Center for Environmental Research & Technology

CE-CERT 2019 Publications

Associations with pediatric respiratory disease emergency department visits in the U.S. State of Georgia

Mengjiao Huang, Cesunica Ivey, Yongtao Hu, Heather A. Holmes, Matthew Strickland

Environmental International | December 2019

Size and morphology of soot produced by a dual-fuel marine engine

Una Trivanovic, Joel Corbin, Alberto Baldelli, Weihan Peng, Jiacheng Yang, Patrick Kirchen, J. Wayne Miller, Prem Lobo, Stephanie Gagne, Steven Rogak

Journal of Aerosol Science | December 2019

Constraining Parameter Domains for Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
 W.C. Porter, J. Jimenez, J. L., K. Barsanti 
American Geophysical Union | December 2019

Corrigendum to “How do particle number, surface area, and mass correlate with toxicity of diesel particle emissions as measured in chemical and cellular assays?”
Jian Xue, Shaohua Hu, David Quiros, Alberto Ayala Hejung Jung
Chemosphere | December 2019

Source apportionment of primary and secondary PM_2.5: Associations with pediatric respiratory disease emergency department visits in the U.S. State of Georgia

Mengjiao Huang, Cesunica Ivey, Yongtao Hu, Heather Holmes, Matthew Strickland

Environment International | December 2019

Chemical Fingerprinting of Particulate Organic Compounds in Fresh Smoke Produced from Burning Individual Western US Wildland Fuels
Coty Jen, Lindsay Hatch, Nathan Kreisberg, Christos Stamatis, Yutong Liang, Robert Weber, John Battles, Scott Stephens, Robert York, Kelley Barsanti, Allen Goldstein
AIChE Annual Meeting | November 2019

How do particle number, surface area, and mass correlate with toxicity of diesel particle emissions as measured in chemical and cellular assays?

Jian Xue, Shaohua Hu, David Quiros, Alberto Ayala, Heejung Jung

Chemosphere | December 2019

Technoeconomic and life-cycle analysis of single-step catalytic conversion of wet ethanol into fungible fuel blendstocks
John R. Hannon, Lee R. Lynd, Onofre Andrade, Pahola Thathiana Benavides, Gregg T. Beckham, Mary J. Biddy, Nathan Brown, Mateus F. Chagas, Brian H. Davison, Thomas Foustf, Tassia L. Junqueira, Mark S. Laser, Zhenglong Li, Tom Richard, Ling Tao, Gerald A. Tuskan, Michael Wang, Jeremy Woods, and Charles E. Wyman

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | November 2019

Performance evaluation of twelve low-cost PM2.5 sensors at an ambient air monitoring site

Brandon Feenstra, Vasileios Papapostolou, Sina Hasheminassab, Hang Zhang, Berj Der Boghossian, David Cocker, Andrea Polidori

Atmospheric Environment | November 2019

Compositional Evolution of Secondary Organic Aerosol as Temperature and Relative Humidity Cycle in Atmospherically Relevant Ranges

Zixu Zhao, Chen Le, Qi Xu, Weihan Peng, Huanhuan Jiang, Ying-Hsuan Lin, David R. Cocker, Haofei Zhan

ACS Earth and Space Chemistry | Winter 2019

Source-specific Fine Particulate Using Spatiotemporal Concentration Fields Developed using Chemical Transport Modelling and Data Assimilation

A. Russell, R. Huang, Z. Zhai, C. Ivey, G. Shi, R. Devlin

Environmental Epidemiology | Winter 2019

Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Potential Shortcomings of a Binned-Based Emissions Model 
D. Oswald, , G. Scora, N. Williams, P. Hao, & M. Barth 
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference | October 2019

Modelling the hygroscopic growth factors of aerosol material containing a large water-soluble organic fraction, collected at the Storm Peak Laboratory

Simon Clegg, Lynn Mazzoleni, Ver Samburova, Nathan Taylor, Don R. Collins, Simeon K. Schum, A. Gannet Hallar

Atmospheric Environment | October 2019 

Vision-Based Lane-Changing Behavior Detection Using Deep Residual Neural Network
Z. Wei, C. Wang, P. Hao, & M. Barth
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference | October 2019

Application level attacks on Connected Vehicle Protocols", 22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses
Abdo, A., Malek, S.M., Qian, Z., Zhu, Q., Barth, M., & Abu-Ghazaleh, N
USENIX Association | September 2019

Quantifying aerosol size distributions and their temporal variability in the Southern Great Plains, USA

Peter J. Marinescu, Ezra J. T. Levin, Don Collins, Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Susan C. van den Heever

