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Overview

Greg J. Evans is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, focusing primarily on environmental science. The body of research produced by Evans concentrates on various aspects of air quality, its health impacts, and related environmental and engineering topics.

Their main field of study is Environmental Science, with substantial contributions across several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Environmental Engineering; Automotive Engineering; Atmospheric Science; and Global and Planetary Change.

Evans's research spans a range of key topics such as:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Engineering Education and Curriculum Development

Their recent papers include:

  • An ecological analysis of long-term exposure to PM2.5 and incidence of COVID-19 in Canadian health regions, 2020, Environmental Research
  • Long-term analysis of PM2.5 from 2004 to 2017 in Toronto: Composition, sources, and oxidative potential, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Quantifying metal emissions from vehicular traffic using real world emission factors, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Association of Sulfur, Transition Metals, and the Oxidative Potential of Outdoor PM2.5 with Acute Cardiovascular Events: A Case-Crossover Study of Canadian Adults, 2021, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • The state of science on severe air pollution episodes: Quantitative and qualitative analysis, 2021, Environment International

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Cheol-Heon Jeong
  • Jonathan M. Wang
  • Scott Weichenthal
  • Marianne Hatzopoulou
  • Nathan Hilker

Evans publishes regularly in several journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Atmospheric Pollution Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)

Best Publications

  • Overview paper: New insights into aerosol and climate in the Arctic

    Jonathan P. D. Abbatt;W. Richard Leaitch;Amir A. Aliabadi;Allan K. Bertram

  • Temporal and spatial variability of traffic-related PM2.5 sources: Comparison of exhaust and non-exhaust emissions

    Cheol-Heon Jeong;Jon M. Wang;Nathan Hilker;Jerzy Debosz

  • Cytotoxic and proinflammatory effects of ambient and source-related particulate matter (PM) in relation to the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cytokine adsorption by particles

    Umme S. Akhtar;Robert D. McWhinney;Neeraj Rastogi;Jonathan P. D. Abbatt

  • Mass Absorption Cross-Section of Ambient Black Carbon Aerosol in Relation to Chemical Age

    A. Knox;G. J. Evans;J. R. Brook;X. Yao

  • Ambient PM2.5 and risk of emergency room visits for myocardial infarction: impact of regional PM2.5 oxidative potential: a case-crossover study.

    Scott Weichenthal;Eric Lavigne;Greg J. Evans;Krystal Pollitt

  • Ambient measurements and source apportionment of fossil fuel and biomass burning black carbon in Ontario

    R.M. Healy;U. Sofowote;Y. Su;J. Debosz

  • Ultrafine particles and PM2.5 in the air of cities around the world: Are they representative of each other?

    Alma Lorelei de Jesus;Mahmudur Rahman;Mandana Mazaheri;Helen Thompson

  • Inter-Comparison of a Fast Mobility Particle Sizer and a Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer Incorporating an Ultrafine Water-Based Condensation Particle Counter

    Cheol-Heon Jeong;Greg J. Evans

  • Fine Particulate Matter and Emergency Room Visits for Respiratory Illness. Effect Modification by Oxidative Potential

    Scott A Weichenthal;Scott A Weichenthal;Eric Lavigne;Greg J Evans;Krystal J Godri Pollitt

  • Light‐absorbing properties of ambient black carbon and brown carbon from fossil fuel and biomass burning sources

    Robert M. Healy;Robert M. Healy;Jack M. Wang;Cheol-Heon Jeong;Alex K.Y. Lee

  • Quantitative determination of carbonaceous particle mixing state in Paris using single-particle mass spectrometer and aerosol mass spectrometer measurements

    Robert M. Healy;Robert M. Healy;J. Sciare;Laurent Poulain;M. Crippa

  • Simultaneous factor analysis of organic particle and gas mass spectra: AMS and PTR-MS measurements at an urban site

    J. G. Slowik;A. Vlasenko;M. McGuire;G. J. Evans

  • Oxidative burden of fine particulate air pollution and risk of cause-specific mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).

    Scott Weichenthal;Daniel L. Crouse;Lauren Pinault;Krystal Godri-Pollitt

  • Sequential Extraction of Metal Contaminated Soils with Radiochemical Assessment of Readsorption Effects

    Mark D. Ho;Greg J. Evans

  • Particle formation and growth at five rural and urban sites

    C.-H. Jeong;G. J. Evans;M. L. McGuire;R. Y.-W. Chang

  • The combined effects of physicochemical properties of size-fractionated ambient particulate matter on in vitro toxicity in human A549 lung epithelial cells

    Umme S. Akhtar;Neeraj Rastogi;Robert D. McWhinney;Bruce Urch

  • Receptor model based identification of PM2.5 sources in Canadian cities

    Cheol–Heon Jeong;Maygan L. McGuire;Dennis Herod;Tom Dann

  • Cloud and fog processing enhanced gas-to-particle partitioning of trimethylamine.

    Peter J. G. Rehbein;Cheol-Heon Jeong;Maygan L. McGuire;Xiaohong Yao

  • Metro Commuter Exposures to Particulate Air Pollution and PM2.5-Associated Elements in Three Canadian Cities: The Urban Transportation Exposure Study

    Keith Van Ryswyk;Angelos T Anastasopolos;Greg J. Evans;Liu Sun

  • Operational Speciation of Cadmium, Copper, Lead and Zinc in the NIST Standard Reference Materials 2710 and 2711 (Montana Soil) by the BCR Sequential Extraction Procedure and Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

    Mark D. Ho;Greg J. Evans

  • The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium - a protocol for building a national environmental exposure data platform for integrated analyses of urban form and health.

    Jeffrey R. Brook;Eleanor M. Setton;Evan Seed;Mahdi Shooshtari

  • New insights into aerosol and climate in the Arctic

    Jonathan P. D. Abbatt;W. Richard Leaitch;Amir A. Aliabadi;Alan K. Bertram

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaohong Yao
Xiaohong Yao Ocean University of China
Jeffrey R. Brook
Jeffrey R. Brook University of Toronto
Eric Lavigne
Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa
John Liggio
John Liggio Environment and Climate Change Canada
Rachel Y.-W. Chang
Rachel Y.-W. Chang Dalhousie University
John C. Wenger
John C. Wenger University College Cork
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Marianne Hatzopoulou
Marianne Hatzopoulou University of Toronto
Ralf M. Staebler
Ralf M. Staebler Environment and Climate Change Canada
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University

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