Trevor VandenBoer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at York University, with the group’s work focusing on analytical and environmental research questions since 2017. His research involves development of instrumentation to probe the atmospheric chemistry of reactive nitrogen species because emissions of reactive nitrogen have perturbed the global nitrogen cycle to unprecedented levels. These chemicals are introduced to the environment by human transportation, agricultural, cooking, cleaning, and industrial activities. His work focuses on impacts of these compounds on indoor and outdoor air quality and climate with an emphasis on the role of exchange at interfaces. The group is growing with these projects and more! See ‘What We Do’ and ‘Projects/Join the Group’ for more information.
VandenBoer completed a PhD in Environmental and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Toronto focusing on the atmospheric chemistry of reactive nitrogen linked to air quality issues at a variety of North American field locations, including an NSERC-supported exchange at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, CO. He then held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland where he quantified the exchange of reactive nitrogen at the biosphere-atmosphere interface across a latitudinal transect of boreal forest sites as a proxy for climate change.
