Arthur Winer

Telephone: (310) 206-1278
E-mail: amwiner@ucla.edu

Dr. Winer is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and a core faculty member in the Environmental Science & Engineering Program, of which he was the Director from 1989 to 1997. Dr. Winer is an atmospheric chemist who has published more than 175 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of atmospheric chemistry and air pollution topics over the past thirty years.

Currently Dr. Winer's principal research interests are in the area of air pollutant exposure assessment, including measurements in personal breathing space. He and his graduate students are conducting experimental studies aimed at characterizing exposure to key air pollutants in microenvironments such as indoor and outdoor residential settings, portable classrooms, and diesel school buses. They are also developing and applying exposure models for specific cohorts such as children in the USC Children's Health Study, as well as for regional and sub-regional populations in the California South Coast Air Basin. Pollutants being studied include toxic air contaminants such as benzene and formaldehyde in the gas-phase, as well as fine and ultra-fine particles, including ambient PM-2.5 and diesel exhaust particles.

Dr. Winer's teaching activities focus on the atmospheric transformations of airborne chemicals, and their influence on regional and global air pollution phenomena such as photochemical smog, the accumulation of greenhouse gases and stratospheric ozone depletion.