Dr. Da Pan earned his B.S. at Peking University, where his research on the impacts of international trade on redistributing air pollutants won the Cozzarelli Prize (Paper of the Year) from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University, with a focus on instrument development and field observations of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Additionally, he obtained a Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Certificate from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Pan joined the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University as a postdoctoral researcher and later became a research scientist. His work at Colorado State involves studying nitrogen deposition and emissions of volatile organic compounds from unconventional oil and gas development. Dr. Pan’s research has been widely recognized, with publications in journals such as Nature Geosciences, Nature Communications, Environmental Science and Technology, and Global Change Biology.
- Trace gas sensing technologies
- Stationary and mobile observations of greenhouse gases and air pollutants
- Modeling of land-atmosphere interactions
1. Undergraduate Peking University, School of Physics, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 2009 - 2013
2. Ph.D. Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013 - 2021
- Princeton Environmental Institute–Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Fellowship, 2017
- Cozzarelli Prize (Paper of the Year Award), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1/600 PNAS papers), 2015
Pan, D., Mauzerall, D.L., Wang, R., Guo, X., Puchalski, M., Guo, Y., Song, S., Tong, D., Sullivan, A.P., Schichtel, B.A. and Collett Jr, J.L., 2024. Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States. Nature Geoscience, pp.1-7.
Pan, D., Gelfand, I., Tao, L., Abraha, M., Sun, K., Guo, X., Chen, J., Robertson, G.P. and Zondlo, M.A., 2022. A new open‐path eddy covariance method for nitrous oxide and other trace gases that minimizes temperature corrections. Global Change Biology, 28(4), pp.1446-1457.
Pan, D., Benedict, K.B., Golston, L.M., Wang, R., Collett Jr, J.L., Tao, L., Sun, K., Guo, X., Ham, J., Prenni, A.J. and Schichtel, B.A., 2021. Ammonia dry deposition in an alpine ecosystem traced to agricultural emission hotpots. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(12), pp.7776-7785.
Pan, D., Tao, L., Sun, K., Golston, L.M., Miller, D.J., Zhu, T., Qin, Y., Zhang, Y., Mauzerall, D.L. and Zondlo, M.A., 2020. Methane emissions from natural gas vehicles in China. Nature communications, 11(1), p.4588.
Lin, J., Pan, D., Davis, S.J., Zhang, Q., He, K., Wang, C., Streets, D.G., Wuebbles, D.J. and Guan, D., 2014. China’s international trade and air pollution in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5), pp.1736-1741.