Sally Pusede
Associate Professor
I am an atmospheric chemist with broad interests in air quality and climate change. I am also Co-Director of the Repair Lab, an interdisciplinary environmental justice lab at UVA. My atmospheric chemistry research group in the Department of Environmental Sciences makes and uses measurements at the Earth’s surface, from aircraft, and space in polluted cities, agricultural areas, and forest canopies. Our focus is on reactive nitrogen, its role in chemical oxidation, its neighborhood-level variability, and emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. We use observed spatial and temporal variability to derive mechanistic insight into processes taking place within cities and human-influenced environments. We work to find solutions to atmospheric problems that adversely affect human health and ecosystems.
Publications
- Dressel, I. M., Zhang, S., Demetillo, M. A. G., Yu, S., Fields, K. P., Judd, L. M., Nowlan, C. R., Sun K., Kotsakis, A., Turner, A. J., and Pusede, S. E.: Neighborhood-level nitrogen dioxide inequalities contribute to surface ozone in Houston, Texas, Environ. Sci. Technol.–Air, 1, 9, 973–988, 2024.
- Fields, K. P., Miller, T. K., Wood, A., Kirts, L., Jones, M., and Pusede, S. E.: Practicing Repair: Advancing community-based solutions on coal dust pollution in Hampton Roads, Virginia through a practitioner-in-residence program, Environmental Justice, 2024.
- West, J. J., Nolte, C. G., Bell, M. L., Fiore, A. M., Georgopoulos, P. G., Hess, J. J., Mickley, L. J., O’Neill, S. M., Pierce, J. R., Pinder, R. W., Pusede, S. E., Shindell, D. T., and Wilson, S. M.: Chapter 14. Air Quality. In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A. R. , Avery, C. W., Easterling, D. R., Kunkel, K. E., Stewart, B. C., and Maycock, T. K. Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA. 2023
- Dressel, I. M., Demetillo, M. G. D., Judd, L. M., Janz, S. J., Fields, K. P., Sun, K., Fiore, A. M., McDonald, B. C., and Pusede, S. E.: Daily satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality in New York City, New York and Newark, New Jersey: Evaluation and application, Environ. Sci. Technol., 56, 22, 15298–15311, 2022
- Demetillo, M. A. G., Harkins, C., McDonald, B. C., Chodrow, P. S., Sun, K., and Pusede, S. E.: Space-based observational constraints on NO2 air pollution inequality from diesel traffic in major U.S. cities, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL094333, 2021
- Herrera, S. A., Diskin, G. S., Harward, C., Sachse, G., Yang, M., Choi, Y., De Wekker, S. F. J., Wisthaler, A., Mallia, D. V., and Pusede, S. E.: Wintertime nitrous oxide emissions in the San Joaquin Valley of California estimated from aircraft observations, Environ. Sci. Technol., 55, 8, 4462–4473, 2021
- Demetillo, M. A. G., Navarro, A., Knowles, K. K., Fields, K. P., Geddes, J. A., Nowlan, C. R., Sun, K., Judd, L. M., Al-Saadi, J., Diskin, G. S., McDonald, B. C., and Pusede, S. E.: Observing nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality using high-resolution remote sensing measurements in Houston, Texas, Environ. Sci. Technol., 54, 16, 9882–9895, 2020
- Demetillo, M. A. G., Anderson, J. F., Geddes, J. A., Najacht, E., Herrera, S. A., Kabasares, K., Kotsakis, A., Yang, X., Lerdau, M T., and Pusede, S. E.: Observing severe drought influences on ozone air pollution in California, Environ. Sci. Technol., 5, 39, 4695–4706, 2019
Teaching