EGU: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | September 2019 

Performance of three delignifying pretreatments on hardwoods: hydrolysis yields, comprehensive mass balances, and lignin properties

Aditya Bhalla, Charles M. Cai, Feng Xu, Sandip K. Singh, Namita Bansal, Thanaphong Phongpreecha, Tanmoy Dutta, Cliff E. Foster, Rajeev Kumar, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh, Charles E. Wyman, Eric L. Hegg, David B. Hodge

BMC: Biotechnology for Biofuels | September 2019

Embedding online, design-focused data visualization instruction in an upper-division undergraduate atmospheric science course

Katherine Hepworth, Cesunica E. Ivey, Chelsea Canon & Heather A. Holmes

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group: Journal of Geoscience Education | September 2019

On the accuracy and potential of Google Maps location history data to characterize individual mobility for air pollution health studies

Xiaonan Yu, Amy L. Stuart, Yang Liu, Cesunica E. Ivey, Armistead G. Russell, Haidong Kan, Lucas R.F. Henneman, Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Samiul Hasan, Anwar Sadmani, Xuchao Yang, Haofei Yu

Environmental Pollution | September 2019 

Investigating fine particulate matter sources in Salt Lake City during persistent cold air pool events

Cesunica E. Ivey, Sivaraman Balachandran, Sean Colgan, Yongtao Hu, Heather A. Holmes

Atmospheric Environment  | September 2019

Emissions from a flex fuel GDI vehicle operating on ethanol fuels show marked contrasts in chemical, physical and toxicological characteristics as a function of ethanol content

Jiacheng Yang, Patrick Roth, Thomas D. Durbin, Martin M. Shafer, Jocelyn Hemming, Dagmara S. Antkiewicz, Akua Asa-Awuku, Georgios Karavalakis

Science of The Total Environment | September 2019

Impacts of gasoline aromatic and ethanol levels on the emissions from GDI vehicles: Part 2. Influence on particulate matter, black carbon, and nanoparticle emissions

Jiacheng Yang, Patrick Roth, Hanwei Zhu, Thomas D. Durbin, Georgios Karavalakis

Fuel | September 2019

Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Management: Recent Advances and Prospects

Xiaosong Hu, Teng Liu, Xuewei Qi, Matthew J. Barth 

IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine | September 2019 

Consideration of a carbon number-polarity grid based approach for defining lumped surrogates in secondary organic aerosol modeling
Kelley Barsanti, Annmarie Carlton, Isaac Afreh, Jia Jiang, Christine Wiedinmyer
American Chemical Society | August 2019

Cu ₂ O Photocathode with Faster Charge Transfer by Fully Reacted Cu Seed Layer to Enhance Performance of Hydrogen Evolution in Solar Water Splitting Applications

Kichang  Jung, TaehoonLim, HyojungBae, Jun-SeokHa, AlfredoA. Martinez-Morales

ChemPubSoc Europe: ChemCatChem | July 2019

Highly Speciated Measurements of Terpenoids Emitted from Laboratory and Mixed-Conifer Forest Prescribed Fires

Lindsay E. Hatch, Coty N. Jen, Nathan M. Kreisberg, Vanessa Selimovic, Robert J. Yokelson, Christos Stamatis, Robert A. York, Daniel Foster, Scott L. Stephens, Allen H. Goldstein, Kelley C. Barsanti

Environmental Science & Technology | July 2019 

A Multifunctional Cosolvent Pair Reveals Molecular Principles of Biomass Deconstruction

Abhishek S. Patri, Barmak Mostofian, Yunqiao Pu, Nicholas Ciaffone, Mikhael Soliman, Micholas Dean Smith, Rajeev Kumar, Xiaolin Cheng, Charles E. Wyman, Laurene Tetard, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Jeremy C. Smith, Loukas Petridis, Charles M. Cai

Journal of the American Chemical Society | July 2019

CELF significantly reduces milling requirements and improves soaking effectiveness for maximum sugar recovery of Alamo switchgrass over dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment

Abhishek S. Patri, Laura McAlister, Charles M. Cai, Rajeev Kumar, Charles E. Wyman

BMC: Biotechnology for Biofuels | July 2019

Lookup Table-Based Consensus Algorithm for Real-Time Longitudinal Motion Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles
Wang, Z., Han, K., Kim, B., Wu, G., & Barth, M. J.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | July 2019

Using a new Mobile Atmospheric Chamber (MACh) to investigate the formation of secondary aerosols from mobile sources: The case of gasoline direct injection vehicles

