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79
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24709
World Ranking
1006
National Ranking
437

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Barbara J. Turpin is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of environmental science, with particular emphasis on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols as well as air quality and health impacts.

The primary fields of study for Turpin include environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. They have focused on several subfields, notably atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, and environmental engineering.

Turpin's main research topics center on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) research, atmospheric ozone and climate, toxic organic pollutants impact, air quality monitoring and forecasting, and indoor air quality and microbial exposure.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Jason D. Surratt
  • Glenn Morrison
  • Zhenfa Zhang
  • Yue Zhang
  • Avram Gold

They have published extensively in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • UNC Libraries
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • ACS ES&T Air

Some recent publications include:

  • "Heterogeneous Hydroxyl Radical Oxidation of Isoprene-Epoxydiol-Derived Methyltetrol Sulfates: Plausible Formation Mechanisms of Previously Unexplained Organosulfates in Ambient Fine Aerosols," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Atmospheric Deposition and Annual Flux of Legacy Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Replacement Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids in Wilmington, NC, USA," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "Analytical method interferences for perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPeA) and perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) in biological and environmental samples," 2022, Chemosphere
  • "PFOS dominates PFAS composition in ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) collected across North Carolina nearly 20 years after the end of its US production," 2021, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • "The Need for a Tighter Particulate-Matter Air-Quality Standard," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

Barbara J. Turpin has been recognized by their peers through fellowship appointments, including as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Species contributions to PM2.5 mass concentrations: Revisiting common assumptions for estimating organic mass

    Barbara J. Turpin;Ho-Jin Lim

  • Identification of secondary organic aerosol episodes and quantitation of primary and secondary organic aerosol concentrations during SCAQS

    Barbara J. Turpin;James J. Huntzicker

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation in cloud droplets and aqueous particles (aqSOA): a review of laboratory, field and model studies

    B. Ervens;B. Ervens;B. J. Turpin;R. J. Weber

  • Measuring and simulating particulate organics in the atmosphere: problems and prospects

    Barbara J. Turpin;Pradeep Saxena;Elisabeth Andrews

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation in cloud and fog droplets: a literature evaluation of plausibility

    James D Blando;Barbara J Turpin

  • Atmospheric oxalic acid and SOA production from glyoxal: Results of aqueous photooxidation experiments

    Annmarie G. Carlton;Barbara Jo Turpin;Katye E. Altieri;Sybil Seitzinger

  • Aqueous chemistry and its role in secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation

    Y. B. Lim;Y. Tan;M. J. Perri;S. P. Seitzinger

  • Characterization of the dust/smoke aerosol that settled east of the World Trade Center (WTC) in lower Manhattan after the collapse of the WTC 11 September 2001.

    Paul J Lioy;Clifford P Weisel;James R Millette;Steven Eisenreich

  • Origins of primary and secondary organic aerosol in Atlanta: results of time-resolved measurements during the Atlanta Supersite Experiment

    Ho Jin Lim;Barbara Jo Turpin

  • ACE-Asia intercomparison of a thermal-optical method for the determination of particle-phase organic and elemental carbon.

    J. J. Schauer;B. T. Mader;J. T. DeMinter;G. Heidemann

  • Investigation of organic aerosol sampling artifacts in the los angeles basin

    Barbara J. Turpin;James J. Huntzicker;Susanne V. Hering

  • Isoprene forms secondary organic aerosol through cloud processing: model simulations.

    † Ho-Jin Lim;and Annmarie G. Carlton;Barbara J. Turpin

  • Composition and major sources of organic compounds of aerosol particulate matter sampled during the ACE-Asia campaign

    Bernd R.T. Simoneit;Bernd R.T. Simoneit;Minoru Kobayashi;Michihiro Mochida;Kimitaka Kawamura

  • Link between isoprene and secondary organic aerosol (SOA): Pyruvic acid oxidation yields low volatility organic acids in clouds

    Annmarie G. Carlton;Barbara J. Turpin;Ho Jin Lim;Katye E. Altieri

  • Oligomers formed through in-cloud methylglyoxal reactions: Chemical composition, properties, and mechanisms investigated by ultra-high resolution FT-ICR mass spectrometry

    K.E. Altieri;S.P. Seitzinger;A.G. Carlton;B.J. Turpin

  • Influence of ambient (outdoor) sources on residential indoor and personal PM2.5 concentrations: analyses of RIOPA data.

    Qing Yu Meng;Barbara J Turpin;Leo Korn;Clifford P Weisel

  • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Indoor and Outdoor Air of Three Cities in the U.S.

    Yelena Y Naumova;Steven J Eisenreich;Barbara J Turpin;Clifford P Weisel

  • An in situ, time-resolved analyzer for aerosol organic and elemental carbon

    Barbara Jo Turpin;R. A. Cary;J. J. Huntzicker

  • Secondary organic aerosol yields from cloud-processing of isoprene oxidation products

    Barbara Ervens;Barbara Ervens;Annmarie G. Carlton;Barbara J. Turpin;Katye E. Altieri

  • Oligomers, organosulfates, and nitrooxy organosulfates in rainwater identified by ultra-high resolution electrospray ionization FT-ICR mass spectrometry

    K. E. Altieri;B. J. Turpin;S. P. Seitzinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Sybil P. Seitzinger
Sybil P. Seitzinger University of Victoria
Annmarie G. Carlton
Annmarie G. Carlton University of California, Irvine
Clifford P. Weisel
Clifford P. Weisel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jason D. Surratt
Jason D. Surratt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter H. McMurry
Peter H. McMurry University of Minnesota
David Q. Rich
David Q. Rich University of Rochester Medical Center
Avram Gold
Avram Gold University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven J. Eisenreich
Steven J. Eisenreich Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Halûk Özkaynak
Halûk Özkaynak Environmental Protection Agency
Junfeng Zhang
Junfeng Zhang Duke University

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