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Karsten Baumann is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with an emphasis on atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, and environmental engineering.

The main topics explored in Baumann's work include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and air quality monitoring and forecasting.

Baumann has contributed to several recent scientific publications. Notable papers include:

  • Chemical characterization of secondary organic aerosol at a rural site in the southeastern US: insights from simultaneous high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) and FIGAERO chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS) measurements, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric Deposition and Annual Flux of Legacy Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Replacement Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids in Wilmington, NC, USA, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • Low-Molecular-Weight Carboxylic Acids in the Southeastern U.S.: Formation, Partitioning, and Implications for Organic Aerosol Aging, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Natural and Anthropogenically Influenced Isoprene Oxidation in Southeastern United States and Central Amazon, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • 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

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Baumann include Jason D. Surratt, Barbara J. Turpin, Jiaqi Zhou, Glenn Morrison, and Zhenfa Zhang.

Baumann's research has been published mainly in the following venues:

  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Their body of work demonstrates interdisciplinary research spanning environmental chemistry, atmospheric aerosols, and the implications of pollutants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on air quality and health.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Refinements to the particle-into-liquid sampler (PILS) for ground and airborne measurements of water soluble aerosol composition

    Douglas A. Orsini;Yilin Ma;Amy Sullivan;Berko Sierau

  • Highly functionalized organic nitrates in the southeast United States: Contribution to secondary organic aerosol and reactive nitrogen budgets

    Ben H. Lee;Claudia Mohr;Felipe D. Lopez-Hilfiker;Anna Lutz

  • A large and ubiquitous source of atmospheric formic acid

    D. B. Millet;M. Baasandorj;D. K. Farmer;J. A. Thornton

  • Measurement of aerosol chemical, physical and radiative properties in the Yangtze delta region of China

    Jin Xu;M.H. Bergin;X. Yu;G. Liu

  • Biomass burning dominates brown carbon absorption in the rural southeastern United States

    R. A. Washenfelder;R. A. Washenfelder;A. R. Attwood;A. R. Attwood;C. A. Brock;H. Guo

  • Gaseous and particulate emissions from prescribed burning in Georgia.

    Sangil Lee;Karsten Baumann;James J. Schauer;Rebecca J. Sheesley

  • Real-time continuous characterization of secondary organic aerosol derived from isoprene epoxydiols in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, using the aerodyne aerosol chemical speciation monitor

    Sri Hapsari Budisulistiorini;Manjula R. Canagaratna;Philip L. Croteau;Wendy J. Marth

  • Modeling the Current and Future Roles of Particulate Organic Nitrates in the Southeastern United States

    Havala O. T. Pye;Deborah J. Luecken;Lu Xu;Christopher M. Boyd

  • Increasing Isoprene Epoxydiol-to-Inorganic Sulfate Aerosol Ratio Results in Extensive Conversion of Inorganic Sulfate to Organosulfur Forms: Implications for Aerosol Physicochemical Properties

    Matthieu Riva;Matthieu Riva;Yuzhi Chen;Yue Zhang;Ziying Lei

  • Organic nitrate aerosol formation via NO 3 + biogenic volatile organic compounds in the southeastern United States

    B. R. Ayres;H. M. Allen;H. M. Allen;D. C. Draper;D. C. Draper;S. S. Brown

  • Atmospheric amines and ammonia measured with a chemical ionization mass spectrometer (CIMS)

    Y. You;V. P. Kanawade;J. A. de Gouw;Alex B. Guenther;Alex B. Guenther

  • Photochemical modeling of hydroxyl and its relationship to other species during the Tropospheric OH Photochemistry Experiment

    S. A. McKeen;G. Mount;F. Eisele;E. Williams

  • Assessing the impact of anthropogenic pollution on isoprene-derived secondary organic aerosol formation in PM 2.5 collected from the Birmingham, Alabama, ground site during the 2013 Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study

    Weruka Rattanavaraha;Kevin Chu;Sri Hapsari Budisulistiorini;Matthieu Riva

  • Measurements of PAN, PPN, and MPAN made during the 1994 and 1995 Nashville Intensives of the Southern Oxidant Study: Implications for regional ozone production from biogenic hydrocarbons

    James M. Roberts;Jonathan Williams;Karsten Baumann;Martin P. Buhr

  • Intercomparison of ground-based NO y measurement techniques

    E. J. Williams;K. Baumann;J. M. Roberts;S. B. Bertman

  • Chemical climatology of the southeastern United States, 1999–2013

    G. M. Hidy;C. L. Blanchard;K. Baumann;E. Edgerton

  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis of atmospheric organosulfates in Centreville, Alabama

    Anusha P. S. Hettiyadura;Thilina Jayarathne;Karsten Baumann;Allen H. Goldstein

  • HO2/OH and RO2/HO2 ratios during the Tropospheric OH Photochemistry Experiment: Measurement and theory

    P. S. Stevens;P. S. Stevens;J. H. Mather;W. H. Brune;F. Eisele

  • An overview of the Stratospheric-Tropospheric Experiment: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone (STERAO)-Deep Convection experiment with results for the July 10, 1996 storm

    J. E. Dye;B. A. Ridley;W. Skamarock;M. Barth

  • Relationships of trace gases and aerosols and the emission characteristics at Lin'an, a rural site in eastern China, during spring 2001

    Tao Wang;C. H. Wong;T. F. Cheung;D. R. Blake

  • Molecular-Size-Separated Brown Carbon Absorption for Biomass-Burning Aerosol at Multiple Field Sites.

    Robert A. Di Lorenzo;Rebecca A. Washenfelder;Rebecca A. Washenfelder;Alexis R. Attwood;Alexis R. Attwood;Hongyu Guo

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric S. Edgerton
Eric S. Edgerton Durham University
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
Abigail R. Koss
Abigail R. Koss Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
William H. Brune
William H. Brune Pennsylvania State University
Weiwei Hu
Weiwei Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rodney J. Weber
Rodney J. Weber Georgia Institute of Technology
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Eric J. Williams
Eric J. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nga L. Ng
Nga L. Ng Georgia Institute of Technology
Jason D. Surratt
Jason D. Surratt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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