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Parisa A. Ariya

Parisa A. Ariya

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
9964
World Ranking
11269
National Ranking
309

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
10361
World Ranking
3147
National Ranking
134

Overview

Parisa A. Ariya is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science, focusing principally on atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, pollution, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their recent work includes publications in key journals across environmental and chemical sciences. Selected recent papers include:

  • E-Wastes: Bridging the Knowledge Gaps in Global Production Budgets, Composition, Recycling and Sustainability Implications (2020, Sustainable Chemistry)
  • Air quality standards for the concentration of particulate matter 2.5, global descriptive analysis (2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
  • Advances in Ultra-Trace Analytical Capability for Micro/Nanoplastics and Water-Soluble Polymers in the Environment: Fresh Falling Urban Snow (2021, Environmental Pollution)
  • Influence of Al(III) and Sb(V) on the transformation of ferrihydrite nanoparticles: Interaction among ferrihydrite, coprecipitated Al(III) and Sb(V) (2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Nanoplastics in Water: Artificial Intelligence-Assisted 4D Physicochemical Characterization and Rapid In Situ Detection (2024, Environmental Science & Technology)

Frequent collaborators of Ariya include:

  • Devendra Pal
  • Yevgen Nazarenko
  • Zi Wang
  • Ryan Hall
  • Rodrigo Rangel-Alvarado

Publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Atmosphere
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Communications Chemistry
  • Sustainable Chemistry
  • Environmental Pollution

Their main field of study is environmental science, with subfields including atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, pollution, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Key topics within Ariya's research include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Best Publications

  • Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

    W. R. Simpson;R. von Glasow;K. Riedel;P. Anderson

  • A synthesis of atmospheric mercury depletion event chemistry in the atmosphere and snow

    A. Steffen;T. Douglas;M. Amyot;P. Ariya

  • Atmospheric organic and bio-aerosols as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN): A review

    Jiming Sun;Parisa A. Ariya

  • Mercury physicochemical and biogeochemical transformation in the atmosphere and at atmospheric interfaces: a review and future directions.

    Parisa A. Ariya;Marc Amyot;Ashu Dastoor;Daniel Deeds

  • Reactions of Gaseous Mercury with Atomic and Molecular Halogens: Kinetics, Product Studies, and Atmospheric Implications

    Parisa A. Ariya;and Alexei Khalizov;Alexios Gidas

  • The Arctic: a sink for mercury

    Parisa A. Ariya;Ashu P. Dastoor;Marc Amyot;William H. Schroeder

  • New directions: The role of bioaerosols in atmospheric chemistry and physics

    Parisa A Ariya;Marc Amyot

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: chemical interactions of primary biological aerosols

    Laurent Deguillaume;M. Leriche;Pierre Amato;P. A. Ariya

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: research challenges concerning the impact of airborne micro-organisms on the atmosphere and climate

    C. E. Morris;C. E. Morris;D. C. Sands;M. Bardin;R. Jaenicke

  • Gas-Phase HO•-Initiated Reactions of Elemental Mercury: Kinetics, Product Studies, and Atmospheric Implications

    Biswajit Pal;Parisa A. Ariya

  • A review of uncertainties in atmospheric modeling of mercury chemistry I. Uncertainties in existing kinetic parameters - Fundamental limitations and the importance of heterogeneous chemistry

    Mahamud Subir;Parisa A. Ariya;Ashu P. Dastoor

  • Physical and chemical characterization of bioaerosols – Implications for nucleation processes

    P. A. Ariya;J. Sun;N. A. Eltouny;E. D. Hudson

  • Studies of ozone initiated reactions of gaseous mercury: kinetics, product studies, and atmospheric implications

    Biswajit Pal;Parisa A. Ariya

  • A theoretical study of the reactions of parent and substituted Criegee intermediates with water and the water dimer

    Andrew B. Ryzhkov;Parisa A. Ariya

  • Inhaled Pollutants: The Molecular Scene behind Respiratory and Systemic Diseases Associated with Ultrafine Particulate Matter

    Hussein Traboulsi;Necola Guerrina;Matthew Iu;Dusica Maysinger

  • Organics in environmental ices: sources, chemistry, and impacts

    V. F. McNeill;A. M. Grannas;J. P. D. Abbatt;M. Ammann

  • Microbiological degradation of atmospheric organic compounds

    Parisa A. Ariya;Oleg Nepotchatykh;Olga Ignatova;Marc Amyot

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: biological, physical and chemical characterization of aerosol particles

    D. G. Georgakopoulos;V. Despres;J. Frohlich-Nowoisky;R. Psenner

  • Potential for Mercury Reduction by Microbes in the High Arctic

    Alexandre J. Poulain;Sinéad M. Ní Chadhain;Parisa A. Ariya;Marc Amyot

  • Redox transformations of mercury in an Arctic snowpack at springtime

    Alexandre J. Poulain;Janick D. Lalonde;Marc Amyot;Justin A. Shead

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Amyot
Marc Amyot University of Montreal
Alexandre J. Poulain
Alexandre J. Poulain University of Ottawa
Alexandra Steffen
Alexandra Steffen Environment and Climate Change Canada
Florent Domine
Florent Domine Université Laval
Thomas A. Douglas
Thomas A. Douglas Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Henrik Skov
Henrik Skov Aarhus University
Rolf Sander
Rolf Sander Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Jan W. Bottenheim
Jan W. Bottenheim Environment and Climate Change Canada
Paul B. Shepson
Paul B. Shepson Stony Brook University
Kirk A. Peterson
Kirk A. Peterson Washington State University

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