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Ryan C. Sullivan is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Medicine. Within these broader fields, their subfields of study focus on Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Epidemiology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work centers around main topics such as Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ryan C. Sullivan are:

  • Atmospheric aging enhances the ice nucleation ability of biomass-burning aerosol, 2021, Science Advances
  • Aerosol-Ice Formation Closure: A Southern Great Plains Field Campaign, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Biomass combustion produces ice-active minerals in biomass-burning aerosol and bottom ash, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Aerosol Optical Tweezers Elucidate the Chemistry, Acidity, Phase Separations, and Morphology of Atmospheric Microdroplets, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Endothelial glycocalyx degradation during sepsis: Causes and consequences, 2021, Matrix Biology Plus

Frequent co-authors with whom Ryan C. Sullivan has collaborated include Leif G. Jahn, Bailey B. Bowers, Lydia G. Jahl, Luke Monroe, and Eric P. Schmidt.

Their research has been published repeatedly in several journals, with notable frequent venues including ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Aerosol Science and Technology, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.

    Jessie M. Creamean;Kaitlyn J. Suski;Daniel Rosenfeld;Alberto Cazorla

  • Overview of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Gusev Crater: Landing site to Backstay Rock in the Columbia Hills

    R. E. Arvidson;S. W. Squyres;R. C. Anderson;J. F. Bell

  • Brownness of organics in aerosols from biomass burning linked to their black carbon content

    Rawad Saleh;Ellis S. Robinson;Daniel S. Tkacik;Adam T. Ahern

  • Bringing the ocean into the laboratory to probe the chemical complexity of sea spray aerosol

    Kimberly A. Prather;Timothy H. Bertram;Vicki H. Grassian;Grant B. Deane

  • The Opportunity Rover's Athena science investigation at Meridiani Planum, Mars.

    S. W. Squyres;R. E. Arvidson;J.F. Bell;J. Brückner

  • Sea spray aerosol as a unique source of ice nucleating particles

    Paul J. DeMott;Thomas C. J. Hill;Christina S. McCluskey;Kimberly A. Prather

  • Direct observations of the atmospheric processing of Asian mineral dust

    R. C. Sullivan;S. A. Guazzotti;D. A. Sodeman;D. A. Sodeman;K. A. Prather

  • Integrating laboratory and field data to quantify the immersion freezing ice nucleation activity of mineral dust particles

    P. J. DeMott;A. J. Prenni;A. J. Prenni;G. R. McMeeking;R. C. Sullivan

  • The Spirit Rover's Athena Science Investigation at Gusev Crater, Mars

    Steven W. Squyres;Raymond E. Arvidson;James F. Bell;J. Bruckner

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • Martian Fluvial Conglomerates at Gale Crater

    R. M. E. Williams;J. P. Grotzinger;W. E. Dietrich;S. Gupta

  • Curiosity at Gale Crater, Mars: Characterization and Analysis of the Rocknest Sand Shadow

    D F Blake;R V Morris;G Kocurek;Shaunna M Morrison

  • Erosion rates at the Mars Exploration Rover landing sites and long-term climate change on Mars

    M. P. Golombek;John A. Grant;Larry S. Crumpler;Ronald Greeley

  • Effect of chemical mixing state on the hygroscopicity and cloud nucleation properties of calcium mineral dust particles

    R. C. Sullivan;R. C. Sullivan;M. J. K. Moore;M. D. Petters;S. M. Kreidenweis

  • Results from the Mars Pathfinder camera.

    P. H. Smith;J. F. Bell;N. T. Bridges;D. T. Britt

  • Trace gas emissions from combustion of peat, crop residue, domestic biofuels, grasses, and other fuels: configuration and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) component of the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4)

    C. E. Stockwell;R. J. Yokelson;S. M. Kreidenweis;A. L. Robinson

  • Aeolian processes at the Mars Exploration Rover Meridiani Planum landing site.

    R. Sullivan;D. Banfield;J.F. Bell;W. Calvin

  • Characterization of Asian Dust during ACE-Asia

    R. Arimoto;Y.J. Kim;Y.P. Kim;P.K. Quinn

  • Recent advances in our understanding of atmospheric chemistry and climate made possible by on-line aerosol analysis instrumentation.

    Ryan C. Sullivan;Kimberly A. Prather

  • Irreversible loss of ice nucleation active sites in mineral dust particles caused by sulphuric acid condensation

    R. C. Sullivan;M. D. Petters;M. D. Petters;P. J. DeMott;S. M. Kreidenweis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald Greeley
Ronald Greeley Arizona State University
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Matthew P. Golombek
Matthew P. Golombek California Institute of Technology
Robert T. Pappalardo
Robert T. Pappalardo California Institute of Technology
James F. Bell
James F. Bell Arizona State University
Jeffrey R. Johnson
Jeffrey R. Johnson Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Sara C. Pryor
Sara C. Pryor Cornell University
Sonia M. Kreidenweis
Sonia M. Kreidenweis Colorado State University
Markus D. Petters
Markus D. Petters North Carolina State University
James W. Head
James W. Head Brown University

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