Durga N. Kafle

Environmental Science Division (EVS)

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Argonne, IL 60439

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630-***-**** (office)

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EDUCATION

Utah State University (USU), Logan, UT

Ph.D. in Physics (Atmospheric and Space Physics, Remote sensing), August 2009

GPA: 3.92/4.0

School of graduate studies dissertation fellowship, 2009

Howard L. Blood Endowed scholarship for outstanding academic performance, Physics, 2008

Gene Adams Endowed scholarship for outstanding academic performance, Physics, 2006

Dean’s List, 2005

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

M.S. in Basic Physics, December 2004

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

M.S. in Physics (Atmospheric and air pollution physics), August 1997

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

B.S. in Physics (minor in statistics), August 1995

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Post-doctoral Researcher, 2009-Present

Developed novel approaches for using data collected by the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program and the second ARM mobile facility, from a variety of locations world-wide (including oceans and poles), in modeling of climate effects. Reviewed and compiled scientific field research and literature; wrote technical articles for journal publication; made presentations at conferences.

Gained a great deal of fieldwork experience in setting up ARM mobile facility (AMF1 and AMF2) instruments, as well as other weather monitoring equipments.

Worked with an ARM Program group to study various meteorological phenomena, ocean-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric physics, climate and boundary layer dynamics, and climate change (cloud and aerosol properties and their effects on the atmospheric radiation budget at a variety of locations world-wide, including oceans and poles) by using lidar, sodar, and other remote sensing techniques.

Utah State University, Logan, UT

Graduate Research Assistant, 2005-2009

Researched the atmospheric gravity wave activities in the stratosphere and the mesosphere and lower thermosphere region by using lidar remote sensing techniques.

Mentored several undergraduates in senior research projects that involved the use of the lidar system at USU to study atmospheric dynamics and wave activities.

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Graduate Research Assistant, 2002-2004

Worked with antimony-121 Mössbauer spectral study of Eu(14)MnSb(11) and Yb(14)MnSb(11) zintl compounds.

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Graduate Researcher, 1995-1997

Studied particulate mass loading and visibility in the Kathmandu Valley by using nephelometer, particulate monitor, and telephotometer equipment.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Utah State University, Logan, UT

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, 2005-2009

Prepared and taught introductory physics laboratory to 150 undergraduates.

Developed and delivered laboratory lectures, and, exams for physics courses to 150 undergraduates.

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, 2002-2004

Graded papers and reviewed physics undergraduate students’ laboratory work.

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Lecturer, Department of Physics, 1997-2002

Prepared and taught introductory physics courses to undergraduates.

Developed and delivered lectures, and gave exams for undergraduate physics courses.

Served as external examiner for physics exams at several colleges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Computational physics and scientific programming.

Ground-based remote sensing, in situ measurements, data analysis, accuracy assessment and error analysis.

Programming languages: IDL, R, SPLUS, Fortran, C, MatLab.

WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS

General Employee Radiological Training and several other courses at Argonne National Laboratory, 2004-2012.

International Teaching Assistant (ITA) Workshop given by the Intensive English Language Institute at USU, September 19-November 9, 2005.

Teacher training program in physics organized by the Directorate of Curriculum and Training, Higher Secondary Education Board, in Lalitpur, Nepal, June 11-17, 1999.

HONORS

Gene Adams Endowed Scholarship for outstanding academic performance, USU, Physics, 2006.

Howard L. Blood Endowed Scholarship for outstanding academic performance, USU, Physics, 2008.

Named to the School of Graduate Studies Honor Roll (Dean’s List) for spring 2005, USU.

Elected to the USU Chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honorary society, for distinctive achievement and high scholarship in physics.

School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship for the 2009- 2010 academic year, USU, 2009.

American Geophysical Union Student Travel Grant, 2009.

Student Travel Grant, USU, 2006, 2007, and 2009.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

1. Hermann, R., F. Grandjean, D.N. Kafle, D.E. Brown, C. Johnson, S. Kauzlarich, and G. Long, Antimony-121 Mössbauer Spectral Study of the Eu(14)MnSb(11) and Yb(14)MnSb(11) Zintl Compounds, 2007, Inorg Chem.;17985872.

2. Kafle D. N., and R. L. Coulter, Micropulse Lidar-Derived Aerosol Optical Depth Climatology at ARM Sites Worldwide, 2012, (submitted to JGR).

3. Kafle, D.N, 2004, Mössbauer Study of the Eu(14)MnSb(11) and Yb(14)MnSb(11) Zintl Compounds, M.S. Thesis, 76 pp, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.

4. Kafle, D.N., and V.B. Wickwar, 2009, Climatology of Mesospheric Brunt-Väisälä Frequencies Derived from Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar above Logan, Utah (manuscript).

5. Kafle, D.N., and V.B. Wickwar, 2009, Characteristics of Monochromatic Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere Observed by Rayleigh-Lidar above Logan, Utah (manuscript).

6. Kafle, D.N., and V.B. Wickwar, 2009, Seasonal Variation of Mesospheric Gravity Wave Potential Energy Observed by Rayleigh-Lidar at Logan, Utah (manuscript).

7. Kafle, D.N., and B.K. Sapkota, Particulate Mass loading in Kathmandu Valley, Tribhuvan University Journal, XXI, 13-27, 1998.

