We are recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027. My group works on atmospheric and environmental chemistry: fog and cloud chemistry, PFAS and microplastics in the air, aerosols and air quality in the desert Southwest.
#AtmosphericChemistry #EnvironmentalChemistry #PFAS #GradSchool
Our work w @FerranPichel @ThuongCAO96 is featured in a new Scientific American Article
Entire ecosystems might be hiding in a wisp of fog—here’s what scientists are figuring out.
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Thuong was on NPR Science Friday today, talking about her work on bacteria in fog. @ThuongCAO96 What lives in the fog? Pollution-eating bacteria sciencefriday.com/segments/b…
Time-resolved carbon and water isotope signatures of coastal fog on th... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
new paper We tracked C isotopes in Phoenix aerosol across 4 seasons & 6 size fractions. Winter = ¹³C-depleted, combustion-dominated, CPI~1. Spring/summer/fall = enriched δ¹³C + biogenic signals. Coarse dust carries a carbonate fingerprint year-round. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
The fog is alive!, via @EurekAlert! @ASU eurekalert.org/news-releases…
New paper out by @ThuongCAO96 from our collaboration with @FerranPichel showing that bacteria actively metabolize and degrade formaldehyde in fogs.
Nishat recently presented her work on ozone impact on pollen with beautiful electron micrographs at the Arizona Imaging & Microanalysis Society (AIMS) meeting.
Crystal presenting her @AZRegents mine tailings research at Arizona Mining Day at the State Capitol.
@SSEBEatASU @MetalAsu
We are glad to be prt of this project
Research led by @UArizona is studying whether billions of tons of copper mining waste could yield critical minerals.
The Regents’ Grant aims to develop a cost-effective extraction method – supporting industry and cutting environmental risk.
The research is done in collaboration with @ASU, @NAU and the Arizona State Mine Inspector: ow.ly/e1jo50Y0q1z
new paper out: Vehicular emissions dominate PAHs in Lagos air.
PM2.5-bound PAHs exceed levels in many developed cities, with cancer risks 2–6x above US EPA benchmarks.
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.202…
#AirQuality #Lagos #PAHs #PublicHealth
New paper, led by our @NAU colleagues, from our @AZRegents -funded #ValleyFever project: a targeted DNA enrichment approach applied to air samples shows a clear genetic link between aerosol DNA and a fatal primate case of #Coccidioidomycosis in Arizona.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
I was honored to be invited on Horizon Arizona @arizonapbs to discuss new research showing how climate change is worsening #Microplastics pollution and how microplastics may also impact climate systems. Check it out:
azpbs.org/horizon/2025/12/cl…
Amelia's first paper is out. It shows a clear link between the crustal component of PM10 and fungal presence in the air.
Temporal surveillance of Coccidioides in Aerosols in Mesa, Arizona | Environmental Science & Technology Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
new collaborative paper is out on Phosphorus speciation using ion chromatography coupled with ICP-MS elu... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Over summer we kept working on GLOR a larger ozone study and an overview paper of the study just got published in @AirandWaste 's EM magazine airandwmapa.sharepoint.com/:…
