Owen Cooper received his undergraduate degree from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and his Master’s and PhD from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. Since 2001 Owen has supported the mission of the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory through his work as a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder, and now as a federal Research Physical Scientist. With the goal of conducting scientific research that is highly relevant to public health and policy development, Owen’s interests pertain to: trends in U.S. and global air quality; the global tropospheric ozone budget and trends; and the impact of climate change on air quality. Owen is an author on over 130 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed to several assessment reports including the fifth and sixth IPCC assessment reports, the annual State of the Climate Reports, and the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution. In 2014 he established IGAC’s Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) and has continuously served in TOAR leadership roles.
Further information on his work can be found here:
https://csl.noaa.gov/staff/owen.r.cooper/