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Anthony Wexler

Title: Professor, Director
Email Address: aswexler@ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://mae.ucdavis.edu/wexler
Telephone: 530-754-6558
FAX: 530-754-8771

Home Department: Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Graduate Programs

• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Atmospheric Science
• Land, Air, and Water Resources
• Transportation Technology and Policy
• Atmospheric Aerosols & Health

Areas of Research

• Air Pollution and Health - Particle deposition in airways, how this deposition affects airway development in children, and the particle toxicity.
• Transportation - Dynamics of particles emitted from vehicles and near roadways.
• Urban and Regional Smog - Mathematical modeling of particle dynamics in the urban and regional atmosphere and new instruments for measuring particle properties.
• Global Climate Change - New particle formation in the atmosphere, aerosol-cloud interactions and turbulent coagulation of cloud droplets and crystals.

Research Summary

• My research focuses on understanding the atmospheric processes that transport and transform particulate pollutants in the atmosphere and in lungs. Experimental and modeling approaches are employed. Focus is on urban and regional smog and global climate change. Experimental work includes developing new instruments and deploying them in the field. Modeling work includes simulation of particle dynamics in the urban and regional atmosphere related, vehicle emissions, and deposition in human airways.

Teaching Summary

• I teach air pollution engineering (ECI 149) at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, I teach courses in air quality (ECI 242), meteorology (ATM 223) and biomedical engineering (MAE/BIM 215).