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Ian Faloona

Title: Assistant Professor/Micrometeorologist
Email Address: icfaloona@ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/directory_facultypages.htm?id=55
Telephone: 530-752-2044
FAX: 530-752-1552

Home Department: Land, Air, & Water Resources

Graduate Programs

• Atmospheric Science
• Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry
• Atmospheric Aerosols & Health

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.

Research Summary

• My research involves analytical chemistry techniques (from laser spectroscopy to gas chromatography) applied to atmospheric chemistry and dispersion. Particular interests include maritime atmospheric processing of sulfur gases, photochemical oxidation of biogenic hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide fluxes, and the mixing of chemical constituents by turbulent entrainment into the boundary layer. My group is especially focused on the dynamics and chemistry of the coupled boundary layers of the coastal ocean and atmosphere off the coast of Northern California.

Teaching Summary

• I teach a variety of topics in atmospheric science including thermodynamics (ATM120), chemistry (ATM160), instrumentation (ATM124), and boundary-layer meteorology (atmospheric turbulence) ATM158.