NC State

Air Quality Research Group

Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

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Air Quality Research Group at NC State

Air Quality Research Group is one of the research groups in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University, with Dr. Viney P. Aneja as the founder and group leader. Established in 1987, the focal points of this group include air pollution monitoring and control, environmental measurement and modeling, and biospheric-atmospheric interaction.

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The Team

From left to right: (front) Casey Bray, Qi Li, Pornpan Uttamang, and Alberth Nahas; (back) Michael Pirhalla, Jordan Baker, Rebecca Wiegand, Dr. Viney Aneja, and William Battye

Group News

A&WMA Annual Conference
June 27th, 2018

Ms. Casey Bray won the A&WMA Best Young Professional Paper Award at the A&WMA 2018 Annual Conference in Hartford, CT. Her paper is titled "Assessment of important SPECIATE profiles used in EPA's Emissions Modeling Platform" - coauthored with Dr. Battye and Dr. Aneja. She also placed 3rd in the Doctoral Student Poster Competition with her poster "Ammonia Emissions from Biomass Burning in the US".                                 
NC Breathe 2018
Mar 8th, 2018

Dr. Aneja and the Air Quality Research Group attended NC Breathe 2018 in Winston-Salem, NC. Mr. Jordan Baker and Ms. Casey Bray presented their posters on their research. Congratulations to Jordan for winning the Best Student Poster for the second time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

CARB Chair's Lecture Series
Feb 28th, 2018

Dr. Aneja was invited by California Air Resources Board to give a lecture titled "Is Nitrogen the Next Carbon?" at the Chair's Lecture Series in Sacramento, CA.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Recent Publications

May 29th, 2018

Ammonia emissions from biomass burning in the Continental U.S. -- Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 187, 50-61.                                                                                                                                                                       
Sep 23rd, 2017

Characterization of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) relating to a coal power plant in the Boroughs of Springdale and Cheswick, PA -- Atmosphere, Vol. 8(10), 186.                                                                                                                           

Sep 18th, 2017

Characterization of PM2.5 in Delhi: role and impact of secondary aerosol, burning of biomass, and municipal solid waste and crustal matter -- Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Vol. 24, 25179-25189.