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Cort Anastasio

Title: Associate Professor
Office Address: 3146 Plant & Environmental Sciences Building
Email Address: canastasio@ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://anastasio.lawr.ucdavis.edu/cort.htm
Telephone: 530-754-6095
FAX: 530-752-1552

Home Department: Land, Air and Water Resources

Graduate Programs

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

Areas of Research

• Air Pollution and Health - Generation of reactive oxygen species by ambient and laboratory particles
• Urban and Regional Smog - : Organic and inorganic chemistry in aerosol particles and cloud/fog drops
• Global Climate Change - Polar snow chemistry and its impacts on ice core records; Effects of particle chemistry on particle properties and gas-phase composition

Research Summary

• My research examines the chemistry of tropospheric condensed phases (such as fog drops, aerosol particles, and snow) in order to understand their roles in biogeochemical cycling, their effects on atmospheric composition, and their potential health effects. In the past several years my laboratory has focused on three main areas: photochemical reactions in snow and ice, reactions in atmospheric particles and drops, and the potential health effects of inhaled particles.

Teaching Summary

• I teach courses that range from an undergraduate, non-quantitative, general education course in air pollution (ATM 6, Fundamentals of Atmospheric Pollution), to an upper-division, quantitative course in atmospheric chemistry (ATM 160, Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry) and a graduate course that covers the chemical and physical interactions between the gas phase and condensed phases of the atmosphere (ATM 260, Atmospheric Chemistry).