This program is designed to provide the measurement science to support the development of industry-consensus standards and guides related to the design, construction, and operation of high-performance buildings that maintain good indoor air quality and use low levels of energy.  Specifically, the goals of this research are to (1) develop methods to measure indoor chemistry impacts related to building materials, air cleaners, and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires; (2) predict concentrations of chemicals of concern in indoor environments accounting for impacts of different ventilation and cleaning strategies, sorption, homogenous and heterogeneous chemistry; and (3) develop technology, guidance, standards, and predictive tools to analyze newly discovered indoor air relevant species, chemicals, and particle components,

 Recent Publications:

• • Quantification of Byproduct Formation from Portable Air Cleaners Using a Proposed Standard Test Method https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c09331 

  • Product ion distributions using H3O+ proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS): mechanisms, transmission effects, and instrument-to-instrument variability https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/18/1013/2025/

  • The chemical assessment of surfaces and air (CASA) study: using chemical and physical perturbations in a test house to investigate indoor processes https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EM00209A

  • Methodology and uncertainty estimation for measurements of methane leakage in a manufactured house https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-7065-2024

 

Indoor air quality; Formaldehyde; Ozone; Emissions; Chambers; Chemistry; Air Cleaners; PTR-MS; Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires

citizenship

Open to U.S. citizens

level

Open to Postdoctoral applicants