Students

Currently I have several wonderful students working for me. I wanted to make a page about them since the work described has only been accomplished with their help.


Toni Newville
Toni is a junior mechanical engineering student from Boulder, Colorado. She is helping maintain an air pollution monitoring location as part of a project with National Jewish Medical and Research Center. In addition, Toni is the group's web page creator. If you need some entertainment, be sure to check out her website, 'The Experience'.

Jaime Lehner
Jaime graduated from environmental engineering at CU and is currently a graduate student at UC-Berkeley. She helped maintain the air pollution monitoring site, and her research focus was the chemical analysis of collected filter samples.

Brendan Rudack
Brendan is a 8th-year (!) mechanical engineering student from Boulder, Colorado. He is the group's construction and fix-it guru. When he isn't walking around giving the rest of us a hard time he can be found modifying some part of his Audi. If you need anything, ask Brendan.

David Tanner
David received his BS from mechanical engineering this past spring and is now working towards his MS. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Daivd is now seems to know more about the COlorado landscape than most natives. David completed a UROP for the academic year 2002/2003 to study the impact of wildfires emissions on Denver air quality. His focus was the collection of particles directly emitted by wildfire, and the subsequent chemical analysis of collected wildfire and ambient filter samples. He is not working with Detlev Helmig at INSTAAR on developing and using a semi-continuous gas-phase air pollution monitor. Check out his website and learn more about his very cool MS research.

Kelly Krohn
Kelly, a native of the Western slope of Colorado, has completed her BS in environmental engineering from CU and moved on to work on a gradaute degree at balmy Cornell. Kelly worked on several projects for our group, including improvement of personal sampling techniques for PM, organization of a database of Rocky Mountain region PM measurements, and development of a database of daily organic PM speciation measurements for Denver.

Jeff Kosta
Jeff is close to receiving his BS in mechanical engineering at CU. The Oregon native can't get enough of the outdoors, so ask him for backpacking secrets. He started working with our group this past summer and we hope to keep him busy until he heads to graduate school next fall. Jeff is working on the organic chemical characterization of size resolved PM source samples.

Gary Vance
Gary is a graduate student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He spent part of the summer of 2003 in Africa as part of the Engineers without Borders program, and enjoys discussing the experience. The native Idahoan got a chance to see the world through a different lens. He is working on the development of source apportionment techniques for airborne PM in collaboration with Jana Milford and Jose-Luis Jimenez.

Mike Robert
Mike is a graduate student in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of California - Davis. He spends some time with our group as part of a collaboration with Mike Kleeman at UC-Davis. He is working with our group to quantify organic compounds in ultra-fine particle mixtures.