8. Kafle, D.N, 1997, A Study of Visibility in Kathmandu Valley, M.S. Thesis, 95 pp, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

9. Kafle, D.N., and D. E. Brown, Mössbauer Study of Eu14MnSb11 Zintl Compound, American Physical Society (APS) 37th Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP2006), May16–20,2006;Knoxville,TN, USA.

10. Kafle, D.N., D.E. Brown, C. Johnson, S.Kauzlarich, R.Hermann., F.Grandjean., and G.Long., Mössbauer Study of Yb14MnSb11 Zintl Compound, International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2006), June25–30,2006; Boston, MA, USA.

11. Kafle, D.N., and B.K. Sapkota, Air Pollution Levels in Kathmandu Valley as Measured by Nephelometer and Particulate Monitor, Proceedings of the Second International Conference On Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA 2001), Kyoto, Japan, 2001.

12. Kafle, D.N., and B.K. Sapkota, Study of Visibility in Kathmandu Valley as Measured by Nephelometer and Telephotometer, Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Science and Technology on March 8-11, 2001 in Kathmandu on the Theme of “Science and Technology for the 21st Century: Retrospect and Prospects in Nepal.”

13. Kafle, D.N., and V. B.Wickwar, Gravity Wave Activity in the Middle Atmosphere Observed by Rayleigh Lidar, Utah State University (USU), 11th Annual Intermountain Paper and Poster Symposium March 31–April 03, 2008, Logan UT, USA.

14. Kafle, D.N., Climatology of Mesospheric Brunt-Väisälä Frequencies Observed with Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar above Logan, Utah, Physics Colloquium, Utah State University, September 2, 2008, Logan, UT.

15. Kafle, D.N. and V.B. Wickwar, Mesospheric Atmospheric Gravity Wave Properties Derived from Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar Observations above Logan,Utah, 2009 Joint Assembly Meeting, Meeting of the Americas, AGU, May 24-27, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

16. Participant in APS Corner Meeting, October 6-7, 2006, Utah State University.

17. Attended CEDAR Annual Meeting, June 23-30, 2007, Santa Fe, NM.

18. Attended CEDAR Annual Meeting, June 16- 21, 2008, Midway, UT.

19. Slansky J.R., D.N. Kafle, and V.B. Wickwar, Rayleigh lidar determination of the vertical wavelength of Mesospheric gravity waves, SPS Zone meeting, April 1-2, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

20. Taylor, G.C., D.N. Kafle, and V.B. Wickwar, Rayleigh lidar observations of Mesospheric instabilities, SPS Zone meeting, April 1-2, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

21. Kafle, D.N., Atmospheric gravity waves observed by Rayleigh lidar, Environmental Science, Division seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, May 14, 2009, Argonne, IL, USA.

22. Kafle, D.N., V.B. Wickwar, 2009, Decreases in Gravity Wave Potential Energy with Altitude above Logan, Utah (manuscript).

23. Kafle, D.N., 2009, Rayleigh-Lidar Observations of Mesospheric Gravity Wave Activity above Logan, Utah, PhD. Dissertation, 209 pp, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

24. Coulter, R. L., B. Orr, M. Ritsche, T.J. Martin, R. Eagan, R. White, D. Holdridge, D. Cook, and D.N. Kafle, AMF2 STATUS: PLANS AND PROGRESS, ARM Atmospheric System Research, Science Team Meeting, March 15-19, 2010, Bethesda, MD, USA.

25. Kafle, D. N., and R.L. Coulter, Aerosol Optical Depth Climatology Observed by Micropulse Lidar at ARM Southern Great Plains Site in Northern Oklahoma, ARM Atmospheric System Research, Science Team Meeting, March 28 - April1, 2011, San Antonio, TX, USA.

26. Kafle, D.N, Micropulse Lidar Sensing of the Atmosphere, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics and Sigma Xi chapter (invited brown bag seminar), May 5, 2011, DeKalb, IL USA.

27. Kafle, D.N., and R.L. Coulter, Aerosol Optical Depth Climatology Derived from Micropulse Lidar Data at Various ARM Sites World-wide, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA.

28. Kafle, D.N., Aerosol Optical Depth Derived from Micropulse Lidar Data at Various ARM Sites World-wide, Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics colloquium (invited presentation), November 11, 2011, DeKalb, IL, USA.

29. Kafle, D.N. and R.L. Coulter, Aerosol Optical Depth Climatology Derived from Micropulse Lidar Data at Various ARM Sites World-wide, ARM Atmospheric System Research, Science Team Meeting, March 12 -16, 2012, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society, Life Member

Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, since 2009

Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society

Nepal Physical Society, since 1997

American Physical Society, since 2005

American Geophysical Union, since 2005

Texas Section American Physical Society, since 2005

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

American Meteorological Society, since 2010

REFERENCES

1. Dr. Richard L. Coulter (Post-doc supervisor, ANL)

Environmental Science Division (EVS)

Climate Research Section

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Argonne, IL 60439

Email: vhb527@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 630-***-****

2. Dr. Vincent B. Wickwar (PhD advisor, USU)

Department of Physics

Utah State University

Logan, UT 84322

Email: vhb527@r.postjobfree.com

vhb527@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 435-***-**** (office)

3. Dr. Dennis E. Brown (MS advisor, NIU)

Department of Physics

Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, IL 60115

Email: vhb527@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 815-***-**** (office)

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