Karin Ardon-Dryer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the Atmospheric Science Group at Texas Tech University. Before joining TTU she was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); and later a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of System Biology at Harvard Medical School at Harvard University. Dr. Ardon-Dryer received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the Department of Geophysics, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Dr. Ardon-Dryer studies the effect that aerosols have on climate, the environment, and our health. In particular, she takes an interdisciplinary approach and combines field and laboratory work to investigate the interaction between human and climate; exploring the human effects on climate, and vice versa, namely, how climate may affect our lives (e.g. health) in the short and long terms
Dr. Ardon-Dryer leads several projects such as running the measurement station AEROS (Aerosol Observation Station) and studying the characteristics of atmospheric particles during dust storm events. She also investigates the effects that aerosol particles have on human health, this is the first interdisciplinary approach that observes the effect of air pollution particles on health at a single-cell level.