Citations of Scholarly Work—Physical Sciences

Refereed Journal Articles

* indicates student-faculty research. Students in bold, faculty underlined 

  • Jaffe, Daniel A. 
    • Ninneman M, Petropavlovskikh I, Effertz P, Chand D, Jaffe D. Investigation of the Parameters Influencing Baseline Ozone in the Western United States: A Statistical Modeling Approach. Atmosphere. 13(11):1883. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13111883 , 2022. 
    • Sedlacek A.J. Lewis E.R., Onasch T.B., Zuidema P., Redemann J., Jaffe D, and Kleinman L.I. Using the Black Carbon Particle Mixing State to Characterize the Lifecycle of Biomass Burning Aerosols. Environmental Science & Technology, 56 (20), 14315-14325 DOI: 10.1021/ acs.est.2c03851, 2022. 
    • Jaffe, D. A., Schnieder, B., and Inouye, D.: Technical note: Use of PM2.5 to CO ratio as an indicator of wildfire smoke in urban areas, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 12695–12704, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12695-2022 , 2022. 
    • Jaffe, D. A., Ninneman, M., & Chan, H. C. NOx and O3 trends at U.S. non-attainment areas for 1995–2020: Influence of COVID-19 reductions and wildland fires on policy-relevant concentrations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036385. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036385 , 2022. 
    • Bernays, N., Jaffe, D. A., Petropavlovskikh, I., and Effertz, P.: Comment on “Comparison of ozone measurement methods in biomass burning smoke: an evaluation under field and laboratory conditions” by Long et al., Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3189–3192, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3189-2022 , 2022. 
    • Farley R., Bernays N., Jaffe D.A., Ketcherside D., Hu L,. Zhou S., Collier S and Zhang Q. Persistent Influence of Wildfire Emissions in the Western United States and Characteristics of Aged Biomass Burning Organic Aerosols under Clean Air Conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 56, 6, 3645–3657, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c07301 , 2022. 
    • Lee H-J, Chang L-S, Jaffe DA, Bak J, Liu X, Abad GG, Jo H-Y, Jo Y-J, Lee J-B, Yang G-H, Kim J-M, Kim C-H. Satellite-Based Diagnosis and Numerical Verification of Ozone Formation Regimes over Nine Megacities in East Asia. Remote Sensing. 2022; 14(5):1285. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051285 , 2022. 
  • Finley, Brandon: 
    • Jaffe, D.A., Miller, C., Thompson, K., Finley, B., Nelson, M., Ouimette, J., and Andrews, E.; An Evaluation of the U.S. EPA’s correction equation for Purple Air Sensor data in smoke, dust, and wintertime urban pollution events, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques . 2023, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p1311-1322. 12p 
  • Lovitt, Charity: 
    • Charity Flener Lovitt, Nicolas E. Capra, R. Joseph Lastowski, and Gregory S. Girolami; Steric and Electronic Analyses of Ligand Effects on the Stability of σ-Methane Coordination Complexes: A DFT Study. Organometallics 2022 41 (24), 3834-3844 DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00434 (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00434) 
    • Peter J. Sempsrott, Brian B Trinh, Charity Flener Lovitt, Nicolas Capra, Gregory S. Girolami. An osmium(II) methane complex: Elucidation of the methane coordination mode. Science Advances. 9, eadg8130(2023). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adg8130 
  • Key, Joey Shapiro: 
    • M Falxa and others, Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 521, Issue 4, June 2023, Pages 5077–5086, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad812 
