Agriculture Air Quality Center
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- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Transportation - In-use motor vehicle emissions and their effect on air pollution
- Urban and Regional Smog - Source/receptor modeling of particles and gases; interbasin transport of air pollutants throughout the United States; dry deposition of acidic gases and particles
- Agricultural Emissions - Sources and generation mechanisms of PM10 fugitive dust
- Global Climate Change - Aerosol effects on radiation balance, spatial and temporal distribution of regional aerosols on continental scales
- Visibility Degradation - Visibility/particle relationships in the atmosphere
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Exposure science to link environmental concentrations with exposure and health through epidemiology
- Agricultural Emissions - Exposures to agricultural workers
- Indoor Air Quality - Penetration and deposition of particles, indoor sources of VOCs, methods for quantifying indoor concentrations for exposure, exposures in retail, office, and commercial environments
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Particle sampling and characterization for in vitro and in vivo exposure studies.
- Transportation - Characterization of particles emitted from transportation sources including aircraft, automotive, and railway.
- Urban and Regional Smog - Sampling and analysis of ambient particulate in support of source apportionment studies and atmospheric pollution transport.
- Agricultural Emissions - Particle emission measurement from agricultural sources including dairies and other Confined Animal Facility Operations (CAFO) sites.
- Global Climate Change - Quantification of long-range particle transport and transformation. Ground-truth observations for climate model calibration related to long-range dust transport.
- Indoor Air Quality - Quality assurance of air sampling protocols, particle and gaseous sampling and analysis of indoor pollutants related to human health impacts.
- Visibility Degradation - Ambient sampling and analysis of particles in Class 1 visual areas including National Parks and Monuments. Study of particle pollution source and concentration related to visibility reduction in US National Parks.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Transportation - Coastal ship traffic emissions.
- Urban and Regional Smog - Coastal air quality measurements.
- Agricultural Emissions - Forest air quality studies: oxidation of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions.
- Global Climate Change - Global sulfur oxidation studies.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Children’s Environmental Health, exposure to heavy metals, especially Hg and Pb.
- Transportation - Elemental composition of fuels, lubricants and aerosols. Organic composition of compounds in exhaust
- Urban and Regional Smog - Sources of ozone pre-cursors and reactivity of emissions
- Agricultural Emissions - Sources of ozone pre-cursors and reactivity of emissions
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Transportation - Environmental impacts of bioenergy including biofuels.
- Agricultural Emissions - Emission factors from agricultural burning; emission simulators for human exposure experiments.
- Global Climate Change - Greenhouse gas emissions from biomass power systems, biofuel production, and energy-integrated waste management.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Characterization and source apportionment of airborne particles in fine and ultrafine size fractions.
- Transportation - Measurement of particle size and composition in tailpipe emissions.
- Urban and Regional Smog - Source-oriented airshed modeling for California and the eastern U.S.
- Agricultural Emissions - Ozone formation potential of agricultural emissions sources including dairy cows.
- Global Climate Change - Impact of climate change on air pollution including feedbacks on local meteorology.
- Visibility Degradation - Source contributions to visibility reduction in California.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Effects of particles on mouse lungs, mouse models of asthma, mechanisms of particle toxicity.
- Urban and Regional Smog - PM, Ozone, other pollutants-health effects, lung toxicity.
- Agricultural Emissions - Role of endotoxin and other microbial products in PM toxicity.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Quantifying the effects of air quality on health.
- Transportation - Air pollution and climate change implications of transportation
- Urban and Regional Smog - Trends in ozone smog and effects of regulation and climate change on ozone smog.
- Agricultural Emissions - Effects of regulation on agricultural emissions.
- Global Climate Change - Economics of global climate change; effects of climate change on air quality.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Environmental physiology research, focusing on effects of air emissions on animal health and welfare.
- Agricultural Emissions - Air quality research related to livestock production.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Thermoregulation and thermal comfort of biota.
- Transportation - Turbulent transport of trace gases and particulates; modeling and measurements
- Urban and Regional Smog - Turbulent transport of trace gases and particulates; regional and smaller scale modeling and measurements.
- Agricultural Emissions - Aerosol physics; entrainment and deposition of aerosols.
- Global Climate Change - Turbulent transport of trace gases and particulates; carbon dioxide and other trace gas exchange from ecosystems; regional and smaller scale modeling and measurements.
- Indoor Air Quality - Fiber aerosol concentrations; bioaerosol concentrations (indoor).
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Inhalation deposition and biological effects of inhaled toxic or radioactive particles and gases, lung airway morphometry.
- Urban and Regional Smog - Biological response to inhaled airborne particles and gases, inhalation deposition of inhaled particles and gases; airborne particle characterization.
- Agricultural Emissions - Smoke from agricultural burning.
- Indoor Air Quality - Indoor radon & its decay products.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Transportation - Vehicle emissions, alternative fuels, policy analysis.
- Agricultural Emissions - Climate policy.
- Global Climate Change - Analysis of transportation emissions, evaluation of policy instruments.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Agricultural Emissions - Dust Emission from Farm Lands
- Indoor Air Quality - The study of indoor air containments by use of physical modeling techniques
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Effects of inhaled particles on the Cardiovascular System.
- Urban and Regional Smog - Comparison between effects of Urban and Rural source particulate matter.
- Agricultural Emissions - Potential Health effects of Effect of Dairy source particulates.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Transportation - Coupled impacts of transportation infrastructure and activities on air and water quality.
- Agricultural Emissions - Pesticide impacts on water and air quality.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Urban and Regional Smog - Measurements of air pollutions in mega-cities. Instrumentation for particle measurements.
- Agricultural Emissions - Emissions from animals and waste.
- Global Climate Change - Green houses gases. Stratospheric ozone changes. New particle formation.