Bill Carter
Research Chemist
William P.L. Carter holds a joint appointment at the Air Pollution Research Center (APRC) and CE-CERT at UC Riverside. He joined APRC as a postdoctoral researcher in 1973 and is now a member of the research faculty. He joined CE-CERT in 1993. His research concerns the gas-phase atmospheric reactions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the assessment of reactivities of VOCs in the atmosphere. This includes developing chemical mechanisms for airshed models, testing and refining these mechanisms using environmental chamber data, utilizing these mechanisms in airshed models to develop ozone reactivity scales for VOCs, and directing environmental chamber programs to provide data to test the mechanisms and evaluate VOC reactivities. Chemical mechanisms which he developed have been implemented in airshed models used by a number of control agencies and research groups, and VOC reactivity scales also developed by Dr. Carter are widely utilized in assessing ozone impacts of alternative fuels. In 1999, Dr. Carter was awarded a three-year project by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop a next-generation atmospheric chamber capable of more precise experimental research into ozone and particulate formation. Dr. Carter is author or co-author of approximately 70 journal articles and 60 technical reports in the areas of atmospheric chemistry, chemical mechanism development, and VOC reactivity assessment.