Air Quality Modeling & Exposure Laboratory
Healthier Air. Healthier Life.
Cesunica E. Ivey, Principal Investigator
Group Members
Specialists | Grad | UG | Visitors
Cesunica E. Ivey, Principal Investigator
Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Center for Geospatial Sciences, School of Medicine BREATHE Center, CNAS Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, UCR, 2018-
Visiting Scientist, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University/GFDL, 2018
Provost's Diversity in Engineering Fellow, UCR, 2017-2018
Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nevada Reno, 2016-2017
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
Ivette Torres, Specialist and Organizer
Center for Environmental Research and Technology
Asst. Specialist, CE-CERT, UCR, 2021-
Policy Coordinator/Research & Policy Analyst, CCAEJ, 2020
Student Staff and Supervisor, Office of Sustainability, UCR, 2019
B.S. Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 2020
Marilyn Grell-Brisk, Environmental Social Science Specialist
Center for Environmental Research and Technology
Asst. Project Scientist, CE-CERT, UCR, 2019-
Research Associate, Institute for Research on World-Systems, UCR, 2017-2019
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Neuchatel, 2018
Current Ph.D. Students
Khanh Do, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2018-
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Doctoral Research:
Computational and Geospatial Approaches to Investigate Multi-scale Air Quality Trends in Southern California
Awards:
Esther F. Hays Graduate Award, 2020
Salim Khan Graduate Award, 2019
GAANN Fellowship, 2019-
Arash Kashfi Yeganeh, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2019-
M.S. Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2019
B.S. Civil Engineering, Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology, 2016
Project:
Current Undergraduate Students
Ruoming Xu, Chemical Engineering, 2019-
Project: Temporal decomposition of high-resolution air quality measurements
Yi Ji, Chemical Engineering, 2019-
Jasmin Velasquez, Chemical Engineering, 2019-
Project: Air quality impacts of the hemp industry in central CA
Awards: Undergraduate Education Minigrant
Alex Nguyen, Chemical Engineering, 2020-
Projects: COVID-19 and air quality disparities in the Inland Empire, Hyperlocal monitoring of near-road air pollution
Karrengton Fountain, Environmental Engineering, 2021-
Former Students:
Anthony Arteaga, Chemical Engineering, 2019
Cole Lawless, Chemical Engineering, 2019
Project: Digital image processing to develop surrogate emissions estimates for sources with variable temporal frequency
Ali Raza, Chemical Engineering, 2019
Project: AM4 Atmospheric climate model representation of recent climate trends over California
Visiting Graduate Volunteers
Visiting Undergraduate Volunteers
Volunteers assisted with a five-week personal exposure field campaign in Inland Empire, CA; 2018-2019.
Aaron Garcia, Aerospace Engineering, Riverside City College
Saray Rodriguez, Business Information Systems, Riverside City College
Hector Soto, Electrical Engineering, Riverside City College
Jasmin Velasquez, Chemical Engineering, Riverside City College
Priscilla Villegas, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Riverside City College
David Wilson, Electrical Engineering, Riverside City College