Ashish Singh

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 815, Room 1-11
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7995
asingh@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Publications | Awards

Expertise

Ambient/indoor air quality/occupational monitoring, aerosols instrumentation, laboratory and field campaign operation and management, air quality dispersion modeling and satellite data (MODIS, Calipso, VIIRS)

Education

University of Iowa, Iowa City - Ph.D. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, August 2015
University of Iowa, Iowa City - M.Sc Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, May 2015
Kathmandu University, Kathmandu - B.Sc (honors) Environmental Science, September 2006

Selected Publications

• Singh A, Mahata KS, Rupakheti M, et al (2019) An overview of airborne measurement in Nepal – Part 1: Vertical profile of aerosol size, number, spectral absorption, and meteorology. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19:245–258. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-245-2019
• Singh A, Spak SN, Stone EA, et al (2015) Uncontrolled combustion of shredded tires in a landfill – Part 2: Population exposure, public health response, and an air quality index for urban fires. Atmospheric Environment 104:273–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.01.002
• Singh A, Tuladhar B, Bajracharya K, Pillarisetti A (2012) Assessment of effectiveness of improved cook stoves in reducing indoor air pollution and improving health in Nepal. Energy for Sustainable Development 16:406–414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2012.09.004
• Downard J, Singh A, Bullard R, et al (2015) Uncontrolled combustion of shredded tires in a landfill – Part 1: Characterization of gaseous and particulate emissions. Atmospheric Environment 104:195–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.12.059
• Stanier C, Singh A, Adamski W, et al (2012) Overview of the LADCO winter nitrate study: hourly ammonia, nitric acid and PM_2.5 composition at an urban and rural site pair during PM_2.5 episodes in the US Great Lakes region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12:11037–11056. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11037-2012
• Mahata KS, Panday AK, Rupakheti M, et al (2017) Seasonal and diurnal variations in methane and carbon dioxide in the Kathmandu Valley in the foothills of the central Himalayas. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17:12573–12596. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-12573-2017
• Janechek NJ, Marek RF, Bryngelson N, et al (2019) Physical properties of secondary photochemical aerosol from OH oxidation of a cyclic siloxane. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19:1649–1664. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1649-2019
• von Schneidemesser E, Bonn B, Butler TM, et al (2018) BAERLIN2014 – stationary measurements and source apportionment at an urban background station in Berlin, Germany. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18:8621–8645. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8621-2018

Awards & Recognition

• Air &Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Graduate Scholarship 2015
• Research Open House Poster 2015 Award (Jointly with the undergraduate student)
• Centre for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) Travel Award 2014Centre for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) Student Research Award 2012
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010
• Special Achievement Award at fourth Biennial for Clean Indoor Air, by Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA), US-EPA (http://www.pciaonline.org/2009ForumAwards), March 24-28, 2009, Kampala, Uganda (Awarded to our Team)
• First Position in the Kathmandu University Project Exhibition (KUPEX – 2003) for the project “Fabrication of Prototype Doom shaped Biogas Plant with Sheet metal”