  • Kim, Hyung J.: 
    • Ryanne K. Ballard, Arielle Benyo, Rachel Ren, Jasmine Nguyen, Joline Nguyen, Erica Zieber, Glen Gullickson, and Hyung J. Kim Assessing Tomato Flavors Chemically: Identification of Aroma Volatiles from Heirloom and Commercial Tomatoes using Solid-Phase Microextraction and GC-MS Journal of Chemical Education 2023 100 (3), 1263-1269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00815 
  • Robins, Lori I.: 
    • Khalid A, Cookson AR, Whitworth DE, Beeton ML, Robins LI, Maddocks SE. A Synthetic Polymicrobial Community Biofilm Model Demonstrates Spatial Partitioning, Tolerance to Antimicrobial Treatment, Reduced Metabolism, and Small Colony Variants Typical of Chronic Wound Biofilms. Pathogens. 2023 Jan 10;12(1):118. doi: 10.3390/pathogens12010118.  
  • Rodríguez Hidalgo, Paola: 
    • Giustini, M., Rodríguez Hidalgo, P., Reeves, J., Matzeu, G., Braito, V., Eracleous, M., Hall, P., Chartas, G., Ponti, G., Schartel, N., Waters, T., Dadina, M., Miniutti, G., Cappi, M., Proga, D., Vignali, C., and de Vries, L., The XMM-Newton/Hubble Space Telescope view of the active galactic nucleus PG 1126-041; accepted to A&A 
    • Rodríguez Hidalgo, P. & Rankine.  Connection between Emission and Absorption Outflows through the Study of Quasars with Extremely High Velocity Outflows;  2022, ApJL, 939L, 24 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…939L..24R/abstract 
    • *Pierce, E., *Vong, A., *Wang, A., *DeFrancisco, Cora, *Rijal, A., *Romo Pérez, T., *Charles, M., *García Naranjo, W.,* Fulda, R., *Powell, V., *Sanabria, L., and Rodríguez Hidalgo, P, “Systematic Analysis of the Quasar Properties and Variability of Extremely-High Velocity Outflow Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”  2023, The Crow: Campus Research and Observational Writings from the University of Washington Bothell, Vol 8 Online Journal 
    • *Improving Algorithm and Modular Programming in the Search of EHVO in SDSS Quasar Spectra; *Charles, M. and *García Naranjo, W., *Bunger., D., *DeFrancesco, C., *Kahassai, N., *Parker, M., *Saurav Rijal, A. Rodríguez Hidalgo, P., 2022, The Crow: Campus Research and Observational Writings from the University of Washington Bothell, Vol 7 Online Journal 
  • Salathé. Eric P.: 
  • Scherr, Rachel E.: 
    • N. Paul-Schultz, R. E. Scherr, and K. Gray, “Connecting energy and electricity instruction to local environmental justice issues,” accepted to The Physics Teacher (2023) 
    • M. German, R. E. Scherr, and J. Hernandez, “Connecting the science of water to students’ communities,” accepted to The Science Teacher (2023) 
    • R. E. Scherr, L. Seeley, and K. Gray, “Energy learning in its material and social context: Power plants,” accepted to The Physics Teacher (2023) * Featured Article 
    • T. Huynh, L. Bauman, A. D. Robertson, and R. E. Scherr, “Physics teachers’ conceptions of equity: Access and achievement,” Frontiers in STEM Education 8, 1-11 (2023) 
    • A. D. Robertson, T. Huynh, C. Mathis, L. C. Bauman, and R. E. Scherr, “Teacher learning about the integration of energy and equity: A case study,” Phys. Rev. PER 19, 010136 (2023) 
    • J. Hernandez, J. Skiba, M. German, R. E. Scherr, T. Huynh, and M. Araya*, “Exploring sociopolitical landscapes in physics education,” Sustainability and Climate Change 15(4) (2022) 
    • T. Huynh, K. Gray, L. C. Bauman, R. E. Scherr, J. Hernandez, and L. Seeley, “Physics teachers integrating social justice with science content,” 2022 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, pp. 249-254; edited by B. W. Frank, D. Jones, and Q. Ryan (AIP, College Park, MD, 2022) 

