Valerie L. (Vandigrifft) Young

 

Funded Research

Subcontract, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Analysis of Hydrocarbon Emissions from Biomass Burning”, February 15 – September 30, 2002, $15950.

 

PI, National Science Foundation Grant No. ATM-0071376, "Exploring Nighttime Tropospheric Chemistry via Hydrocarbon Measurements", July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001, $70,000.

 

PI, Department of Commerce - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "In-Situ Non-Methane Hydrocarbon Measurements as Part of the Southern Oxidants Study 1999 in Nashville", Feb 16 1999 – June 30 2000, $57032.

 

Participating faculty member, National Science Foundation, IGERT-9972803, "Biosphere-Atmosphere Research and Training" a five-year grant to provide funding for PhD students (competitive awards) to participate in research both at their home institutions and at the University of Michigan Biological Station.  My participation gives any PhD candidate (U.S. citizen) at Ohio University the opportunity to compete for one of these fellowships on an equal footing with students from 11 other universities.  Jan 1, 1999 – Dec 31, 2004, $2,699,016 (total).

 

Subcontract, Department of Commerce - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Global Programs, "NARE 1997 - NMHC Measurements near Cape Race, Newfoundland", primary PI Richard Honrath, Michigan Technological University, $19193.

 

co-investigator, National Science Foundation Grant No. ATM-952B031, "The Arctic Outflow Campaign:  A Measurement Study to Characterize the Composition and Photochemistry of Arctic Air Transported Southward During Spring", primary PI Richard Honrath, Michigan Technological University (awarded while at York University).

 

Publications

1.      Young, V.L., F. Visharia, M. Lilly, C. Day, M. Bartek, B. Nucifore, J. Moody, P.B. Shepson, S. Sillman, A. Wimmers, C. Seaman, M. Mitchell, S. Pressley, C. Gilbert, H. Westberg, B. Lamb, H.P Schmid and J. Hutton “An aircraft-based investigation of nighttime isoprene decay:  support for dynamics as the primary cause” The Journal of Geophysical Research, submitted.

2.      T.A. Kovacs, W.H. Brune, H. Harder, M. Martinez, J.B. Simpas, G.J. Frost, E. Williams, T. Jobson, C. Stroud, V. Young, A. Fried, B. Wert, “Direct measurements of urban OH reactivity during Nashville SOS in summer 1999”, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, accepted.

3.      Sumner, A.L., P.B. Shepson, T.L. Couch, T. Thornberry, M.A. Carroll, S. Sillman, M. Pippin, S. Bertman, D. Tan, I. Faloona, W. Brune, V. Young, O. Cooper, J. Moody, W. Stockwell.  “A Study of the Formaldehyde Budget above a Forest Canopy”, The Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D20), 24387-24405, 2001.

4.      Hurst, J.M., D.J. Barket, Jr., O. Herrera-Gomez, T.L. Couch, P.B. Shepson, I. Faloona, D. Tan, W. Brune, H. Westberg, T. Biesenthal, V. Young, J.W. Munger, M.A. Carroll, “Investigation of the Nighttime Decay of Isoprene”, The Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D20), 24335-24346, 2001.

5.      Plummer, D.A., J.C. McConnell, L. Neary, J. Kominski, R. Benoit, J. Drummond, J. Narayan, V. Young, D.R. Hastie, “Assessment of Emissions Data for the Toronto Region Using Aircraft-Based Measurements and an Air Quality Model”, Atmospheric Environment, 35(ER36), 6453-6463, 2001.

6.      Stroud, C.A., J.M. Roberts, P.D. Goldan, W.C. Kuster, P.C. Murphy, E.J. Williams, D. Hereid, D. Parrish, D. Sueper, M. Trainer, F.C. Fehsenfeld, E.C. Apel, D. Riemer, B. Wert, B. Henry, A. Fried, M. Martinez-Harder, H. Harder, W.H. Brune, G. Li, H. Xie, V.L. Young, “Isoprene and its oxidation products, methacrolein and methylvinyl ketone, at an urban forested site during the 1999 Southern Oxidants Study”, The Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D8), 8035-8046, 2001.

7.      Young, V.L. and B.J. Stuart, The Theme Course - Connecting the Plant Trip to the Text Book.  Journal of Engineering Education, 89(4), 475-479, 2000.

