Cynthia Randles, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics

GSFC Code:

613.3

Mailing Address:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics
Bldg. 33, Room E311
NASA GSFC, Code 613.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6047

Fax:

(301) 614-5903

Email:

cynthia.a.randles@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Carbonaceous aerosols, aerosol-monsoon interactions, aerosol effects on the hydrological cycle.

Biography:

Dr. Cynthia A. Randles is an Assistant Research Scientist at GEST. She was a GEST/UMBC Goddard Visiting Fellow in 2007, and continued on at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow in 2008. Dr. Randles received an S.B. in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2000, an M.A. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2004 from Princeton University, and a Ph.D., also in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, from Princeton University in September 2007. As a graduate student at Princeton, Dr. Randles was advised by V. Ramaswamy of the Princeton Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) Program and the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Her research focused on the climate impacts of carbonaceous aerosols using a suite of numerical models ranging from an aerosol microphysics model to GFDL's general circulation model (GCM). During her tenure at Princeton from 2001 to 2007, Dr. Randles was funded through the Department of Energy (DOE) Global Change Education Program (GCEP) Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship (GREF). For the 2006-2007 academic year, Dr. Randles was awarded the prestigious Marvin L. Wesley Distinguished GREF Fellow Award for her graduate work in climate science.