American Association for Aerosol Research - Abstract Submission

AAAR 39th Annual Conference
October 18 - October 22, 2021

Virtual Conference

Wildfire Aerosols


2020 California Wildfire Smoke in New Mexico: Characterization and Toxicological Studies Reveal Signs of Neurological Aging and Inflammation. David Scieszka, Russell Hunter, Jessica Begay, Marsha Bitsui, Yan Lin, Joseph Galewsky, Masako Morishita, Zachary Klaver, James Wagner, Jack Harkema, Guy Herbert, Selita Lucas, Charlotte McVeigh, Alicia Bolt, Barry Bleske, Andrew Ottens, Haiwei Gu, Shahani Noor, MATTHEW CAMPEN, University of New Mexico

A Bird’s Eye View of Sampling Forest Fire Smoke: Using Drone-Based Measurements of Prescribed Burning to Help Close the Gap between Laboratory and Wild-Fire Smoke Studies. NATHAN KREISBERG, Deep Sengupta, Robert Weber, James D.A. Butler, Yutong Liang, Paul Van Rooy, Afsara Tasnia, Farrah Haeri, Coty Jen, Emre Ozen, Edward Gonzalez, Jason Kriesel, Kevin K. Schwarm, Daniel Foster, Rebecca A. Sugrue, Mitchell R. Spearrin, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Kelley Barsanti, Allen Goldstein, Aerosol Dynamics Inc.

Aerosol Size Distribution Changes in Biomass Burning Plumes: The Competing Roles of Coagulation and OA Condensation/Evaporation. NICOLE JUNE, Anna Hodshire, Elizabeth Wiggins, Richard Moore, Edward Winstead, Claire Robinson, Kenneth Thornhill, Kevin Sanchez, Demetrios Pagonis, Hongyu Guo, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose-Luis Jimenez, Matthew Coggon, Sonia Kreidenweis, Shantanu Jathar, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Colorado State University

Assessing the Impact of Wildfire PM2.5 on Indoor Air Quality with Crowdsourced PurpleAir Sensor Data in California. YUTONG LIANG, Deep Sengupta, Mark Campmier, Joshua S. Apte, Allen Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley

Characterizing the Physical and Chemical Evolution of Organic Aerosol in Biomass Burning Smoke using Gas- and Particle-phase Molecular Tracers from Laboratory and FIREX-AQ Observations. MELINDA SCHUENEMAN, Douglas Day, Demetrios Pagonis, Seonsik Yun, Olivia Jenks, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Hongyu Guo, Benjamin A. Nault, Wyatt Brown, Julia Lee-Taylor, Joost de Gouw, Jose-Luis Jimenez, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder

Chemical Transformations of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol within Wildfire Plumes - From Near-source to the Regional Scale. RYAN FARLEY, Timothy Onasch, John Shilling, Shan Zhou, Sonya Collier, Lawrence Kleinman, Arthur J. Sedlacek, Qi Zhang, University of California, Davis

Dilution and Photooxidation Driven Processes Explain the Evolution of Organic Aerosol in Wildfire Plumes. ALI AKHERATI, Charles He, Lauren A. Garofalo, Anna Hodshire, Delphine K. Farmer, Sonia Kreidenweis, Wade Permar, Lu Hu, Emily Fischer, Coty Jen, Allen Goldstein, Teresa Campos, Mike Reeves, Darin Toohey, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Shantanu Jathar, Colorado State University

Effects of Wildfires on Outdoor Black Carbon Level to Indoor Air Quality. DARIA PASHNEVA, Julija Pauraite, Agnė Minderytė, Inga Garbarienė, Vadimas Dudoitis, Kristina Plauškaitė, Simonas Kecorius, Gediminas Mainelis, Jurgita Ovadnevaite, Steigvilė Byčenkienė, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology

Examination of Smoke Marker Ratios from Wildfires. AMY P. SULLIVAN, Sonia Kreidenweis, Emily Fischer, Bret Schichtel, Jeffrey Collett, Colorado State University

