Allison Steiner is a Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. Her research focus is on the relationship between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere to help understand the bigger question: how will the Earth respond to climate change? Her research integrates gas and particulate matter, including anthropogenic aerosols and natural aerosols such as pollen, into high-resolution models. She and her research group then compare these results with observations to develop a comprehensive understanding of regional scale climate and atmospheric chemistry.

Study of the sensitivity of two dust parametrizations of the regional climate model RegCM4 between 2007-2014 over the Sahara and the Mediterranean. Tsikerdekis et al. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi:10.5194/acp-2016-434, 2016