Castle Group News

  • January 2008: Undergraduates Tom Vogler, Stephen Ragard, and Kristy Brown join the group.

  • December 2007: Castle group presents work at AGU meeting.

  • September 2007: New MS student Labe Black joins the group.

  • August 2007: Castle lab receives new 3-year NSF/CEDAR grant to work on O3-O VET!

  • June 2007: Darrell Kyle (MA program for high school teachers) joins the group.

  • May 2007: Castle and Dodd labs receive new 3-year NASA grant to work on CO2-O VET!


    Current Group Members

    Michael Simione (BS CHEM '09)
    Stephanie Rink (BA CHEM '09)
    Darrell Kyle (MA CHEM '09)
    Andrea Brown (BA CHEM '08)
    Labe Black (MS CHEM '09)
    Kristy Brown (BS CHEM '09)
    Tom Vogler (BS CHEM '10)
    Stephen Ragard (BS CHEM '10)


    Teaching Interests

    Physical Chemistry II
    Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy
    Inorganic Chemistry I
    General Chemistry I
    Seminar in Atmospheric Chemistry
    Research in Science Capstone
    Undergraduate and Graduate Research


    Former Group Members

    Andrea Asimoglou (BS BICH '09)
    Justin Rhinehart (MS CHEM '07)
    Dustin Schroeder (BS EE/PHYS '07)
    Kristi Cashman (BS CHEM '06)
    Michael Heinrich (BS CHEM '06)
    Rebecca Rupp (BS BIO '05)
    Carmen Gherghisan (BS BIO '05)
    Brian Day (BA CHEM '05)
    Katie Kleissas (BS CHEM '04)
    Betsy Staudt (BS CHEM '04)

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    Dr. Karen J. Castle
    Assistant Professor of Chemistry
    315 Rooke Chemistry Building
    Bucknell University
    Lewisburg, PA 17837
    (570) 577-3092
    kcastle@bucknell.edu



    2007-2008 Research Group
                                      
    Pictured Left-Right: Labe Black, Andrea Brown, Stephanie Rink, and Michael Simione
    (Not Pictured: Darrell Kyle)

    Our group uses laser spectroscopy to study chemical and physical processes that are important in Earth's upper atmosphere.

    For details on our current aeronomy experiments, check out our aeronomy page.
    For more information on Professor Castle, see this abbreviated CV.


    Recent Publications   (Bucknell students denoted with a *)

    Karen J. Castle, J. Chem. Educ. 84, 459 (2007). “High-resolution vibration-rotation spectroscopy of CO2: Understanding the Boltzmann Distribution.”

    Karen J. Castle, *Katherine M. Kleissas, *Justin M. Rhinehart, Eunsook S. Hwang, and James A. Dodd, J. Geophys. Res. 111, A09303, doi:10.1029/2006JA011736 (2006). “Vibrational relaxation of CO2(nu2) by atomic oxygen.”

    Karen J. Castle, *Katherine M. Kleissas, *Justin M. Rhinehart, Eunsook S. Hwang, and James A. Dodd, Proceedings of SPIE: Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere 5979 , 597910 (2005). “Room Temperature Measurements of CO2(nu2)-O Vibrational Energy Transfer."

    James A. Dodd, Eunsook S. Hwang, Karen J. Castle, and Gary D. DeBoer, J. Phys. Chem. A 108, 10965 (2004). "O + CnH2n Products Detected via IR Emission: I. O + C2H4."

    Karen J. Castle, Eunsook S. Hwang, and James A. Dodd, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere (SPIE), 5235, 276 (2004). “Laboratory Studies of CO2(n2)-O Vibrational Energy Transfer."