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Overview

Vlad Isakov is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their work has a strong emphasis on air quality monitoring, environmental impacts of pollution, and exposure assessment.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

The scientist has contributed to several subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Automotive Engineering, with additional interests in Pollution and Speech and Hearing.

Some of the recent publications authored or co-authored by Vlad Isakov include:

  • "Identifying air pollution source impacts in urban communities using mobile monitoring," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Enhancing the local air quality benefits of roadside green infrastructure using low-cost, impermeable, solid structures (LISS)," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Fine-Scale Modeling of Individual Exposures to Ambient PM2.5, EC, NOx, and CO for the Coronary Artery Disease and Environmental Exposure (CADEE) Study," 2020, Atmosphere
  • "Classification of antibiotics contained in urban wastewater," 2020, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • "Microenvironment Tracker (MicroTrac) model to estimate time-location of individuals for air pollution exposure assessments: model evaluation using smartphone data," 2022, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology

Vlad Isakov frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • Vestnik of Geosciences
  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Saravanan Arunachalam, Michael S. Breen, E V Grakhova, Miyuki Breen, and Anna Abramova, with a notable number of joint publications in these partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Roadside vegetation barrier designs to mitigate near-road air pollution impacts

    Zheming Tong;Richard W. Baldauf;Vlad Isakov;Parikshit Deshmukh

  • Field investigation of roadside vegetative and structural barrier impact on near-road ultrafine particle concentrations under a variety of wind conditions

    Gayle S.W. Hagler;Ming Yeng Lin;Andrey Khlystov;Richard W. Baldauf;Richard W. Baldauf

  • Impacts of noise barriers on near-road air quality

    R. Baldauf;E. Thoma;A. Khlystov;V. Isakov

  • RLINE: A line source dispersion model for near-surface releases

    Michelle G. Snyder;Akula Venkatram;David K. Heist;Steven G. Perry

  • Evaluation of land-use regression models used to predict air quality concentrations in an urban area

    Markey Johnson;V. Isakov;J.S. Touma;S. Mukerjee

  • The effects of roadside structures on the transport and dispersion of ultrafine particles from highways

    George E. Bowker;Richard Baldauf;Vlad Isakov;Andrey Khlystov

  • 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

  • Tracer studies to characterize the effects of roadside noise barriers on near-road pollutant dispersion under varying atmospheric stability conditions

    Dennis Finn;Kirk L. Clawson;Roger G. Carter;Jason D. Rich

  • A hybrid modeling approach to resolve pollutant concentrations in an urban area

    Ariel F. Stein;Vlad Isakov;James Godowitch;Roland R. Draxler

  • Estimating near-road pollutant dispersion: A model inter-comparison

    David Heist;Vlad Isakov;Steven Perry;Michelle Snyder

  • A case study of bora-driven flow and density changes on the adriatic shelf (January 1987)

    Gordana Beg Paklar;Vlad Isakov;Darko Koračin;Vassilliki Kourafalou

  • Combining Regional-and Local-Scale Air Quality Models with Exposure Models for Use in Environmental Health Studies

    Vlad Isakov;Jawad S. Touma;Janet Burke;Danelle T. Lobdell

  • Modeling dispersion at distances of meters from urban sources

    Akula Venkatram;Vlad Isakov;Jing Yuan;David Pankratz

  • Resolving local-scale emissions for modeling air quality near roadways.

    Rich Cook;Vlad Isakov;Jawad S. Touma;William Benjey

  • Re-formulation of plume spread for near-surface dispersion

    Akula Venkatram;Michelle G. Snyder;David K. Heist;Steven G. Perry

  • A case study for assessing uncertainty in local-scale regulatory air quality modeling applications

    Todd Sax;Vlad Isakov

  • Using CMAQ for Exposure Modeling and Characterizing the Subgrid Variability for Exposure Estimates

    Vlad Isakov;John S. Irwin;Jason Ching

  • The near-road exposures and effects of urban air pollutants study (NEXUS): Study design and methods

    Alan Vette;Janet Burke;Gary Norris;Matthew Landis

  • The effects of roadside vegetation characteristics on local, near-road air quality

    Parikshit Deshmukh;Vlad Isakov;Akula Venkatram;Bo Yang

  • Air quality variability near a highway in a complex urban environment

    Richard W. Baldauf;David Heist;Vlad Isakov;Steven Perry

  • Analysis of air quality data near roadways using a dispersion model

    Akula Venkatram;Vlad Isakov;Eben Thoma;Richard Baldauf

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Baldauf
Richard Baldauf Environmental Protection Agency
Akula Venkatram
Akula Venkatram University of California, Riverside
Halûk Özkaynak
Halûk Özkaynak Environmental Protection Agency
Stuart Batterman
Stuart Batterman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gayle S.W. Hagler
Gayle S.W. Hagler Environmental Protection Agency
James A. Mulholland
James A. Mulholland Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrey Khlystov
Andrey Khlystov Desert Research Institute
Jeremy A. Sarnat
Jeremy A. Sarnat Emory University
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat
Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat Emory University
K. Max Zhang
K. Max Zhang Cornell University

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