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Michael D. Hays is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with specific attention to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. They have contributed extensively to studies involving pollution, atmospheric science, automotive engineering, and environmental engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

Michael D. Hays has authored numerous scientific papers with a focus on environmental health and pollution. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Chemistry, lung toxicity and mutagenicity of burn pit smoke-related particulate matter" (2021) published in Particle and Fibre Toxicology
  • "Censoring Trace-Level Environmental Data: Statistical Analysis Considerations to Limit Bias" (2021) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Chemical composition, structures, and light absorption of N-containing aromatic compounds emitted from burning wood and charcoal in household cookstoves" (2020) published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Cookstove Emissions and Performance Evaluation Using a New ISO Protocol and Comparison of Results with Previous Test Protocols" (2021) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "A Fulvic Acid-like Substance Participates in the Pro-inflammatory Effects of Cigarette Smoke and Wood Smoke Particles" (2020) published in Chemical Research in Toxicology

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • James J. Jetter
  • Wyatt M. Champion
  • Yong Ho Kim
  • Ingrid George
  • Ilona Jaspers

Michael D. Hays has published multiple papers in key journals related to their field. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Particle and Fibre Toxicology
  • Chemical Research in Toxicology
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • Harvard Dataverse

Best Publications

  • Pollutant emissions and energy efficiency under controlled conditions for household biomass cookstoves and implications for metrics useful in setting international test standards.

    James Jetter;Yongxin Zhao;Kirk R. Smith;Bernine Khan

  • Open burning of agricultural biomass: Physical and chemical properties of particle-phase emissions

    Michael D. Hays;Philip M. Fine;Christopher D. Geron;Michael J. Kleeman

  • Speciation of gas-phase and fine particle emissions from burning of foliar fuels.

    Michael D Hays;Christopher D Geron;Kara J Linna;N Dean Smith

  • Mutagenicity and lung toxicity of smoldering vs. flaming emissions from various biomass fuels: implications for health effects from wildland fires.

    Yong Ho Kim;Yong Ho Kim;Sarah H Warren;Q Todd Krantz;Charly King

  • Light Absorption of Secondary Organic Aerosol: Composition and Contribution of Nitroaromatic Compounds.

    Mingjie Xie;Xi Chen;Michael D. Hays;Michael Lewandowski

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon size distributions in aerosols from appliances of residential wood combustion as determined by direct thermal desorption—GC/MS

    Michael D. Hays;N.Dean Smith;John Kinsey;Yuanji Dong

  • Iron Solubility Related to Particle Sulfur Content in Source Emission and Ambient Fine Particles

    M. Oakes;E. D. Ingall;B. Lai;M. M. Shafer

  • Traffic and Meteorological Impacts on Near-Road Air Quality: Summary of Methods and Trends from the Raleigh Near- Road Study

    Richard Baldauf;Eben Thoma;Michael Hays;Richard Shores

  • Fingerprinting soot (towards source identification): physical structure and chemical composition.

    Randy L. Vander Wal;Vicky M. Bryg;Michael D. Hays

  • The application of thermal methods for determining chemical composition of carbonaceous aerosols: A review

    Judith C Chow;Jian Zhen Yu;John G Watson;Steven Sai Hang Ho

  • XPS analysis of combustion aerosols for chemical composition, surface chemistry, and carbon chemical state.

    Randy L. Vander Wal;Vicky M. Bryg;Michael D. Hays

  • Light-absorbing organic carbon from prescribed and laboratory biomass burning and gasoline vehicle emissions.

    Mingjie Xie;Mingjie Xie;Michael D. Hays;Amara L. Holder

  • PCDD/F, PCB, HxCBz, PAH, and PM emission factors for fireplace and woodstove combustion in the San Francisco Bay region.

    Brian K. Gullett;Abderrahmane Touati;Michael D. Hays

  • Size distribution of trace organic species emitted from biomass combustion and meat charbroiling

    Michael J. Kleeman;Michael A. Robert;Sarah G. Riddle;Philip M. Fine

  • Evaluating the Performance of Household Liquefied Petroleum Gas Cookstoves

    Guofeng Shen;Michael D. Hays;Kirk R. Smith;Craig Williams

  • Differences in the OC/EC Ratios that Characterize Ambient and Source Aerosols due to Thermal-Optical Analysis

    Bernine Khan;Michael D. Hays;Chris Geron;James Jetter

  • Chemical characterization of the fine particle emissions from commercial aircraft engines during the Aircraft Particle Emissions eXperiment (APEX) 1 to 3.

    J. S. Kinsey;M. D. Hays;Y. Dong;D. C. Williams

  • Particle size distributions of metal and non-metal elements in an urban near-highway environment

    Michael D. Hays;Seung-Hyun Cho;Seung-Hyun Cho;Richard Baldauf;Richard Baldauf;James J. Schauer

  • A Modified Multisite Stern−Volmer Equation for the Determination of Conditional Stability Constants and Ligand Concentrations of Soil Fulvic Acid with Metal Ions

    Michael D Hays;David K Ryan;Stephen Pennell

  • Composition and light absorption of N-containing aromatic compounds in organic aerosols from laboratory biomass burning

    Mingjie Xie;Xi Chen;Michael D. Hays;Amara L. Holder

  • Developments in direct thermal extraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of fine aerosols

    Michael D. Hays;Richard J. Lavrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian K. Gullett
Brian K. Gullett Environmental Protection Agency
M. Ian Gilmour
M. Ian Gilmour Environmental Protection Agency
Richard Baldauf
Richard Baldauf Environmental Protection Agency
Gayle S.W. Hagler
Gayle S.W. Hagler Environmental Protection Agency
Guofeng Shen
Guofeng Shen Peking University
Randy L. Vander Wal
Randy L. Vander Wal Pennsylvania State University
Michael P. Hannigan
Michael P. Hannigan University of Colorado Boulder
Michael J. Kleeman
Michael J. Kleeman University of California, Davis
Chris Geron
Chris Geron Environmental Protection Agency
James J. Schauer
James J. Schauer University of Wisconsin–Madison

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