• I work at Halocompounds and other Atmospheric Trace Species group (HATS /CMDL/NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado is conducting research on the dynamics and chemistry of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. I am working on a unique airborne four channel gas chromatograph flown on board the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft to measure the amount (mixing ratio) of trace gases, such as CFCs, halons, methane etc. in the lower stratosphere. This research is an important part of the international effort to study the causes and quantify the rate of ozone depletion. I participated in POLARIS project and processed the data from STRAT campaign.
• In July, 2001 I participated in an expedition called TROICA-7, which involved sampling tropospheric air along the Trans-Siberian railroad in Russia. Pictures and a write-up from there are going to be available soon (yeah, right. I thought so until I got buried with work).
• The last airborne research project I worked on was SOLVE. This 4-month long mission targeted the Arctic winter vortex and was flown from Kiruna, Sweden in early 2000. For pictures from Kiruna, check an outstanding site that Tom Thompson has created.

• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) of the University of Colorado at Boulder is my direct employer.
• I work with the United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy (UIGGiM), in Novosibirsk, Russia since 1993, and UIGGiM still considers me its Research Scientist. Representing (not exclusively) my Institute in the US, I am bringing to your attention the capabilities of the state-of-the-art Analytical Center and research done by my colleagues in Siberia.
• Access a list of articles I authored and co-authored.
• Find a link to the anonimous FTP site where recent first-authored articles can be found. Files are either in PostScript or MS Word formats.  If you need other formats, E-mail me.
• I am developing IDL applications for use in my work, and consider IDL to be the best scientific programming language (to give some credit to other awesome languages such as Matlab, I'll just say I never used them and don't plan to :-).  I wrote an application to visualize various NASA ER-2 aircraft data that is notorious for weird file formats.  I will be placing the examples of code I want to share here.  This work is not going fast - it is done on "as needed" basis.
• Another IDL project that is in its completion stage is HATSchrom, a chromatographic processing package that is flexible enough to accommodate the super-fast, kinked-baseline, folded-back chromatography that we are using on the NASA aircraft-based instrument. To use this one, e-mail me and I can introduce you to it.
• If you are interested in stable isotopes and related research, you may want to visit the home page of the Baikal Drilling Project (Stable Isotope Laboratory of the University of South Carolina). That site has little information on the particulars of the isotopic research (put it on their wish list) but some abstracts posted there you may find useful. Stable Isotope Lab is where I received my degree and they seem not to have a web person after I left, so most information there dates back to 1997.

• Access my resume.

I can be contacted via E-mail at [email protected].

Last updated on January 15, 2003.
Thank you for visiting,
Pavel Romashkin