Publications

Addressing Climate and Air Quality Impacts

2025

R. Afroz, J. Alonzo, S. Omar, C. Cheng, S. R. Schneider, R. Zhao. Impact of Wildfire Smoke PM2.5 on Indoor Air Quality of Public Buildings on a University Campus. ACS Environ. Sci. Technol. Air. 2, 4, 625-636, 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsestair.4c00342

Bradley H. Isenor, Gabriele Varnaite, Cheol-Heon Jeong, P. S. Ganesh Subramanian, Ryan Duruisseau-Kuntz, Vera Zaherddine, Tak W. Chan, Mohamad H. Al-Jabiri, Amirashkan Askari, Laura-Helena Rivellini, Jason S. Olfert, Sangeeta Sharma, Greg J. Evans, Vishal Verma, Jonathan P. D. Abbatt, Arthur W. H. Chan. Impacts of the 2023 Canadian Wildfires on the Oxidative Potential of Particulate Matter. ACS ES&T Air. 2, 10, 2238-2250, 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsestair.5c00182

Hongru Shen, Xing Wang, Alex K.Y. Lee, Jonathan P.D. Abbatt, Arthur W.H. Chan. Nanoplastic Particle Emissions from Plastic Smoldering Combustion. Environ. Sci. Technol. 59, 36, 19339-19350, 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5c05852

Carolyn Liu-Kang, Laura-Helena Rivellini, Xinke Wang, Jonathan P.D. Abbatt. Rapid Nighttime Darkening of Biomass Burning Brown Carbon by Nitrate Radicals Is Suppressed by Prior Daytime Photochemical Aging. ACS Earth Space Chem. 9, 5, 1124-1133, 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00003

Laura-Helena Rivellini, Carolyn Liu-Kang, Jonathan P.D. Abbatt. Multiphase reaction of nitrate radicals with vanillic acid aerosols: kinetics and formation of light-absorbing particles. RSC Environ. Sci: Atmospheres. 5, 1099-1109, 2025. DOI: 10.1039/D5EA00066A

Mohamad H. Al-Jabiri, Kerry Chen, Jason Olfert, Laura-Helena Rivellini, Stephanie Schneider, Tak W. Chan, Sangeeta Sharma, Jonathan P.D. Abbatt. Aging lifetime of atmospheric brown carbon determined from measurements of wildfire carbonaceous aerosol in western Canada. J. Geophys. Res. – Atmospheres. 2025. Submitted

Timothy A. Sipkens, Joel C. Corbin, Kerry Chen, Laura-Helena Rivellini, Jonathan Abbatt, Jason S. Olfert. Quantitative uncertainty and post-processing for micro-aethalometers measuring black carbon. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2025. Submitted

Sina Voshtani, Dylan B. A. Jones, Debra Wunch, Drew C. Pendergrass, Paul O. Wennberg, David F. Pollard, Isamu Morino, Hirofumi Ohyama, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Frank Hase, Ralf Sussmann, Damien Weidmann, Rigel Kivi, Omaira García, Yao Té, Jack Chen, Kerry Anderson, Robin Stevens, Shobha Kondragunta, Aihua Zhu, Douglas Worthy, Senen Racki, Kathryn McKain, Maria V. Makarova, Nicholas Jones, Emmanuel Mahieu, Andrea Cadena-Caicedo, Paolo Cristofanelli, Casper Labuschagne, Elena Kozlova, Thomas Seitz, Martin Steinbacher, Reza Mahdi, and Isao Murata. Quantifying CO emissions from boreal wildfires by assimilating TROPOMI and TCCON observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2025. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-858. Submitted

2024

M. Loebel Roson, S. Schmidt, V. Choudhary, T. Johnson, P. de la Mata, J. Harynuk, R. Zhao. Comprehensive analysis of emissions from wood and cow dung burning using chemometrics and two-dimensional gas chromatography. Chemosphere. 366, 143445, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024

2023

M. Loebel Roson, M. Abou-Ghanem, E. Kim, S. Wu, D. Long, S. Styler, R. Zhao. Unexpected electrophiles in the atmosphere – anhydride nucleophile reactions and uptake to biomass burning emissions. RSC Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25, 18742-18756, 2023. DOI: 10.1039/D3CP01751F