Beyond the Tailpipe Participants

All participating members are part of separate teams working on different aspects of this project, as shown in this table.

Researcher Department Title Teams
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Project PI, Chemistry Professor 1, 3
Don Blake Chemistry Professor 1, 3
Annmarie Carlton Chemistry Professor 4
Mike Fortun Anthropology Professor 4 lead
Kim Fortun Anthropology Professor 4
Alex Guenther Earth System Science Professor 1, 3
Mike Kleinman Health Sciences Professor 2
Ulrike Luderer Health Sciences Professor 2
Eric Saltzman Earth System Science Professor 1, 3
Manabu Shiraiwa Chemistry Professor 2, 3
Jim Smith Chemistry Professor  1, 3 lead
Andrea de Vizcaya Ruiz Health Sciences Professor 2
Jun Wu Health Sciences Professor 2 lead
Barbara Barletta Chemistry Assoc. Specialist 1, 3
Simone Meinardi Chemistry Assoc. Researcher 1, 3
Veronique Perraud Chemistry Project Scientist 1, 3
Lisa Wingen Chemistry Project Scientist 1, 3
Paulus Bauer Chemistry Postdoc 2, 3
James Adams Anthropology Grad student 4
Madeline Cooke Chemistry Grad student 1, 3
Lia Dam Chemistry Grad student 1, 3
Kasey Edwards
 Chemistry Grad student 1, 3
Kevin Gramajo-Aponte Health Sciences Grad student 2
John Patterson Earth System Science Grad student 1, 3
Sukriti Kapur Chemistry Grad student 1, 3
Bee Kittitananuvong Earth System Science Grad student 1, 3
Xingwei Liu Transportation Studies Grad student 2
Jessica Monterrosa Health Sciences Grad student 2
Sanjeevi Naralingam Earth System Science Grad student 1, 3
Russell Morales Rubio Health Sciences Grad student 1, 3
Ellie Smith Chemistry Grad student 1, 3
Adam Thomas Chemistry Grad student 1, 3
Hui Wang Earth System Science Grad student 1, 3
Aiden Browne Anthropology Grad student 4
Max Lee Chemistry Undergraduate 2, 3
Madison Paine Chemistry Undergraduate 1, 3
Leonel Flores MPNA MPNA organizer 4
Jose Rea MPNA MPNA organizer 4
Adolfo Sierra MPNA MPNA organizer 4
Sarahi Gutierrez MPNA MPNA organizer 4

Research focus by groups

The four teams are assigned areas of operations, largely based on the departments with which their members are associated.

  • Team 1:  Generation of tire and brake particles; development of approaches to probe their chemical composition and that of any associated gases; oxidation of those particles and gases and identification of oxidation products (mainly comprised of the Physical Sciences personnel)
  • Team 2:  Toxicology, health effects, and population-level exposures (mainly comprised of the Health Sciences personnel)                                                                                       
  • Team 3:  Field measurements in Santa Ana (mainly comprised of the Physical Sciences personnel)     
  • Team 4:  Communities, dissemination, data management, and Environmental Justice policy formation (mainly comprised of the Anthropology and MPNA personnel)

Clearly there are multiple areas of collaboration, and in the end the completion of these tasks by each group will be incorporated to cover the entire scope of this research project.  We are excited to explore this new area of pollution study and anticipate fascinating results as well as additional grant opportunities that expand on our findings.