• 3/4/2024 Congrats to Halima Salah for winning the 2023 AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA)!

  • 3/1/2024 Our paper on the volatile organic compounds - health effects is officially out at npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

  • 1/25/2024 Two exciting news from the group: Debatosh Partha won the WSU Graduate School Summer Dissertation Fellowship and Like Wang was awarded the 2024 NCAR Advanced Study Program Graduate Visitor Fellowship. Congrats to both Debatosh and Like!

  • 12/11-12/15, 2023 Huang Group members (Nori, Debatosh, Like, Halima and Yaoxian) are all out at AGU in San Francisco, CA. We have five presentations with topics spanning from fundamental atmospheric chemistry, to air quality and human health impacts of regional and global air pollution.

  • 10/1/2023 Big congrats to Halima for winning the 2023 AGU Student Travel Award!

  • 9/15/2023 Our MOOSE paper is out at JGR-Atmospheres. Check it out (LINK).

  • 08/28/2023 Congrats to Halima Salah for being named as United Nations RCE Fellow!

  • 08/14-8/18, 2023 Dr. Huang visited NCAR ACOM, as advisor for both Halima and Nori who are visiting NCAR/ACOM for the summer of 2023.

  • 05/1/2023 Nori Mariscal has won the 2023-2024 Ralph Cicerone Fellowship from NCAR ACOM. Congrats, Nori!

  • 02/28/2023 Big congrats to Marisa O’Dea for being selected for the NASA Michigan Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship.

  • 02/03/2023 Congrats to Dr. Xiong for winning the Wayne State Postdoctoral Research Award!

  • 12/12-16/2022 Four of our group members (Ying, Nori, Debatosh and Yaoxian) are in Chicago this week for AGU.

  • 10/28/2022 Congrats to both Halima Salah and Like Wang for passing the PhD qualifying exam!

  • 09/22/2022 The paper on the long-term trends of impacts of global gasoline and diesel emissions on air quality and human health, led by our own postdoc, Dr. Xiong, has been published in Environmental Research Letters (link). Congrats to Dr. Xiong!

  • 08/08/2022 Dr. Xiong’s paper on VOC source apportionment has been out in ES&T, check it out here (link).

  • 07/04-07/10, 2022 Dr. Huang is visiting NCAR ACOM in Boulder, CO.

  • 06/28/2022 We wrapped up our MOOSE II field campaign and celebrated another summer of success!

  • 06/27-06/30, 2022 Dr. Huang successfully led a summer camp related to air quality for high school students, which included classroom lecture, lab and field tour on atmospheric composition monitoring and measurements.

  • 06/13/2022 Dr. Huang was invited to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference Biogenic Hydrocarbon and the Atmosphere, with presentation title as “Current Understanding of Ozone Atmospheric Chemistry and Future Challenges”.

  • 06/06/2022 Our MOOSE II field campaign officially starts today. Welcome Dr. Chai from Brown University back to Detroit again. Go MOOSE!

  • 05/30/2022 Debatosh’s first-author paper, titled as “Global preterm births attributable to BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene) exposure”, was accepted by Science of the Total Environment journal. Congrats Debatosh!

  • 04/12/2022 We are very proud to announce that Halima has been awarded the NCAR Ralph Cicerone Fellowship! Congrats, Halima!

  • 03/11/2022 Congrats to Nori for successfully passing the PhD Qualifying Exam! Way to go, Nori!

  • 2/18/2022 Congrats to Dr. Andy Xiong for being awarded the 2022 WSU Postdoctoral Research Award! I am so proud of you, Andy! Keep doing the good work!

  • 1/24/2022 It’s AMS week (https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2022/)! Yaoxian gives a talk today at the Regional Air Quality session (1B.4), with presentation title as ‘Evaluation of model simulated ozone and its precursors in MUSICA-V0 against in-situ and airborne measurements in the continental US’.

  • 12/21/2021 Congrats to Nori for being awarded the NCAR’s Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Student Fellowship. Way to go, Nori.

  • 12/13/2021-12/17/2021 Five members of HUANG group will present at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting: Dr. Huang (GH15A-0607), Dr. Xiong (GH15A-0596), Debatosh Partha (GH15A-0604), Noribeth Mariscal (A45O-2046), and Halima Salah (GH15A-0595). In addition, Dr. Yaoxian Huang will chair an AGU session (GH11A and GH15A).

  • 12/1/2021 Debatosh, Erin and Ben are out today for the wintertime MOOSE field campaign.

  • 10/18/2021 Yaoxian attended the AAAR 39th Annual Conference, and gave a talk, with title as “Global air quality and human health effects of solid biofuel stove emissions”.

  • 10/11/2021 Ben Feld and Erin Browne join HUANG group as new Barber research fellows to monitor and model air pollution over metro Detroit for AY21-22. Welcome!

  • 10/1/2021 Two exciting news from HUANG group today: (1) PhD student, Nori Mariscal, has received the Award for Graduate Students Who Obtain External Grant Support from WSU OVPR; (2) Undergraduate researcher, Marisa O’Dea, has been awarded proposal-based undergraduate research fellowship from WSU Richard Barber Interdisciplinary Research Program for AY 2021-2022. Congrats Nori and Marisa!

  • 09/01/2021 Dr. Xiong officially joins HUANG research group today. Welcome, Dr. Xiong!

