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Field Campaigns & Collaborations
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: Preparation and recruitment 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 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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