I am an experienced environmental analytical scientist with a strong background in statistical treatment of data.\u00a0I have significant field experience in developing and deploying analytical instrumentation in the High Arctic.<\/p>\n
My current research at Concordia University<\/a> in Montreal, Canada focuses on long-term observations of urban pollutants in major Canadian cities and includes\u00a0statistical analysis of current and past (10+ year) pollution data.\u00a0I am interested in\u00a0statistical analysis of medium sized data sets,\u00a0including multivariate data analysis of partially dichotomous data. I am very much interested interpreting measurement data for the application and\u00a0validation\u00a0of atmospheric chemistry\u00a0models. My main statistical tools for data analysis are python\u00a0and R.<\/p>\n I develop field deployable sensor suites to track urban air pollution, with a focus on critical air pollutants and organics on a hyper-local level. The goal is to determine local pollution sources and transport and accurately measure actual exposure levels in real-time. I am part of the Decolonizing Light<\/a> project that develops and deploys a citizen-science low-cost sensor air quality monitoring network in collaboration with the community of Kahna:wake.<\/p>\n Previously, I was chapter lead and main author of the (peer-reviewed) Canadian Mercury Science Assessment, responsible for the Emissions Chapter. I took on this project as a result of a previous collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada, focusing on modelling of mercury transport in the atmosphere and validation with observations from AMNet stations.<\/p>\n I was a collaborator on the (now completed) EU funded FP7 MYCOSPEC project<\/a>, where I performed multivariate\u00a0modelling of mid-infrared data for classification of contaminated agricultural commodities. This included non-parametric machine learning algorithms such as bagged decision trees. Current collaborations that emerged from this work include the statistical analysis of mycotoxin concentrations from a global survey and a meta–analysis of occurrence data provided by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).<\/p>\n I also investigated the exchange of volatile organic compounds between snow and air. I employed GC-FID and GC-MS for field and lab based measurements and successfully deployed a GC-FID system in Alert, NU in 2006. Another field trip to Barrow, AK followed in 2009, where I participated in an IPY\u00a0OASIS<\/a> initiative. I now continue this work in an urban setting in a greater effort to trace local pollution levels.<\/p>\n My experience as a Manager for Analytics at Sixtron Advanced Materials<\/a> in Dorval, Quebec in 2009 and 2010 included analytical development & process monitoring using GC-TCD\/FID\/MS. I performed and coordinated validation and data analysis from TGA, DSC, XRF, particle size measurements. I also was project manager for equipment deployment at a prospective Chinese customer.<\/p>\n If you want to know more\u2026\u00a0contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am an experienced environmental analytical scientist with a strong background in statistical treatment of data.\u00a0I have significant field experience in developing and deploying analytical instrumentation in the High Arctic. My current research at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada focuses on long-term observations of urban pollutants in major Canadian cities and includes\u00a0statistical analysis of current … Continue reading Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}