Alicia Hoffman

I am a Ph.D. student in the Holloway group at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE). My research deals with outdoor air quality, focusing on surface-level ozone. Ozone is hazardous to humans, plants, and the climate, so it is important to keep ozone levels low. I study the interactions between ozone, weather, and chemistry using data from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Although I look at ozone around the US, I’ve lately paid special attention to the effects of Lake Michigan on local air quality.

In addition to research, I am outreach coordinator for the AOS Graduate Student Association and a mentor in the AOS Mentorship Program. I also coach the middle school meteorology Science Olympiad team.

Before starting at UW Madison, I earned my Master’s in chemistry at the University of California, Irvine studying the climate and air quality impacts of landfill emissions. I then decided that California wasn’t the place for me and moved back to a state that had a real winter!