University of Wisconsin – Madison
This project is funded by a grant from the United States Department of State (SMLAQM19CA2361) and is being conducted through the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) and the College of Engineering (COE).
UW-Madison Team
Dr. James Jay Schauer, Project Principal Investigator
He is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the director of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene. Professor Schauer is the current recipient of the UW-Madison Peterson-Rader-Hawnn Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 2020 He received the University of Wisconsin-Madison Named WARF Professorship Award in recognition for major contributions to the advancement of knowledge. From 2018-2020 Professor Schauer served as the US State Department Science Envoy for Air Quality and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Atmospheric Environment.
Dr. Ross Edwards
He is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene) and a fellow with the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Dr. Edwards is an environmental chemist with experience in air-quality sensor development, electronics and embedded coding, single-particle analysis of black carbon aerosols, ultra-trace metals, and organic analysis. He has broad field experience from polar environments and marine chemistry to urban air quality.
Dr. Michael Olson
Dr. Michael Olson is an honorary fellow with the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Dr. Olson has extensive experience with air-quality monitoring, aerosols, and atmospheric chemistry and physics.
Mr. Vatsal Chopra
Mr. Vatsal Chopra is an undergraduate student with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Vatsal is enthusiastic about and has shown great interest in air quality management, sustainability and environment protection, and is hence assisting in this project.