rudich, Y., and Laskin, A., (2021). Chemical Composition and Molecular-Specific Optical Properties of Atmospheric Brown Carbon Associated with Biomass Burning. ACS Environ Sci Technol. 4(55), 2511-2521. doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c05883.

Tomlin, J., Jankowski, K., Rivera-Adorno, F., Fraund, M., China, S., Stirm, B., Kaeser, R., Eakins, G., Moffet, R., Shepson, P., and Laskin, A. (2020). Chemical Imaging of Fine Mode Atmospheric Particles Collected from a Research Aircraft over Agricultural Fields. ACS Earth Space Chem, 4(11), 2171-2184. doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00172.