AQRC Directory

Chris Akins

  • Business Administration Assistant
  • AQRC
Academic Surge
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.

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.
One 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.
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.

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.
Plant & Environmental Sciences Building
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Oliver Fiehn

  • Professor
  • Atmospheric Science
The Fiehn research laboratory develops improved methods in analytical chemistry and bioinformatics to capture and utilize metabolomic data.
UC Davis Genome Center - Metabolomics
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720

Katrine Gorham

  • Project Manager and Data | Reporting Group Manager
  • AQRC
Manages the data validation process, data deliverables, reporting, documentation, internal/external communication, and financial tracking.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Josh Grant

  • Development Engineer Assistant
  • AQRC
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Nicole Hyslop

  • Operations Manager | Principal Investigator
  • AQRC
The principal investigator and operations manager for the AQRC air quality group at UC Davis.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Lindsay Kline

  • Lab Assistant
  • AQRC
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
247 Hoagland Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Steph Spada

  • Copy Editor
  • AQRC
Copy editing, technical writing, and reader accessibility services for the AQRC lab groups and monitoring networks.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Bldg 3792 Rm 129
1250 Old Davis Rd, Davis, CA 95616

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.
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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.

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.
3113 Ghausi
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

Dominique Young

  • Lead QA Officer
  • AQRC
Performs quality assurance on air quality data, processing and validating particulate data collected as part of the EPA's Chemical Speciation Network.
Jungerman Hall
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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