Lynn Sparling
Associate Professor

Departmental Affiliation:

Physics

JCET Research Group:

UMBC-based Faculty

GSFC Code:

610.6

Mailing Address:

Physics Department Rm 425
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250 USA

Phone:

(410) 455-6231

Fax:

(410) 455-1072

Email:

sparling@umbc.edu

URL:

http://asl.umbc.edu/~strow/

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Biography:

Dr. Lynn C. Sparling is an Associate Professor of Physics at UMBC and is a UMBC affiliate member of JCET. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of New Mexico in 1976, a M.S. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. She held postdoctoral research positions in chemical engineering and pharmacology, and conducted research in biophysics at the National Institutes of Health until 1992. She joined STX Corp. in 1993, working under contract to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, became a member of JCET in 1998 and joined the faculty at UMBC in 2001. During her career, Dr. Sparling has done theoretical work in a variety of different areas in statistical mechanics, biophysics and hydrodynamics, and is currently working in the areas of atmospheric dynamics and tracer transport and mixing.