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The Environment Division R&D Dikma Award is presented for distinguished contributions to research and/or development in the fields of environmental chemistry or environmental chemical engineering, while working in Canada.
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The 2027 winner of the Environment Division Research and Development Dikma Award is:
Jennifer Murphy, MCIC
University of Toronto
Jennifer Murphy is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, with interests in atmospheric chemistry, analytical techniques, and biosphere-atmosphere exchange. She completed her PhD, focused on the atmospheric chemistry of ozone and nitrogen oxides, at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. Her postdoctoral work at University of East Anglia involved the analysis of observations of volatile organic compounds collected on an aircraft flying over West Africa. In 2007, she began her faculty position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry for ten years. Her research group studies the sources, sinks, and chemical transformations of air pollutants and greenhouse gases with a particular emphasis on reactive nitrogen compounds such as ammonia. She served on the Scientific Steering Committee for the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project from 2016-2020, on the Mission Advisory group of Nitrosat, one of the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer 11 candidate satellite missions, from 2021-2023, and as an associate editor of the journals Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2006 – 2021) and the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres (2020 – 2026).