Dr. Amber Soja

Credentials: Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Aerospace

HAQAST Project: Quantifying Pollution from Prescribed and Smaller Fires: The massive conundrum in our National Emission Inventory

Amber’s team will work to use multiple satellites and field-based information to inform and advance our National Emissions Inventory (NEI) and the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Specifically, the team will demonstrate the use of multifaceted platforms of data and information to define fire locations, land cover, and burned area for emissions in the Central and South-Eastern US, which were previously unattainable

Project goals/deliverables:

Build a Central and South-Eastern US inventory, including wildland fire, with a focus on the inclusion of ‘missing’ fire.
Use this inventory to quantify the ability of our current satellite constellation, individually and in combination.
Define and demonstrate the enhanced data in the NEI and CMAQ with the EPA.

Co-Investigators/Team Members: Emily Gargulinski (National Institute of Aerospace), Kirk Baker (EPA), George Pouliot (EPA), Jeffrey Vukovich (EPA), David Williams (EPA), Colleen Reid (University of Colorado), Talat Odman (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sean Raffuse (University of California, Davis), Jessica McCarty (Miami University), Sim Larkin (USFS), Susan O’Neill (USFS), J. Kevin Hiers (Tall Timbers Research Station)

Publications

Quantifying Prescribed-Fire Smoke Exposure Using Low-Cost Sensors and Satellites: Springtime Burning in Eastern Kansas.

Olivia Sablan, Bonne Ford, Emily Gargulinski, Melanie S. Hammer, Giovanna Henery, Shobha Kondragunta, Randall V. Martin, Zoey Rosen, Kellin Slater, Aaron van Donkelaar, Hai Zhang, Amber J. Soja, Sheryl Magzamen, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Emily V. Fischer, GeoHealth
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Satellite data for environmental justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States.

Tanya Kreutzer Sayyed1, Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Mitra Kashani, Karn Vohra, Gaige Hunter Kerr, Catherine O’Donnell, Maria H Harris, Laura Gladson, Andrea R Titus, Susana B Adamo, Kelvin C Fong, Emily M Gargulinski, Amber J Soja, Susan Anenberg and Yusuke Kuwayama, Environmental Research Letters
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Impact of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol Volatility on Smoke Concentrations Downwind of Fires.

Demetrios Pagonis, Vanessa Selmivoic, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Hongyu Guo, Douglas A. Day, Melinda A. Schueneman, Benjamin A. Nault, Matthew M. Coggon, Joshua P. DiGangi, Glenn S. Diskin, Edward C. Fortner, Emily M. Gargulinski, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Jonathan W. Hair, Scott C. Herndon, Christopher D. Holmes, Joseph M. Katich, John B. Nowak, Anne E. Perring, Pablo Saide, Taylor J. Shingler, Amber J. Soja, Laura H. Thapa, Carsten Warneke, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Armin Wisthaler, Tara I. Yacovitch, Robert J. Yokelson and Jose L. Jimenez, Environmental Science and Technology
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Biomass Burning as an Integral Force.

Amber J. Soja, Emily M. Gargulinski, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Landscape Fire, Smoke and Health: Linking Biomass Burning Emissions to Human Well-Being
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Emission Factors for Crop Residue and Prescribed Fires in the Eastern US During FIREX-AQ.

Katherine R. Travis, James H. Crawford, Amber J. Soja, Emily M. Gargulinski, Richard H. Moore, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Glenn S. Diskin, Joshua P. DiGangi, John B. Nowak, Hannah Halliday, Robert J. Yokelson, Jessica L. McCarty, Isobel J. Simpson, Donald R. Blake, Simone Meinardi, Rebecca S. Hornbrook, Eric C. Apel, Alan J. Hills, Carsten Warneke, Matthew M Coggon, Andrew W. Rollins, Jessica B. Gilman, Caroline C. Womack, Michael A. Robinson, Joseph M. Katich, Jeff Peischl, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Ilan Bourgeois, Pamela S. Rickly, Aaron Lamplugh, Jack E. Dibb, Jose L. Jimenez, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Douglas A. Day, Hongyu Guo, Demetrios Pagonis, Paul O. Wennberg, John D. Crounse, Lu Xu, Thomas F. Hanisco, Glenn M. Wolfe, Jin Liao, Jason M. St. Clair, Benjamin A. Nault, Alan Fried and Anne E. Perring, JGR Atmospheres
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Fuel-Type Independent Parameterization of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Western US Wildfires.

