Analytical Chemist

Gregory C. Winston

Address:

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Irvine, CA 92612

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949-***-**** home

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Education: PhD in Analytical Chemistry, 1991, University of Maine

Thesis- 'An ellipsometric study of the cyclic voltammetry of polyvinylferrocene in

acetonitrile'

MS in Physical Chemistry, 1985, University of Maine

Thesis- 'Emission spectroscopy of products formed in microwave discharges

through vapors of samarium and erbium tricyclopentadienides'

BS in Chemistry, 1980, Davidson College

Thesis- 'Oxygen quenching of triplet state biacetyls'

Keywords: analytical chemistry, spectroscopy, gas chromatography, sensors, electrochemistry,

instrumentation, data loggers, eddy flux, soil respiration, soil moisture, ellipso metry,

software development, managed, supervised

Work Experience: Research Specialist (2001 to 2012), U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA; Primary

responsibilities and contributions included:

1) Design, installation and maintenance of 19 solar powered eddy flux towers

in Canada, Brazil, and California – to measure the exchange of CO2 and

water vapor between the atmosphere and different ecosystems.

2) Development of automated GOES satellite data retrieval software.

3) Developed WiFi data retrieval and platform control system using wireless

serial port servers.

4) Design and manufacture of automated instruments which measure CO2

concentrations as a function of depth and time in soils and traps aliquots of

CO2 for 14C analysis.

5) Design and manufacture of automated systems for measuring soil respiration

(using microprocessor controlled multiplexed chambers) and trapping

respired CO2 for analysis of 14C.

6) Supervising work crew constructing the California Rainout experiment

which intercepts and redistributes precipitation along an elevation transect

in southern California.

7) Designed instrumentation and data acquisition system to measure the effects

of treatments in the California Rainout system.

8) Developed a new method to use water content reflectometers to measure

volumetric water content in soil.

9) Designed a photodiode based sensor to measure normalized differential

vegetation indices by analysis of incoming solar radiation and radiation

reflected from the ecosystem surface.

10) Managed field campaigns and experiments, supervised construction

projects, managed electronic data flow and storage.

11) Mentored graduate and undergraduate students.

Guest Researcher (3 months in 2000 and 2001), Woods Hole Research

Center; Santarem, Para Brazil; solving problems measuring soil moisture with time

domain reflectometry, and developing software for waveform analysis.

Chemist (1991 to 2000); U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program;

Woods Hole, MA; Support staff for Geochemical Carbon Fluxes Project; Primary

responsibilities included:

1) Design and supervision of the gas chromatography laboratory.

2) Developing methods to estimate soil respiration and soil gas

concentrations of CO2 and CH4 using gas chromatographs and infrared

gas analyzers.

3) Conducting field measurements of soil respiration during the growing

season at Harvard Forest, MA; in the winter through snowpacks for

NASA’s BOREAS Project; and at Sleepers River Research Watershed.

4) Designing an automated system for closed chamber measurements of soil

respiration.

5) Running laboratory operations studying the perturbations of closed

chambers on the transport of gases through porous media.

6) Developed and validated a 'quasi' chromatographic field method to

measure CO2 concentrations in gases collected at different depths from

soils using an infrared gas analyzer as a detector and scrubbed air as the

mobile phase.

7) Developed and tested methods and materials to conduct research in

northern Manitoba at the Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering

Laboratory in Hanover, NH.

Laboratory and recitation instructor, University of ME, (1983-1990)

Self employed general contractor and rock climbing instructor (1979 -1983)

Agricultural lab technician (1980)

Paper mill quality control quality assurance engineer (summers 1976-1979)

Professional Societies: American Geophysical Union

American Chemical Society

Sigma Xi

Professional Award: U.S. Geological Survey Outstanding Performance Award, 1995

Abilities/Interests: Glassblowing, plastic welding, carpentry, auto mechanics, rock climbing,

backpacking, sports, gardening, landscaping

Publications

‘Environmental filtering affects soil fungal community composition more than dispersal limitation at

regional scales’, Stephanie N. Kivlin, Gregory C. Winston, Michael L. Goulden, Kathleen K. Treseder,

Submitted to Journal of ISME April 2012.

‘Evapotranspiration patterns with elevation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains’ M.L. Goulden, R.G. Anderson,

R.C. Bales, A.E. Kelly, M. Meadows, G.C. Winston, In Review JGR – Biogeosciences. (2012).

