Environmental justice, data science techniques, nitrogen dioxide remote sensing, and drought impacts on isoprene, oxidation chemistry, ozone air pollution.
4th-year Ph.D. student
Awards
Double Hoo Research Award, University of Virginia, 2021
NASA FINESST Graduate Fellowship, 2020–2023
Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship, 2020
Jefferson Scholars Graduate Fellowship, 2020
Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship, 2019
University of Virginia Data Sciences Institute Fellowship, 2019-2020
Critical Participatory Action Research Institute selected attendee, 2019
University of Virginia Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (EOCR) grant, 2019
AGU Outstanding Student Presentation, 2018
University of Virginia Data Sciences Institute Fellowship, 2018-2019
Publications
Demetillo, M. A. G., Harkins, C., McDonald, B. C., Chodrow, P. S., Sun, K., and Pusede, S. E.: Space-based observational constraints on NO2 air pollution inequality from diesel traffic in major U.S. cities, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL094333, doi:10.1029/2021GL094333, 2021.
Demetillo, M. A. G., Navarro, A., Knowles, K. K., Fields, K. P., Geddes, J. A., Nowlan, C. R., Sun, K., Judd, L. M., Al-Saadi, J., Diskin, G. S., McDonald, B. C., and Pusede, S. E.: Observing nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality using high-resolution remote sensing measurements in Houston, Texas, Environ. Sci. Technol., doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c01864, 2020. Read the C&EN article. Read the EHN article.
Demetillo, M. A. G., Anderson, J. F., Geddes, J. A., Najacht, E., Herrera, S. A., Kabasares, K., Kotsakis, A., Yang, X., Lerdau, M. T., and Pusede, S. E.: Observing severe drought influences on ozone air pollution in California, Environ. Sci. Technol., 5, 39, 4695–4706, doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b04852, 2019. Read the Science Magazine News article.
Presentations
Observing controls over the temporal variability in census-tract-level nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality in major U.S. cities with TROPOMI, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, A111-0016, virtual, December 2020, poster.
Observing nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality using high spatial resolution remote sensing, Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms, virtual, November 2020, talk.
Observing air pollution inequality using high-resolution nitrogen dioxide remote sensing in Houston, Texas, University of Virginia Enviroday Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 2020, talk.
Evaluating air pollution inequality using high-resolution nitrogen dioxide observations, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2019, talk.
Observing air pollution inequality using high-resolution nitrogen dioxide remote sensing in Houston, Texas, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2019, invited e-lightning talk.
Assessing air pollutant exposure inequities using high-resolution nitrogen dioxide datasets, University of Virginia Enviroday Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 2019, talk.
Observing severe drought influences on ozone air pollution in Central California, University of Virginia Enviroday Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 2019, poster.
Assessing air pollutant exposure inequities using high-resolution nitrogen dioxide datasets, A51M-2375, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 2018, poster.
Utilizing high-resolution datasets to evaluate air pollution exposure inequalities, Diversifying Scholarship Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 2018, poster.
Severe drought alters dominant mechanisms of atmospheric oxidation, University of Virginia Enviroday Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, February 2018, talk.