Published Books

  • Scherr, Rachel E.: 
    • A. Boudreaux, S. Vokos, and R. E. Scherr, “Research on student learning of foundational concepts in Galilean and relativistic kinematics: the role of operational definitions,” International Handbook of Physics Education Research 1(1), M. F. Tasar and P. R. L. Heron, eds. (2022) 
    • J. Hernandez and R. E. Scherr, “Science teachers learning the hidden histories in Western science,” accepted to Active and engaging classrooms: A practical exploration, C. Schlein and S. Crump, Eds. (Information Age, 2022) 

Conference Presentations/Proceedings

  • Flener-Lovitt, Charity E.: 
    • “Step-Wise Development of Process Skills, Collaboration, and Writing in General Chemistry Labs” Flener-Lovitt, Charity E. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education 2022, Jul 31- Aug 4 2022, P21, Talk.“ 
    • “Studying belonging in large enrollment POGIL classes” Lovitt, Charity; Castillo, Darian; Murray, Tracey; Glebova, Olga; Horn, Matt. Western States Chemical Education Group. 28 Apr 2023, Poster. 
  • Rodríguez Hidalgo, Paola: 
    • “Exciting Prospects in the Study of Extremely High Velocity Outflows”, International Conference, AGN Winds in the Chesapeake June 2023 
    • “Studying the Lyman-alpha Forest of Extremely High-Velocity Outflow Quasars”, American Astronomical Society Meeting, Seattle 2023 
  • Scherr, Rachel E.: 
    • Descamps, S. Jeon, R. E. Scherr, and D. Hammer, “Complex dynamics of epistemic agency in a college physics lab course,” accepted to the Proceedings of the International Conference of Learning Sciences (2023) 

New External & Internal Grants Submitted

  • Jaffe, Daniel A.: 
    • Collaborative Research: Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, and Ozone at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory. Funded by the NSF, Sept.1, 2018-Aug. 31, 2023, $ $873,270. (Supplemental funding request pending). 
  • Key, Joey S.: 
    • NASA LISA Preparatory Science, Development of Multi-messenger Astrophysics Capabilities for LISA Data Processing, submitted March 2023 
    • NASA LISA Preparatory Science, LISA Sources in the galactic center, submitted March 2023 
  • Kim, Hyung J.: 
    • NIH R21, 2022. Conserved NO-Binding Cytochromes in Burkholderia pseudomallei and Other Pathogens. Sole PI.  
    • NSF Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, 2022. The Novel Role of Cytochrome c-prime Beta in Nitrification. Sole PI.   
  • Scherr, Rachel E.: 
    • Co-principal investigator, “Training to elicit and leverage ideas about science (TRELLIS): A learning assistant program to make physics teaching more effective, equitable, and engaging” (NSF DUE 2235744, $300K), under review. 

Newly Funded External and Internal Grants

  • Jaffe, Daniel A.: 
    • Collaborative Research: Aerosols, Nitrogen Oxides, and Ozone at the Mt. Bachelor Observatory. Funded by the NSF, Sept.1, 2018-Aug. 31, 2023, $ $873,270. (Supplemental funding request pending). 
    • Impact of smoke on ozone, aerosols and oxidant chemistry in urban and rural areas in the U.S. (PI: D.Jaffe). Funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. September 1 2022-August 31, 2025. Three year project with a total budget $457,005. 
    • The Salt Lake regional Smoke, Ozone and Aerosol Study (SAMOZA). Funded by the Utah Dept of Air Quality, (three university collaboration with D.Jaffe as lead PI), June 1, 2022-August 31, 2023, $360,580. UW portion of budget is $136,699. 
    • NOAA Support for Mt Bachelor Flask Sampling. Nov. 1, 2017-Jan. 31, 2023. Funded by NOAA, Global Monitoring Division, $24,969. 
  • Key, Joey S.:  
    • NSF Physics, Launching the Cosmic Explorer Conceptual Design (recommended for funding) 
  • Rodríguez Hidalgo, Paola: 
    • COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING THE LIMITS 2021 – 2024. Proposals OF AGN FEEDBACK: A DEDICATED STUDY OF EXTREMELY HIGH VELOCITY OUTFLOWS; NSF-AAG grant PI (co-PI: Prof. Daniel Proga — UNLV) $314,803 awarded to UW, total = $584,80 
  • Scherr, Rachel E.: 
    • Co-principal investigator, “Changing physics and astronomy education culture: A reflective practice model of faculty development to support diversity, equity, inclusion, and excellence” (NSF DUE 2141769, $2.8M), 2022-2027.