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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1997 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Allen H. Goldstein is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work focused on areas including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

The scientist's research covers multiple topics related to atmospheric and environmental chemistry. These main topics include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Odor and Emission Control Technologies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Among recent publications, Goldstein has contributed to studies addressing indoor air quality and atmospheric chemistry. Notable papers include:

  • Indoor Particulate Matter during HOMEChem: Concentrations, Size Distributions, and Exposures, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Wildfire smoke impacts on indoor air quality assessed using crowdsourced data in California, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Surface reservoirs dominate dynamic gas-surface partitioning of many indoor air constituents, 2020, Science Advances
  • Multiphase Chemistry Controls Inorganic Chlorinated and Nitrogenated Compounds in Indoor Air during Bleach Cleaning, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Volatile organic compound emissions during HOMEChem, 2021, Indoor Air

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Goldstein include Caleb Arata, Delphine K. Farmer, Pawel K. Misztal, William W. Nazaroff, and David M. Lunderberg. These collaborations indicate interdisciplinary and sustained research partnerships.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in leading venues such as Environmental Science & Technology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Indoor Air.

Goldstein has received several awards recognizing contributions to their fields, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2011
  • Hellman Fellow, 1997

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issues

    Mattias Hallquist;J. C. Wenger;U. Baltensperger;Y. Rudich

  • Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites

    Kell Wilson;Allen Goldstein;Eva Falge;Marc Aubinet

  • Known and unexplored organic constituents in the Earth's atmosphere

    Allen H. Goldstein;Ian E. Galbally

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissions.

    Brian C. McDonald;Brian C. McDonald;Joost A. De Gouw;Joost A. De Gouw;Jessica B. Gilman;Shantanu H. Jathar

  • Spatially resolved flux measurements of NOx from London suggest significantly higher emissions than predicted by inventories

    Adam R. Vaughan;James D. Lee;Pawel K. Misztal;Stefan Metzger;Stefan Metzger

  • Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests

    Peter E Thornton;Beverley E Law;Henry L Gholz;Kenneth L Clark

  • Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

    Manish Shrivastava;Christopher D. Cappa;Jiwen Fan;Allen H. Goldstein

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Guangsheng Zhou;Guoyi Zhou

  • Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

    B. D. Amiro;A. G. Barr;J. G. Barr;T. A. Black

  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

    Xuhui Lee;Michael L. Goulden;David Y. Hollinger;Alan Barr

  • Microbial soil respiration and its dependency on carbon inputs, soil temperature and moisture

    J. Curiel Yuste;J. Curiel Yuste;D. D. Baldocchi;A. Gershenson;A. Goldstein

  • Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu;Guirui Yu;Jean Marc Bonnefond

  • Effects of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol formation from isoprene and monoterpenes in the southeastern United States

    Lu Xu;Hongyu Guo;Christopher M. Boyd;Mitchel Klein

  • Elucidating secondary organic aerosol from diesel and gasoline vehicles through detailed characterization of organic carbon emissions

    Drew R. Gentner;Gabriel Isaacman;David R. Worton;Arthur W. H. Chan

  • A new model of gross primary productivity for North American ecosystems based solely on the enhanced vegetation index and land surface temperature from MODIS

    Daniel A. Sims;Abdullah F. Rahman;Vicente D. Cordova;Bassil Z. El-Masri

  • Review of Urban Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Gasoline and Diesel Motor Vehicle Emissions

    Drew R. Gentner;Shantanu H. Jathar;Timothy D. Gordon;Timothy D. Gordon;Roya Bahreini

  • Gas‐phase products and secondary aerosol yields from the photooxidation of 16 different terpenes

    Anita Lee;Allen H. Goldstein;Jesse H. Kroll;Nga L. Ng

  • Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emission from leaf to planet in a global carbon-chemistry-climate model

    N. Unger;K. Harper;Y. Zheng;N. Y. Kiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Pawel K. Misztal
Pawel K. Misztal University of California, Berkeley
David R. Worton
David R. Worton National Physical Laboratory
Alex Guenther
Alex Guenther University of California, Irvine
Weiwei Hu
Weiwei Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Drew R. Gentner
Drew R. Gentner Yale University
Douglas A. Day
Douglas A. Day University of Colorado Boulder
Dylan B. Millet
Dylan B. Millet University of Minnesota
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William H. Brune
William H. Brune Pennsylvania State University

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