 

8.      D.D. Parrish, M. Trainer, V. Young, P.D. Goldan, W.C. Custer, B.T. Jobson, F.C. Fehsenfeld, W.A. Lonneman, R.D. Zika, C.T. Farmer, D.D. Riemer, and M.O. Rodgers, “Internal consistency tests for evaluation of measurements of anthropogenic hydrocarbons in the troposphere”, The Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(D17), 22339-22359, 1998.

9.      Lee, Y.-N., X. Zhou, L.I. Kleinman, L.J. Nunnermacker, S.R. Springston, P.H. Daum, L. Newman, W.G. Keigley, M.W. Holdren, C.W. Spicer, V. Young, B. Fu, D.D. Parrish, J. Holloway, J. Williams, J.M. Roberts, T.B. Ryerson, and F.C. Fehsenfeld, “Atmospheric chemistry and distribution of formaldehyde and several multioxygenated carbonyl compounds during the 1995 Nashville/Middle Tennessee Ozone Study:, The Journal of Geophysical Research 103(D17):22449-22462, 1998.

 

10.  J.M. Roberts, J. Williams, K. Baumann, M.P. Buhr, P.D. Goldan, J. Holloway, G. Hübler, W.C. Kuster, S.A. McKeen, T.B. Ryerson, M. Trainer, E.J. Williams, F.C. Fehsenfeld, S.B. Bertman, G. Nouaime, C. Seaver, G. Grodzinsky, M. Rodgers, and V.L. Young, “Measurements of PAN, PPN and MPAN made during the 1994 and 1995 Nashville Intensives of the Southern Oxidant Study:  Implications for Regional Ozone Production from Biogenic Hydrocarbons”, The Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(D17), 22473-22490, 1998.

 

11.  J. Williams, J.M. Roberts, F.C. Fehsenfeld, S.B. Bertman, M.P. Buhr, P.D. Goldan, G. Hübler, W.C. Kuster, T.B. Ryerson, M. Trainer, and V. Young, “Regional ozone from biogenic hydrocarbons deduced from airborne measurements of PAN, PPN, and MPAN”, Geophysical Research Letters, 24(9), 1099-1102, 1997.

 

12.  V. L. Young, B. N. Kieser, S. P. Chen and H. Niki, "Seasonal Trends and Local Influences on Non-Methane Hydrocarbon Concentrations in the Canadian Boreal Forest", The Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 5913-5918, 1997.

 

13.  J. Chen, V. Young and H. Niki, H. Magid, "Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies for Reactions of CF3­CH2CHF2 (HFC-245fa) Initiated by H-Atom Extraction Using Atomic Chlorine", The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 101(14), 2648-2653, 1997.

 

14.  J. Chen, V. Young, V. Catoire, and H. Niki, “FTIR Spectroscopic Studies of the Mechanisms of the Halogen Atom Initiated Oxidation of Haloacetaldehydes”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 100(16), 6580-6586, 1996.

 

15.  R.E. Honrath, M.C. Peterson, N. Badhwar, S.B. Bertman, D. Ellyea, G. Noumie, D.R. Hastie, R.B. Norton, D.D. Parrish, M. Warshawsky, J.T. Merrill, J.L. Moody, P.B. Shepson, and V.L. Young, "The Arctic Outflow Study - Measurements of photochemically significant species at a Newfoundland surface site during February through April 1996, EOS Transactions, Supplement, 77(46), F93, 1996.

 

16.  J. Chen, V. Young, P. A. Hooshiyar and H. Niki, M. D. Hurley, "FTIR Spectroscopic Study of the Cl-Atom Initiated Reaction of Ethylene Oxide in O2/N2 Diluent", The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 99, 4071-4077, 1995.

 

17.  H. Niki, J. Chen and V. Young, "Long Path FTIR Studies of Some Atmospheric Reactions Involving CF3OO and CF3O Radicals", Research on Chemical Intermediates, 20, 277-301, 1994.

 

18.  J. Chen, T. Zhu, V. Young and H. Niki, "Long Path FTIR Spectroscopic Study of the Reactions of CF3O Radicals with NO, NO2, Alkanes, and Alkenes", in Proceedings of the STEP-HALOCSIDE / AFEAS Workshop:  Kinetics and Mechanisms for the Reactions of Halogenated Organic Compounds in the Troposphere, ed. H. W. Sidebottom, Dublin, March 1993.