Diep Vu, Patrick Roth, Tyler Berte, Jiacheng Yang, David Cocker, Thomas D. Durbin, Georgios Karavalakis, Akua Asa-Awuku

Journal of Aerosol Science | July 2019

An Advanced Simulation Framework of an Integrated Vehicle-Powertrain Eco-Operation System for Electric Buses
F. Ye, P. Hao, G. Wu, D. Esaid, K. Boriboonsomsin. M. J. Barth
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | June 2019

Bi-level Optimal Edge Computing Model for On-ramp Merging in Connected Vehicle Environment
Ye, F., Guo, J., Kim, K. J., Orlik, P. V., Ahn, H., Di Cairano, S., & Barth, M. J
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | June 2019

Developing an Adaptive Strategy for Connected Eco-Driving under Uncertain Traffic Condition
Z. Wei, P. Hao, M. J. Barth
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | June 2019

Early Findings from Field Trials of Heavy-Duty Truck Connected Eco-Driving System
Wang, Z., Hsu, Y.-P., Vu, A., Caballero, F., Hao, P., Wu, G., Boriboonsomsin, K., Barth, M., Kailas, A., Amar, P., Garmon, E., Tanugula, S.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | June 2019

Lignin-Based Polyurethanes from Unmodified Kraft Lignin Fractionated by Sequential Precipitation

Yun-Yan Wang, Charles E. Wyman, Charles M. Cai, Arthur J. Ragauskas

ACS: Applied Polymer Materials | June 2019

The State-of-the-Art of Coordinated Ramp Control with Mixed Traffic Conditions
Zhao, Z., Wang, Z., Wu, G., Ye, F., & Barth, M. J.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium | June 2019

An Experimental and Modeling Study of Nanoparticle Formation and Growth from Dimethylamine and Nitric Acid

Sabrina Chee, Nanna Myllys, Kelley C. Barsanti, Bryan M. Wong, James N. Smith

The Journal of Physical Chemistry | May 2019

Cooperative Ramp Merging System: Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Using Game Engine
Wang, Z., Wu, G., Boriboonsomsin, K., Barth, M.
SAE International  | May 2019

High Hydroquinone Emissions from Burning Manzanita

Coty N. Jen, Yutong Liang, Lindsay E. Hatch, Nathan M. Kreisberg, Christos Stamatis, Kasper Kristensen, John J. Battles, Scott L. Stephens, Robert A. York, Kelley C. Barsanti, Allen H. Goldstein

Environmental Science & Technology | May 2019

Development and analysis of eco-driving metrics for naturalistic instrumented vehicles

Ji Luo, Guoyuan Wu, Zhensong Wei, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew Barth

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations | May 2019

Variability in Real-World Activity Patterns of Heavy-Duty Vehicles by Vocation

George Scora, Kanok Bariboonsomsin, Thomas D. Durbin, Kent Johnson, Seungju Yoon, John Collins, Zhen Dai

SAGE Journals | May 2019

Salton Sea Dust Extract Exposure Promotes Lung Inflammation in Mice

A.C. Burr, R. Kamath, J. Velazquez, X. Peng, M. Maltz, J. Botthoff, D. Cocker, E. Aronson, M. Carson, D. Lo, T.M. Nordgren

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | May 2019

Developing an Aerial-Image-Based Approach for Creating Digital Sidewalk Inventories

Ji Luo, Guoyuan Wu, Zhensong Wei, Kanok  Boriboonsomsin, Matthew Barth

SAGE Journals | April 2019

Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model during Persistent Cold Air Pool Events in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Xia Sun, Heather A Holmes, Cesunica E Ivey
Land-atmosphere Exchange and Air Quality during Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer Events  | May 2019

Omics-based analyses revealed metabolic responses of Clostridium acetobutylicum to lignocellulose-derived inhibitors furfural, formic acid and phenol stress for butanol fermentation

Huanhuan Liu, Jing Zhang, Jian Yuan, Xiaolong Jiang, Lingyan Jiang, Guang Zhao, Di Huang, Bin Liu

BMC: Biotechnology for Biofuels | April 2019

Characterizing Lane Changes via Digitized Infrastructure and Low-Cost GPS

Ishtiak Ahmed, Alan Karr, Nagui M. Rouphail, Gyounghoon Chun, Shams Tanvir

SAGE Journals | April 2019

Impacts of cellulase deactivation at the moving air-liquid interface on cellulose conversions at low enzyme loadings

Samarthya Bhagia, Charles E. Wyman, Rajeev Kumar

BMC: Biotechnology for Biofuels | April 2019 

On-Board Sensor-Based NO _x Emissions from Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles

