American Association for Aerosol Research - Abstract Submission

AAAR 37th Annual Conference
October 14 - October 18, 2019
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon, USA

Biomass Combustion: Emissions, Chemistry, Air Quality, Climate, and Human Health


A Meta-Analysis of Black Carbon Emissions from Fire-Prone Ecosystems in the United States. ANDREW MAY, Hanyang Li, Robert J. Yokelson, Gavin McMeeking, The Ohio State University

Airborne Characterization of Wildfire Influence on Local Air Quality in California. Nilima Sarwar, Walt Williams, Armin Sorooshian, Haflidi Jonsson, Richard Flagan, John Seinfeld, ANDREW METCALF, Clemson University

Analysis of Unidentified Organic Species in Fresh and Aged Biomass-Burning Emissions Generated under Controlled Conditions. VERA SAMBUROVA, Deep Sengupta, Chiranjivi Bhattarai, Adam Watts, Hans Moosmuller, Andrey Khlystov, Desert Research Institute

Assessing the Impact of Biomass Burning on Ambient Air Toxics and Ozone Concentration in the Pacific Northwest. ODELLE HADLEY, Anthony Cutler, Ruth Schumaker, Jenna Nelson, Robin Bond, Olympic Region Clean Air Agency

Black Carbon Emissions from Residential Wood Combustion and Drivers for Further Research. REBECCA TROJANOWSKI, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Ernie R. Lewis, Vasilis Fthenakis, Thomas Butcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brown Carbon Formation from Nighttime Chemistry of Unsaturated Heterocyclic Volatile Organic Compounds. Huanhuan Jiang, Alexander Frie, Avi Lavi, Jin Chen, Haofei Zhang, Roya Bahreini, YING-HSUAN LIN, University of California, Riverside

Carbonaceous Semivolatile Organic Matter Emitted from a Pellet-fired Biomass Boiler. MICHAEL HAYS, John Kinsey, Ingrid George, William Preston, Carl Singer, Bakul Patel, U.S. EPA

Chamber Studies Investigating Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Properties from Daytime and Nighttime Oxidation of Oxygenated Aromatics Emitted by Wildfires. CARLEY D. FREDRICKSON, Brett Palm, Amy P. Sullivan, Yingjie Shen, Shane Murphy, Ben H. Lee, Xuan Zhang, Joel A. Thornton, University of Washington

Characterization of Biomass Burning Aerosols Produced in the Laboratory with a Light-Scattering Aerosol Mass Spectrometer and Ultraviolet/Visible Absorption Spectroscopy of Water-Soluble Organic Carbon. ANN M. MIDDLEBROOK, Rebecca Washenfelder, Alessandro Franchin, Gabriela Adler, Matthew Coggon, Kara D. Lamb, Katherine M. Manfred, Joshua P. Schwarz, Vanessa Selimovic, Nick Wagner, Caroline Womack, Robert J. Yokelson, NOAA ESRL

Characterizing Aerosol Emissions from Wildfires in the Western US. EZRA LEVIN, Kevin Barry, Kathryn Moore, John Ortega, Lauren Garofalo, Matson A. Pothier, Darin Toohey, Mike Reeves, Jakob Lindaas, Ethan Emerson, Delphine K. Farmer, Sonia Kreidenweis, Paul DeMott, Emily Fischer, Colorado State University

Chemical and Physical Properties of Smoke Plumes in the Western and Southeastern US Using Hazard Mapping System (HMS) and AERONET/IMPROVE Data. QIJING BIAN, Bonne Ford, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Sonia Kreidenweis, Colorado State University

Chemical Characterization of Biomass Burning Sources Using Targeted and Untargeted Approaches. CAMILLE NOBLET, François Lestremau, Marie Lemire, Jean-Luc Besombes, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Olivier Favez, Serge Collet, Alexandre Albinet, INERIS, France

