Conference website here: www.cheminst.ca/conference/x...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

✔️ Field studies rooted in community needs
✔️ Integration of community members into laboratory work
✔️ Effective communication of scientific results to local stakeholders
✔️ Collaboration with local and regional partners

This work opens new questions about the role of biological materials to EPFRs in the environment, and I’m excited to continue exploring this direction in future research.

We found that pollen is a major contributor to EPFRs in urban grime in the spring in North Carolina. Additional experiments using commercial pollen samples and complimentary laboratory photoaging experiments show how EPFR levels change with light exposure and atmospheric deposition.

Thanks Jen! Hamilton has been trying to prepare me for living life in a windy place... 😅 but Lethbridge is something else!

An interesting result includes observations of a single wildfire smoke day contributed over 20% of total grime PAH loadings in Calgary (!!) during this study’s 3-month sampling period, showing how wildfire inputs can dominate the grime composition during wildfire season 🔥🌲🏠

Thank you 😀

Open access paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Potential bias in the ozone measurements limits our results; however even if we overcorrect the bias, the increase in ozone during wildfires persists!