Chief Scientist
Aclima
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Melissa Lunden is the Chief Scientist at Aclima, a Public Benefit Corporation that is pioneering an entirely new way to diagnose the health of our air and track climate-changing pollution. Aclima measures air pollution and greenhouse gases at unprecedented scales and with block-by-block resolution. At Aclima, Melissa led research in partnership with academic, government, non-profit and industry scientists that showed that air pollution can vary by 5-8x from one block to the next. Melissa’s career has focused on the transport and fate of pollutants in the environment. Melissa has always been interested in how different environments influence exposure to highly dynamic pollutants. This variability underscores the need for ubiquitous hyperlocal environmental monitoring that she and the team at Aclima have pioneered. Prior to joining Aclima in 2013, Melissa was a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she directed atmospheric and environmental processes research. She received her PhD at the California Institute of Technology with an emphasis on aerosol science and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
1:30pm – 1:50pm PT
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