Kimberly A Prather is an American scientist who is an Atmospheric Chemist, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, and a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego.
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Kimberly Prather's work focuses on how humans are influencing the atmosphere and climate.
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Kimberly Prather is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Kimberly Prather studied at Santa Rosa Junior College and University of California, Davis, earning a Bachelor's degree in 1985 and a PhD in 1990.
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Kimberly Prather served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley between 1990 and 1992, working with Nobel Laureate Yuan T Lee.
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In 2001, Kimberly Prather joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego as a member of the Dept.
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Kimberly Prather developed aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry, a technique with high temporal and size resolution.
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Kimberly Prather refined the detection technique so that it would precisely measure the size and composition of small particles.
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Kimberly Prather used the ultrafine ATOFMS to study atmospheric composition, combining it with ozone and NOx measurements.
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Between 2003 and 2006 Kimberly Prather studied whether ATOFMS could be used to measure the carbonaceous components of aerosols and help to understand atmospheric processes, distinguishing between organic and elemental carbon.
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Kimberly Prather showed it was possible to distinguish EC and OC on a single particle level, and investigated their chemical associations with ammonium, nitrate, and sulfate.
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Kimberly Prather's group explored ways to calibrate the ATOFMS data, making real-time apportionment of ambient particles possible.
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Pratt and Kimberly Prather studied ice crystals in situ on high speed aircraft flying above Wyoming, and found that the particles were mainly composed of dust or biological particles.
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Kimberly Prather's group demonstrated that dust and aerosols in the Sahara can influence precipitation in Western United States.
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