Chemical Composition and Morphological Analysis of Internally Mixed Mineral Dust and Biomass Burning Aerosols. JAY TOMLIN, Johannes Weis, Swarup China, Daniel Veghte, Matthew Fraund, Naama Reicher, Quanfu He, Chunlin Li, Yinon Rudich, Ryan Moffet, Mary Gilles, Alexander Laskin, Purdue University

Chemical Composition of Biomass Burning Particles Measured with a Soot Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Downwind during the BBOP Study. TIMOTHY ONASCH, John Shilling, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Edward Fortner, Mikhail Pekour, Shan Zhou, Sonya Collier, Qi Zhang, Andrew Freedman, Leah Williams, Lawrence Kleinman, Aerodyne Research, Inc.

Chemical Composition of Brown Carbon in Tar Ball Aerosols from Biomass Burning. Anusha P.S. Hettiyadura, Chunlin Li, Quanfu He, Yinon Rudich, ALEXANDER LASKIN, Purdue University

Chemical Fingerprinting of Particulate Organic Compounds in Fresh Smoke Produced from Burning Individual Western U.S. Wildland Fuels. COTY JEN, Lindsay Hatch, Nathan Kreisberg, Christos Stamatis, Yutong Liang, Robert Weber, John Battles, Scott Stephens, Robert York, Kelley Barsanti, Allen Goldstein, Carnegie Mellon University

Chemically Distinct Emissions from Highly Controlled Pyrolysis of Three Wood Types. ANITA AVERY, Mariam Fawaz, Leah Williams, Tami Bond, Timothy Onasch, Aerodyne Research, Inc.

Comparison of Cookstove Emissions and Performance Results Using the Water Boiling Test v4 and the ISO 19867-1 Testing Protocols. WYATT CHAMPION, Craig Williams, Larry Virtaranta, Mark Barnes, James Jetter, ORISE, U.S. EPA

Constituents of Health Concern from Biomethane Cooking Stove Combustion Exhaust. CHAO WAN, Yin Li, Chris Alaimo, Jian Xue, Minji Kim, Norman Kado, Peter Green, Thomas Young, Ruihong Zhang, Michael Kleeman, University of California, Davis

Coupling Laboratory and Field Measurements to Estimate Air Pollutant Emissions from Cookstoves. KELSEY BILSBACK, Rose Eilenberg, Lauren Hoskovec, Michael Johnson, Jack Kodros, Eric Lipsky, Christian L'Orange, Jessica Tryner, Ander Wilson, Allen Robinson, Jeffrey R. Pierce, John Volckens, Colorado State University

Development of Furan Oxidation Mechanism from OH and NO3 Oxidation within Biomass-Burning Regimes via Chamber Experiments. BENJAMIN BROWN-STEINER, Matthew Alvarado, Nga Lee Ng, Taekyu Joo, AER

Development of Volatility Distributions of Biomass Burning Organic Emissions. ADITYA SINHA, Ingrid George, Amara Holder, Michael Hays, Andrew Grieshop, North Carolina State University

Effects of Fuel Moisture Content on Biomass Emissions from a Rocket-Elbow Cookstove. Lizette Van Zyl, Jessica Tryner, Kelsey Bilsback, Nicholas Good, Arsineh Hecobian, Amy P. Sullivan, Yong Zhou, Jennifer Peel, JOHN VOLCKENS, Colorado State University

Emission and Evolution of Submicron Aerosol Composition in Wildfire Smoke in the Western United States. LAUREN GAROFALO, Ezra Levin, Matson A. Pothier, Sonia Kreidenweis, Delphine K. Farmer, Colorado State University

Emissions, Transport, and Chemistry of Smoke from Western U.S. Wildfires. MEGAN BELA, Natalie Kille, Stuart McKeen, Ravan Ahmadov, Gabriel Pereira, Chris Schmidt, R. Bradley Pierce, Susan O'Neill, Xiaoyang Zhang, Shobha Kondragunta, Christine Wiedinmyer, Rainer Volkamer, CU CIRES and NOAA ESRL

