Wallace McMillan
Associate Professor

Departmental Affiliation:

Physics

JCET Research Group:

UMBC-based Faculty

GSFC Code:

610.6

Mailing Address:

Physics Department Rm 418
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250 USA

Phone:

(410) 455-6315

Fax:

(410) 455-1072

Email:

mcmillan@umbc.edu

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Biography:

Dr. W. Wallace McMillan is an Associate Professor of Physics at UMBC, Director of UMBC's Atmospheric Physics Graduate Program, and a JCET Fellow. His research activities focus on tropospheric chemistry and dynamics of carbon monoxide (CO); observations of upper tropospheric water vapor; and the validation of satellite remote sensed atmospheric parameters. Dr. McMillan has developed an extensive familiarity with air- and ground-based FTIR spectra including the BBAERI and BNAERI instruments in his laboratory, and has participated in several NASA field experiments. Prior to coming to UMBC, Dr. McMillan spent two years in the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow with the Mars Observer thermal emission spectrometer team. He is an active member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. McMillan received his Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University in 1992 for studies of the chemistry and dynamics of the stratosphere of Uranus. He earned a Masters degree from JHU in 1990, and graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Physics from Rhodes College in 1985.