  • 08/23/2021 Wayne State University OVPR has released news report on our two NSF grants. Check it out here: https://research.wayne.edu/news/nsf-awards-to-wayne-state-to-impact-air-quality-44893.

  • 8/12/2021 Ms. Like Wang officially joins HUANG research group as PhD student. Welcome to Wayne State University and Detroit, Like!

  • 8/3/2021 Congrats to Halima Salah who has successfully defended her MS dissertation! Halima will continue to stay at Huang research group for pursuing her PhD.

  • 06/29/2021 We’ve successfully wrapped up our MOOSE field campaign for the summer of 2021! What a wonderful and diverse team we have! Excellent job, everyone! I look forward to MOOSE II in summer 2022.

  • 06/05/2021 Dr. Jiajue Chai’s research team (including PI Dr. Chai himself) from Brown University arrived at Wayne State University. Welcome to Wayne State University and Detroit! Our Michigan-Ontario Ozone Source Experiment (MOOSE) field campaign starts officially! What an exciting and unique summer during COVID-19 Pandemic!

  • 06/01/2021 Erin Browne joins HUANG group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Erin!

  • 05/12/2021 Noribeth Mariscal will conduct her 2021 summer research in Detroit, Michigan, but will be simultaneously virtually hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to collaborate with scientists there. Congrats, Nori!

  • 04/21/2021 Congrats to Halima Salah, a current MS/PhD student, for winning the prestigious National Science Foundation Research Traineeship graduate fellowship for the period of 08/2021-08/2022 through Wayne State T-RUST program.

  • 04/02/2021 Halima Salah has received the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Cicerone one-month visit grant to collaborate with scientists at Atmospheric Chemistry Observation and Modeling (ACOM) lab during Fall 2021-Summer 2022. Congrats! Way to go, Halima!

  • 03/22/2021 Congrats to Marisa O’Dea for being successfully selected by the Richard Barber Interdisciplinary Research Program as a full-time undergraduate researcher for the summer of 2021!

  • 03/12/2021 Congrats to Debatosh Partha for passing the PhD qualifying exam!

  • 02/15/2021 Congrats to Noribeth for winning the NASA Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Graduate Fellowship for the funding period from 05/2021-04/2022.

  • 02/05/2021 Our paper on the impacts of global solid biofuel stove emissions on ambient air quality and human health has been published in GeoHealth.

  • 02/05/2021 We wrapped up the successful field campaign over metropolitan Detroit for the period of 02/01-02/05, 2021! Thanks to Noribeth, Halima, Marisa and Debatosh for the great contribution!

  • 01/29/2021 Congrats to Marisa O’Dea for winning the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) of Wayne State University award! This funding will support her research for the 2021 Winter/Spring/Summer semesters.

  • 01/12/2021 Yaoxian Huang presented an oral presentation at 2021 AMS meeting, with presentation title as “Impacts of Global Solid Biofuel Stove Emissions on Ambient Air Quality and Human Health”.

  • 12/11/2020 Yaoxian Huang presented a poster at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting “Air Quality and Human Health Effects of Global Gasoline and Diesel Sectors” for the session, A111: Advances in Interactions of Air Quality and Public Health Using Integrated Modeling Frameworks, that he convened and chaired.

  • 11/12/2020 Yaoxian Huang gives an invited talk at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) on “Impacts of Anthropogenic Emissions on Air Quality, Climate Change and Human Health”.

  • 11/04/2020 Congrats to Marisa O’Dea, who has received the Research Opportunities for Engineering Undergraduates (ROEU) Award. We welcome Marisa joining Huang research group as an undergraduate researcher.

  • 10/09/2020 Yaoxian gives a virtual conference talk at the 38th AAAR annual conference.

  • 08/18/2020 Halima Salah joins the Huang research group! Welcome!

  • 07/15/2020 A PM2.5 sensor (name: WSU_Engineering_Detroit) has been installed over the roof of Engineering Building at Wayne State University.

  • 06/11/2020 We have successfully co-located our PM2.5 sensor (Name: Waterman_SWDetroit_WayneState) with Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy as well as Ecology Center at southwest of Detroit.

  • 05/16/2020 Congrats to Noribeth for successfully receiving the T-RUST funding for 2020-2021, which is supported by NSF NRT program (lead PI: Dr. Kashian).

  • 05/04/2020 Luke Belinc joins our research group as Grid High Performance Computing system administrator and programmer.

  • 04/28/2020 Our study has been highlighted over Eos (https://eos.org/research-spotlights/the-climate-and-health-impacts-of-gasoline-and-diesel-emissions).

  • 03/11/2020 Our paper, impacts of global gasoline/diesel tailpipe emissions on air quality, climate change and public health, has been published at the journal of GeoHealth.

  • 01/13/2020 We extend our welcome to Chris Acquah and Noribeth Mariscal to join our research team!

  • 12/18/2019 Debatosh just arrived at Detroit and officially joins Prof. Huang’s group, welcome!

  • 12/7/2019 Yaoxian Huang is heading to San Francisco, CA, to attend the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.

  • 11/1/2019 We received an internal funding to study the air pollutions over Detroit.

  • 10/16/2019 Mr. Partha will join the HUANG research lab as a PhD student, starting Jan 2020. Welcome aboard!

  • 9/19/2019 Our urban methane paper is eventually published at ES&T! Check it out.

  • 8/19/2019 Yaoxian Huang officially starts his tenure-track assistant professor position at Wayne State University, a premier, public research university locating in the heart of Detroit!