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Fluid Modeling Branch
ASMD Staff
The Fluid Modeling Branch (FMB) performs process-based modeling research for the Division’s atmospheric pollutant models, with a focus on three research themes: (1) emissions modeling, (2) deposition onto sensitive ecosystems, and (3) linkage of air quality with human exposure. APMB’s emissions modeling effort (with a special emphasis on natural sources such as wind-blown fugitive dust, wildfires, and biogenic emissions) helps ensure that meteorologically-influenced emissions are properly considered in air quality models. APMB’s deposition research uses state-of-the-art trace gas flux measurements to develop tools for assessing nutrient loadings and ecosystem vulnerability. APMB’s urban-scale modeling program (which includes collection and integration of experimental data from its Fluid Modeling Facility) is focused on building “hot-spot” air toxic analysis algorithms and linkages to human exposure models.
- Thomas Pierce, Chief
- Jane Coleman (SEEP), Secretary
- Jess Bash
- Dr. Jason Ching, Meteorologist
- Dr. Ellen Cooter, Physical Scientist
- Jim Crooks (EPA Post-Doc), Statistician
- Dr. Robin Dennis, Senior Scientist
- Dr. David Heist, Physical Scientist
- Dr. Vladilen Isakov, Physical Scientist
- Ashok Patel (SEEP) Engineer
- Dr. Steven Perry, Meteorologist
- Bill Petersen (Contractor)
- John Rose (SEEP), Engineer
- Donna Schwede, Physical Scientist