 

19.  J. Chen, V. Young, T. Zhu and H. Niki, "Long Path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Study of the Reactions of CF3OO and CF3O Radicals with NO2", The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 97(45), 11696-11698, 1993.

 

20.  J. Chen, T. Zhu, V. Young and H. Niki, "Long Path FTIR Spectroscopic Study of the Reactions of CF3O Radicals with Alkenes", The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 97(28), 7174-7177, 1993.

 

21.  V. L. Young, D. F. Cox, and M. E. Davis, "Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Copper from Copper (II) Dimethylamino Ethoxide", Chemistry of Materials, 5(12), 1701-1709, 1993.

 

Presentations and Posters

 

1.      Young, V.L., B. Nucifore, M. Bartek, C. Day, F. Visharia, M. Lilly, J. Moody, T. Thornberry, M. Carroll, Hydrocarbon Observations as a Function of Meteorological Regime, Session A51A, American Geophysical Union 2002 Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 6-10, 2002.

 

2.      Pippin, M., S. Bertman, A. Hamlin, T. Thornberry, M. Carroll, G. Huey, D. Tanner, H. Harder, M. Martinez, W. Brune, V. Young, S. Pressley, H. Westberg, B. Lamb, B. Lefer, S. Sillman, Sensitivity of MPAN at the PROPHET site, Session A51A, American Geophysical Union 2002 Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 6-10, 2002.

 

3.      Tanner, D., S. Sjostedt, G. Huey, D. Slusher, G. Chen, B. Lefer, R. Shetter, M. Carroll, S. Hengel, E. Fortner, V. Young, Measurement and model results for gas phase OH and H2SO4 during PROPHET 2001, Session A51A, American Geophysical Union 2002 Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 6-10, 2002.

 

4.      Weinstein-Lloyd, J.B., A.M. Alaouie, N. Hernandez, L.I. Kleinman, M.A. Carroll, E. Fortner, S. Hengel, V. Young, B. Lefer, B. Lamb, H. Westberg, S. Pressley, Measurements of Hydroperoxides during the PROPHET 2001 Summer Intensive in Pellston, MI, Session A51A, American Geophysical Union 2002 Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 6-10, 2002.

 

5.      Young, V., Chemical Engineering Principles in Atmospheric Chemistry, Session 162, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2002 Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November 4 – 8, 2002.

 

6.      Young, V.L., H. Velugula, Hydrocarbon Stability in Tedlar Bags, Session 223, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2002 Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November 4 – 8, 2002.

7.      Young, V.L., Kinetics or Transport?  A Study of Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere, West Virginia University Department of Chemical Engineering, October 25, 2002, invited presentation.

8.      Young, V.L., Student Development of Grading and Assessment Criteria, Session 3213, American Society for Engineering Education 2002 National Meeting, Montreal, PQ, Canada, June 16 – 19, 2002.

9.      Young, V.L., D. Ridgway, M.E. Prudich, D.J. Goetz, and B.J. Stuart. Criterion-Based Grading for Learning and Assessment in Unit Operations Laboratory. Session 3213, American Society for Engineering Education 2001 National Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 24 – 29, 2001. 

10.  Visharia, F., C. Day, P. Shepson, and V. Young.  Exploration of the Possible Mechanisms for Nighttime Decay of Isoprene:  Evaluation of Atmospheric Kinetics and Transport, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting 2001, Boston, MA.

11.  Young, V.L.  Experience with Analysis of Organic Trace Gas Species from Canisters. presentation to Wyle Laboratories (a NASA contractor for monitoring air quality on spacecraft, contact person Eric Reese), February 14-15, 2001, Houston, TX, invited presentation.

12.  Young, V.L., G. Li, H. Xie, C. Stroud, J. Roberts, H. Daughtrey, K.D. Oliver and H.H. Jacumin, Jr.  Intercomparison of Field Measurements of VOCs at the Cornelia Fort Airpark Site During the Southern Oxidants Study 1999. Southern Oxidants Study 1999 Data Analysis Workshop, March 8-10, 2000, Research Triangle Park, NC. 

