Texas Air Research Projects
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Project Number	Principal Investigator	Project Title
LUB0001A	Kuyen Li	Field and Mechanistic Studies for Texas Upper Gulf Coast Air Quality
TAM0002A	Anthony Cahill	Effect of Atmospheric Turbulence on the Evolution of the Airborne Particulate Matter Size Distribution
TAM0003A	John Nielson-Gammon	The Interaction of the Sea Breeze and the Urban Heat Island
TAM0004A	Renyi Zhang	Modeling Chemistry and Transport of Air Pollutants in Texas Using a Chemical Transport Model (CTM)
TAM0005A	Donald Collins	PM 2.5 Sampling
UHH0006A	Shankar Chellam Matt Fraser	ICP-MS to Quantify Metals in Fine Particulate Matter in Houston
UTA0007A	Charles Mullins David Allen	Environmental Chamber Studies of Chlorine-Promoted Ozone Formation and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Under Conditions Relevant to Houston, Texas
UTA0008A	Gary Rochelle David Allen	Ozone Productivity of NOx Emissions
UTA0013A	Richard Corsi	The Relationship between Outdoor and Indoor Levels of Ultra-Fine Particulate Matter in the Houston Metropolitan Area
LUB0015A	Kuyen Li Jack R. Hopper	Air Quality Management Strategies in Southeast Texas
TAM0016A	Donald Collins	Airborne Sampling of Aerosol Properties During the Dallas NAOPEX Experiment
TAM0017A	Renyi Zhang	Chlorine Initiated Oxidation Reactions of Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds Relevant to Urban and Regional Air Pollution
TAM0018A	Denis Phares	An Ivestigation of the Role of Aerosols in Ozone Plume Formation and Evolution
TAM0019A	Kenneth Bowman	Regional-Scale Atmospheric Transport and Air Quality in Texas
UHH0020A	Daewon Byun Anthony Haymet	Photochemical Modeling of Ethylene and Propylene Emissions in the Houston-Galveston Non-Attainment Area: Speciated Chemical Mechanism and Inventory
UTA0026A	David Allen	The Effect of Mixing Phenomena on Ozone
UTA0027A	David Allen	Hydrocarbon Reactivity in Southeast Texas: Examining the role of the Reactions of Atomic Chlorine
LUB0028A	John Gossage Jerry Lin Ku-yen Li David Cocke	Advances Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy
LUB0029A	T.C. Ho Jerry Lin Hsing-wei Chu Paul Chiou	CMAQ Modeling
LUB0030A	T.C. Ho Hsing-wei Chu Jerry Lin Quoc-Nam Tran	Satellite Assimilation in Meterological and Air Quality Models for the TEXAQS 2000 Study Period
UAL0030A	Arastoo Biazar Stephanie Haines	Satellite Assimilation in Meterological and Air Quality Models for the TEXAQS 2000 Study Period
UTA0031A	Richard Corsi	Outdoor Ozone as a Precurses to Indoor Secondary Organic Aerosols: Implications with Respect to PM2.5 Exposures and Controls in the Houston/Galveston Area
LUB0033A	T. C. Ho Daniel Chen Hsing-wei Chu Jerry Lin David Cocke	Characterization of Airborne Particulate Matter in Heavily Industrialized Community
LUB0034A	John Gossage Jerry Lin Ku-yen Li David Cocke	Matrix Isolation Study of the Effects of Molecular Chlorine and Isoprene on Tropospheric Oxone Formation
UHH0036A	Daewon Byun	Development of Texas Emissions Inventory Preparation System for SMOKE
LUB0037A	David Cocke	Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Design and Optimization for NOX Reduction in the Orange County
TAM0038A	Renyi Zhang	Oxidation Mechanism of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Relevant to Urban and Regional Air Pollution
TAM0039A	John Nielson-Gammon	Summertime Mixing Heights in Southeast Texas
TAM0040A	Don Collins Renyi Zhang	Investigation of New Particle Formation in Houston
