Mary Barth

Dr. Mary Barth received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (University of Colorado) and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (University of Washington) in 1991. She holds a joint appointment in NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling (ACOM) Laboratory and Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory. Dr. Barth is the Lead Scientist for the NCAR cross-cutting project System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere (SIMA), which is creating a single atmospheric modeling system for frontier science applications for climate, weather, atmospheric chemistry, geospace, and cross-discipline research. She leads the Multiscale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (MUSICA) project in ACOM that is building a model independent module to allow chemistry and aerosol parameterizations to interface with any atmosphere model.

Dr. Barth’s research focuses on the interactions between clouds and chemistry utilizing cloud-scale and regional-scale modeling and observations from field experiments. Current projects include the following:

Dr. Barth is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorology Society. She served on the International Commission on Clouds and Precipitation for 8 years and was the secretary for Atmospheric Chemistry of the American Geophysical Union for 2 years.  She served as a member of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee (2010-2015) and the Advisory Committee for NSF Geosciences Directorate (2012-2015), and is now President of the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution. In 2017 she became a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.