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Dr. John Watson
Title: Research Professor Professional InterestsDr. John Watson, Research Professor and leader of the Source Characterization Laboratory in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the Desert Research Institute (DRI), has over 37 years of experience in the environmental sciences, conducting and managing more than 120 air quality studies designed to evaluate and solve specific pollution problems. He is well-known for the organization and planning of large-scale multi-year air quality studies in the U.S., with government, state, and local agencies, academies, consulting firms, and instrument manufacturers. Dr. Watson has nearly 300 peer-reviewed publications, including ~267 journal articles and an estimated 100 book chapters, including as author or editor of 4 books or proceedings and authorship of at least 63 peer-reviewed book chapters, more than 500 presentations, and ~225 reports in the fields of physics, source/receptor modeling, and air quality measurement and analysis. He is the lead author of the EPA’s Chemical Mass Balance (CMB) receptor modeling software that is used in the U.S. for State Implementation Plan (SIP) development. Before entering the environmental sciences field, Dr. Watson was a physics instructor as a member of the U.S. Peace Corps at the college level at the Escuela Normal de Mujeres Sagrado Corrazon de Jesus, a teachers’ college in Chicalyo, Peru. His research includes the development and evaluation of measurement processes, receptor models for source apportionment, causes and amelioration of urban and regional haze, fugitive dust and motor vehicle emissions, and the effects of measurement and modeling uncertainty on pollution control decisions. He has prepared other critical reviews of receptor-oriented source apportionment methods, fugitive dust emissions, and aerosol measurement methods. Dr. Watson has been involved in numerous national and international atmospheric studies. Dr. Watson is a member of the Editorial Review Board for Aerosol and Air Quality Research, was Air & Waste Management Association Associate Editor from 2004 to 2007, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on “New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution” in 2006, and was a Member and Chair of the National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Committee on Energy Futures and Air Pollution in Urban China and the United States from January 2005 to December 2006. He was invited to prepare and present the 2002 Critical Review of “Visibility: Science and Regulation” for the Air and Waste Management Association. Dr. Watson was a Senior Environmental Scientist at Environmental Research and Technology, Inc. (ERT) (now ENSR Consulting and Engineering), where he played a major role in the Electric Power Research Institute's Eastern Regional Air Quality Studies (ERAQS), the Sulfate Regional Experiment (SURE), the 1978 Denver Winter Haze Study, and the interpretation of data from EPA's Inhalable Particulate Network. He also organized and conducted the Quail Roost I Receptor Model Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Watson has been principal investigator or a major collaborator in numerous other atmospheric studies including:
Dr. Watson was a Research Fellow at the Oregon Graduate Center, where he was technical manager of the Portland Aerosol Characterization Study (PACS). During this time he developed cost-effective procedures for sequential aerosol sampling systems, as well as better procedures for applying x-ray fluorescence, neutron activation, ion chromatography, and carbon analysis techniques to examination of aerosol samples. Research Areas
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