Kanako Sekimoto, Matthew M. Coggon, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Chelsea E. Stockwell, Jeff Peischl, Amber J. Soja and Carsten Warneke, Environmental Science and Technology
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Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ).

Carsten Warneke, Joshua P. Schwarz, Jack Dibb, Olga Kalashnikova, Gregory Frost, Jassim Al-Saad, Steven S. Brown, Wm. Alan Brewer, Amber Soja, Felix C. Seidel, Rebecca A. Washenfelder, Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Richard H. Moore, Bruce E. Anderson, Carolyn Jordan, Tara I. Yacovitch, Scott C. Herndon, Shang Liu, Toshihiro Kuwayama, Daniel Jaffe, Nancy Johnston, Vanessa Selimovic, Robert Yokelson, David M. Giles, Brent N. Holben, Philippe Goloub, Ioana Popovici, Michael Trainer, Aditya Kumar, R. Bradley Pierce, David Fahey, James Roberts, Emily M. Gargulinski, David A. Peterson, Xinxin Ye, Laura H. Thapa, Pablo E. Saide, Charles H. Fite, Christopher D. Holmes, Siyuan Wang, Matthew M. Coggon, Zachary C. J. Decker, Chelsea E. Stockwell, Lu Xu, Georgios Gkatzelis, Kenneth Aikin, Barry Lefer, Jackson Kaspari, Debora Griffin, Linghan Zeng, Rodney Weber, Meredith Hastings, Jiajue Chai, Glenn M. Wolfe, Thomas F. Hanisco, Jin Liao, Pedro Campuzano Jost, Hongyu Guo, Jose L. Jimenez, James Crawford and The FIREX-AQ Science Team, JGR Atmospheres
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Airborne Emission Rate Measurements Validate Remote Sensing Observations and Emission Inventories of Western U.S. Wildfires.

Chelsea E. Stockwell, Megan M. Bela, Matthew M. Coggon, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Elizabeth Wiggins, Emily M. Gargulinski, Taylor Shingler, Marta Fenn, Debora Griffin, Christopher D. Holmes, Xinxin Ye, Pablo E. Saide, Ilan Bourgeois, Jeff Peischl, Caroline C. Womack, Rebecca A. Washenfelder, Patrick R. Veres, J. Andrew Neuman, Jessica B. Gilman, Aaron Lamplugh, Rebecca H. Schwantes, Stuart A. McKeen, Armin Wisthaler, Felix Piel, Hongyu Guo, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose L. Jimenez, Alan Fried, Thomas F. Hanisco, Lewis Gregory Huey, Anne Perring, Joseph M. Katich, Glen S. Diskin, John B. Nowak, T. Paul Bui, Hannah S. Halliday, Joshua P. DiGangi, Gabriel Pereira, Eric P. James, Ravan Ahmadov, Chris A. McLinden, Amber J. Soja, Richard H. Moore, Jonathan W. Hair and Carsten Warneke, Environmental Science and Technology
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Fine Ash-Bearing Particles as a Major Aerosol Component in Biomass Burning Smoke.

Kouji Adachi, Jack E. Dibb, Eric Scheuer, Joseph M. Katich, Joshua P. Schwarz, Anne E. Perring, Braden Mediavilla, Hongyu Guo, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Jose L. Jimenez, James Crawford, Amber J. Soja, Naga Oshima, Mizuo Kajino, Takeshi Kinase, Lawrence Kleinman, Arthur J. Sedlacek III, Robert J. Yokelson and Peter R. Buseck, JGR Atmospheres
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Reconciling Assumptions in Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches for Estimating Aerosol Emission Rates From Wildland Fires Using Observations From FIREX-AQ.