Yi Tan, Paul Henderick, Seungju Yoon, Jorn Herner, Thomas Montes, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Kent Johnson, George Scora, Daniel Sandez, Thomas D. Durbin

Environmental Science & Technology | April 2019

Characterizing population exposure to coal emissions sources in the United States using the HyADS model

Ishtiak Ahmed, Alan Karr, Nagui M. Rouphail, Gyounghoon Chun, Shams Tanvir

Atmospheric Environment | April 2019

Data-Driven Multi-step Demand Prediction for Ride-Hailing Services Using Convolutional Neural Network

Chao Wang, Yi Hou, Matthew Barth

Advanced in Computer Vision | April 2019

Evaluation of electric vehicle component performance over eco-driving cycles

Zhiming Gao, Tim LaClair, Shiqi Ou, Shean Huff, Guoyuan Wu, Peng Hao, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew Barth

Energy | April 2019

Inflammatory marker and aryl hydrocarbon receptor-dependent responses in human macrophages exposed to emissions from biodiesel fuels

Christoph Franz, Adam Vogel, Sarah Y. Kado, Reiko Kobayashi, Xiaoxue Liu, Patrick Wong, Kwangsam Na, Thomas Durbin, Robert A. Okamoto, Norman Y. Kado

Chemosphere | April 2019

Production of Secondary Organic Aerosol During Aging of Biomass Burning Smoke From Fresh Fuels and Its Relationship to VOC Precursors
A. T. Ahern, E. S. Robinson, D. S. Tkacik, R. Saleh, L. E. Hatch, K. C. Barsanti,C. E. Stockwell, R. J. Yokelson, A. A. Presto, A. L. Robinson, R. C. Sullivan, N. M. Donahue

Advancing Earth and Space Science: JGR Atmospheres | April 2019

Impact of Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Activity on Fuel Consumption and Its Implication for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Sonya Collier, Chris Ruehl, Seungju Yoon, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Thomas D. Durbin, George Scora, Kent Johnson, Jorn Herner

SAGE Journals | March 2019

Establishment and characterization of a multi-purpose large animal exposure chamber for investigating health effects

Xinze Peng, Mia R. Maltz, Jon K. Botthoff, Emma L. Aronson, Tara M. Nordgren, David D. Lo, David R. Cocker

Review of Scientific Instruments | March 2019

Nitrogen-containing compounds and salts emitted in poultry farming
Ryan Drover, Cara Michael, Tanner Cress, Philip Silva, Anna Foote, Paul van Rooy, David Cocker, Matthew Nee, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts
American Chemical Society Conference | March 2019

Catalyzed Gasoline Particulate Filters Reduce Secondary Organic Aerosol Production from Gasoline Direct Injection Vehicles

Patrick Roth, Jiacheng Yang, Emmanuel Fofie, David R. Cocker, Thomas D. Durbin, Rasto Brezny, Michael Geller, Akua Asa-Awuku, Georgios Karavalakis

Environmental Science & Technology | February 2019

Physical, chemical, and toxicological characteristics of particulate emissions from current technology gasoline direct injection vehicles

Jiacheng Yang, Patrick Roth, Christopher R. Ruehl, Martin M. Shafer, Dagmara S. Antkiewicz, Thomas D. Durbin, David Cocker, Akua Asa-Awuku, Georgios Karavalakis

Science of The Total Environment | February 2019

Complex refractive index, single scattering albedo, and mass absorption coefficient of secondary organic aerosols generated from oxidation of biogenic and anthropogenic precursors

Justin H. Dingle, Stephen Zimmerman, Alexander L. Frie, Justin Min, HeejungJung & Roya Bahreini

Aerosol Science and Technology | February 2019

Viscosities, diffusion coefficients, and mixing times of intrinsic fluorescent organic molecules in brown limonene secondary organic aerosol and tests of the Stokes-Einstein equation

Dagny A. Ullmann, Mallory L. Hinks, Adrian M. Maclean, Christopher L. Butenhoff, James W. Grayson,Kelley Barsanti, Jose L. Jimenez, Sergey A. Nizkorodov, Saeid Kamal, Allan K. Bertram

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | February 2019

Deep reinforcement learning enabled self-learning control for energy efficient driving

Xuewei Qi, Yadan Luo, Guoyuan Wu, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew Barth

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies | February 2019

Vehicle Energy/Emissions Estimation Based on Vehicle Trajectory Reconstruction Using Sparse Mobile Sensor Data
X. Shan, P. Hao, X. Chen, K. Boriboonsomsin, G. Wu, M. Barth
IEEE | February 2019

