Author: Dr. Bill Simpson

Dr. Bill Simpson is an environmental chemist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he works as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and performs research with the Geophysical Institute. He currently is the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Chair, where he helps teach students about Environmental, Physical, and General Chemistry. His research focuses on how the Arctic processes pollutants differently from other parts of the Earth. A major focus of the work is how snow and ice and chemicals on their surfaces speed chemical processing. Changing Arctic sea ice conditions are altering these snow and ice surfaces, and he hopes to understand how those climatic change may affect atmospheric chemical processing. Bill Simpson’s website at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks http://chem.uaf.edu/simpson/