E. B. Wiggins, B. E. Anderson, M. D. Brown, P. Campuzano-Jost, G. Chen,J. Crawford, E. C. Crosbie, J. Dibb, J. P. DiGangi, G. S. Diskin, M. Fenn,F. Gallo, E. M. Gargulinski, H. Guo, J. W. Hair, H. S. Halliday, C. Ichoku, J. L. Jimenez, C. E. Jordan, J. M. Katich, J. B. Nowak, A. E. Perring, C. E. Robinson, K. J. Sanchez, M. Schueneman, J. P. Schwarz, T. J. Shingler, M. A. Shook, A. J. Soja, C. E. Stockwell, K. L. Thornhill, K. R. Travis, C. Warneke, E. L. Winstead, L. D. Ziemba, R. H. Moore, JGR Atmospheres
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Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes.

Lu Xu, John D. Crounse, Krystal T. Vasquez, Hannah Allen, Paul O. Wennberg, Ilann Bourgeois, Steven S. Brown, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, Matthew M. Coggon, James H. Crawford, Joshua P. Digani, Glenn S. Diskin, Alan Fried, Emily M. Gargulinski, Jessica B. Gilman, Georgia I. Gkatzelis, Hongyu Guo, Jonathan W. Hair, Samuel R. Hall, Hannah A. Halliday, Thomas F. Hanisco, Reem A. Hannun, Christopher D. Holmes, L. Gregory Huey, Jose L. Jimenez, Aaron Lampugh, Young Ro Lee, Jin Liao, Jakob Lindaas, J. Andrew Neuman, John B. Nowak, Jeff Peischl, David A. Peterson, Felix Piel, Dirk Richter, Pamela S. Rickly, Michael A. Robinson, Andrew W. Rollins, Thomas B. Ryerson, Kanako Sekimoto, Vanessa Selmivoic, Taylor Shingler, Amber J. Soja, Jason M. St. Clair, David J. Tanner, Kirk Ullman, Patrick R. Veres, James Walega, Carsten Warneke, Rebecca A. Washenfelder, Petter Weibring, Armin Wisthaler, Glenn M. Wolfe, Caroline C. Womack and Robert J. Yokelson, Science Advances
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Evaluation and intercomparison of wildfire smoke forecasts from multiple modeling systems for the 2019 Williams Flats fire.

Xinxin Ye, Pargoal Arab, Ravan Ahmadov, Eric James, Georg A. Grell, Bradley Pierce, Aditya Kumar,Paul Makar, Jack Chen, Didier Davignon, Greg R. Carmichael, Gonzalo Ferrada, Jeff McQueen,Jianping Huang, Rajesh Kumar, Louisa Emmons, Farren L. Herron-Thorpe, Mark Parrington, Richard Engelen, Vincent-Henri Peuch,Arlindo da Silva, Amber Soja, Emily Gargulinski, Elizabeth Wiggins, Johnathan W. Hair, Marta Fenn, Taylor Shingler,Shobha Kondragunta, Alexei Lyapustin, Yujie Wang, Brent Holben, David M. Giles, and Pablo E. Saide, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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Reviews and syntheses: Arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century.

Jessica L. McCarty, Juha Aalto, Ville-Veikko Paunu, Steve R. Arnold, Sabine Eckhardt, Zbigniew Klimont, Justin J. Fain, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Ari Venäläinen, Nadezhda M. Tchebakova, Elena I. Parfenova, Kaarle Kupiainen, Amber J. Soja, Lin Huang, and Simon Wilson, Biogeosciences
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The Arctic.

Matthew L. Druckenmiller et. al including Amber Soja, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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