Margaret A. Tolbert

Margaret Tolbert grew up in Boulder, Colorado.{{Cite web |title=Oral History with Bert Tolbert, OH3008 |url=https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A86197 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Carnegie Library for Local History |language=en}} She is the daughter of Bert Mills Tolbert, a chemistry professor at University of Colorado Boulder, and sister of Elizabeth Tolbert, Caroline Tolbert, and Sarah Tolbert.{{Cite web |title=Bert Tolbert Obituary (1921 - 2021) - Boulder, CO - The Daily Camera |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailycamera/name/bert-tolbert-obituary?id=14227777 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Legacy.com}}

Tolbert received a bachelor degree from Grinnell College in 1979 and a master degree in chemistry from University of California in 1985.{{Cite web |last=jon |date=2010-09-21 |title=Three faculty members earn Distinguished Professor title |url=https://connections.cu.edu/stories/three-faculty-members-earn-distinguished-professor-title |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=CU Connections |language=en}} She received a PhD in chemistry from University of Colorado Boulder in 1986, under the direction of Jesse L. Beauchamp.{{Cite thesis |title=Mechanisms and Energetics of Alkane Activation by Transition Metal Ions in the Gas Phase |url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10282019-140307646 |publisher=California Institute of Technology |date=1986 |degree=phd |language=en |first=Margaret A. |last=Tolbert}} She completed post-doctoral research at Stanford Research Institute under the direction of David M. Golden.{{Cite journal |last1=Tolbert |first1=Margaret A. |last2=Rossi |first2=Michel J. |last3=Malhotra |first3=Ripudaman |last4=Golden |first4=David M. |date=1987-11-27 |title=Reaction of Chlorine Nitrate with Hydrogen Chloride and Water at Antarctic Stratospheric Temperatures |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.238.4831.1258 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=238 |issue=4831 |pages=1258–1260 |doi=10.1126/science.238.4831.1258 |pmid=17744363 |bibcode=1987Sci...238.1258T |issn=0036-8075}}{{Cite web |title=Chemistry Tree - Matthew E. Wise Family Tree |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=105893 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=academictree.org}}

Tolbert conducted research at Stanford Research Institute before joining the faculty of University of Colorado Boulder in 1991, teaching environmental chemistry courses to nonscience majors from 1992 to 2006. She was awarded Distinguished Professor in 2010. She is a Fellow and Associate Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint venture between University of Colorado Boulder and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.{{Cite web |title=Council of Fellows |url=https://cires.colorado.edu/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=cires.colorado.edu |language=en}}

Her research focuses on study of atmospheric chemistry, in particular polar stratospheric clouds{{Cite journal |last1=Tolbert |first1=Margaret A. |last2=Koehler |first2=Birgit G. |last3=Middlebrook |first3=Ann M. |date=1992 |title=Spectroscopic studies of model polar stratospheric cloud films |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/058485399280267Z |journal=Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy |language=en |volume=48 |issue=9 |pages=1303–1313 |doi=10.1016/0584-8539(92)80267-Z|bibcode=1992AcSpA..48.1303T }}{{Cite journal |last=Tolbert |first=Margaret A. |date=1994-04-22 |title=Sulfate Aerosols and Polar Stratospheric Cloud Formation |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.264.5158.527 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=264 |issue=5158 |pages=527–528 |doi=10.1126/science.264.5158.527 |pmid=17732734 |bibcode=1994Sci...264..527T |issn=0036-8075}}{{Cite journal |last1=Toon |first1=Owen B. |last2=Tolbert |first2=Margaret A. |date=1995 |title=Spectroscopic evidence against nitric acid trihydrate in polar stratospheric clouds |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/375218a0 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=375 |issue=6528 |pages=218–221 |doi=10.1038/375218a0 |bibcode=1995Natur.375..218T |issn=0028-0836|hdl=2060/19970004394 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last=Tolbert |first=Margaret A. |date=1996-06-14 |title=Polar Clouds and Sulfate Aerosols |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.272.5268.1597 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=272 |issue=5268 |pages=1597 |doi=10.1126/science.272.5268.1597 |bibcode=1996Sci...272.1597T |issn=0036-8075}}{{Cite journal |last1=Zondlo |first1=Mark A. |last2=Hudson |first2=Paula K. |last3=Prenni |first3=Anthony J. |last4=Tolbert |first4=Margaret A. |date=2000 |title=Chemistry and Microphysics of Polar Stratospheric Clouds and Cirrus Clouds |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.physchem.51.1.473 |journal=Annual Review of Physical Chemistry |language=en |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=473–499 |doi=10.1146/annurev.physchem.51.1.473 |pmid=11031290 |bibcode=2000ARPC...51..473Z |issn=0066-426X}}{{Cite journal |last1=Prenni |first1=Anthony J. |last2=Tolbert |first2=Margaret A. |date=2001-07-01 |title=Studies of Polar Stratospheric Cloud Formation |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ar950186k |journal=Accounts of Chemical Research |language=en |volume=34 |issue=7 |pages=545–553 |doi=10.1021/ar950186k |pmid=11456472 |issn=0001-4842}} and planetary atmospheres.{{Cite journal |last1=Trainer |first1=Melissa G. |last2=Pavlov |first2=Alexander A. |last3=DeWitt |first3=H. Langley |last4=Jimenez |first4=Jose L. |last5=McKay |first5=Christopher P. |last6=Toon |first6=Owen B. |last7=Tolbert |first7=Margaret A. |date=2006 |title=Organic haze on Titan and the early Earth |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=103 |issue=48 |pages=18035–18042 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0608561103 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=1838702 |pmid=17101962}}{{Cite journal |last1=Trainer |first1=Melissa G. |last2=Tolbert |first2=Margaret A. |last3=McKay |first3=Christopher P. |last4=Toon |first4=Owen B. |date=2010 |title=Limits on the trapping of atmospheric CH4 in martian polar ice analogs |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S001910351000062X |journal=Icarus |language=en |volume=208 |issue=1 |pages=192–197 |doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.006}}{{Cite journal |last1=Hörst |first1=S. M. |last2=Tolbert |first2=M. A |date=2014-01-07 |title=The Effect of Carbon Monoxide on Planetary Haze Formation |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=781 |issue=1 |pages=53 |doi=10.1088/0004-637X/781/1/53 |issn=0004-637X|doi-access=free |arxiv=1312.5651 |bibcode=2014ApJ...781...53H }} She co-authored the book "Stratospheric Ozone Depletion" with Ann M. Middlebrook.{{Cite book |last1=Middlebrook |first1=Ann M. |title=Stratospheric ozone depletion |last2=Tolbert |first2=Margaret A. |date=2000 |publisher=Univ. Science Books |isbn=978-1-891389-10-8 |series=Global change instruction program |location=Sausalito, Calif}} She was featured in the book "I Want to be an Environmentalist".{{Cite book |last=Maze |first=Stephanie |title=I want to be an environmentalist |publisher=Harcourt |year=2000 |isbn=9780152018627 |location=San Diego |pages=8 |language=en}}

