AQRC STAFF
Alex Murrain
- Data and Reporting Group Supervisor
- AQRC
Supervisor of the Data & Reporting Group which supports the CSN and IMPROVE Air Monitoring Networks of the EPA and NPS.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, 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.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Anthony Wexler
- Director
- AQRC
Research focuses on understanding the atmospheric processes that transport and transform particulate pollutants in the atmosphere and the health effects that they cause.
Office: 2046 Bainer Hall
University of California Davis, CA 95616
Dr. Bart Ostro
- Scientist
- Air Pollution Epidemiology
Dr. Ostro is an epidemiologist focused on research and policy relating to the health effects of air pollution and climate change.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Daiana Fadin-Vargas
- Business Administrative Assistant
- AQRC
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Faris Jawda
- Senior Field Engineer
- AQRC
AQRC LAB
1560 Drew Avenue, CA 95618
Ilia Potanin
- Senior Field Technician
- AQRC
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Indu Thekkemeppilly Sivakumar
- Data Validator
- 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).
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Jason Giacomo
- Laboratory Manager
- AQRC
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Keith Bein
- Researcher
- AQRC
Professional Researcher at the Air Quality Research Center and a Research Professor at the Center for Health and the Environment at UC Davis.
Office: Center for Health & the Environment
129 Old Davis Rd., Davis, CA, 95616
Lindsay Kline
- Analysis & Lab Supervisor
- AQRC
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, 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.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
- Associate Director of Quality Research
- AQRC
The principal investigator and operations manager for the AQRC air quality group at UC Davis.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, 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.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Rhanee Palma
- Conference and Outreach Manager
- AQRC
Manages the logistics, personnel coordination, and outreach for AQRC conferences.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, 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.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Sean Raffuse
- Associate Director - Software and Data
- AQRC
Research focuses on developing, improving, and applying fire and smoke models and developing and using satellite-derived data products. Principal Investigator for AQRC operation of the Chemical Speciation Network.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Steph Spada
- Copy Editor
- AQRC
Copy editing, technical writing, and reader accessibility services for the AQRC lab groups and monitoring networks.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Tetsuya Anthony Kawamoto
- Program Support Associate
- AQRC
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Trinidad Padilla
- System Infrastructure Administrator
- AQRC
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Warren H. White
- Researcher
- AQRC
Research centers on 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.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Xiaolu Zhang
- Assistant Project Scientist
- AQRC
Dr. Xiaolu Zhang is an associate project scientist in Air Quality Research Center at University of California Davis. Her current research focuses on characterizing carbon measurement techniques for PM2.5 filter samples to ensure data quality and consistency for long-term ambient monitoring network.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
Xiaoya Cheng
- Scientific Programmer
- AQRC
Software and Analysis Group Supervisor at UC Davis Air Quality Research Center.
AQRC LAB
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 analysis of experimental data.
Office: AQRC
1560 Drew Avenue, Davis, CA, 95618
AQRC Collaborators
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.
2217 Tupper Hall
1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
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.
3135 Ghausi Hall
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
1250 Old Davis Rd, Davis, CA 95616
Clare Cannon
- Associate Professor
- Department of Human Ecology
Dr. Cannon works with communities to address climate and environmental injustice. Her research program investigates examining environmental injustices, risks and hazards; advancing climate adaptation; and investigating health disparities related to resilience, stress, vulnerability, and violence.
1309 Hart Hall
Gang-yu Liu
- Professor
- Department of Chemistry - Atmospheric Chemistry
Research focuses on using nanotechnology to investigate and control cell singling process such as activation, growth, spreading etc.
Chemistry Building Room 322
Edward Schelegle
- Professor Emeritus
- 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.
Ian Faloona
- Assistant Professor | Micrometeorologist
- Land, Air and Water Resources | Atmospheric Science
Professor/Bio-micrometeorologist, Research interests include the interplay between atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and atmospheric chemistry, with specific topics including wildfire and soil emissions of nitrogen oxides, airborne investigations of vertical mixing and near-field pollutant dispersion, observational emission estimates of trace gases, the meteorology of coastal fog, biogeochemical cycling, and atmosphere/ocean photochemistry.
3138 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building
Kyaw Tha Paw U
- Professor
- Atmospheric Science
Research includes biometeorology, micrometeorology, evapotranspiration, turbulence, aerosol physics, and boundary layer meteorology.
Hoagland Hall - 480 Sprocket Bikeway
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.
Center for Health & the Environment
1250 Old Davis Rd. Rm 508
Lisa A. Miller, PhD
- 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.
CNPRC, Davis, CA 95616
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.
3125 Ghausi Hall
Michele Barbato
- Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expertise includes global climate change and sustainable construction materials.
3149 Ghausi Hall
1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Oliver Fiehn
- Professor
- UC Davis Genome Center
Develops improved methods in analytical chemistry and cheminformatics to capture and utilize metabolomic data, specifically in cancer metabolism, and other health-related projects.
451 Health Sciences Dr.
Pamela Lein
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
1089 Veterinary Medicine Drive
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.
Ghausi Hall
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.
4251A Meyer Hall
Richart Harper
- Associate Professor
- Internal Medicine
Robert H. Rice
- Professor
- Environmental Toxicology
Research focuses the interaction of air pollutants with epithelial cell proteins and the development of a sturgeon cell culture toxicity testing system.
4243 Meyer Hall
Shu-Hua Chen
- Associate Professor
- Land, Air and Water Resources
Research involves data assimilation, heavy orographic rainfall, and pollutant transport.
235 Hoagland 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.
1 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.
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 Hall
Zhaodan Kong
- Assistant Professor
- Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | AQRC
Research focuses on applying uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and machine learning techniques for wildfire and plume detection, tracking, and modeling.