Research Projects

Title Funding Agency Project Period
Flux Measurements of Biogenic Precursors to Ozone and Particulate Matter in the Central Valley California Air Resources Board 2007 - 2010
Automated Measurements of Organic Aerosol Composition in Agricultural Systems Using Thermal Desorption GC UC DANR Core Issue Grant 2007 - 2009
Process-Based Farm Emission Model for Estimating Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from California Dairies California Air Resources Board 2006 - 2008
Two-dimensional chromatography of atmospheric aerosols: A new in-situ instrument Department of Energy (STTR Phases I and II) 2005 - 2009
Hourly, In-situ Quantitation of Organic Aerosol Marker Compounds California Air Resources Board 2004 - 2008
Measurements of organic trace gases by PTR-MS in support of ITCT-2K4 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration 2004 - 2007
Carbon exchange in a Ponderosa Pine Plantation: Strategies of Water use, Seasonality of Plant Physiology, and the Impact of Aerosols on Photosynthesis National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC)/NICCR 2004 - 2007
Controls of Canopy Photosynthetic Activity on Roots and Soil Carbon Dynamics in Ponderosa Pine and Oak/Savanna Ecosystem (Co-PI’s Weixin Cheng [UCSC] and Dennis Baldocchi [UCB]) Kearney Foundation 2004 - 2006
Guiding Future Air Quality Management in California: Sensitivity to Changing Climate Environmental Protection Agency 2003 - 2007
Speciated Organic Composition of Atmospheric Aerosols: A New, In-Situ Instrument Department of Energy (SBIR Phases I and II) 2002 - 2007
Measurements of speciated VOC's, OVOCs, and halocarbons, by automated in-situ GC/FID/MSD in support of the Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation (ITCT) project National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration 2002 - 2005
Controls of Canopy Activities on Roots and Soil Carbon Dynamics in a Young Ponderosa Pine Forest Kearney Foundation 2002 - 2003
Extending the use of PTR-MS for new measurements of volatile organic compounds and their oxidation products National Science Foundation Phases I and II 2001 - 2008
Quantifying Biogenic Terpene Emissions and assessing their importance for Secondary Aerosol Formation California Air Resources Board 2001 - 2003
Organized Research Unit (ORU), Atmospheric Science Center UC Berkeley 2000 - 2011
Whole Ecosystem Measurements of Biogenic Hydrocarbon Emissions California Air Resources Board 1999 - 2002
Atmospheric Change at the Interface Between Regional and Global Scales Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1999 - 2001
An Isotopic Approach for Determining the Industrial Fraction of the Total CH3Br Source to the Atmosphere National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Jointly with NSF 1998-2002) Phases I, II and III 1998 - 2006
Linking Carbon and Water Cycling in Sierra Nevada Forests to the Dynamics of Ozone and Hydrocarbon Exchange UC Berkeley, Agricultural Experiment Station 1998 - 2004
Modeling Ozone Flux to Forests Across an Ozone Concentration Gradient in the Sierra Nevada Mts., CA Environmental Protection Agency 1998 - 2002
A Field-Based Study of Sierra Nevada Forest Response to Anthropogenic Ozone and Nitrogen Deposition Hellman Family Faculty Fund 1997 - 1999
Global Climate Change: Regional Effects and Potential Consequences of Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in California Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1997 - 1999
Impacts of Ozone Deposition on Carbon Uptake Rates in a Sierra Nevada Ponderosa Pine Plantation UC Berkeley, Junior Faculty Research Grant 1997 - 1998
Determination of Volatile Organic Carbon Emission Rates from Biogenic Sources in California UC Berkeley, Agricultural Experiment Station 1996 - 1998