Nighttime Chemical Transformation in Biomass Burning Plumes: A Box Model Analysis Initialized with Aircraft Observations

Zachary C. J. Decker, Kyle J. Zarzana, Matthew Coggon, Kyung-Eun Min, Ilana Pollack, Thomas B. Ryerson, JeffPeischl, Pete Edwards, William P. Dubé, Milos Z. Markovic, James M. Roberts, Patrick R. Veres, Martin Graus, Carsten Warneke, Joost de Gouw, Lindsay E. Hatch, Kelley C. Barsanti,  Steven S. Brown

Environmental Science & Technology | January 2019

Speciated and total emission factors of particulate organics from burning western US wildland fuels and their dependence on combustion efficiency

Coty N. Jen, Lindsay E. Hatch, Vanessa Selimovic, Robert J. Yokelson, Robert Weber, Arantza E. Fernandez,Nathan M. Kreisberg, Kelley C. Barsanti, Allen H. Goldstein

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | January 2019

Multiple levers for overcoming the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass
Evert K. Holwerda, Robert S. Worthen, Ninad Kothari, Ronald C. Lasky, Brian H. Davison, Chunxiang Fu, Zeng‑Yu Wang, Richard A. Dixon, Ajaya K. Biswal, Debra Mohnen, Richard S. Nelson, Holly L. Baxter, Mitra Mazarei, C. Neal Stewart Jr., Wellington Muchero, Gerald A. Tuskan, Charles M. Cai, Erica E. Gjersing, Mark F. Davis, Michael E. Himmel, Charles E. Wyman, Paul Gilna, Lee R. Lynd

BMC: Biotechnology for Biofuels | January 2019

Aerosols in an arid environment: The role of aerosol water content, particulate acidity, precursors, and relative humidity on secondary inorganic aerosols

Haiting Wang, Jing Ding, Jiao Xu, Jie Wen, Jianhong Han, Keling Wang, Guoliang Shi, Yinchang Feng, Cesunica E. Ivey, Yuhang Wang, Athanasios Nenes, Qianyu Zhao, Armistead G. Russell

Science of the Total Environment | January 2019 

Chapter 2 - Data-Driven Energy Efficient Driving Control in Connected Vehicle Environment

Xuewei Qi, Guoyuan Wu, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew J. Barth

Data-Driven Solutions to Transportation Problems | January 2019

Cooperative Eco-Driving at Signalized Intersections in a Partially Connected and Automated Vehicle Environment

Ziran Wang, Guoyuan Wu, Matthew J. Barth

IEEE  Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine | January 2019

Cellulose hydrolysis by Clostridium thermocellum is agnostic to substrate structural properties in contrast to fungal cellulases

Ninad Kothari, Samarthya Bhagia, Maher Zaher, Yunqiao Pu, Ashutosh Mittal, Chang Geun Yoo, Michael E. Himmel, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Rajeev Kumarb, Charles E. Wyman

Royal Society of Chemistry: Green Chemistry | January 2019

Customer-Side SCADA-Assisted Large Battery Operation Optimization for Distribution Feeder Peak Load Shaving
Z. Taylor, H. Akhavan-Hejazi, E. Cortez, L. Alvarez, S. Ula, M. Barth, H. Mohsenian-Rad
IEEE | January 2019

Deeply Integrated Vehicle Dynamic and Powertrain Operation for Efficient Plug-in Hybrid Electric Bus
Hao, P., Boriboonsomsin, K., Wu, Guoyuan, Gao, Z., LaClair, T., Barth, M
Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting | January 2019

Eco-Approach and Departure (EAD) Application for Actuated Signals in Real-World Traffic. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Hao, P., Wu, G., Boriboonsomsin, K., & Barth, M. J.
IEEE | January 2019

Single-step catalytic conversion of furfural to 2-pentanol over bimetallic Co-Cu catalysts

Bhogeswararao Seemal, Rajeev Kumar, Charles M. Cai, Charles E. Wyman, Phillip Christopher

Royal Society of Chemistry: Reaction Chemistry & Engineering | January 2019

Understanding Air Quality Data, Traffic, and Weather Parameters Collected from Near-Road Stations
 Moretti, A., Luo, J., Wu, G., Feenstra, B., Boriboonsomsin, K., Barth, M.
Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting | January 2019

An Innovative Framework to Evaluate the Performance of Connected Vehicle Applications: From the Perspective of Speed Variation-Based Entropy (SVE)

Danyang Tian, Chao Wang, Guoyuan Wu, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew J. Barth, Samer Rajab, Sue Bai

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine | January 2019