AQRC Directory

Cort Anastasio

  • Professor
  • Land, Air and Water Resources | AQRC
BS, Chemistry, Brown University PhD, Environmental Chemistry, Duke University Postdoc, Atmospheric Chemistry, York University (Canada).
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Michele Barbato

  • Professor
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expertise includes: global climate change and sustainable construction materials.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Alexandra J. Boris

  • Post-Doc
  • AQRC
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Clare Cannon

  • Assistant Professor
  • Human Ecology
Research centers on employing multiple methodological strategies to enable empirical analysis of social, economic, and environmental systems.
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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.
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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

Shu-Hua Chen

  • Associate Professor
  • Land, Air and Water Resources
Research involves data assimilation, heavy orographic rainfall, and pollutant transport.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Xiaoya Cheng

  • Scientific Programmer
  • AQRC
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Steven Cliff

  • Research Professor
  • AQRC
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Carroll Cross

  • Professor
  • Internal Medicine | Physiology & Membrane Biology
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Ali Davari

  • Post-Doc
  • AQRC
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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.
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

James Doran

  • Student Lab Assistant
  • IMPROVE
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Daiana Fadin-Vargas

  • Business Administrative Assistant
  • AQRC
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Jason Giacomo

  • Laboratory Manager
  • AQRC
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Lourdes H. Gomez

  • Management Services Officer
  • AQRC | Institute of Transportation
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Peter G. Green

  • Research Engineer
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Sandra Hall

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

Richart Harper

  • Professor
  • Internal Medicine
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618
  • Operations Manager | Principal Investigator
  • AQRC
The principal investigator and operations manager for the AQRC air quality group at UC Davis.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Adele Igel

  • Assistant Professor
  • Land, Air and Water Resources
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Faris Jawda

  • Dev Tech III
  • AQRC
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Wenqing Jiang

  • PhD Student
  • Environmental Toxicology
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Ajith Kaduwela

  • Associate
  • AQRC
Research focuses on the regulatory applications of photochemical air quality and prognostic meteorology models.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Tetsuya Anthony Kawamoto

  • Lab Supervisor
  • AQRC
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Michael Kleeman

  • Professor
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering | AQRC
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Lindsay Kline

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

Jerold Last

  • Professor
  • Atmospheric Science
Research focuses on inhalation toxicology, animal models of disease, and mechanisms underlying PM toxicity.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Pamela Lein

  • Professor
  • Molecular Biosciences
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Gang-yu Liu

  • Professor
  • Atmospheric Science
Research focuses on using nanotechnology to investigate and control cell singling process such as activation, growth, spreading etc.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Lisa Miller

  • Professor
  • SVM: APC & CNPRC
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Frank Mitloehner

  • Associate Professor
  • Atmospheric Science
Air quality research related to livestock production, especially quantification of ammonia, dust, and odor emissions in dairies, beef feedlots, and poultry operations.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Erwan Monier

  • Assistant Professor
  • Land, Air and Water Resources
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.
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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.
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Dr. Bart Ostro

  • Researcher
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Trinidad Padilla

  • System Infrastructure Administrator
  • AQRC
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Kyaw Tha Paw U

  • Professor
  • Atmospheric Science
Research includes biometeorology, micrometeorology, evapotranspiration, turbulence, aerosol physics, and boundary layer meteorology.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Kent Pinkerton

  • Professor
  • 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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Ilia Potanin

  • Field Technician
  • AQRC
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Lisa Reyes

  • Research Analyst
  • AQRC
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Robert Rice

  • Professor
  • Environmental Toxicology
Research focuses on perturbation of growth properties and differentiation in cultured keratinocytes and related cell types from human and rat.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Edward Schelegle

  • Professor
  • Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology, & Cell Biology
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Marc B. Schenker

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Public Health Sciences
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

James N. Seiber

  • Professor Emeritus
  • Environmental Toxicology
Research involves identifying and measuring sources of airborne pesticides and other agricultural chemicals to the atmosphere, including assessment of health impacts.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Jo-Anna Sfeir

  • Student Lab Assistant
  • AQRC
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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.
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Daniel Sperling

  • Professor
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering | AQRC
Research focuses on energy and environmental aspects of transportation; specifically advanced vehicle technologies and fuels, and on market and policy aspects.
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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).
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Laura Van Winkle

  • Professor
  • Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology, & Cell Biology
Research is in inhalation toxicology and cell biology of the lung in health and disease.
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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.
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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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Anthony Wexler

  • Director
  • AQRC
Research focuses on understanding the atmospheric processes that transport and transform particulate pollutants in the atmosphere and in lungs.
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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.
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Sinan Yatkin

  • Assistant Project Scientist
  • AQRC
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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.
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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.
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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).
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Xiaolu Zhang

  • Assistant Project Scientist
  • AQRC
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Qi Zhang

  • Professor
  • Environmental Toxicology
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.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618

Yongjing Zhao

  • Project Scientist
  • AQRC
Research includes measurements of gases and particles in the atmosphere, developments of new monitoring instruments and control systems, and analyzes of experimental data.
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1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618