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4998
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Hughes Medal, Royal Society of London for his distinguished work as a solid state chemist. He has made seminal contributions to fields including superconductivity and the behaviour of metal nanoparticles, and has greatly advanced our understanding of the phenomenology of the metal-insulator transition
  • 1999 - Liversidge Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1993 - Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1985 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Peter Edwards is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Automotive Engineering.

The researcher's work focuses significantly on topics such as Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, and Noise Effects and Management.

Frequent publication venues where Peter Edwards' research appears include Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, National Science Open, and Science Advances.

Recent papers include:

  • Extensive field evidence for the release of HONO from the photolysis of nitrate aerosols (2023, Science Advances)
  • In situ ozone production is highly sensitive to volatile organic compounds in Delhi, India (2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • Low-NO atmospheric oxidation pathways in a polluted megacity (2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • Key Role of NO3 Radicals in the Production of Isoprene Nitrates and Nitrooxyorganosulfates in Beijing (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • A Four Carbon Organonitrate as a Significant Product of Secondary Isoprene Chemistry (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)

Peter Edwards collaborates frequently with several co-authors, such as Thomas J. Bannan, Sebastián Diez, Hugh Coe, James Lee, and Dwayne E. Heard.

Throughout their career, Edwards has been awarded multiple honors. These include the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society of London in 2003 for distinguished work in solid state chemistry, the Liversidge Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1999, the Tilden Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1993, and the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1985.

Best Publications

  • High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin

    Peter M. Edwards;Steven S. Brown;James M. Roberts;Ravan Ahmadov

  • Validate personal air-pollution sensors

    Alastair Lewis;Peter Edwards

  • Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Organic Nitrate Yield from NO3 Oxidation of Biogenic Hydrocarbons

    Juliane L. Fry;Danielle C. Draper;Kelley C. Barsanti;James N. Smith;James N. Smith

  • Evaluating the performance of low cost chemical sensors for air pollution research

    Alastair C. Lewis;James D. Lee;Peter M. Edwards;Marvin D. Shaw

  • Quantifying the magnitude of a missing hydroxyl radical source in a tropical rainforest

    L. K. Whalley;P. M. Edwards;K. L. Furneaux;A. Goddard

  • Understanding high wintertime ozone pollution events in an oil- and natural gas-producing region of the western US

    Ravan Ahmadov;Ravan Ahmadov;S. McKeen;S. McKeen;M. Trainer;R Banta

  • Chlorine as a primary radical: evaluation of methods to understand its role in initiation of oxidative cycles

    C. J. Young;C. J. Young;C. J. Young;R. A. Washenfelder;R. A. Washenfelder;P. M. Edwards;P. M. Edwards;D. D. Parrish

  • Volatile organic compound emissions from the oil and natural gas industry in the Uintah Basin, Utah: oil and gas well pad emissions compared to ambient air composition

    C. Warneke;C. Warneke;F. Geiger;P. M. Edwards;P. M. Edwards;W. Dube;W. Dube

  • Overview: Oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rainforest (the OP3 project): Introduction, rationale, location characteristics and tools

    C. N. Hewitt;J. D. Lee;A. R. MacKenzie;M. P. Barkley

  • Nighttime Chemical Transformation in Biomass Burning Plumes: A Box Model Analysis Initialized with Aircraft Observations.

    Zachary C J Decker;Zachary C J Decker;Zachary C J Decker;Kyle J Zarzana;Kyle J Zarzana;Matthew Coggon;Matthew Coggon;Kyung-Eun Min;Kyung-Eun Min

  • Ozone photochemistry in an oil and natural gas extraction region during winter: simulations of a snow-free season in the Uintah Basin, Utah

    P. M. Edwards;P. M. Edwards;C. J. Young;C. J. Young;K. Aikin;K. Aikin;J. A. deGouw;J. A. deGouw

  • A broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectrometer for aircraft measurements of glyoxal, methylglyoxal, nitrous acid, nitrogen dioxide, and water vapor

    K.-E. Min;K.-E. Min;K.-E. Min;R. A. Washenfelder;R. A. Washenfelder;W. P. Dubé;W. P. Dubé;A. O. Langford

  • Simulating atmospheric composition over a South-East Asian tropical rainforest: performance of a chemistry box model

    T. A. M. Pugh;A. R. MacKenzie;C. N. Hewitt;B. Langford

  • Influence of Oil and Gas Emissions on Summertime Ozone in the Colorado Northern Front Range

    Erin E. McDuffie;Erin E. McDuffie;Erin E. McDuffie;Peter M. Edwards;Jessica B. Gilman;Brian M. Lerner;Brian M. Lerner

  • An Odd Oxygen Framework for Wintertime Ammonium Nitrate Aerosol Pollution in Urban Areas: NOx and VOC Control as Mitigation Strategies

    C. C. Womack;C. C. Womack;E. E. McDuffie;E. E. McDuffie;E. E. McDuffie;P. M. Edwards;R. Bares

  • Impacts of HOx regeneration and recycling in the oxidation of isoprene: Consequences for the composition of past, present and future atmospheres

    A.T. Archibald;James G. Levine;N.L. Abraham;M.C. Cooke

  • OH reactivity in a South East Asian tropical rainforest during the Oxidant and Particle Photochemical Processes (OP3) project

    P. M. Edwards;P. M. Edwards;M. J. Evans;M. J. Evans;K. L. Furneaux;J. Hopkins

  • Evidence of reactive iodine chemistry in the Arctic boundary layer

    Anoop S. Mahajan;Marvin Shaw;Hilke Oetjen;Karen E. Hornsby;Karen E. Hornsby

  • Isoprene oxidation mechanisms: measurements and modelling of OH and HO 2 over a South-East Asian tropical rainforest during the OP3 field campaign

    D. Stone;M. J. Evans;P. M. Edwards;R. Commane;R. Commane

  • Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) yields from NO 3 radical + isoprene based on nighttime aircraft power plant plume transects

    Juliane L. Fry;Steven S. Brown;Steven S. Brown;Ann M. Middlebrook;Peter M. Edwards;Peter M. Edwards;Peter M. Edwards

  • Transition from high- to low-NO x control of night-time oxidation in the southeastern US

    Peter Edwards;Peter Edwards;Peter Edwards;K. C. Aikin;K. C. Aikin;W. P. Dube;W. P. Dube;J. L. Fry

  • Instrumentation and measurement strategy for the NOAA SENEX aircraft campaign as part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study 2013

    Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke;Michael Trainer;Joost A. de Gouw;Joost A. de Gouw;David D. Parrish;David D. Parrish

  • Investigation of secondary formation of formic acid: urban environment vs. oil and gas producing region

    B. Yuan;B. Yuan;P. R. Veres;P. R. Veres;C. Warneke;C. Warneke;J. M. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William P. Dubé
William P. Dubé Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Brian M. Lerner
Brian M. Lerner Aerodyne Research
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jeff Peischl
Jeff Peischl Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
J. A. de Gouw
J. A. de Gouw University of Colorado Boulder
Bin Yuan
Bin Yuan Jinan University

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