Estimating the Contribution of Significant Volatile Organic Compounds to Secondary Organic Aerosol from Biomass Cookstove Emissions. ADITYA SINHA, Ingrid George, Michael Hays, Andrew Grieshop, North Carolina State University

Extreme Molecular Complexity Resulting in a Continuum of Carbonaceous Species in Biomass Burning Tar Balls. MATTHEW BREGE, Swarup China, Alla Zelenyuk, Simeon Schum, Lynn Mazzoleni, Michigan Technological University

Functional Group Analysis of Wildfire-Influenced Free Tropospheric Organic Aerosol using Ultrahigh Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry. SIMEON SCHUM, Claudio Mazzoleni, Bo Zhang, Paulo Fialho, Lynn Mazzoleni, Michigan Technological University

Identifying Functional Groups and Predicting OC-EC in Cookstove Source Emissions. EMILY LI, Michael Hays, James Jetter, Guofeng Shen, Satoshi Takahama, Ann Dillner, U.S. EPA

Impact of Fuel Type and Combustion Phase on the Chemical Composition of Particulate Matter Emissions from Wildland Fires. AMARA HOLDER, Johanna Aurell, Ingrid George, Brian Gullett, Venkatesh Rao, U.S. EPA

Impact of Long-Range Transport of Central America Biomass Burning Emissions on Air Quality in Texas. QIANJIN ZHENG, David Ramirez, Min Zhong, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Impacts of Brown Carbon on Surface Shortwave Radiation in the California Sacramento Valley in Summer 2018. CHELSEA CORR, Maosi Chen, Zhibin Sun, Yan'an Liu, George Janson, Becky Olson, Scott Simpson, Amy P. Sullivan, Emily Fischer, Wei Gao, Colorado State University

Implications of Photochemical Ageing for Toxicity and Source Apportionment of Wood Combustion Aerosols: A Combined Biological and Chemical Study. Hendryk Czech, Toni Miersch, Anni Hartikainen, Mika Ihalainen, Sebastiano di Bucchianico, Jürgen Orasche, Sebastian Oeder, Jarkko Tissari, Thorsten Streibel, Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis, Pasi Javala, Maija-Riitta Hirvonen, Olli Sippula, Jorma Jokiniemi, RALF ZIMMERMANN, HICE Consortium, University of Rostock and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany

Improving Smoke Exposure Assessment for Surveillance and Epidemiology in British Columbia, Canada. SARAH HENDERSON, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control

In-Stack Aethalometry Measurements of Woodburning Stoves. JAKE LINDBERG, Patricia Fritz, Nicole Vitillo, Rebecca Trojanowski, Thomas Butcher, Thomas Wainman, Nathan Walz, Todd Crawford, New York State Dept. of Health

Increasing Global Lung-Cancer Risk Due to Biomass Combustion in the 21st Century. Sijia Lou, MANISHKUMAR SHRIVASTAVA, Richard Easter, Jerome Fast, Philip Rasch, Huizhong Shen, Staci L. Simonich, Shu Tao, Alla Zelenyuk, Steven Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Initial Evaluation of a Heating Stove Changeout Program in the Navajo Nation Featuring a Culturally-Appropriate Wood/Coal Stove. Naomi Chang, Tennille Denetdeel, Jeri Garfield, Sky Izzo, Michael King, Chris Yazzie, Mark Bauer, Paul Solomon, Kathleen Stewart, LUPITA MONTOYA, University of Colorado Boulder

Investigation into Airborne-Based Smoke Marker Ratios and Brown Carbon from Wildfires in the Western U.S. during the WE-CAN Study. AMY P. SULLIVAN, Jakob Lindaas, Emily Fischer, Lauren Garofalo, Delphine K. Farmer, Sonia Kreidenweis, Teresa Campos, Jeffrey Collett, Colorado State University

