Credit: Egan Jimenez
I'm an atmospheric chemist focusing on satellite remote sensing of atmospheric composition. I received my PhD in atmospheric chemistry from Harvard University in 2020 along with an MSc in applied mathematics. My research revolves around satellite monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and air quality pollution, from global and regional scales down to the level of individual point sources. I'm interested in using the expanding satellite observing system to help generate environmentally actionable information in support of policy on air quality and climate.
Varon, D. J., Jervis, D., McKeever, J., Spence, I., Gains, D., and Jacob, D. J.: High-frequency monitoring of anomalous methane point sources with multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2771–2785, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2771-2021, 2021.
Varon, D. J., Jacob, D. J., Jervis, D., and McKeever, J.: Quantifying Time-Averaged Methane Emissions from Individual Coal Mine Vents with GHGSat-D Satellite Observations, Environ. Sci. Technol., 54, 10246–10253, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c01213, 2020.
Varon, D. J., McKeever, J., Jervis, D., Maasakkers, J. D., Pandey, S., Houweling, S., Aben, I., Scarpelli, T., and Jacob, D. J.: Satellite discovery of anomalously large methane emissions from oil/gas production, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 13507–13516, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083798, 2019.