Florian studied Geology / Earth Sciences at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) from 1991-1997. He won a competitive scholarship to study as a graduate visiting scholar at the University of Washington from 1995-1996, where he performed research on trace element partitioning. After graduation with a Diplom in 1997 (M.Sc. equivalent), he joined the Geochemistry Group of Terry Seward at ETH Zürich for his doctoral work on halocarbon emissions from volcanoes, together with Volker Dietrich. Part of this work was performed while at Hall Analytical Ltd., an environmental organic mass spectrometry instrument development and analytical company in Manchester (UK). Florian graduated with a Dr. sci. nat degree (Ph.D.) from ETH Zürich in geochemistry and volcanology in 2002.

Florian subsequently held joint postdoctoral appointments at ETH Zürich between the European Union's GEOWARN project, the ETH Institute of Cartography (Natural Hazards group) and the Geochemistry group of Terry Seward. This was followed by a Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment in the research group of Everett Shock and the Keck Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory at Arizona State University from 2004-2006, where he worked on trace gas emission mapping and built a new analytical mass spectrometry laboratory. Florian is currently a Research Scientist II with the Atmospheric Chemistry Group of Jeffrey Collett at Colorado State University since early 2006.

His personal interests include travel, cooking, horses, and cultural history.

Florian Schwandner's research activities at CSU focus on:

• environmental monitoring;
  
• emissions, transport, gas-aerosol transformation, and deposition of atmospheric nitrogen species;
  
• chemical sensor technology and organic mass spectrometry; chemical marker analysis;
  
• interdisciplinary environmental databases, and integrated natural hazard assessment.
  

Invited Lectures (selection)

Prebiotic organic compounds in volcanic gases. NASA-JPL, Pasadena, March 23rd, 2005 (invited by Dr. Rosaly Lopes).

Continuous natural VOC emissions from quiescent active volcanoes. NOAA,CMDL, Boulder CO, Dec 3rd 2002. (invited by Dr. James H. Butler).

Pulications (selection)

Windman, T, Zolotova, N., Schwandner, F., and Shock, E. (2007): Formate as an Energy Source for Microbial Metabolism in Chemosynthetic Zones of Hydrothermal Ecosystems. Astrobiology 7(6):873-890. doi:10.1089/ast.2007.0127.

Carrico, C.M., Kreidenweis, S.M., Collett, J.L., Lee, T., Sullivan, A.P., McMeeking, G.R., Raja, S.R., Schwandner, F.M., Beem, K.L., Taylor, C.A., Day, D.E., Hand, J., Rodriguez, M.A., Barna, M.G., Gebhart, K.A., Schichtel, B.A., and Malm, W.C. (2007): The Rocky Mountain Atmospheric Nitrogen and Sulfur (RoMANS) Study of 2006. IMPROVE Newsl. 16(2):4-6.

Schwandner, F. M. (2006): Preface & Introduction to: R.W. Bunsen, Gasometrische Methoden (1877). [in German] Ostwalds Klassiker der Naturwissenschaften 296, 18 p. ISBN 3-8171-3296-4, OCLC 68621333.

Schwandner F. M., Seward T. M., Gize A. P., Hall P. A., and Dietrich V. J. (2004): Diffuse emission of organic trace gases from the flank and crater of a quiescent active volcano (Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy). Journal of Geophysical Research D - Atmospheres, 109, D04301, doi:10.1029/2003JD003890.

Abstracts (selection)

Schwandner, F. M., Sewell, H. J., Collett, J. L., Molenar, J. V., Archuleta, C. M., Tigges, M., Bote, A. A. (1), Raja, S. (2008). Ammonia Monitoring in the Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming. AAAR 27th Annual Conference, October 20 - 24, 2008, Orlando FL. Submitted.

Collett, J., Mazzoleni, L., Herckes, P., Schwandner, F., Beem, K., Raja, S., Liu, Y., Sun, Y., Zhang, Q. (2008). Organic nitrogen in clouds and precipitation. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria Apr 15 - 20, 2008.

Schwandner, F.M., Raja, S., Beem, K.B., Sullivan, A.P., Lee, T., McMeeking, G.R., Carrico, C.M., Gorin, C.A., Day, D.E., Collett, J.L., Kreidenweis, S.M., Hand, J., and Malm, W.C. (2007). Airborne gas and particle concentrations during the 2006 Rocky Mountain Airborne Nitrogen and Sulfur (RoMANS) study. NADP Annual Meeting, Boulder CO Sept. 10-13, 2007.

Marcillac, N.M., Hanan, N.P., Schwandner, F.M., Follett, R.F., Collett, J.L., and D.E. Johnson (2007). Characterization and Quantification of Emissions from Dairy CAFO's. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, International Symposium on Air Quality and Waste Management for Agriculture, 16-19 September 2007, Broomfield, Colorado.

Schwandner, F.M., Dunn, E. E., & Shock, E. L. (2005). Multidimensional Field Mapping of Gaseous C-H-O-S Species in Hydrothermal Systems: Distinguishing Potential Sites for Hydrocarbon Generation. EOS Transactions AGU, Fall Meeting Suppl., AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco Dec. 5-9, 2005.