Air Quality Modeling and Exposure Lab
Healthier Air. Healthier Life.
AQMEL Mission
Hello and thank you for visiting the Air Quality Modeling & Exposure Lab website!
Our research centers on developing and applying advanced air quality modeling and data fusion approaches to characterize air pollution in the United States. These advanced approaches are used to answer questions related to community-scale exposure and source characterization. The lab is led by UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering professor, Dr. Cesunica E. Ivey.
Stay tuned for more updates to our new lab webpage! Meanwhile, feel free to peruse our recent publications!
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28 January 2025: Attention Prospective Students and Postdocs
AQMEL is now pausing recruitment given the uncertainty in Federal funding. Please check back with your graduate admissions point of contact if you have specific questions about your application.
Featured Publications
Environmental Science & Technology (2025)
"Inequality in Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions and Concentrations Measured Over Los Angeles"
In our latest paper, airborne measurements of hazardous air pollutants were analyzed to highlight racial-ethnic and income variabilities in emission fluxes and pollutant transport across Los Angeles. Emerging air contaminants related to stationary sources of solvent use exhibited the largest racial-ethnic/income disparity for low-income Hispanic (LIH) and Disadvantaged (DAC) communities, while air toxics related to traffic impacted LIH, DAC, and low-income Asian communities. The paper provides timely insight into mitigation strategies that would be highly impactful for reducing the aforementioned inequalities.
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