SLV Airshed Project Salt Lake Valley Utah Urban Trace-gas Emissions Study (UTES)

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Publications

Cox, J. 2005. The sensitivity of thermally driven mountain flows to land cover change. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Durfee JL, Mills JI, Emmi PC, Forster CB. 2004. The chicken or the egg: Does interdisciplinary collaboration enhance systems model-building or does systems model-building enhance interdisciplinary collaborations? Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society Meeting, July 25-29, Oxford England.

Durfee JL. 2005. The ice cream game: A systems thinking approach to environmental conflict resolution. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Communication and Environment, June 24-27, Jekyll Island, GA.

Durfee JL. 2006. Social change and status quo framing effects on risk perception: An exploratory experiment. Science Communication, In press.

Emmi PC. 2003. Coupled human-biologic systems in urban areas: Towards an analytical framework using dynamic simulation. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Systems Dynamics Conference, July 20-24, New York, NY.

Emmi PC, Forster CB, Mills MI, Peterson TR, Durfee JL, Lilly FX. 2004. Narratives as blueprints for consent in inter-organizational decision making. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 25-29, Oxford England.

Emmi PC, Forster CB, Mills JI. 2005. Insights into the dynamics of a carbon-based metropolis. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of the Systems Dynamics Society, Boston, MA.

Kammerdiener SA. 2004. Isotopes in urban cheatgrass quantify atmospheric pollution. M.S. Thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Lahon D, Martin P, Stevanovic A. 2005. “Traffic Impact, Safety Assessment and Public Acceptance of the High Occupancy Vehicles (HOV) Lanes in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley.” In review.

Mitra A, Martin P, Stevanovic A. 2005. Evaluating Design-Build vs. Traditional Contracting Methods for STIP projects – Travel Impact & Costs Assessment for Various Build Scenarios” In review.

Nair, AP, Tyler BJ, Peterson RE. 2004. Application of cryo-stage in the TOFS-SIMS analysis of atmospheric aerosol surfaces. Applied Surface Science 231-232: 538-542.

Nair, AP. 2005. Sampling and Analysis of Environmental Samples: Individual Aerosol Particles and Yellowstone National Park Snow, Master’s Thesis, University of Utah

Pataki DE, Bowling DR, Ehleringer JR. 2003. Seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and its isotopic composition in an urban atmosphere: anthropogenic and biogenic effects. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 108(D23), 4735.

Pataki DE, Bush SE, Ehleringer JR. 2005. Stable isotopes as a tool in urban ecology. In Stable isotopes and biosphere-atmosphere interactions: Processes and biological controls. Flanagan LB, Ehleringer JR, Pataki DE, Eds. Elsevier Press, San Diego.

Pataki DE, Tyler BJ, Peterson RE, Nair AP, Steenburgh WJ, Pardyjak ER. 2005. Can carbon dioxide be used as a tracer of atmospheric transport? Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 110: D15102

Pataki DE, Bowling DR, Ehleringer JR, Zobitz JM. 2006. High resolution monitoring of urban carbon dioxide sources. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L03813, doi:10.1029/2005GL024822

Stevanovic A, Martin P, Disegni R. 2005. A Comparative Analysis of travel Impacts between the Design-Build and Traditional Building Methods. Journal of Transportation Engineering 131(9): 708-716.

Taylor J, Peterson TR. 2003. Communicative interaction in an interdisciplinary team. Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, March 13-15, Salt Lake City, UT.

Conference Presentations

Allred, A, Dance T, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. Monitoring carbon dioxide in the Salt Lake Valley.
University of Utah Undergraduate Research Symposium, January 2003, Salt Lake City, UT

Amburgey, J., Werner, C. M., Brown, B. B., & Szalay, C. City walkability and transit use.
Society for Human Ecology (SHE), October 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Brown, B. B., & Werner, C. M. Activity friendly environments for adults.
Environmental Design Research Association Conference, Vancouver BC, April 2005.

Bush, SE. Stable isotope analyses reveal carbon dioxide sources in an urban ecosystem.
National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2003.

Bush SE, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. d¹⁸O of CO₂ derived from fossil fuel combustion.
Oxygen isotopes as a tracer linking global O₂, CO₂, and H₂O cycles, Marshall, California, September 2004.

Bush SE, Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR. Temporal variability of d¹⁸O of water vapor in an urban atmosphere.
Oxygen isotopes as a tracer linking global O₂, CO₂, and H₂O cycles, Marshall, California, September 2004.

Bush SE, Pataki DE, Hultine K, West A, Ehleringer JR. Physiology and water use of native and non-native trees in the Salt Lake City, Utah urban forest.
Ecological Society of America meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2005

Dudley-Murphy E, Parsons-Berstein J, Bush SE. Space age tools and down to earth rules: Assessing the value of Salt Lake Valley's urban forest.
Utah Community Forestry Council, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2005

Durfee J. A closer look at barriers to interdisciplinary research in academia.
National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2004

Durfee J. Interdisciplinary team communication: An exploratory analysis to identify interests, goals, and integration
National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2004

Durfee, J. At first sight: Identifying barriers to complex interdisciplinary research in academia.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2004

Durfee J, Peterson TR. Using mediated modeling to discover common ground, negotiate mutual benefits, and build community capacity.
International Scientific and Practical Conference on People and the Environment, Moscow, Russia, October 2005.

Emmi PC, Forster CB, Mills JI, Call BD, Sabula J, Klewicki JC, Pataki DE, Peterson TR. Exploring relationships between North American urban form and rates of urban CO₂ emissions: A systems dynamics approach.
American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004

Forster CB, Mills JI, Emmi PC, Durfee J, Peterson TR. Mediated modeling of CO2 emissions and air quality issues in an urban airshed.
National Air Quality Conference, San Antonio, TX, February 2006

Pataki DE, Emmi PC, Forster CB, Klewicki JC, Peterson TR. The Salt Lake Valley Airshed Project: Urban Trace-gas Emissions Study
Ninth Annual Workshop on Weather Prediction in the Intermountain West, November 2002, Salt Lake City, UT.

Pataki DE, Pardyjak ER, Klewicki JC, Emmi PC, Forster CB, Peterson TR. Land-atmosphere interactions in a rapidly urbanizing environment.
American Geophysical Union meeting, December 2003, San Francisco, CA.

Pataki DE, Bush SE, Pardyjak ER, Steenburgh WJ, Ehleringer JR. Stable isotope tracers of urban land-atmosphere exchange.
Partitioning of fluxes between the biosphere and the atmosphere across spatial scales, April 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland.

Pataki DE, Ehleringer JR, Forster CB, Klewicki JC, Pardyjak ER, Peterson RE, Steenburgh WJ, Tyler BJ. Understanding urban atmospheric CO₂: Challenges and opportunities.
American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004

Pataki DE, Bush SE, Ehleringer JR. Isotopic indicators of ecological processes in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.
Ecological Society of America meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2005

Pataki DE. Isotopic tracers of ecological processes in human-dominated environments.
BASIN/SIBAE Conference: Isotopes as Tracers of Ecological Change, Tomar, Portugal, March 13-15, 2006

Steenburgh WJ, Pataki DE, Pardyjak E, Kiran J, Tyler BJ, Peterson TR, Nair A. Intermountain cold pool structure, transport, and mixing as revealed by isotopic trace gas and particulate matter concentrations over the Salt Lake Valley.
21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Washington D. C., 2005