Large Contribution of Oxygenated Aromatic Compounds in Biomass Burning Emissions to Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation. ALI AKHERATI, Charles He, Matthew Coggon, Abigail Koss, Carsten Warneke, Joost de Gouw, Christopher Cappa, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Michael Kleeman, Shantanu Jathar, Colorado State University

Latitudinal Shifts in Wildfire Activity and Smoke Concentrations in Response to 21st Century Climate and Land Cover Change over the Western US. YANG LI, Loretta Mickley, Jed Kaplan, Pengfei Liu, Harvard University

Linking Cookstove Emissions to Indoor Air Quality: Outcome of a Multi-year Cookstove Intervention Trial in Rural India. MOHAMMAD MAKSIMUL ISLAM, Roshan Wathore, Grishma Jain, Karthik Sethuraman, Hisham Zerriffi, Julian Marshall, Rob Bailis, Andrew Grieshop, North Carolina State University

Long-Range Transport Mechanisms in East and Southeast Asia and Impacts on Size-Resolved Aerosol Composition: Contrasting High and Low Aerosol Loading Events. RACHEL BRAUN, Mojtaba Aghdam, Paola Bañaga, Grace Betito, Ma. Obiminda Cambaliza, Melliza Cruz, Genevieve Lorenzo, Alex MacDonald, James Simpas, Connor Stahl, Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona

Long-range Transported North American Wildfire Aerosols Observed in Marine Boundary Layer of Eastern North Atlantic. Guangjie Zheng, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Allison Aiken, Yan Feng, Thomas Watson, Shira Raveh-Rubin, Janek Uin, Ernie R. Lewis, JIAN WANG, Washington University in St. Louis

Measured and Modeled SOA Formation from Biomass-Burning-Derived Precursors. KELLEY BARSANTI, Isaac Afreh, Jia Jiang, Lindsay Hatch, William P. L. Carter, Weihan Peng, David R. Cocker III, University of California, Riverside

Measurements to Determine Mixing State of Black Carbon Emitted from the 2017/2018 California Wildfires and Urban Los Angeles. JOSEPH KO, Trevor Krasowsky, George Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California

Measuring Particle Number Concentration from Woodburning Stoves. NICOLE VITILLO, Patricia Fritz, Jake Lindberg, Thomas Wainman, Nathan Walz, Todd Crawford, Rebecca Trojanowski, Thomas Butcher, New York State Dept. of Health

Networks of Multi-wavelength MicroAeth Monitors Provide Tracer of Ground Level Air Pollution Impacts of Long Range Transport of Wildfire Plumes in NYC. STEVEN CHILLRUD, Qiang Yang, Beizhan Yan, Mark Arend, Fred Moshary, Jeff Blair, Yonghua Wu, Tanja Dobovicnik, Michele Markowitz, Wade McGillis, LDEO of Columbia University

New Insights into the Health and Climate Impacts of Boreal Wildfires. SARAH STYLER, Ming Lyu, Iris Chan, Nianci Zhang, Matthew S Ross, Cora J. Young, Daniel K Thompson, University of Alberta

Next Generation Wildfires: Firestorms at the Urban-Wildland Interface. KEITH BEIN, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Anthony S. Wexler, University of California, Davis

Observations of Strong Secondary Aerosol and Ozone Formation in Biomass Burning Plumes in Southern Africa. VILLE VAKKARI, Johan Paul Beukes, Miroslav Josipovic, Pieter G. van Zyl, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

On the Role of NOx in Biomass Burning Plumes: A Box Model Perspective. QIAOYUN PENG, Brett Palm, Sam Hall, Eric Apel, Rebecca Hornbrook, Alex Jarnot, Nicola Blake, Frank Flocke, Emily Fischer, Joel A. Thornton, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Optical Characterization of Fresh and Photochemically-Aged Aerosols Emitted from Laboratory Siberian Peat Burning. Michealene Iaukea-Lum, Chiranjivi Bhattarai, Deep Sengupta, Vera Samburova, Andrey Khlystov, Adam Watts, W. Patrick Arnott, HANS MOOSMULLER, Desert Research Institute