• 2017 NASA Group Achievement Award, MSL Extended Mission Science{{Cite web |title=MARGARET A. TOLBERT |url=https://experts.colorado.edu/vitas/104976.pdf |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=CU Experts}}
• 2009 American Chemical Society Creative Advances in Environmental Sciences and Technology Award{{Cite web |title=Past Recipients |url=https://www.acs.org/funding/awards/acs-award-for-creative-advances-in-environmental-science-and-technology/past-recipients.html |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=American Chemical Society |language=en}}
• 2007 Grinnell College honorary Doctor of Science{{Cite web |title=Margaret Tolbert '79, Doctor of Science |url=https://www.grinnell.edu/news/margaret-tolbert-79-doctor-science |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Grinnell College |language=en}}
• 2007 University of Colorado Boulder Hazel Barnes Prize{{Cite web |date=2016-12-21 |title=Hazel Barnes Prize 2007 |url=https://www.colorado.edu/chancellor/hazel-barnes-prize/hazel-barnes-prize-2007 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Office of the Chancellor |language=en}}
• 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web |title=Margaret A. Tolbert |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/margaret-a-tolbert/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... |language=en}}
• 2004 National Academy of Sciences Elected Member{{Cite web |title=Margaret A. Tolbert |url=https://nasonline.org/member-directory/members/66484.html |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=nasonline.org}}
• 2003 NASA Group Achievement Award, Crystal-Face Science{{Cite web |date=2009-03-16 |title=CU-Boulder Professor Margaret Tolbert to Receive American Chemical Society Award |url=https://www.colorado.edu/today/2009/03/16/cu-boulder-professor-margaret-tolbert-receive-american-chemical-society-award |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=CU Boulder Today |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-10-22 |title=Margaret Tolbert |url=https://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/margaret-tolbert |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Chemistry |language=en}}
• 2001 NASA Group Achievement Award, SOLVE Experiment
• 1994 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award{{Cite web |title=Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program All Award Recipients |url=https://www.dreyfus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TC-23-FullWinnerList.pdf |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation}} for her project on "Atmospheric chemistry: heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric clouds and sulfuric acid aerosols"
• 1993 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union{{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=1993-04-20 |title=1993 AGU Fellows |url=https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/93EO00414 |journal=Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |language=en |volume=74 |issue=16 |pages=190–191 |doi=10.1029/93EO00414 |bibcode=1993EOSTr..74..190. |issn=0096-3941}}
• 1993 American Geophysical Union James B. Macelwane Medal{{Cite journal |last1=Solomon |first1=Susan |last2=Tolbert |first2=Margaret |date=1994-02-22 |title=Tolbert receives Macelwane medal |url=https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/94EO00805 |journal=Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |language=en |volume=75 |issue=8 |pages=85–86 |doi=10.1029/94EO00805 |issn=0096-3941}}
• 1992 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award{{Cite web |title=(Tolbert, Margaret A - 1992) -- NSF Young Investigator {{!}} CU Experts {{!}} CU Boulder |url=https://experts.colorado.edu/display/AwardReceipt_5366 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=experts.colorado.edu}}
• 1988 American Association for the Advancement of Science Newcomb Cleveland Prize for her first-authored article on "Reaction of Chlorine Nitrate with Hydrogen Chloride and Water at Antarctic Stratospheric Temperatures"{{Cite web |title=Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients |url=https://www.aaas.org/awards/newcomb-cleveland-prize/recipients |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}

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