John Liggio

Professional activities / interests
Collaboration with Health Canada on carbon Nano-tube organic characterization

Collaboration with university colleagues in Canada, US, and Europe


Current research and/or projects
Field and laboratory studies of primary aerosol emissions, secondary organic aerosol formation, evolution, transformation and fate; understanding the processes controlling the formation of smog

Process research on aerosol particle emissions and transformation in the atmosphere through laboratory and field studies
Ammonia/sulfuric acid/organic aerosol interactions; organosulfate formation in aerosols
Black carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel vehicles
Kinetics of heterogeneous reactions and secondary organic aerosol formation; elucidation of new secondary organic aerosol formation mechanisms
Near roadway measurements of vehicle emissions and their evolution; implications for population exposure
Aerosol mass spectrometry and chemical mass spectrometry measurements of oxidants and aerosols.