Jonathan is a Research Scientist and has worked at Center for Climate Systems Research since 2018. He works on modeling, remote sensing, and measuring of trace gases, with a particular focus on emissions from soils and biomass burning and their implications for atmospheric composition, climate, and human well-being.
Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in 2009 from Stony Brook University. Prior to becoming a Research Scientist at CCSR, Jonathan was an Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Research Scientist at the Earth Institute's Agriculture and Food Security Center (2009-2014), an Associate Editor at Nature Geoscience (2014-2017), a Research Associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2017-2018), and a Senior Fellow in the CCSR Postdoctoral Program (2018-2021).