AQRC Directory

Keith Bein

  • Researcher
  • AQRC
Associate Professional Researcher at the Air Quality Research Center and a Research Professor at the Center for Health and the Environment at UC Davis.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Thomas A. Cahill

  • Professor, In Memoriam
  • Physics
Dr. Cahill spent five decades characterizing aerosols via nuclear analysis, ensconced in circa 270 peer reviewed publications. He designed and ran the IMPROVE network from 1977-1997, and was a director of Crocker Nuclear Laboratory. He mentored hundreds of students as a faculty member at UC Davis and published several books spanning from new techniques of ion accelerators to science fiction adventures. He passed away in May of 2019.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Christopher Cappa

  • Assistant Professor
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
Explores how the properties of atmospheric aerosols (e.g. their interaction with light, hygroscopicity, atmospheric lifetime) affect and are affected by physical and chemical transformations that occur within the particle, on the surface of the particle or in the surrounding gas-phase.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Chao-Yin Chen

  • Professor
  • Pharmacology
Dr. Chen's research focuses on central regulation of the cardiovascular system and autonomic function with an emphasis on the impacts of environmental factors such as exercise, stress, and exposure to air pollution. She is particularly interested in how these environmental factors induce neuroplasticity in the central autonomic pathways.
Tupper Hall
1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Simon Clegg

  • Professor
  • Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Research includes chemical thermodynamics of aqueous solutions; activity coefficient models and their application to problems in gas/aerosol partitioning in the atmosphere and air quality, brine chemistry, and solubility phenomena; predictive methods for physical properties of pure compounds (such as vapour pressures), and aqueous solutions; measurements of the properties of single aerosol particles using electrodynamic balances; the E-AIM online aerosol thermodynamic models.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Rudi A. De Marco Ramey

  • Application Developer
  • AQRC
Current Web and Application Developer with a proven track record in the development of database driven commercial enterprise and line of business applications for both Web and Windows client platforms.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Ann Dillner

  • Researcher
  • AQRC
Research focuses on characterizing the chemical composition of atmospheric particles, specifically through Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR) and using this information to better understand sources of particulate matter, visibility degradation, health impacts and climate change.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Philip B. Duffy

  • Affiliate
  • Land, Air and Water Resources | Atmospheric Science
Research focuses on historical climate trends in California, future climate trends in California and impacts on water availability, air quality, biodiversity, agriculture, Climate modeling, etc.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Ian Faloona

  • Assistant Professor | Micrometeorologist
  • Land, Air and Water Resources | Atmospheric Science
Research involves analytical chemistry techniques (from laser spectroscopy to gas chromatography) applied to atmospheric chemistry and dispersion.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Oliver Fiehn

  • Professor
  • Atmospheric Science
The Fiehn research laboratory develops improved methods in analytical chemistry and bioinformatics to capture and utilize metabolomic data.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Marc L. Fischer

  • Associate Researcher
  • AQRC
Dr. Marc L. Fischer is a staff scientist in the Sustainable Energy Systems Group and Energy Technology Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and an associate researcher at the Air Quality Research Center at the University of California, Davis.
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Kelly Hunsucker

  • Conference and Outreach Manager
  • AQRC
  • (530) 734-3310
  • kehunsucker@ucdavis.edu
  • AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Lindsay Kline

    • Lab Supervisor
    • AQRC
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Zhaodan Kong

    • Assistant Professor
    • Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | AQRC
    Research focuses on control theory, machine learning, formal methods, and their applications to human-machine systems, autonomous systems, and neural engineering.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Alex Murrain

    • CSN QA Officer
    • AQRC
    Performs quality assurance, processing and validating air quality particulate matter data collected as part of the EPA's Chemical Speciation Network.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Terrence Nathan

    • Professor
    • Land, Air and Water Resources | Atmospheric Science
    Research involves understanding, at a very fundamental level, the physical and dynamical mechanisms that govern climate variability.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    David Parrish

    • Professional Researcher
    • AQRC
    BS in Chemistry from Colorado College, his PhD in Physical Chemistry from UC Berkeley, and was a postdoc at Harvard in Physical Chemistry.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Sean Raffuse

    • Software and Analysis Group Manager
    • AQRC
    Research focuses on developing, improving and applying fire and smoke models through the use of data sets, research, and information systems, and developing and using satellite-derived data products.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Olivia Schlanger

    • Conference and Outreach Manager
    • AQRC
    Supports the logistics, personnel coordination, and outreach for AQRC conferences.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Nicholas J. Spada

    • Researcher
    • AQRC | Physics
    Research includes utilizing nuclear methods for characterizing aerosols as a function of size and time to better understand their impact on human health and the global environment.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Steph Spada

    • Copy Editor
    • AQRC
    Copy editing, technical writing, and reader accessibility services for the AQRC lab groups and monitoring networks.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Indu Thekkemeppilly Sivakumar

    • QA Officer
    • AQRC
    Performs quality assurance on air quality data, processing and validating particulate data collected as part of the NPS’s Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments network (IMPROVE).
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Christoph Vogel

    • Research Scientist
    • Environmental Toxicology | Center for Health and the Environment
    Research focuses on the function of receptors for xenobiotics and inflammatory signaling to understand molecular mechanisms of the development of chronic inflammatory diseases promoted by exposure to environmental toxicants.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Andrew Weakley

    • Post-Doc
    • Crocker Nuclear Lab | AQRC
    Research includes advancing chemometric techniques in the atmospheric sciences by developing and implementing source-sensitive multilevel PLS methodologies to quantifying organic and elemental (“soot”) carbon in ambient particulate matter.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Warren H. White

    • Researcher
    • AQRC
    Research centers on the analysis and quality-assurance of data from the IMPROVE network (Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments) operated for the National Park Service by the Air Quality Research Center, in addition to qualitative analyses of the equation systems governing particle coagulation and tropospheric photochemistry.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Ramin Yazdani

    • Associate Professional Researcher
    • AQRC
    Research in municipal solid waste management, specifically to aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of waste, organic waste diversion, leachate and biogas management.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Thomas Young

    • Professor
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Research the nature of the interactions between trace contaminants and natural particles in air and water, plus the rate, transport, transformation and effects of trace contaminants in aquatic systems, with a special emphasis on the role of atmospheric contributions.
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

    Dominique Young

    • Data & Reporting Group Manager
    • AQRC
    Leads quality assurance on air quality data, processing and validating particulate data collected as part of the EPA's Chemical Speciation Network (CSN) and the NPS’s Interagency Monitoring of PROtected Visual Environments network (IMPROVE).
    AQRC LAB
    1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618