I was able to do quite a bit of research during last fall and winter term, despite my high teaching load, preparing/co-writing proposals for atmospheric chemistry studies.
My current work focuses on
- Methodology development and validation for formaldehyde in air
- Multivariate statistics model development (mostly PCA-based) for the discrimination of contaminated foodstuffs by FTIR-ATR spectroscopy. The work is part of the EU FP7 funded MYCOSPEC project.
Especially the second project has been most interesting and challenging, working with medium sized datasets (2000 x 3000 elements) in Matlab. After transitioning from R I am now fairly well versed in Matlab as well.
Finally, I am occasionally helping out putting the finishing touches on the Emissions Chapter of the Canadian Mercury Science Assessment, which I have led as chapter coordinator and lead author.
