Associate Professional Researcher at the Air Quality Research Center and a Research Professor at the Center for Health and the Environment at UC Davis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research centers around atmospheric particle sampling and analysis related to climate and air quality effects. A major effort involves quantifying transPacific atmospheric pollution transport and the associated environmental effects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Researches many areas of applied and fundamental environmental chemistry: field and laboratory studies, air quality and water quality, and a range of metals, pesticides and other compounds.
Research focuses on the study of urban and regional air quality problems with an emphasis on the size and composition of atmospheric particles and gas-to-particle conversion processes.
Research focuses on control theory, machine learning, formal methods, and their applications to human-machine systems, autonomous systems, and neural engineering.
Research focuses on the developmental mechanisms of mucosal and systemic immunity, and how early exposure to air pollutants and other environmental challenges can contribute to chronic health conditions in children and adults.
Air quality research related to livestock production, especially quantification of ammonia, dust, and odor emissions in dairies, beef feedlots, and poultry operations.
Research objective is to support decision making, policy implementation and climate mitigation and adaptation solutions by improving the modeling of global environmental change impacts on society.
School of Veterinary Medicine | School of Medicine | AQRC
Research focuses on the health effects of inhaled environmental air pollutants to alter respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological structure and function.
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.
Primary research interest includes pulmonary neurophysiology, with a focus on the role that lung vagal afferents play in the control of breathing, epithelial injury, inflammation and repair in models of acute and chronic lung injury and/or disease.
Founding and current director of the Davis Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, and the Migration and Health Research Center.
Research involves identifying and measuring sources of airborne pesticides and other agricultural chemicals to the atmosphere, including assessment of health impacts.
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.
Research focuses on energy and environmental aspects of transportation; specifically advanced vehicle technologies and fuels, and on market and policy aspects.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Research in municipal solid waste management, specifically to aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of waste, organic waste diversion, leachate and biogas management.
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.
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).
Research includes field measurements and laboratory studies with a main goal to understand the chemical and physical properties, sources, and lifecycle processes of aerosol particles and fog/cloud droplets in the atmosphere.
Research includes measurements of gases and particles in the atmosphere, developments of new monitoring instruments and control systems, and analyzes of experimental data.
