Volker Mohnen

Volker Armin Mohnen (born March 11, 1937 in Stuttgart ) is a retired German professor and director at the State University of New York who did research in the field of air pollution .

Education and professional career

Volker Armin Mohnen, son of Otto Mohnen and Maria geb. Gerstl, studied up to his intermediate diploma in 1959 in Karlsruhe , and completed his physics diploma in Munich in 1963 . In 1966 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

From 1967 to 1984 he was employed at the Research Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the State University of New York in Albany (New York) , most recently as director. At the same time he was professor at the Institute for Atmospheric Research , and from 1985 head of the institute.

Honors and memberships

Mohnen has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences .

He was also a member of the American Chemical Society , American Geophysical Union , American Meteorological Society , American Physical Society , Air Pollution Control Association , and the German Physical Society .

Others

Mohnen has worked as a consultant for numerous public institutions in the USA and companies in the field of air pollution and atmospheric research, including the NASA Lewis Research Center , American Transport Association , American Petroleum Institute , Environmental Protection Agency , as well as General Electric and Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute .

Mohnen is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

Mohnen looks back on more than 100 publications, including a.

• Mohnen, VA, 1988. The challenge of acid rain . Scientific American 259 (2): 30-38.
• Mohnen, VA and JA Kadlecek, 1989. Cloud chemistry research at Whiteface Mountain . Tellus 41B: 79-91.
• Mohnen, VA and W.-C. Wang, 1992. An overview of global warming . J. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), 11: 1051-1059.
• Mohnen, VA and RJ Vong, 1993. A climatology of cloud chemistry for the eastern United States derived from the Mountain Cloud Chemistry Project . J. Environmental Reviews 1: 38-54.
• Mohnen, VA, W. Goldstein and W.-C. Wang, 1993. Tropospheric ozone and climate change . J. Air & Waste 43: 1332-1344.

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• Biography on Prabook .
• Biography in: Acid Rain: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works , United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session , pp. 1706ff, October 29, 1981.
• American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences . Detroit: Gale, 2008.