William Hinds (Director of the EAFC and of the Laboratory Analyses/Aerosol Sciences Unit) is a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA and the Director of the UCLA Industrial Hygiene Program, and a member of the EPA Southern California Particle Center. He is an expert on the properties and measurement of aerosols and has written the standard text in that field.

 

Edward Avol (Director of the EAFC Field Operations Unit) is a Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a member of the EPA Southern California Particle Center. His areas of expertise and research interests are in exposure assessment and acute and chronic respiratory effects of airborne pollutants in populations at risk. He brings over 30 years’ experience in field sampling, ambient air monitoring, laboratory studies, and respiratory health investigations to the Center.

 

Myles Cockburn is an Assistant Professor in the USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine. His research interests are cancer epidemiology and the application of GIS to epidemiology.

 

Antonio H. Miguel, Researcher, is Director of the Southern California Particle Center and Supersite's Chemical Analysis Laboratory. He is an analytical chemist with many years of experience in environmental and air pollution analytical chemistry. He directs the GC/MS analytical laboratory in the School of Public Health.

 

Shane Que Hee is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health and Director of the ICP/MS facility in the School of Public Health. His research is focused on environmental and industrial hygiene chemistry, development of methods for sampling and analysis of chemicals (organic and inorganic), metabolites, and adducts in environmental and biological media, and development of predictive mathematical models for toxicology, epidemiology, and risk assessment. He is the Director of the Environmental Chemistry track and a member of the industrial hygiene track in the School of Public Health. He has published books on biological monitoring and hazardous waste.

 

James Schauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is also the Director of the Air Quality Unit of the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene. His research focuses on advanced characterization of air pollutants, exposure assessment, and source apportionment, and is one of the acknowledged national leaders in the field of particle speciation analyses and source apportionment.

 

John Wilson is a Professor of Geography and Director of the GIS Research laboratory at USC's Department of Geography on the USC University Park Campus. Professor Wilson research interests include the development of new terrain analysis techniques; modeling of spatial patterns of urban growth and habitat change and impact of land use change, urban growth, and conservation policies on these patterns; description of environmental and socio-economic characteristics and their impacts on selected health and quality of life outcomes; and the development of web-based map and gazetteer services for digital libraries and archives.

Dr. John Froines is Professor, UCLA School of Public Health, and is Associate Director of the SCEHSC. He also directs the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and the Southern California Particle Center.