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Ann Dillner

Title: Assistant Research Engineer
Email Address: amdillner@ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://crocker.ucdavis.edu/users/dillner/
Telephone: 530-752-1124
FAX: 530-752-4107

Home Department: Crocker Nuclear Laboratory

Graduate Programs

• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Atmospheric Science
• Crocker Nuclear Lab
• Atmospheric Aerosols & Health

Areas of Research

• Air Pollution and Health - Chemical characterization of potentially toxic or carcinogenic particulate matter, new technique development to characterize organic functional groups using FTIR and characterize elements using high-volume sampler and ICP-MS, radical generation due to par
• Urban and Regional Smog - Laboratory studies of the formation of secondary organic aerosols.
• Global Climate Change - Atmospheric transformation of organic particles and their impact on regional climate.
• Visibility Degradation - Work with the IMPROVE group at UCDavis which measures the concentration and composition of visibility reducing particles in all the National Parks in the U.S.

Research Summary

• My research focuses on characterizing the chemical composition of atmospheric particles and using this information to better understand sources of particulate matter, visibility degradation, health impacts and climate change. I have recently developed a novel techniques to characterize the organic fraction of particulate matter, the least understand component of particulate matter.

Teaching Summary

• I teach undergraduate air pollution courses in Civil and Environmental Engineering (ECI 149) and Land, Air and Water Resources (ERC 131).