‘Ecological effects of experimental drought and prescribed fire in a southern California coastal grassland’,

D.L. Potts, K.N. Suding, G.C. Winston, A.V. Rocha, M.L. Goulden, Journal of Arid Environments. Vol 81,

pp 59-66, (2012).

‘Water and Heat transport in Boreal Soils: Implications for Soil Response to Climate Change’, Zhaosheng

Fan, Jason C. Neff, Jennifer Harden, Hugo Veldhuis, Claudia I. Czimczik, Gregory C. Winston, Jonathon

A. O’Donnell, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, vol 409, no. 10, pp. 1836-1842, (2011).

‘Patterns of NPP, GPP, respiration, and NEP during boreal forest succession’ M.L. Goulden, A.M.S.

McMillan, G.C. Winston, A.V. Rocha, K.L. Manies, J.W. Harden, B.P. Bond -Lamberty, Global Change

Biology Vol. 17, (2), pp 855-871 (2011).

‘Soil respiration in perennial grass and shrub ecosystems: Linking environmental controls with plant and

microbial sources on seasonal and diel timescales’, Carbone, M. S., G. C. Winston, and S. E. Trumbore, J.

Geophys. Res., 113, (2008).

‘Age-dependent response of boreal forest to temperature and rainfall variability’, McMillan, Andrew M. S.,

Gregory C. Winston, and Michael L. Goulden, Glob Change Biol, 14(8), 1904 (2008).

‘An eddy covariance mesonet to measure the effect of forest age on land-atmosphere exchange’, M.L.

Goulden, G.C. Winston, A. McMillen, E. Read, M. Litvak, A. Rocha, and R. Elliot, Glob Change Biol, 12

(11): 2146-2162 NOV 2006

‘Changing sources of soil respiration with time since fire in a boreal forest’, C.I. Czimc zik, S.E. Trumbore,

M.S. Carbone, and G.C. Winston, Global Change Biology, 12, pp 1-15, 2006.

‘An automated system for measuring soil respiration in Harvard Forest, MA’ G.C. Winston, E.T. Sundquist,

and L.K. Bergen, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 79, no. 45: F940 (1998).

‘Winter CO2 fluxes in a boreal forest’, G.C. Winston, E.T. Sundquist, B.B. Stephens, S.E. Trumbore, J.

Geophys. Res., 102, no. D24, pp. 28,795-28,804, 1997.

‘Seasonal variability in CO2 transport through snow in a boreal forest’, Winston, G.C., B.B. Stephens, E.T.

Sundquist, J.P. Hardy, and R.E. Davis, in Biogeochemistry of Seasonally Snow-Covered Catchments,

edited by K. Tonnessen, M.W. Williams, and M. Trantor, IAHS publ228, pp.61 -70. 1995.

‘Evolution of factors affecting gas transmissivity of snow in the boreal forest’, Hardy, J.P., R.E. Davis, and

G.C. Winston, in Biogeochemistry of Seasonally Snow-Covered Catchments, edited by K. Tonnessen,

M.W. Williams, and M. Trantor, IAHS publ228, pp.51 -59. 1995.

'CO2 Fluxes Through the Snowpack at Sleepers River, Vermont', G.C. Winston, A.B. Shortlidge, and E.T.

Sundquist, EOS, Transactions

of the American Geophysical Union, 73 (43;Supplement):174 (1992).

'Diurnal Variations in Soil CO2 Fluxes Measured by a Noninvasive Chamber Technique at Sleepers River,

Vermont', E.T. Sundquist, A.B. Shortlidge, and G.C. Winston, EOS, Transactions of the American

Geophysical Union, 73 (43;Supplement):186 (1992).

'The Use of Ellipsometry to Follow Ion and Solvent Movement During

the Oxidation of Polyvinylferrocene in Acetonitrile',

Doctoral Dissertation University of Maine (1991).

'Ellipsometry Study of Poly(vinylferrocene)', G.C. Winston and C.M.

Carlin, J. Electrochem. Soc., 135 (1988) 789.

'Spectroscopy of Products Observed in Microwave Discharges through

Vapors of Erbium and Samarium Tricyclopentadienides', Masters Thesis University of Maine (1986).

'Charge-Transfer Mechanism for Quenching of the Lowest 3n, π* State

of Vapor-Phase Carbonyl-Containing Compounds by Oxygen', F.A. Cebul, K.A. Kirk, D.W. Lupo, L.M.

Pittenger, M.D. Schuh, I.R. Williams, G.C. Winston, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102 (1980) 5656.

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