Ground-based in Situ Hyperspectral Optical Measurements of Smoke Aerosols during FIREX-AQ, Relating Spectral Characteristics to Aerosol Composition, Fuels, and Fire State. CAROLYN JORDAN, Bruce Anderson, John Barrick, Kathleen Brunke, Jiajue Chai, Gao Chen, Ewan Crosbie, Jack Dibb, Ann Dillner, Emily Gargulinski, Jackson Kaspari, Robert Martin, Richard Moore, Rachel O'Brien, Claire Robinson, Gregory Schuster, Taylor Shingler, Michael Shook, Amber Soja, Kenneth Thornhill, Andrew Weakley, Elizabeth Wiggins, Edward Winstead, Luke Ziemba, et al., NASA

High-intensity Forest Fires Emit High Concentrations of Diverse, Viable, and Ice-Nucleating Bioaerosols. LEDA KOBZIAR, David Vuono, Rachel Moore, Timothy Dean, Doris Betancourt, Adam Watts, Brent Christner, Johanna Aurell, Brian Gullett, Adam Kochanski, Ali Tohidi, University of Idaho College of Natural Resources

Impact of Wildfire Smoke and Biomass Burning on PAHs and Quinones. ELIZABETH NOTH, Frederick Lurmann, Charles Perrino, David Vaughn, S. Katharine Hammond, Environmental Health Sciences, SPH, UC Berkeley

Intercomparison of Spectroscopic Measurements of Biomass Burning Aerosol Optical Properties during a Wildfire in Southern California. ESTHER MORALES, Danielle Rocco, Jaebin Ju, Jorge Gonzales, Anissa Barrera, Stephanie Salas, Daniel B. Curtis, California State University, Fullerton

Investigating Carbonaceous Aerosol and its Absorption Properties from Fires in the Western US (WE-CAN) and Southern Africa (ORACLES and CLARIFY). THERESE CARTER, Colette L. Heald, Christopher Cappa, Jesse Kroll, Teresa Campos, Hugh Coe, Michael Cotterell, Nicholas Davies, Delphine K. Farmer, Cathryn Fox, Lauren A. Garofalo, Lu Hu, Justin Langridge, Ezra Levin, Shane Murphy, Rudra Pokhrel, Yingjie Shen, Kate Szpek, Jonathan Taylor, HuiHui Wu, MIT

Investigating the Impact of Biomass Burning Aerosols on Urban Air Quality in Los Angeles. MITCHELL ROGERS, Benjamin Schulze, Christopher Kenseth, John Crounse, Paul Wennberg, John Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology

Investigating the Southeast Asian Haze Impacts on Urban Organic Aerosol Composition Using a High-Mass Resolution Spectrometry and Factor Analysis. SRI HAPSARI BUDISULISTIORINI, Katie Balmer, Daniel Bryant, Liudongqing Yang, Jing Chen, Mikinori Kuwata, Jacqueline Hamilton, University of York

Lessons Learned from Deployment of a Novel Multiwavelength Photoacoustic Spectrometer to FIREX-AQ. BENJAMIN SUMLIN, Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Washington University in St. Louis

Mixing State of Urban Aerosol under the Influences of Biomass Burning and Transboundary Smoke Haze in Southeast Asia. LAURA-HELENA RIVELLINI, Nethmi Kasthuriarachchi, Mutian Ma, Alex Lee, National University of Singapore

Optical Properties of Absorbing Aerosol Emitted from Biomass Burning. YINGJIE SHEN, Rudra Pokhrel, Shane Murphy, Ezra Levin, Amy P. Sullivan, University of Wyoming

Photolysis of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol, Chemical Transformations and Photo-Bleaching. RACHEL O'BRIEN, Hongmin Yu, Natalie Warren, Marley Adamek, Aron Jaffe, Christopher Lim, Christopher Cappa, Jesse Kroll, Carolyn Jordan, Bruce Anderson, William & Mary

Photolytic Mass Loss of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Derived from Furan Species. NARA SHIN, Yuchen Wang, Taekyu Joo, Nga Lee Ng, Pengfei Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Physicochemical and Toxicological Profiles of Particles from the Combustion of Individual California Biomass Species. AMBER KRAMER, Tiancong Ma, Tian Xia, Yifang Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles

Plume Heights Affect the Evolution of Organic Aerosol Optical Properties: Insights from FIREX-AQ Field Measurements. CHENCHONG ZHANG, Benjamin Sumlin, Nishit Shetty, Pai Liu, Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Washington University in St. Louis