 

13.  Apel, E.C., D.D. Riemer, W. Lonneman, W.A. McClenny, K.D. Oliver, E.H. Daughtrey Jr., V.L. Young, G. Li, H. Xie, P. Doskey, P. Goldan, W. Kuster, E. Atlas, V. Stroud, P. Shepson, D. Barkett, and J. Hurst. VOC Intercomparison Studies During the Nashville 1999 Summer Field Campaign.  Southern Oxidants Study 1999 Data Analysis Workshop, March 8-10, 2000, Research Triangle Park, NC. 

 

14.  Visharia, F. and V.L. Young, “Loss of Isoprene During Nighttime at Pellston”, Eighth Annual Regional Chemical Engineering Symposium, September 15, 2000, Morgantown, WV.

15.  Visharia, F. and V.L. Young, “Loss of Isoprene During Nighttime at Pellston”, 23rd Annual Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, October 7 – 8, 2000, Kalamazoo, MI.

 

16.  Xie, H., K. Crist, and V.L. Young, “PM2.5 in Southeastern Ohio”, 23rd Annual Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, October 7 – 8, 2000, Kalamazoo, MI.

 

17.  Young, V.L.  “Technical Communication and Awareness of Social Issues for Sophomores”.  Presented in Session T3009:  Chemical Engineering Education in the Lower Levels  American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2000 Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA.

 

18.  Young, V.L., H. Xie and G. Li, “Hydrocarbon Measurements During SOS 99”, American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, Presentation A22E-05, December 15 – 20, 2000, San Francisco, CA.

 

19.  Stroud, C.A., J.M. Roberts, P.D. Goldan, W.C. Kuster, P.C. Murphy, E.J. Williams, D. Hereid, D.D. Parrish, D. Sueper, M. Trainer, F.C. Fehsenfeld, E.C. Apel, D. Riemer, B. Wert, B. Henry, A. Fried, M. Martinez-Harder, H. Harder, W.H. Brune, G. Li, H. Xie, and V.L. Young, “Isoprene and Its Oxidation Products, Methacrolein and Methyl Vinyl Ketone, at an Urban Forested Site during the 1999 Southern Oxidant Study”, American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, Poster A11B-26, December 15 – 20, 2000, San Francisco, CA.

 

20.  Young, V.L., Challenges in Ambient Measurements of Organic Compounds, Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies 1999 Annual Conference, October 24-29, 1999, Vancouver, BC, Canada.  Invited presentation.

 

21.  V.L. Young, "Using Your Unit Operations Laboratory", American Society for Engineering Education 1999 Annual Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-23, 1999.

 

22.  V.L. Young, R. Zika, P.B. Shepson, A.-L. Sumner, C. Edlin, O. Cooper, K. Higgins, T. Thornberry, M. Witmer-Rich, M. Town, L. Falardeau, and A. Tesher, "NMHC Measurements of Long-Range Transport in Rural Michigan", American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 6-10, 1998.

 

23.  V.L. Young, "NMHC Measurements of Long-Range Transport in Rural Michigan", 21st Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 16-18, 1998.

 

24.  V.L. Young,  "Non-Methane Hydrocarbons in Newfoundland:  AOS 96 and NARE 97", Telluride Atmospheric Chemistry Workshop "Uncertainties in Tropospheric Photochemistry", Telluride, Colorado, August 3-7, 1998.

 

25.  V.L. Young, “A One Woman Show - Outreach Experiences of a New Professor”, American Society for Engineering Education - North Central Section Annual Conference, Dearborn, Michigan, April 2-4, 1998.

 

26.  V.L. Young, “The Theme Course - Connecting the Plant Trip to the Text Book”, American Society for Engineering Education - North Central Section Annual Conference, Dearborn, Michigan, April 2-4, 1998.

 

27.  V.L. Young, R.E. Honrath, S.B. Bertman, D.R. Hastie, R.B. Norton, D.D. Parrish, M. Warshawsky, J.T. Merrill, J.L. Moody, P.B. Shepson, “NMHC Measurements During the Arctic Outflow Study 1996”, American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 8-12, 1997.

 

28.  V.L. Young, "Seasonal Ambient Biogenic Non-Methane Hydrocarbons in Urban and Rural Canada" American Meteorological Society Workshop on Ambient Hydrocarbons in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Charlottesville, Virginia, Session 3.1, August 24-27, 1997.

