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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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