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- 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 - Atmospheric aerosols, roadway impacts health; proposed and helped pass AB1870 (2006) adding an aerosol component to Smog Check II
- Transportation - Aerosol emissions, cars, trucks and trains
- Urban and Regional Smog - Lake Tahoe studies, aerosol impact on visibility and lake clarity, 1972 – present;
- Visibility Degradation - Aerosols and visibility, national parks and wilderness areas, IMPROVE PI, 1988-1997
- Indoor Air Quality - Indoor ultra fine aerosols at schools near roadways as volunteer with Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Graduate Programs
- Areas of Research
- Air Pollution and Health - Impact of environmental tobacco smoke on perinatal lung development
- Indoor Air Quality - Environmental tobacco smoke.
- 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
- Air Pollution and Health - Air pollutant exposures and lung disease, lung development and lung cell biology.
- Indoor Air Quality - Environmental Tobacco Smoke health effects, levels.
- 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