 

29.  R. E. Honrath, M.C. Peterson, N. Badhwar, S.B. Bertman, D. Ellyea, G. Noumie, D.R. Hastie, R.B. Norton, D.D. Parrish, M. Warshawsky, J.T. Merrill, J.L. Moody, P.B. Shepson, V. L. Young, "The Arctic Outflow Study - Measurements of Photochemically Significant Species at a Newfoundland Surface Site During February through April 1996" American Geophysical Union Fall 1996 Meeting, San Francisco, California, Session A02, December 1996, presentation.

 

30.  W.C. Kuster, P.D. Goldan and F.C. Fehsenfeld, V. Young, "Non-Methane Hydrocarbon Measurements Made from an Aircraft:  A Comparison of Grab Sampling and In-Situ Gas Chromatography Techniques" American Geophysical Union Fall 1996 Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 1996, poster.

 

31.  V. Young, R. Honrath, “The Arctic Outflow Experiment:  Preliminary Hydrocarbon Analysis”, 19th Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, Purdue University, October 12-13, 1996.

 

32.  V. L. Young, B. Kieser, S. Chen, B. Fu and H. Niki "Measurements of Isoprene and Terpene Gradients Over Mature Aspen, Black Spruce and Jack Pine Forests During Three Intensive Summer Sampling Campaigns", American Meteorological Society 1996 Meeting and 22nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Paper 1.26, January 30, 1996, Atlanta, GA, presentation.

 

33.  P. B. Shepson, K. Khoo, K. Muthuramu, A. P. Sirju, V. Young, H. Niki, and J. F. Hopper, "Alkyl Nitrates and Their Relationship to Halogen Atom Chemistry in the Arctic at Polar Sunrise", American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, August 20, 1995, Chicago, IL.

 

34.  V. L. Young, "Depletion of Tropospheric Ozone and Non-Methane Hydrocarbons During the Polar Sunrise:  Field and Laboratory Studies", 78th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, May 30, 1995, Guelph, ON, invited presentation originally to have been given by Professor Niki.

 

35.  Valerie Young and Hiromi Niki, "Measurements of Biogenic Hydrocarbon Emissions During BOREAS 1994:  Preliminary Results", Biogenic Emissions Workshop:  Towards Improving Biogenic Hydrocarbon Emissions in Canada, Environment Canada, Conservation and Protection, Pollution Data Branch, Hull, PQ, November 16, 1994, presentation.

 

36.  Valerie Young and Hiromi Niki, "Trace Hydrocarbon Concentrations:  Polar Sunrise Experiment 1994", PSE-1994:  Icefloe data workshop, Atmospheric Environment Services, Toronto, ON, November 7, 1994, presentation.

 

37.  Valerie Young, Junyi Chen, Ninghua Peng, Robert Callaghan and Hiromi Niki, "Long Path FTIR Studies of Cl- and Br-Initiated Methyl Acetylene Oxidation", XXIst Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Toronto, ON, May 15 - 20, 1994, poster.

 

38.  J. Chen, V. Young, R. Callaghan and H. Niki, "Atmospheric Degradation Mechanisms of CF3OO and CF3O Radicals", XXIst Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Toronto, ON, May 15 - 20, 1994, poster.

 

39.  J. Chen, V. Young, R. Callaghan and H. Niki, "FTIR Spectroscopic Study of the Mechanism of the Br Atom Initiated Oxidation of BrCH2CHO and CH2=C=O", XXIst Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Toronto, ON, May 15 - 20, 1994, poster.

 

40.  J. Chen, T. Zhu, V. L. Young and H. Niki, "Long Path FTIR Kinetic and Product Studies of CF3O Radical Reactions", Third International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, Gaithersburg, MD, July 12-16, 1993, poster.

 

41.  J. Chen, P. A. Hooshiyar, R. Callaghan, V. Young and H. Niki, "FTIR Spectroscopic Study of the Cl-Atom Initiated Oxidation of Ethylene Oxide", Third International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, Gaithersburg, MD, July 12-16, 1993, poster.

 

42.  V. L. Vandigrifft, M. E. Davis and D. F. Cox, "Chemistry of Thermal CVD from a Copper (II) Aminoalkoxide Precursor", 202nd American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 25-30, 1991, presentation.

 

43.  V. L. Vandigrifft, Mark E. Davis and David F. Cox, "The Chemistry of Thermal CVD from a Copper (II) Aminoalkoxide Precursor", American Institute of Chemical Engineers 1991 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 17-22, 1991, presentation.