Optical, Physical, and Chemical Properties of Emissions from Open Combustion of Cheatgrass (Bromus Tectorum). MEGAN RENNIE, Vera Samburova, Deep Sengupta, Andrey Khlystov, Hans Moosmuller, Desert Research Institute

Particulate Matter and Black Carbon from an LPG Stove Intervention in Rural Households in Puno, Peru: Preliminary Results. MAGDALENA FANDIÑO-DEL-RIO, Josiah Kephart, William Checkley, Kirsten Koehler, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Pellet-fed Gasifier Stoves Approach Gas-stove Like Performance during In-home Use in Rwanda. WYATT CHAMPION, Ky Tanner, Andrew Grieshop, North Carolina State University

Physical, Chemical and Optical Properties of Wildfire Aerosols. SWARUP CHINA, Matthew Brege, Simeon Schum, Daniel Veghte, Kaitlyn J. Suski, Gourihar Kulkarni, ManishKumar Shrivastava, Lynn Mazzoleni, Alla Zelenyuk, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Polar Fraction of Semi-volatile Organic Compounds in Biomass Burning Emissions and Their Chemical Transformations during Aging with Oxidation Flow Reactor. DEEP SENGUPTA, Chiranjivi Bhattarai, Vera Samburova, Adam Watts, Hans Moosmuller, Andrey Khlystov, Desert Research Institute

Prediction of Organic Aerosol Precursor Emission from Wood Pyrolysis. MARIAM FAWAZ, Tami Bond, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Pregnant Women's Exposure to Household Air Pollution during a LPG Cookstove Intervention in Rural Bangladesh: The Value of Real-Time Data. Maggie Abbott, JONATHAN THORNBURG, Sajia Islam, Masum Billah, Fariha Tasnim, Seung-Hyun Cho, Ashraful Alam, Camille Raynes-Greenow, RTI International

Quantifying the Impact of Biomass Burning on Aerosol Concentrations in Bogota, Colombia: Detection of Biomass Burning Tracers and Model Simulations. Maria Alejandra Rincón, Amy P. Sullivan, Juan Manuel Rincón, Juan Felipe Mendez, Karen Ballesteros, RICARDO MORALES BETANCOURT, Universidad de los Andes

Rapid Transformations of Biomass Burning Particulate Emissions in the Near Field. ARTHUR J. SEDLACEK, Timothy Onasch, Kouji Adachi, W. Patrick Arnott, Peter Buseck, Qi Zhang, John Shilling, Mikhail Pekour, Sonya Collier, Shan Zhou, Andrew Freedman, Lawrence Kleinman, Brookhaven National Lab

Regional Transport of Biomass Burning Aerosols in Northern South America and its Contribution to POA and SOA in Colombian Cities. KAREN BALLESTEROS, Maria Alejandra Rincón, Juan Manuel Rincón, Amy P. Sullivan, Ricardo Morales Betancourt, Universidad de los Andes

Seasonality and Inter-site Variability in Cookstove Emissions Measured in a Multi-year Cookstove Intervention Trial in Rural India. MOHAMMAD MAKSIMUL ISLAM, Roshan Wathore, Grishma Jain, Karthik Sethuraman, Hisham Zerriffi, Julian Marshall, Rob Bailis, Andrew Grieshop, North Carolina State University

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Reaction of 3-Methylfuran with Nitrate Radicals. TAEKYU JOO, Jean Rivera-Rios, Masayuki Takeuchi, Matthew Alvarado, Nga Lee Ng, Georgia Institute of Technology

