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Alexander Laskin is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on Earth and planetary sciences, environmental science, and physics and astronomy. Their work covers significant subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, environmental chemistry, geophysics, oceanography, and atmospheric science.

The main topics addressed in their research include ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, seismic waves and analysis, geophysics and gravity measurements, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Laskin has contributed scholarly articles to a range of publication venues. Some of the most frequent venues include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors throughout their career. Frequent coauthors include Swarup China, Felipe Rivera-Adorno, Daniel Knopf, Steven Sharpe, and Brianna Peterson.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols as well as environmental impacts of biomass burning. Selected recent publications include:

  • Molecular composition and photochemical lifetimes of brown carbon chromophores in biomass burning organic aerosol (2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) (2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Chemical Composition and Molecular-Specific Optical Properties of Atmospheric Brown Carbon Associated with Biomass Burning (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Fluorescence characteristics of water-soluble organic carbon in atmospheric aerosol (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Photosensitized Reactions of a Phenolic Carbonyl from Wood Combustion in the Aqueous Phase-Chemical Evolution and Light Absorption Properties of AqSOA (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)

Best Publications

  • Chemistry of atmospheric brown carbon.

    Alexander Laskin;Julia Laskin;Sergey A. Nizkorodov

  • Nanospray desorption electrospray ionization: an ambient method for liquid-extraction surface sampling in mass spectrometry

    Patrick J. Roach;Julia Laskin;Alexander Laskin

  • Mexico City aerosol analysis during MILAGRO using high resolution aerosol mass spectrometry at the urban supersite (T0) – Part 1: Fine particle composition and organic source apportionment

    Allison Aiken;Allison Aiken;D. Salcedo;Michael J. Cubison;J. Huffman

  • The viscosity of atmospherically relevant organic particles

    Jonathan P. Reid;Allan K. Bertram;David O. Topping;Alexander Laskin

  • Heterogeneous chemistry of individual mineral dust particles from different dust source regions: the importance of particle mineralogy

    Brenda J Krueger;Vicki H Grassian;James P Cowin;Alexander Laskin

  • Molecular Characterization of Brown Carbon in Biomass Burning Aerosol Particles

    Peng Lin;Paige K. Aiona;Ying Li;Manabu Shiraiwa;Manabu Shiraiwa

  • Molecular Chemistry of Atmospheric Brown Carbon Inferred from a Nationwide Biomass Burning Event

    Peng Lin;Nir Bluvshtein;Yinon Rudich;Sergey A. Nizkorodov

  • Characterization of ambient aerosols in Mexico City during the MCMA-2003 campaign with Aerosol Mass Spectrometry: results from the CENICA Supersite

    D. Salcedo;D. Salcedo;T. B. Onasch;K. Dzepina;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Effect of Solar Radiation on the Optical Properties and Molecular Composition of Laboratory Proxies of Atmospheric Brown Carbon

    Hyun Ji Julie Lee;Paige Kuuipo Aiona;Alexander Laskin;Julia Laskin

  • Advanced flat top laser heating system for high pressure research at GSECARS: application to the melting behavior of germanium

    V. B. Prakapenka;A. Kubo;A. Kuznetsov;A. Laskin

  • Tropospheric chemistry of internally mixed sea salt and organic particles: Surprising reactivity of NaCl with weak organic acids

    Alexander Laskin;Ryan C. Moffet;Ryan C. Moffet;Mary K. Gilles;Jerome D. Fast

  • Reactions at Interfaces As a Source of Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Particles

    Alexander Laskin;Daniel J. Gaspar;Weihong Wang;Sherri W. Hunt

  • Formation of nitrogen- and sulfur-containing light-absorbing compounds accelerated by evaporation of water from secondary organic aerosols

    Tran B. Nguyen;Paula B. Lee;Katelyn M. Updyke;David L. Bones

  • Molecular characterization of nitrogen-containing organic compounds in biomass burning aerosols using high-resolution mass spectrometry.

    Alexander Laskin;Jeffrey S. Smith;Julia Laskin

  • Micro-FTIR study of soot chemical composition—evidence of aliphatic hydrocarbons on nascent soot surfaces

    Jeremy P. Cain;Paul L. Gassman;Hai Wang;Alexander Laskin

  • Molecular characterization of brown carbon (BrC) chromophores in secondary organic aerosol generated from photo-oxidation of toluene

    Peng Lin;Jiumeng Liu;John E. Shilling;Shawn M. Kathmann

  • Analysis of Individual Environmental Particles Using Modern Methods of Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis

    Alexander Laskin;James P. Cowin;Martin J. Iedema

  • Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Atmospheric Brown Carbon by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry with Electrospray and Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization.

    Peng Lin;Lauren T Fleming;Sergey A Nizkorodov;Julia Laskin

  • Technical Note: Evaluation of the WRF-Chem "aerosol chemical to aerosol optical properties" module using data from the MILAGRO campaign

    James C. Barnard;Jerome D. Fast;Guadalupe L. Paredes-Miranda;W. P. Arnott

  • Chemical characterization of SOA formed from aqueous-phase reactions of phenols with the triplet excited state of carbonyl and hydroxyl radical

    Lu Yu;Jeremy Smith;Alexander Laskin;Cort N. Anastasio

  • Molecular composition and photochemical lifetimes of brown carbon chromophores in biomass burning organic aerosol

    Lauren T. Fleming;Peng Lin;Peng Lin;James M. Roberts;Vanessa Selimovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Laskin
Julia Laskin Purdue University West Lafayette
Sergey A. Nizkorodov
Sergey A. Nizkorodov University of California, Irvine
Ryan C. Moffet
Ryan C. Moffet University of the Pacific
Mary K. Gilles
Mary K. Gilles Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John E. Shilling
John E. Shilling Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Hai Wang
Hai Wang Stanford University
Yinon Rudich
Yinon Rudich Weizmann Institute of Science
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Daniel A. Knopf
Daniel A. Knopf Stony Brook University
Vicki H. Grassian
Vicki H. Grassian University of California, San Diego

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