Ann Marie Carlton
Ann Marie Grover Carlton is an American academic working as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, with expertise in atmospheric chemistry. She is a reviewing editor for the journal Science, and the winner of multiple awards and fellowships, notably the quadrennial Roger Revelle Fellowship for Global Stewardship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In this fellowship, she advised the Biden administration on climate and the environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, beginning in September 2021. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, she was a proponent of the theory of airborne transmission of the virus, consequently appearing as an expert guest on NPR. She is the scientific leader on the Southern Oxidant & Aerosol Study (SOAS), the largest U.S. atmospheric chemistry field project in decades, for which the short documentary Skycatcher was made.