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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2009

McMeeking, Gavin R., Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Stephen Baker, Christian M. Carrico, Judith C. Chow, Jeffrey L Collett Jr., Wei Min Hao, Amanda S. Holden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, William C. Malm, Hans Moosmuller, Amy P. Sullivan, and Cyle E. Wold."Emissions of trace gases and aerosols during the open combustion of biomass in the laboratory."Journal of Geophysical Research 114.D19 (2009). DOI

Cowan-Ellsberry, Christina E., Michael S. McLachlan, Jon A. Arnot, Matthew Macleod, Thomas E. McKone, and Frank Wania."Modeling Exposure to Persistent Chemicals in Hazard and Risk Assessment."Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) 5.4 (2009) 662-679. DOI

Veltman, Karin, Thomas E. McKone, Mark Huijbregts, and A. Jan Hendricks."Bioaccumulation Potential Of Air Contaminants: Combining Biological Allometry, Chemical Equilibrium And Mass-Balances To Predict Accumulation Of Air Pollutants In Various Mammals."Journal of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 238.1 (2009) 47-55. DOI

Ban-Weiss, George A., Melissa M. Lunden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Robert A. Harley."Measurement of Black Carbon and Particle Number Emission Factors from Individual Heavy-Duty Trucks."Environmental Science and Technology 43.5 (2009) 1419-1424. DOI

Price, Phillip N., Michael D. Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Jennifer A. McWilliams."Framework for Evaluating Anthrax Risk in Buildings."Environmental Science & Technology 43.6 (2009) 1783 - 1787. DOI

Bonnard, Roseline, and Thomas E. McKone."Comparison of the predictions of two models with dose measurements in a case of children exposed to the emissions of a lead smelter."Journal of Human and Environmental Risk Assessment 15.6 (2009) 1203-1226. DOI

McKone, Thomas E., Louis J. Thibodeaux, and Donald Mackay."Mass Transport within Soils."Environmental Mass Transfer Handbook (2009).

Timko, Michael T., Zhenhong Yu, Jesse H. Kroll, John T. Jayne, Douglas R. Worsnop, Richard C. Miake-Lye, Timothy B. Onasch, David Liscinsky, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Hugo Destaillats, Amara L. Holder, Jared D. Smith, and Kevin R. Wilson."Sampling artifacts from conductive silicone tubing."Aerosol Science and Technology 43.9 (2009) 855-865. DOI

Ban-Weiss, George A., Melissa M. Lunden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Robert A. Harley."Size-Resolved Particle Number and Volume Emission Factors for On-Road Gasoline and Diesel Motor Vehicles."Journal of Aerosol Science (2009).

2008

Kean, Andrew J., David Littlejohn, George A. Ban-Weiss, Robert A. Harley, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Melissa M. Lunden."Trends in On-Road Vehicle Emissions of Ammonia."Atmospheric Environment 43.8 (2008) 1565-1570. DOI

McKone, Thomas E., P. Barry Ryan, and Halûk Özkaynak."Exposure Information in Environmental Health Research: Current Opportunities and Future Directions for Particulate Matter, Ozone, and Toxic Air Pollutants."Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 19.1 (2008) 30-44. DOI

Schenker, Urs, Martin Scheringer, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena, Thomas E. McKone, and Konrad Hungerbühler."Using Information on Uncertainty to Improve Environmental Fate Modeling: A Case Study on DDT."Environmental Science and Technology 43.1 (2008) 128-134.

Hadley, Odelle L., Craig E. Corrigan, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Modified Thermal-Optical Analysis Using Spectral Absorption Selectivity to Distinguish Black Carbon from Pyrolized Organic Carbon."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 8459-8464.

Redding, Laurel E., Michael D. Sohn, Thomas E. McKone, Shu-Li Wang, Dennis P.H. Hsieh, and Raymond S. H. Yang."Population Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling for the Human Lactational Transfer of PCB 153 with Consideration of Worldwide Human Biomonitoring Results."Environmental Health Perspectives 116.12 (2008) 1629-1634.

Gadgil, Ashok J., Michael D. Sohn, Priya Sreedharan, Carlos Borrego, and Anna Isabel Miranda."Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: theory and examples from real-time interpretation of indoor plumes of airborne chemicals."Air Pollution Modeling and its Applicatiion XIX (2008) 263-277.

Novakov, Tihomir, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Surabi Menon, and Jeffery Aguiar."Response of California temperature to regional anthropogenic aerosol changes."Geophysical Research Letters 35.19 (2008). DOI

2007

Lunden, Melissa M., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, Susanne V. Hering, and Nancy J. Brown."Factors affecting the indoor concentrations of carbonaceous aerosols of outdoor origin."Atmospheric Environment 42.22 (2007) 5660-5671. DOI

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Jeffery Aguiar, Shaheen R. Tonse, Tihomir Novakov, and David Fairly."Black Carbon Concentrations and Diesel Vehicle Emission Factors Derived from Coefficient of Haze Measurements in California: 1967-2003."Atmospheric Environment 42.3 (2007) 480-491. DOI

Lobscheid, Agnes B., Thomas E. McKone, and Daniel A. Vallero."Exploring relationships between outdoor air particulate-associated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and PM2.5: A case study of benzo(a)pyrene in California metropolitan regions."Atmospheric Environment 41.27 (2007) 5659–5672. DOI

McKone, Thomas E., Rosemary Castorina, Martha E. Harnly, Yu Kuwabara, Brenda Eskenazi, and Asa Bradman."Merging Models and Biomonitoring Data to Characterize Sources and Pathways of Human Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides in the Salinas Valley of California."Environmental Science and Technology 41.9 (2007) 3233-3240. DOI

Jimenez, Jorge, Candis S. Claiborn, Timothy Larson, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Lara A. Gundel."Filter loading corrections for real-time aethalometer measurements of fresh diesel soot. (2007)."Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 57.7 (2007) 868–873.

Jimenez, Jorge, Candis S. Claiborn, Timothy Larson, Timothy Gould, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Lara A. Gundel."Loading Effect Correction for Real-Time Aethalometer Measurements of Fresh Diesel Soot."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 57.7 (2007) 868–873. DOI

Fischer, Marc L., and David Littlejohn."Measurements of Ammonia at Blodgett Forest." (2007).

Hering, Susanne V., Melissa M. Lunden, Marc L. Fischer, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, and Nancy J. Brown."Using Regional Data and Building Leakage to Assess Indoor Concentrations of Particles of Outdoor Origin."Aerosol Science and Technology 41 (2007) 639-654.

2006

Marshall, Julian D., Patrick W. Granvold, Abigail S. Hoats, Thomas E. McKone, Elizabeth Deakin, and William W. Nazaroff."Inhalation intake of ambient air pollution in California's South Coast Air Basin."Atmospheric Environment 40.23 (2006) 4381-4392. DOI