Anne Perring

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Anne Perring

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Department/Office Information

Chemistry

302 Wynn Hall

Contact

aperring@colgate.edu (315) 228-7764

I grew up in California and hold a BS from Brown University and a PhD from Berkeley, both in Chemistry. I started my career as a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, CO before coming to Colgate in 2018. My primary expertise is in atmospheric chemistry, though I also have research experience with water quality and paleoclimate.

My lab studies atmospheric particles and gases and their effects on climate and air quality. I am particularly interested in biological aerosol, wildfires, and tropospheric ozone. Some projects focus on local samples, others involve participation in large airborne field projects, and a few involve existing data sets from satellites, ground monitoring stations or previous airborne campaigns.

Interested students are encouraged to look through some of the publications below and contact me to hear more details about current projects.

BS, Brown University
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry

Below is a selection of my work; Colgate student co-authors are italicized. You can find a complete list on my Google Scholar page.

Schwarz, JP; Perring, AE; Katich, JM; Mediavilla, B; Soja, AJ; Gargulinski, EM; Weinzierl, B; Moore, RH; Halliday, HS; Diskin, GS; Nowak, JB; DiGangi, JP; "Black carbon aerosol size in wild‐, prescribed‐, and agricultural‐fire smoke", Geophysical Research Letters, 53 (9), e2025GL118939, 2026.

Berberich, J.; Jacoby, S.; Michailoudi, G.; Schwarz, J.P.; Franchin, A.; Hornbrook, R.; Hills, A.; Barletta, B.; Apel, E.; Smith, W.; Ueyama, R.; Honomichl, S.; Perring, A.E. “Observations of Black Carbon Aerosol in Monsoonal Shedding Events Imply Extremely Efficient Wet Removal”, JGR-Atmospheres, doi/10.1029/2024JD042692, 2025.

Beeler, P.; Kumar, J.; Schwarz, J.; Adachi, K.; Fierce, L.; Perring, A.; Katich, J. “Light Absorption Enhancement by Black Carbon in a Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud”, Nat. Comms., 15 (1), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50070-0, 2024.

Perring, A.E.; Mediavilla, B.; Wilbanks, G.D.; Churnside, J.H.; Marchbanks, R.; Lamb, K.D.; Gao, R.S. Airborne Bioaerosol Observations Imply a Strong Terrestrial Source in the Summertime Arctic. JGR-Atmospheres, doi/10.1029/2023JD039165, 2023.

Katich, JM, et al., Pyrocumulonimbus Affect Average Stratospheric Aerosol Composition. Science, 379 (6634), 815–820, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add3101, 2023.

Huffman JA, Perring AE, et al., Real-time sensing of bioaerosols: Review and current perspectives, Aero. Sci. Tech., DOI 10.1080/02786826.2019.1664724, 2020.

Lamb K, Perring AE, et al., Estimating source region influences on black carbon abundance, microphysics and radiative effect observed over South Korea, J. Geophys. Res.–Atm., 123 (23), doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029257, 2018.

Robinson ES, Schwarz JP, Gao RS, Fahey DW and Perring AE, Fluorescence calibration method for single-particle aerosol fluorescence instruments, Atmos. Meas. Tech., doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1755-2017, 2017.

Perring AE, et al., In situ measurements of water uptake by black carbon-containing aerosol in wildfire plumes, J. Geophys. Res. – Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JD025688, 2017.

Hernandez MT, Perring AE, et al., Chamber catalogues of optical and fluorescent signatures distinguish bioaerosol classes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9 (7), 3283-3292, doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3283-2016, 2016.

Schwarz JP, Perring AE, et al., Technique and theoretical approach for quantifying the hygroscopicity of black-carbon-containing aerosol using a single particle soot photometer, J. Aerosol Sci, 81, 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2014.11.009, 2015.

Perring AE, et al., Airborne observations of regional variation in fluorescent aerosol across the United States, J. Geophys. Res.–Atm., 120 (3), doi.org/10.1002/2014JD022495, 2015.

Perring AE, et al, Evaluation of a flat plate inlet for airborne sampling of interstitial aerosol, Aerosol Sci. Tech., 47 (10), 1066-1072, doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2013.821196, 2013.

Perring AE, Pusede SE and Cohen RC, An observational perspective on the atmospheric impacts of alkyl and multifunctional nitrates on ozone and secondary organic aerosol, Chem. Rev., 113 (8), dx.doi.org/10.1021/cr300520x, 2013.

Perring AE, et al., Characteristics of black carbon aerosol from a surface oil burn during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048356, 2011.

Russell AR, Perring AE, et al., A high spatial resolution retrieval of NO2 column densities from OMI: method and evaluation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11 (16), doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-8543-2011, 2011.

Perring AE, et al., The production and persistence of RONO2 in the Mexico City plume, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10 (15), doi.org/10.5194/acp-10-7215-2010, 2010.

Perring AE, et al., A product study of the Isoprene+NO₃ reaction, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9 (14), doi.org/10.5194/acp-9-4945-2009, 2009.

Perring AE, et al., Airborne observations of total RONO₂: New constraints on the yield and lifetime of isoprene nitrates, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9 (4), doi.org/10.5194/acp-9-1451-2009, 2009.

Bucsela EJ, Perring AE, et al., Comparison of Tropospheric NO₂ from in situ aircraft observations with near-real-time standard product data from OMI, J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., 113 (D16), DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008838, 2008.

Bertram TH, Perring AE, et al., Direct measurements of the convective recycling of the upper troposphere, Science, 315 (5813), DOI: 10.1126/science.1134548, 2007.

Courses Taught:

Instrumental Analysis (Chem 371)
Practical Quantitative Analysis Laboratory (Chem 381)
General Chemistry II (Chem 102) and laboratory (102L)
The Chemistry of Altered and Natural Environments (Chem 100)
Environmental Chemistry (Chem 477)
Environmental Science (ENST 200 and 200L)
Molecules, Energy and the Environment (Core 102S)
Global Change and YOU (Core 199S)