William A. Lee Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Office: Urey Hall Addn 3050F
Phone: 858-534-8972
Email: jhslade@ucsd.edu
Web: https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/slade-lab
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2018

William A. Lee Chancellor's Endowed Junior Faculty Fellow

2015

Best Doctoral Thesis Award

2015

Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESSXIII)

2009

National Science Foundation Biosphere and Atmosphere Research and Training (NSF-BART) Summer Fellow

Air/water pollution and climate change are global issues, requiring immediate attention and innovative cross-disciplinary research to understand and mitigate their effects on our planet. To this end, the Slade lab studies fundamental chemical and physical processes affecting the formation, evolution, toxicity, and climate properties of atmospheric aerosols. We are interested in applying and developing novel analytical methodologies (e.g., in mass spectrometry) to understand the detailed multiphase chemistry and kinetics of organic aerosol formation and interactions with gas-phase oxidants and reactive semivolatile species in different environments (urban, coastal, forested, and biomass burning). Our three main thrusts involving both laboratory and field work currently are (1) reactive organic nitrogen multiphase chemistry of urban secondary organic aerosol, (2) chemical aging and toxicity studies of emerging priority chemicals in marine aerosol, and (3) fundamental interrelationships between aerosol phase and composition.

Atmospheric and Environmental
Physical Organic
Synthesis

Diurnal rhythms of phase and composition of atmospheric aerosol in a mixed forest environment. Reproduced from Slade et al., [2018] (unpublished).

Second-generation oxidation reactions and particle-phase chemistry of organic nitrates following the nitrate radical oxidation of gamma-terpinene. Reproduced from Slade et al., Atmos Chem Phys [2017].