Significant Impact of Transported African Biomass Burning on Phosphorus Deposition and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Amazon and Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Anne Barkley, Joseph M. Prospero, Natalie Mahowald, Douglas Hamilton, Kimberly Popendorf, Amanda Oehlert, Ali Pourmand, Alexandre Gatineau, Kathy Panechou-Pulcherie, Patricia Blackwelder, CASSANDRA GASTON, University of Miami

Simulating the Near-Source Forest Fire Plume Chemistry and Secondary Particle Formation Using SAM-ASP. Chantelle Lonsdale, MATTHEW ALVARADO, Anna Hodshire, Emily Ramnarine, Jeffrey R. Pierce, AER

Single Particle Mass Spectrometry Observations of Long Range Transported Biomass Burning Aerosols in Michigan. JAMY LEE, Brady Anderson, Peter-Philip Booth, Jun Liu, Peng Xian, Kerri Pratt, University of Michigan

Smoke Aerosol Radiocarbon Measurements from Indonesian Fires Provide Evidence for Burning of Millennia-aged Peat. ELIZABETH WIGGINS, Claudia Czimczik, Guaciara dos Santos, Xiaomei Xu, Yang Chen, Jim Randerson, Charles Harvey, Fuu Ming Kai, Liya Yu, NASA

Smoke Forecasting for Wildfires – Interdisciplinary Tools and Operational Applications. SUSAN O'NEILL, Narasimhan Larkin, Yufei Zou, Sean Raffuse, Peter Lahm, Mark Fitch, USDA Forest Service

Source Apportionment and Mass Measurement of Fine Particulate Matter Arising from Massive Southern Oregon and Northern California Fires during the Summer of 2018. DAVID GOBELI, Jennifer Brown, George Allen, Met One Instruments, Incorporated

TD-DFT Investigation of the UV-Vis Spectra of Organonitrogen Chromophores in Brown Carbon. JIN CHEN, Emmy Rodriguez, Huanhuan Jiang, Alexander Frie, Haofei Zhang, Roya Bahreini, Ying-Hsuan Lin, University of California, Riverside

The Cytotoxicity of Brown Carbon and its Dependence on Combustion Conditions and Light Absorption Properties. KHAIRALLAH ATWI, Arnab Mondal, Jitendra Pant, Zezhen Cheng, Omar El Hajj, Hitesh Handa, Rawad Saleh, University of Georgia

The Impact of Biomass Fuel Emissions on Women's Health in Rural Punjab. NABEELA FARAH, University of Agriculture, Department of Rural Sociology

The Sources and Evolution of Ice Nucleation Particles Emitted by Biomass Burning. LYDIA JAHL, Leif Jahn, Michael Polen, Thomas Brubaker, Bailey Bowers, Sara Graves, Ryan Sullivan, Carnegie Mellon University

The Ubiquity of Biomass Burning Particles in the Global Remote Troposphere. GREGORY SCHILL, Karl D. Froyd, Daniel Murphy, Christina Williamson, Agnieszka Kupc, Charles Brock, Huisheng Bian, Mian Chin, Peter Colarco, Eric Ray, Alan Hills, Rebecca Hornbrook, Eric Apel, NOAA ESRL and CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder

Western US Wildfire Emissions of Ice Nucleating Particles. PAUL DEMOTT, Kevin Barry, Ezra Levin, Kathryn Moore, Thomas Hill, Cynthia Twohy, Darin Toohey, Amy P. Sullivan, Sonia Kreidenweis, Emily Fischer, Colorado State University

What Matters for the Climate Impact of Biomass Burning Smoke. DANIEL MURPHY, NOAA ESRL

Where’s the Mass: Why Might Field and Laboratory Studies on Aging of Biomass Burning Aerosols Disagree on Mass Enhancements?. ANNA HODSHIRE, Ali Akherati, Matthew Alvarado, Benjamin Brown-Steiner, Shantanu Jathar, Jose-Luis Jimenez, Sonia Kreidenweis, Chantelle Lonsdale, Timothy Onasch, Amber Ortega, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Colorado State University