AIR QUALITY HEALTH INDEX
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AIR MONITORING STATIONS
View data from each station:
- Fort McKay (AMS 1)
- Mildred Lake (AMS 2)
- Lower Camp Met Tower (AMS 3)
- Buffalo Viewpoint (AMS 4)
- Mannix (AMS 5)
- Patricia McInnes (AMS 6)
- Athabasca Valley (AMS 7)
- Fort Chipewyan (AMS 8)
- Barge Landing (AMS 9)
- Albian Mine Site (AMS 10)*
- Lower Camp (AMS 11)
- Millennium (AMS 12)
- Syncrude UE-1 (AMS 13)
- Anzac (AMS 14)
- CNRL Horizon (AMS 15)
- Albian Muskeg River (AMS 16)*
*Note: AMS 10 was retired due to mining in the location. It has been replaced with AMS 16 which is 4km SE of the former AMS 10 site.
Meet Our Scientists
Dr. John Watson
Dr. John Watson is a Research Professor with the Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education in Reno, Nevada.
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Phone: 775-674-7046
Education and Experience:
Highlights of Dr. Watson’s achievements include the following:
- Recent research includes evaluating, characterizing, and advancing methods to measure carbonaceous material in suspended particles; developing and applying real-world, multi-pollutant emission measurement technologies; and designing and conducting aerosol characterization and source apportionment studies.
- Graduate Faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).
- Conducted and collaborated on over 120 air quality studies.
- Developed U.S. EPA’s Chemical Mass Balance receptor modeling software and prepared EPA network design guidelines for PM2.5 and PM10.
- Chaired the National Academy of Engineering panel on “Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution Challenges for China and the United States.”
- Science Advisor for the Chinese National Key 863 project “The Establishment of Pearl River Delta Regional Air Pollution Complex Monitoring Network.” Beijing, China.
- Member of the National Academy of Science (NAS) panel on “New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution.”
- Member of the U.S. EPA’s Review panel for “Black Carbon Report to Congress.”
- Published ~267 peer-reviewed journal articles and ~100 book chapters. Listed as one of top 250 highly cited authors in Ecology and Environment by ISI HighlyCited.com.
- Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU, formerly Oregon Graduate Institute).
- M.S., Physics, University of Toledo, Ohio.
- B.A., Physics, State University of New York at Brockport.
- Research Professor, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, DRI (1985 to present).
- Associate Research Professor and Director of the Air Resources Laboratory, Energy and Environmental Engineering Center, DRI (1982-1985).
- Senior Environmental Scientist, Environmental Research and Technology, Concord, Massachusetts (1979-1982).
- Research Fellow, Oregon Graduate Institute (now OHSU), Beaverton, Oregon (1975-1979)
- Physics Instructor, Teachers’ College, Chiclayo, Peru, as a member of the U.S. Peace Corps (1970-1972).
Previous Appointments:
- Adjunct Professor, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China.
- Adjunct Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
- Adjunct Professor, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
- Associate Editor, Sustainable Environment Research, Taiwan, China.
- Associate Editor, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Professional Affiliations:
- Fellow, Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA).
- Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- Member, American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR).
- Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Five Most Relevant Publications:
- Watson, J.G.; Chow, J.C.; Chen, L.-W.A.; Lowenthal, D.H.; Fujita, E.M.; Kuhns, H.D.; Sodeman, D.A.; Campbell, D.E.; Moosmuller, H.; Zhu, D.Z. (2011). Particulate emission factors for mobile fossil fuel and biomass combustion sources. Science of the Total Environment, 409:2384–2396.
- Watson, J.G.; Chen, L.-W.A.; Chow, J.C.; Lowenthal, D.H.; Doraiswamy, P. (2008). Source apportionment: Findings from the U.S. Supersite Program. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 58(2):265–288.
- Watson, J.G. (2002). Visibility: Science and regulation – 2002 Critical Review. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 52(6):628–713.
- Watson, J.G.; Chow, J.C.; Fujita, E.M. (2001). Review of volatile organic compound source apportionment by chemical mass balance. Atmospheric Environment, 35(9):1567–1584. ftp://ftp.cgenv.com/pub/downloads/Watson.pdf.
- Watson, J.G.; Cooper, J.A.; Huntzicker, J.J. (1984). The effective variance weighting for least squares calculations applied to the mass balance receptor model. Atmospheric Environment, 18(7):1347–1355.