Lori Bruhwiler

Dr. Lori Bruhwiler is a physical scientist at the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, Colorado. Her research interests include understanding atmospheric budgets of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases using atmospheric transport models and data assimilation techniques. She is especially interested in carbon cycle-climate feedbacks and how they can be detected using observations and models. Much of her recent work has been focused on understanding the budget of atmospheric methane and what may be causing its recent increase in atmospheric growth.

Dr. Bruhwiler has spent her entire career so far at NOAA, beginning with her PhD research on stratospheric chemistry at the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Susan Solomon. She went on to the NOAA Geophysical Research Laboratory in Princeton, NJ where she worked with models of stratospheric chemistry and dynamics to understand climate-chemistry interactions. Dr. Bruhwiler then joined the Carbon Cycle Group at the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory where she developed her data assimilation and flux inversion skills. She is currently leading an effort to build a high-resolution carbon data assimilation and flux inversion model using the new NOAA Global Forecast System. Dr. Bruhwiler earned her undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder.