Zackary Mages

Zackary Mages is a Research Associate at the Environmental Science and Technologies Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Science from Stony Brook University (2020-2025) and holds a B.S. in Meteorology with a minor in Computer Science from Rutgers University (2016-2020).

• Doctor of Philosophy, Marine and Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook University (2020-2025)
• Bachelor of Science, Meteorology (minor in Computer Science), Rutgers University (2016-2020)

His research focuses on atmospheric boundary layer dynamics, cloud physics, and urban climate studies. He has contributed to major field campaigns including DOE SW-IFL (Phoenix, AZ, 2024), NSF ESCAPE (Houston, TX, 2022), and NASA IMPACTS, using both stationary and mobile observational platforms.

Recent publications analyze:

• Shallow cloud variability in urban environments (2025)
• Broad-scale boundary layer datasets (2024)
• Cold-air outbreak cloud observations (2023)
• Building-induced atmospheric transport phenomena (2022)
• Climate equity through mobile sensing (2022)
• Biogenic gas-cloud interactions (2022)

He actively collaborates on projects involving the BNL CMAS Mobile Observatory and has participated in six major field campaigns since 2019.