Dr. Fok-Yan Leung
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Assistant Research Professor Phone: (509) 335-7805 |
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, 2003 - California Institute of Technology
- M.Sc., Environmental Engineering, 1998 – California Institute of Technology
- B.Sc., Engineering Chemistry, 1997 – Queen’s University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Research Professor, Washington State University, 2007-present
- Research Associate, Harvard University, 2006
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Harvard University, 2003-2006
RESEARCH
- Global and regional atmospheric modeling, remote sensing of the atmosphere, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, online social networking
- The transport and chemistry of boreal forest fire emissions using global chemical transport models (GEOS-CHEM) and satellite data (MISR)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Leung, F.-Y., J. A. Logan, R. Park, E. Hyer, E. Kasischke, D. Streets, and L. Yuganov, Impacts of biomass burning in the boreal forests on tropospheric chemistry and the sensitivity of model results to injection height , J. Geophys. Res., 112, D12S03, doi:10.1029/2006JD007281, 2007.
- Turquety, S., J.A. Logan, D.J. Jacob, R.C. Hudman, F.Y. Leung, C.L. Heald, R. M. Yantosca, S. Wu, L. K. Emmons,D.P. Edwards, and G.W. Sachse, "Inventory of boreal fire emissions for North America in 2004: the importance of peat burning and pyro-convective injection", J. Geophys. Res. 112, D12S03
- Colussi, A., J., F.-Y. Leung, and M. R. Hoffmann (2004), Electronic Spectra of Carbonyl Sulfide Sulfur Isotopologues, Environmental Chemistry, 1, 1-5, doi:10.1071/EN04010.
- Leung, F.Y.T., Colussi, A.J., Hoffmann , M.R., Toon, G.C. (2002) Isotopic fractionation of carbonyl sulfide in the atmosphere: Implications for the source of background stratospheric sulfate aerosol, Geophys. Res. Lett. 29 (10): Art. No. 1474
- Leung, F.Y., Colussi, A.J., Hoffmann, M.R. (2001), Sulfur isotopic fractionation in the gas-phase oxidation of sulfur dioxide initiated by hydroxyl radicals J. Phys. Chem. (A) 105 (34): 8073-8076.
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