Breathing in a Better Climate
12 June 2025
Georgia Tech researchers are innovating ways to study air quality — beginning with prehistoric insights and zooming all the way to satellites in our orbit.
Associate Professor
Greene Early Career Professor
Biography
Dr. Kaiser is the Clifford and William Greene, Jr. Early Career Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a joint appointment in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 2018.
Research
Dr. Kaiser's research examines the formation and impacts of air pollutants. Her research group has been involved in aircraft-based measurement campaigns that map regional atmospheric processes, deployment of long-term monitoring networks that track pollution trends over time, and intensive ground-based field studies that probe chemical complexities. These observations are paired with computational modeling to examine the influence of anthropogenic emissions on atmospheric composition and to assess the broader implications for air quality.
Education
Ph.D., Chemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison 2016
B.S., Chemistry Wittenberg University 2010
Teaching
Dr. Kaiser's teaching spans first-year undergraduate to graduate-level courses. She regularly teaches the first-year Exploring Civil and Environmental Engineering course, as well as courses in Air Pollution Engineering and Atmospheric Chemistry. Courses emphasize real-world data analysis and connections between theoretical concepts and environmental challenges.
Distinctions & Awards
- Clifford and William Greene, Jr. Early Career Professor, Georgia Tech (2024)
- Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Faculty Fellow, Georgia Tech (2023)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration New Investigator Award (2021)
- Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Georgia Tech (2021)
Publications
- Moore, A. C., Skipper, T. N., Russell, A. G., and Kaiser, J.: Comparative Impacts of Freight and Non-truck Traffic on NOx and Ozone Concentrations in the Los Angeles Basin, Environ. Sci. Technol. Air, doi: 10.1021/acsestair.5c00396, 2026.
- Mouat, A. P., Spinei E., and Kaiser, J.: Informing Near-Airport Satellite NO2 Retrievals Using Pandora Sky-Scanning Observations”, Environ. Sci. Technol. Air, doi: 10.1021/acsestair.4c00158, 2024.
- Desai, N. S., Moore, A. C., Mouat, A. P., Liang, Y., Xu, T., Takeuchi, M., Pye, H. O. T., Murphy, B., Bash, J., Pollack, I. B., Peischl, J., Ng, N. L., and Kaiser, J.: Impact of Heatwaves and Declining NOx on Nocturnal Monoterpene Oxidation in the Urban Southeastern United States, J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos., doi: 10.1029/2024JD041482, 2024.
- Mouat, A. P., Siegel, Z. A., and Kaiser, J.: Evaluation of Aeris mid-infrared absorption (MIRA), Picarro CRDS (cavity ring-down spectroscopy) G2307, and dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH)-based sampling for long-term formaldehyde monitoring efforts. Atmos. Meas. Tech., doi: 10.5194/amt-17-1979-2024, 2024.
- Mei, E. J., Moore, A. C., and Kaiser, J.: Suitability of new and existing ambient ethylene oxide measurement techniques for cancer inhalation risk assessment. Environ. Pollut., doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122481, 2023.
- Mouat, A. P., Paton-Walsh, C., Simmons, J. B., Ramirez-Gamboa, J., Griffith, D. W. T., and Kaiser, J.: Measurement report: Observations of long-lived volatile organic compounds from the 2019–2020 Australian wildfires during the COALA campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi: 10.5194/acp-22-11033-2022, 2022.
- Peng, Y., Mouat, A. P., Hu, Y., Li, M., McDonald, B. C., and Kaiser, J.: Source appointment of volatile organic compounds and evaluation of anthropogenic monoterpene emission estimates in Atlanta, Georgia, Atmos. Environ., doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119324, 2022.
- Lawal, A. S., Russell, A. T., and Kaiser, J.: Assessment of Airport-Related Emissions and Their Impact on Air Quality in Atlanta, GA, Using CMAQ and TROPOMI, Environ. Sci. Technol., doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03388, 2022.
In the News
CEE faculty members appointed to endowed positions
15 May 2024
Faculty members Sheng Dai and Jennifer Kaiser have been selected for appointments to endowed positions within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Kaiser receives NOAA Grant to Study Urban Air Quality
12 October 2021