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Field Campaigns & Collaborations
SOLACE: Sustainable Organic and Inorganic Laboratory Aerosols for Climate Engineering
Mission: Our proposed research program consists of two work packages:
1) Assess whether solid inorganic aerosols considered for SAI unintentionally nucleate PSC, and 2) Identify the best aerosol types for CCT and AMCT based on engineered organic particles.
Each work package consists of three core tasks: 1) generating aerosols, 2) simulating atmospheric processing, and 3) quantifying aerosol-cloud interactions. The work packages are highly interconnected, sharing common tasks, expertise, and instrumentation.
Led by: UBC Profs. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, Allan Bertram, Russ Algar, Gren Patey
NBD Group Research Team: Team Ice
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Status: Research Ongoing
*In partnership with the Simons Foundation
STINK 2025: Smart Textiles Innovation aNd Knowledge
Mission: To quantify human sweat emission and to identify new and improved “anti-stink” and odour absorbent technologies for future exercise apparel
Led by: Prof. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind
NBD Group Research Team: Team Human Emissions
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Status: Measurements completed, data analysis in progress
*In partnership with Lululemon Athletica
DENALI 2025: Dynamics of Emissions, Nucleation, and Aerosols to predict Land-atmosphere-climate Interactions
Mission: To measure the biogenic emissions from a North American boreal forest and to determine their contribution to new particle formation (NPF)
Led by: Prof. Jingqiu Mao (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Human Emissions
Location: NEON research site in the boreal forest (near Delta Junction), AK, USA
Status: Measurements completed, data analysis in progress
CARES 2025: ConstrAining the RolE of Sulfur in the earth system
Mission: To constrain organo sulfur marine production and atmospheric emission using measurements and modeling
Led by: Prof. Tom Bell (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) and Prof. Alexander Archibald (University of Cambridge)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Selenium
Location: On board the RSS Discovery research vessel which sailed from South Hampton, UK in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean
Status: Measurements completed, data analysis in progress
THE CIX 2023: Toronto Halogens, Emissions, Contaminants, and Inorganics eXperiment
Mission: Sample the urban atmosphere to measure the contribution of human emissions and anthropogenic activity in urban areas. This ground site campaign based in Toronto was part of the NOAA-led AEROMMA campaign
Led by: Prof. Cora Young and Prof. Trevor Vandenboer (York University)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Human Emissions
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Status: 6 manuscripts in progress
Third Space Commons Indoor Air Quality 2023
Mission: Sample the emissions from a new building on campus built entirely from biobased materials
Led by: Prof. Nadine Borduas-Dedekind and Prof. Adam Rysanek (UBC SALA)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Human Emissions
Location: UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Status: 1 manuscript in progress
Southern Railyard (SRY) of British Columbia campaign 2022 & 2023
Mission: Quantify the particulate matter emissions of a locomotive using diesel vs biodiesel
Led by: Prof. Patrick Kirchen (UBC MECH)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Human Emissions
Location: New Westminister, BC, Canada
Status: 1 manuscript in progress
BAMBE 2021: Biogenic and Anthropogenic Material Burning Experiments
Mission: Burn fuel types to understand their biomass burning organic aerosol emissions, characterizations and physicochemical properties
Led by: Dr. David Bell (Paul Scherrer Institute)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Singlet Oxygen
Location: Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
Status: 3 manuscripts in progress
POISONOUS 2020: PhotOchemIStry, oxidative pOteNtial and tOxicity of Urban aeroSol
Mission: Collect wintertime urban aerosols in the polluted Po Valley to determine their toxicity, and aerosol-cloud interactions and photobleaching properties
Led by: Prof. Chiara Giorio (now University of Cambridge)
NBD Group Research Team: Team Singlet Oxygen
Location: University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Status: 2 publications completed
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