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Professor GAMACHE, ROBERT R. (Lowell)
Dean, University of Massachusetts School of Marine Sciences, and Professor, Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

    Phone: (978) 934-3904
    Email: Robert_Gamache@uml.edu
    Website: http://faculty.uml.edu/Robert_Gamache

Teaching the following courses:

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere

Air Quality Modeling

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Research Interests:
Quantum theory of the interaction of radiation with matter, spectral line shapes, widths, and pressure shifts for atmospheric molecules. Theoretical and experimental studies of remote sensing of the Earth's troposphere, stratosphere, and ionosphere, and planetary atmospheres. Measurement and modeling of tropospheric pollutant gases. Atmospheric modeling and simulation code development and maintenance. Expert Systems. Electron density and molecular density profiles for terrestrial atmosphere. Ionospheric modeling and prediction. Radiative transfer and its applications to the Greenhouse effect. Database structure and design for application to physical data.

Education:
1978 - Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

1976 - M.S. (Physics), University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

1973 - B.S. (Chemistry), Southeastern Massachusetts University.

Professional History:
2001 - Present - Dean of the Intercampus Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology

1998 - Present - Full Professor Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences.

2002 - Chercheur Associé, Centre National de la Rescherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de PhotoPhysique Moleculaire, Université de Paris - Sud, Paris, France
1995 - 1998 - Associate Professor Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences.

1978 - 1996 - Section Head of Data Analysis Group and Senior Research Director, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Atmospheric Research.

1998 - Invited Professor, Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Moleculaire, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

1997 - Invited Professor, Laboratoire de Physique Moleculaire et Atmospherique,Universite Paris IX, Orsay, France.

1994 - Invited Professor, Laboratoire de Spectronomie Molecular et Instrumentation Laser, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, 1994.

Current Research Support:
Complex Robert - Bonamy calculations of pressure - induced shifts and pressure - broadened halfwidths of atmospheric asymmetric rotor molecules, National Science Foundation, $180,000, 5/1/99 - 6/30/08

Theory in support of laboratory spectroscopy for AIRS, TES and HIRDLS, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $151, 379 July 2001 - Sept 2004

Atmospheric Absorption Parameters for Laser Propagation, Harvard University, $25,000, October 1,2002 - September 30, 2003

Selected Publications:

B. Antony, P. Gamache, C. Szembek, D. Niles, and R. R. Gamache, Modified complex Robert - Bonamy formalism calculations for strong to weak interacting systems, Molecular Physics 104, 2791 - 2799, 2006.

R. R. Gamache and B. K. Antony, Half - widths and Line Shifts of Water Vapor for Atmospheric Applications: Measurement and Theory, 203 - 220,2006, in Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for Environmental Security, ed. by Agnès Perrin, Najate Ben Sari - Zizi, Jean Demaison, Springer, Netherlands.

R. R. Gamache, B. K. Antony, P. R. Gamache, and J. - M. Hartmann, The roles of the S1 and S2 scattering matrix terms on half - widths and their temperature dependence for the water vapor nitrogen system, p. 351 - 354, in Spectral Line Shapes, ed. E. Oks and M. Pindzola, AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 874, Melville, NY, 2006.

B. K. Antony, S. Neshyba, R. Gamache, Self - broadening of water vapor transitions via the complex Robert - Bonamy theory, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 105, 148 - 163, 2006.

A. Bandyopadhyay, B. Ray, P. N. Ghosh, D. L. Niles and R. R. Gamache, Diode laser spectroscopic measurements and theoretical calculations of line parameters of nitrogen broadened water vapor overtone transitions in the 818 - 834 nm wavelength region, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 242, 10 - 16, (2007).
B. K. Antony and R. Gamache, Self - broadened half - widths and self - induced line shifts for water vapor transitions in the 3.2 - 17.76 mm spectral region via complex Robert - Bonamy theory, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 243, 113 - 123 (2007).

I. E. Gordon , L. S. Rothman, R. R. Gamache, D. Jacquemart, C. Boone , P. F. Bernath, M. Shephard, J. S. Delamere, S. A. Clough, Current updates of water vapor linelist in HITRAN2004: A new Diet for air - broadened half - widths, in press, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 2007.

H. Tran, D. Bermejo, J. - L. Domenech, P. Joubert, R. R. Gamache, and J. - M. Hartmann, Collisional parameters of H2O lines: velocity effects on the line - shape, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 108, 126 - 145, 2007.
L. R. Brown, C. M. Humphrey and R. R. Gamache, CO2 - broadened water in the pure rotation and n2 fundamental regions, in press, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2007.

V. H. Payne, J. S. Delamere, K. E. Cady - Pereira, R. R. Gamache, J - L. Moncet, E. Mlawer, S. A. Clough, Air - broadened half - widths of the 22 GHz and183 GHz water vapor lines, submitted to IEEE Transactions in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2007.