Kristie Boering

Kristie Ann Boering (born October 6, 1963) is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science and the Lieselotte and David Templeton Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. She studies atmospheric chemistry and mass transport in the extraterrestrial atmosphere using kinetics and photochemistry. Boering was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Early life and education Boering is the daughter Shirley Drake Lambeth. She was born in Redwood City, California. She earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry, specializing in earth science, magna cum laude in 1985. She has also studied radiocarbon in the stratosphere. She is also interested in two and three-dimensional chemical transport models in the stratosphere. She investigates the exchange between biosphere and atmosphere gases on million and billion year timescales, studying the atmosphere, ice cores and rocks. Boering also studies the climate on other planets.

Boering demonstrated that the use of fertilizer was responsible for dramatic increases in the amount of nitrous oxide in the Earth's atmosphere. She studied firn air, an air sample from antarctic ice that was stored in Cape Grim. During 2014 she was an academic visitor at the Earth-Life Science Institute, working with Naohiro Yoshida.

Awards and honours 2000 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship 2005 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Scholar Award 2018 Elected into the National Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2021)

Personal life Boering is married to Ronald C. Cohen who is Director Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center. Cohen is the son of Adele Cohen.