15th Annual Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium
The Pennsylvania State University
March 30 - 31, 2012

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The ECSS Committee is proud to present as the 15th Annual ECSS Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Jizhong Zhou
Presidential Professor of Botany and Microbiology and
Director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics
University of Oklahoma

Dr. Jizhong Zhou received a B.S. in Plant Pathology and Entomology in 1981 and an M.S. in Insect Mathematical Ecology in 1984 from Hunan Agricultural University, China before coming to the U.S. in 1989. In 1993, he received a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology from Washington State University. He then took a Postdoctural Research Associate position at the Center for Microbial Ecology, University of Michigan from 1993 to 1995. Before moving to the University of Oklahoma in 2005, Dr. Zhou worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interests include microbial genomics, genomic technologies, molecular biology, molecular evolution, microbial ecology, bioremediation, bioenergy, global change, bioinformatics, systems biology, and theoretical ecology. Dr. Zhou has won numerous awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States in 2001.
Dr. Jizhong Zhou Professional Profile

Dr. Anne Thompson
Professor of Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Anne Thompson received a B.A. (with honors) and an M.A. in Chemistry from Swarthmore College (1970) and Princeton University (1972) respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College in 1978. She became a Professor of Meteorology in 2005 at the Pennsylvania State University after 20 years of service at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Anne Thompson is actively planning, conducting and analyzing field data from NASA aircraft experiments, particularly those involving the link between chemistry and convection and biomass burning effects on ozone. She has been involved with several campaigns including the 1997 DC-8 aircraft campaign, SONEX (SASS Ozone and Nitrogen Experiment), the SHADOZ Project, the INTEX ozonesonde network study, IONS-06, TC⁴ and ARC-IONS. Dr. Thompson has won may awards, the latest of which is the Verner E. Suomi Award from the American Meteorological Society for exceptional vision and leadership in deploying technologies that have significantly advanced the understanding of ozone dynamics in the atmosphere.
Dr. Anne Thompson Professional Profile