UHH0043A	Shankar Chellam Matt Fraser	Developing Fine Particulate Matter Source Profiles for the Houston Region
UTA0045A	David Allen	Modeling Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Urban Plumes
UTA0046A	Thomas Edgar	Flare Combustion Emissions Modeling and Control
UTA0047A	Jeffrey Siegal Elena McDonald-Bueller	Building Energy Conservation Dtrategies for Houston: Investigation of Air Quality Benefits and Relative Implementation Costs
UTA0048A	David Allen	Study Planning and Coordination for a Texas Air Quality Field Program in 2005/2006
LUB0051A	T.C. Ho Jerry Lin Hsing-wei Chu Rafael Tadmor John Gossage	MDevelopment of Modeling and Field Measurement Infrastructure for Regional Haze Analysis
LUB0052A	Ku-yen Li Jack Hopper Helen Lou	Emission Source Reduction from Chemical Plants through Dynamic Simulation
UHH0054A	Daewon Byun	MInvestigation of Ozone Productivity in the Houston Ship Channel Area Using High Resolution Eulerian and Hybrid Langrangian Modeling Approaches
UTA0055A	Melanie Sattler Stephen Mattingly	Modeling Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Urban Plumes
UTA0057A	David Allen Keith Hutchison	Characterizinf Regional Transport of Air Pollutants in Texas Using Air Quality Models and Satellite Measurements
TAM0059A	Renyi Zhang	Improving the Chemical Mechanism of Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Photochemical Modeling
TAM0060A	Donald Collins	Direct Measurement of Transformation of Particulates During TexAQS-II
TAM0061A	Simon North Renyi Zhang	Measurements of NO3 Using Cavity-Ring Down during TexAQS II
UHH0063A	Shankar Chellam Matt Fraser	Investigation of the Role of Trace Metals in Sulfate Aerosol Formation
LUB0066A	Sidney Lin	High Efficient Catalytic Combustion of Particulate Matter in Diesel Particulate Filters
LUB0068A	Daniel Chen Robert Yuan	Collaborative Research: Green Construction Material for Air-Borne Pollutants Removal
TAM0070A	Gunner Schade	Urban Flux Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Other Trace Gases from a Tall Lattice Tower Near Central Houston, TX
UHH0072A	Daewon Byun Bernard Rappenglueck	Studies of Boundary Layer Processes in Coastal and Urban Environments to Improve Meteorological Simulations for Air Quality Assessment
UTA0074A	David Allen Elena McDonald-Bueller	Fine Particulate Matter Emission Inventories in Texas: Performance Evaluation and Reconciliation with Observational Data
LUB0076A	Jerry Lin	An Integrated Experimental and Modeling Study for Improving Mercury Chemical Mechanism in Atmospheric Mercury Models
TAM0076A	Alexei Khalizov Renyi Zhang	An Integrated Experimental and Modeling Study for Improving Mercury Chemical Mechanism in Atmospheric Mercury Models
LUB0078A	Rafael Tadmor Paul Chiou T.C. Ho	FRelating PM2.5 Composition to Pollutant Sources in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Region
TAM0080A	Qi Ying	Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter and Ozone Precursors in Texas using a Source-Oriented 3D Mechanistic Air Quality Model
TAM0081A	Gunner Schade	Relating Urban Turbulence and Trace gas Flux Measurements from a Tall Tower to Surface Characteristics and Anthropogenic Activities
UHH0083A	Shankar Chellam	Metals Analysis for Tracking Particulate Matter from Mobile Sources and Petroleum Refining Operations in Houston
UTA0084A	David Allen Elena McDonald-Bueller	FThe Role of Nitrogen Oxides-Chlorine Cycles in Ozone Formation in the Southeast Texas
UTA0087A	Elena McDonald-Bueller Richard Corsi	Improving the Inventory and Chemical Speciation of Emissions from Surface Coating Operations in Southeast Texas