Dr Scott Chambers
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Scott is a Research Scientist in the Isotopes in Climate Change and Atmospheric Systems Project within the Institute for Environmental Research. He is primarily involved in developing, deploying and operating ground-based and airborne detectors for the monitoring of atmospheric Radon-222 (radon) and radon emanation. His research interests involve using radon as a tracer of atmospheric transport and mixing and investigating the use of such datasets for the evaluation of weather and climate models.
Expertise
Radon, radon flux, boundary-layer meteorology, surface-atmosphere interaction, atmospheric transport, vertical mixing
Qualifications & Achievements
- 19 research articles published in refereed international journals.
- Post doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, investigating the regional climatic effects of natural disturbance (by fire) of the Boreal Forest regions of Alaska and Siberia Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry, The Flinders University of South Australia (1997)
Publications
Amiro, B., A. Orchansky, A. Barr, A. Black, S.D. Chambers, F.S. Chapin, III, M. Goulden, M. Litvak, H. Liu, H. McCaughey, A. McMillan and J.T. Randerson. The Effect of Post-fire Stand Age on the Boreal OFrest Energy Balance. Agricultral and Forest Meteorology, 140, 41-50, 2006.
Chambers, S., A.G. Williams, W. Zahorowski, A. Griffiths and J. Crawford, 2011, Separating remote fetch and local mixing influences on vertical radon measurements in the lower atmosphere. Tellus B, pp. 17. DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00565.x.
Chambers, S., W. Zahorowski, A.G. Williams, J. Crawford and A. Griffiths. Identifying tropospheric baseline air masses at Mauna Loa Observatory between 2004 and 2010 using Radon-222 and back trajectories. Journal of Geophysical Research (accepted), August 2012.
Chambers, S.D, J. Beringer, J.T. Randerson, F.S. Chapin III. Fire effects on net radiationi and energy partitioning: Contrasting responses of tundra and boreal forest ecosystems. Jounal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 110, D09106, doi:10.1029/2004JD005299, 2005
Chambers, S.D. and Chapin, F.S. III. FIre effects on surface-atmosphere energy exchange in Alaskan black spruce ecosystems: implications for feedbacks to regional climate. J. Geophys. Res. Atm., 108 (D1), art. no. 8145, Nov 2002.
Chambers, S.D., W. Zahorowski, K. Matsumoto and M. Uematsu. Seasonal variability of radon-derived fetch regions for Sado Island, Japan, based on 3 years of observations: 2002-2004. Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.075, 2008, 9 pp.
Crawford J., Chambers S.D., Cohen D.D., Dyer L. and Zahorowski W. Receptor modeling using positive matrix factorization, back trajectories and radon-222, Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.04.048, 15 pp.
Crawford J., Chambers S.D., Cohen D.D., Dyer L., Wang, T. and Zahorowski W. Receptor modeling using positive matrix factorization, back trajectories and radon-222. Atmospheric Environment, 41(32), 6823-6837,2007.
Crawford, J., D.D. Cohen, W. Zahorowski, S. Chambers and E. Stelcer, 2011. A new method to combine IBA of fine aerosols with Radon-222 to determine source characteristics. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, pp. 12. DOI:10.1016/j.nimb.2011.06.007.
Crawford, J., W. Zahorowski, D.D. Cohen, S. Chambers, E. Stelcer, and S. Werczynski. Estimating the near-surface daily fine aerosol load-using hourly radon-222 observations. Air Pollution Research (in press), 2012.
Eugster W, Rouse WR, Pielke RA, McFadden JP, Baldocchi DD, Kittel TGF, Chapin FS, Liston GE, Vidale PL, Vaganov E, Chambers S. Land-atmosphere energy exchange in Arctic tundra and boreal forest: available data and feedbacks to climate. Global Chnage Biology,6:84-115 Suppl. 1, DEC 2000.
Griffiths, A.D., S.D. Parkes, S.D. Chambers, M.F. McCabe, and A. G. Williams. Combining radion and lidar to monitor mixing height from the surface. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (submitted), July 2012, MS. No.: amt-2012-172.
Randerson, J.T., H. Liu, M.G. Flanner, S.D. Chambers, Y.Jin, P.G. Hess, G. Pfister, M.C. Mack, K.K. Treseder, L.R. Welp, F.S. Chapin, J.W. Harden, M.L. Goulden, E. Lyons, J.C. Neff, E.A.G. Schuur, and C.S. Zender. The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming. SCIENCE, 314, 17, 1130-1132, 2006.
Williams, A.G., Chambers, S., Zahorowski, W., Crawford, J., Matsumoto, K. and Uematsu, M. Estimating the Asian radon flux density and its latitudinal gradient in winter using ground-based radon observations at Sado Island. In press, Atmospheric Environment, April 2009.
Williams, A.G., W. Zahorowski, S. Chambers, A. Griffiths, J.M. Hacker A. Element, S. Werczynski, 2011: The Vertical Distribution of Radon in Clear and Cloudy Daytime Terrestrial Boundary Layers. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 155-174. DOI:10.1175/2012JAS3576.1
Zahorowski, W., A. Griffiths, S. Chambers, A. G. Williams, R. M. Law, J. Crawford, and S. Werczynski. Constraining annual and seasonal radon-222 flux density from the Southern Ocean using radon-222 concentrations in the boundary layer at Cape Grim. Tellus B (submitted), August 2012.
Zahorowski W., S.D. Chambers, J. Crawford, A.G. Williams, D.D. Cohen, A.T. Vermeulen, B. Verheggen. Radon-222 observations for climate and air quality studies. IAEA TECDOC. In press.
Zahorowski, W., S.D. Chambers, T. Wang, C.-H. Kang, I. Uno, S. Poon, S.-N. Oh, S. Werczynski, J. Kim and A. Henderson-Sellers. Radon-222 in boundary layer and free tropospheric continental outflow events at three ACE-Asia sites. Tellus B, 57, 124-140,2005.