Welcome!
I conduct interdisciplinary research on air pollution and climate change. The following topics are nteresting to me:
- modeling of ozone and particles on urban, regional and global scales
- global atmospheric composition and radiative forcing of climate
- air pollution science and management
- integrated assessment
- health impact assessment
- international air pollution transport
- integrated planning of air pollution and climate mitigation
Highlights
Nov. 7, 2016. Yuqiang Zhang's paper on global tropospheric ozone and the importance of emission location appeared in Nature Geoscience today here. press release
July 22, 2016. Jason was named a member of NASA's new Health-Air Quality Applied Sciences Team. press release
May 17, 2016. Feature paper from Jason and co-authors - on improving understanding of the health effects of air pollution - appears in ES&T here. The cover photo of the issue was taken by collaborator Tong Zhu. press release
May 13, 2016. Raquel Silva's new paper on the importance of emissions sectors for global human health appeared online with Environmental Health Perspectives here. press release
April 8, 2016. Jason gives keynote talk at the 2016 NCBreathe conference.
March 28, 2016. Jason's new climate change class for fall 2016 is intended to engage students from across campus.
March 8, 2016. Congratulations to Jenna Hartley for defending her MS degree!
January 8, 2016. Congratulations to Dr. Yuqiang Zhang for successfully defending his PhD!
July 16, 2015. Congratulations to Dr. Raquel Silva for successfully defending her PhD!
January 15, 2015. Jason was named a Leopold Leadership Fellow.
Sept. 22, 2014. Jason gives invited presentation at the IGAC / iCACGP meeting in Brazil. The presentation can be seen here.
October 3, 2013. Our new paper on the air pollution and health co-benefits of global greenhouse gas reductions is now published in Nature Climate Change. It has gotten some good press:
July 16, 2013. Raquel Silva's paper on global air pollution mortality came out last week, and has been getting some attention. Here are some links:
Personal Project:
Solar Mexico: Renewable Energy Futures for Rural Mexico
Publications:
Fry, Air quality and radiative forcing of regional VOC emissions
West, Co-benefits of GHG reductions for global air quality and human health
Silva, Global air pollution mortality and the contribution of past climate change
Contact Information
Dr. J. Jason West
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and
Engineering
University of North Carolina
146B Rosenau Hall
CB#7431
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431
ph. (919) 843-3928
fax (919) 966-7911
jjwest At email.unc.edu