Quantifying Emission Factors from Mixed Conifer Forest Controlled Burns Aimed to Reduce Wildfire Risk at Blodgett Forest Research Station California. DEEP SENGUPTA, Nathan Kreisberg, Coty Jen, Yutong Liang, James D.A. Butler, Rebecca A. Sugrue, Robert Weber, Paul Van Rooy, Afsara Tasnia, Emre Ozen, Edward Gonzalez, Jason Kriesel, Kevin K. Schwarm, Mitchell R. Spearrin, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Robert York, Daniel Foster, John Battles, Scott Stephens, Kelley Barsanti, Allen Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley

Quantifying the Health Benefits of Respirators and Face Coverings to Mitigate Exposure to Wildfire Air Pollution. JACK KODROS, Kate O'Dell, Jon Samet, Christian L'Orange, Jeffrey R. Pierce, John Volckens, Colorado State University

Reconciling Assumptions in Bottom Up and Top Down Approaches for Estimating Aerosol Emissions from Wildland Fires in the Western US Using Observations from FIREX-AQ. ELIZABETH WIGGINS, Bruce Anderson, Matthew Brown, Gao Chen, Ewan Crosbie, Josh DiGangi, Glenn Diskin, Marta Fenn, Michael Shook, Amber Soja, Francesca Gallo, Emily Gargulinski, Hongyu Guo, Johnathan Hair, Demetrios Pagonis, Anne Perring, Claire Robinson, Kevin Sanchez, Melinda Schueneman, Chelsea Stockwell, Kenneth Thornhill, Carsten Warneke, Joshua P. Schwarz, Taylor Shingler, et al., NASA

Size Distributions of Biomass Burning Aerosol as a Function of Age and Comparisons to Models. GREGORY SCHILL, Karl D. Froyd, Daniel Murphy, Charles Brock, Christina Williamson, Agnieszka Kupc, Eric Ray, Huisheng Bian, Mian Chin, Peter Colarco, NOAA ESRL and CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder

Submicron Particle Composition and Acidity in Fire Plumes during FIREX-AQ Aircraft Study. HONGYU GUO, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Demetrios Pagonis, Melinda Schueneman, Douglas Day, Benjamin A. Nault, Dongwook Kim, Wyatt Brown, Kyla Siemens, Jack Dibb, Eric Scheuer, Laura Tomsche, Felix Piel, John Nowak, Armin Wisthaler, Lu Xu, Krystal Vasquez, John Crounse, Paul Wennberg, Pamela Rickly, Andrew Rollins, Caroline Womack, Joseph Katich, et al., Jose-Luis Jimenez, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder

Toxic Emissions from Fires at the Wildland Urban Interface: Laboratory Measurement of Formaldehyde and Aerosol from Building Materials. KATHERINE BENEDICT, James E. Lee, Kyle Gorkowski, Manvendra Dubey, Allison Aiken, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Transported African Wildfire Smoke Acts as Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Tropical Atlantic Marine Boundary Layer. HALEY ROYER, Mira L. Pöhlker, Ovid O. Krüger, Edmund Blades, Peter Sealy, Nurun Nahar Lata, Zezhen Cheng, Swarup China, Andrew Ault, Patricia Quinn, Hope Elliott, Patricia Blackwelder, Cassandra Gaston, University of Miami

Use of a Low-Cost PM Sensor Network to Characterize the Impact of 2020 Washington Wildfire on Indoor Air Quality and Personal Exposure. CHING-HSUAN HUANG, Nanhsun Yuan, Jiayang He, Mei-Yu Liao, Selina Teng, Igor Novosselov, University of Washington

Using Low-Cost Air Sensors to Assess Community Level PM Exposure from California Wildfires. AMBER KRAMER, Jonathan Liu, Liqiao Li, Yifang Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles

Using Low-Cost Sensors to Trace Biomass Burning Aerosol Plumes from Wildfires in Southern California. DANIELLE ROCCO, Esther Morales, Jaebin Ju, Linh Luu, Daniel B. Curtis, California State University, Fullerton

Using Model Particle Systems to Constrain Atmospheric Particle "Glassiness" and Mixing Limitations. LUKE HABIB, Neil Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University