At the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, over 120 individuals work as a team to study the chemistry and dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere. This includes scientists, technicians, engineers, administrative and technical support staff, students, post-doctoral researchers, and visitors from other national and international institutions. About a third of the personnel are federal employees. Most of the others are employees of the Joint Institute known as the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Sponsored jointly by the University of Colorado at Boulder and NOAA, CIRES is a research institute whose programs are aimed at understanding a variety of basic and applied problems associated with the physics and chemistry of the solid earth and its atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere.

The Director of the Aeronomy Laboratory is Dr. Daniel L. Albritton. Assisting him in the Director's Office (Staff access only) are:

The Program Leaders of the Aeronomy Laboratory and their research areas are:

Coordinating and providing administrative and technical support for the Aeronomy Lab are:

To identify or contact Aeronomy Laboratory Staff:

Home: Boulder, Colorado. All groups of the Aeronomy Laboratory are located on the Broadway Campus of the Department of Commerce (DoC) Laboratories. The staff and their laboratories and offices are in the north block of the David Skaggs Research Center on this site. Included are airborne instrument development and testing labs, photochemical reaction labs, optical techniques labs, radar instrumentation labs, and computer workstations used in modeling of the chemistry and dynamics of the atmosphere.

Other Facilities: Scientific observations of the Aeronomy Laboratory go far beyond the home site and, in fact, have at times extended from "pole to pole" on the Earth. The Aeronomy Laboratory operates Fritz Peak Observatory, west of Boulder, which focuses on optical observations of stratospheric and tropospheric trace gases. The Laboratory also operates the Trans-Pacific Profiler Network in the Western Equatorial Pacific, to measure winds. The Pacific profilers are focusing on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon. Other facilities, namely the research aircraft, enable Aeronomy Laboratory scientists to carry their instrumentation into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. These aircraft include the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center WP3-D and the ER-2 and the WB-57 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Field missions have taken Aeronomy Lab scientists to Antarctica, Greenland, Nova Scotia, and numerous other places - literally "to the ends of the Earth and points in between."

Clockwise from top: NOAA Aircraft Operations Center WP-3D aircraft; Trans-Pacific Profiler Network site in Biak, Indonesia; NASA ER-2 high altitude research aircraft; Fritz-Peak Observatory