Duncan & Suzanne Mellichamp Emerging Leader Lecture 2018

Feb 13 2018

Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 4:00pm

Location: ESB 1001

Speaker: V. Faye McNeill - Columbia University

TITLE
Aqueous Atmospheric Chemistry: From the Molecular to the Regional and Global Scales

ABSTRACT
Aqueous chemical processes occurring in cloud droplets and wet atmospheric particles are an important source of organic and inorganic atmospheric particulate matter. Despite considerable progress, mechanistic understanding of some key aqueous processes is still lacking, and representation of these processes is incomplete in most regional and global models. I will review the state of the science and discuss my group’s efforts in characterizing these processes in the laboratory, modeling them in detail on the molecular level, and model reduction to include essential processes in large-scale models.

Duncan Mellichamp was a founding member of the UCSB Chemical Engineering Department faculty, starting the process dynamics and control programs in 1966-67. He earned his BS degree from Georgia Tech, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue. Mellichamp is author of more than 100 research publications. He co-wrote the award-winning undergraduate textbook, “Process Dynamics and Control” in 1989, now appearing in its 4th ed. He edited “Real-Time Computing with Applications to Data Acquisition and Control” in 1983. Still highly regarded as a teacher and lecturer, Mellichamp has mentored more than 50 graduate students to degree, including the first student to earn a Ph.D. granted at UCSB in Chemical Engineering and the first female student to earn a Ph.D. in the UCSB College of Engineering. He was elected chair of the UC Santa Barbara Academic Senate (1990-92) and of the UC system-wide Academic Senate (1995-97), where he also served as Faculty Representative on the Board of Regents. He served as special assistant to the Chancellor for long-range planning (half time) until 2003; was elected a trustee of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation in 2003; made an honorary alumnus of UCSB in 2009; and chaired the UCSB Trustees Advisory Committee on Isla Vista Strategies in 2014. Since his retirement from full-time faculty in 2003, Duncan has taught as a guest lecturer (pro bono) and continues to research and publish. December 2016 marked both his 80th birthday, and 50 years at UCSB.

Suzanne Mellichamp (MA Education 1970) was an elementary teacher for nearly 30 years, working in special education. She and Duncan have endowed 13 academic chairs and an annual lectureship at UCSB, and are active in several Santa Barbara non-profits. Together they hold the Santa Barbara Medal, the highest honor conferred by the Chancellor, for contributions to UCSB (2006); and the Griswold Award from Santa Barbara Beautiful for contributions to the community (2012).

V. Faye McNeill

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