OAQ Staff and Research Specialties
Chief, Outdoor Air Quality Section
Stephen Wall, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Research project proposals and management, subject matter expert in environmental forensics methods development and laboratory information management system (LIMS) applications
Emergency Preparedness Unit
Kevin Chao, Ph.D., Research Scientist
All hazards preparedness training, CBRNE, chemical incident response, laboratory response network, chemical release exposure and plume modeling
David Pierotti, Ph.D., Research Scientist
All hazards substance screening, Chemical incident response, mobile laboratory, GC/MS, canister sampling
Environmental Exposure Investigations Unit
Sutapa Ghosal, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Raman micro-spectroscopy, flame retardants, environmental forensics, bioaerosols, secondary ion mass spectrometry
Paul Wong, M.S., Research Scientist
Environmental lead, trace metals, ion chromatography, ICP/MS, XRF
Forensic Special Studies Unit
Jeff Wagner, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Electron microscopy, FTIR micro-spectroscopy, environmental forensics, particle samplers, natural occurences of asbestos
Zhong-Min Wang, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Nanoparticle generation, nanoparticle sampling, electron microscopy, XRD, XRF
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