Kelvin Bates

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Education: B.S., Davidson College (2012), Ph.D., Caltech (2017)
Teaching: MCEN 1024 Chemistry for Energy & Material Science
Research: Field observations of organic gases, mass spectrometry, environmental chamber experiments, atmospheric chemistry modeling, trace gas oxidation mechanism development

Office: ECOT 233
Lab: SEEL 250A

Honors and Distinctions:

• 2021 - UBC Early Career Invited Lecture Award - University of British Columbia
• 2017 - Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship - NOAA
• 2017 - Center for the Environment Postdoctoral Fellowship - Harvard University
• 2014 - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Recent Publications: 
** denotes work done in collaboration with graduate students
* denotes work done in collaboration with undergraduate students

• Bates, K. H., Evans, M. J., Henderson, B. H., and Jacob, D. J. "Impacts of updated rate constants on tropospheric composition." Geosci. Model Dev., 17 (4), 1511-1524, 2024.
• Bates, K. H., Jacob, D. J., Cope, J. D., Chen, X., Millet, D. B., and Nguyen, T. B. "Aqueous oxidation of isoprene-derived organic aerosol species as a source of atmospheric formic and acetic acids." Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 3, 1651-1664, 2023.
• Cope, J. D.*, Bates, K. H.*, Tran, L. N., Abellar, K. A., and Nguyen, T. B. "Sulfur radical formation from the tropospheric irradiation of aqueous sulfate aerosols." Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci., 119 (36) e2202857119, 2022. (*co-first-authors)
• Bates, K. H., Burke, G. J. P., Cope, J. D., and Nguyen, T. B. "Secondary organic aerosol and organic nitrogen yields from the nitrate radical (NO3) oxidation of alpha-pinene from various RO2 fates." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 1467-1482, 2022.
• Dovrou, E., Bates, K. H., Moch, J. M., Mickley, L. J., Jacob, D. J., and Keutsch, F. N. "Catalytic role of formaldehyde in particulate matter formation." Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci., 119 (6), e2113265119; 2022.