Faculty Member
Dr. Roten is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Utah Valley University and Principal Investigator of the Atmospheric Transport and Multi-platform Observing Systems (ATMOS) Laboratory. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, where he worked on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions, studying climate change and humans' influence on Earth's carbon cycle. Prior to JPL, he received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Utah. In earlier academic endeavors, he received an M.S. in Engineering Physics, M.A. in Mathematics, and a B.S. in Physics & Mathematics all from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
Dr. Roten has experience teaching mathematics, statistics, and physics at a variety of levels, previously serving as a high school Math teacher at Ashe County High School, a Statistics instructor at Forsyth Technical Community College, and Physics instructor at Wilkes Community College and Lenoir-Rhyne University.
Major: Atmospheric Sciences
Major: Mathematics
Major: Engineering Physics
Major: Physics & Mathematics
Physics for Scientists and Engineers II, Summer 2026
