Mirtha Allain

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 815, Room 1-5
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-2844
mallain@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Highlights

Expertise

• Use of perfluorocarbon Tracers as tools for studying atmospheric transport and dispersion.
• Machine learning applications in mass spectrometry and atmospheric chemistry

Education

• Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Chemical Science MS.
• Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; BS/MS Chemistry Program, Chemical Science BS. 

Research Highlights

• Use of perfluorocarbon Tracers as tools for studying atmospheric transport and dispersion, building infiltration, integrity of underground systems, and other mas transport studies.
• Use of perfluorocarbon Tracers to look at how gases move through urban environments, focusing on subways, during a Urban Threat Dispersion Project in New York City.
• Maintenance, calibration, application and troubleshooting of 100 atmospheric tracer samplers (BATS).
• Atmospheric Tracer Depletion Test (ATD) using perfluorocarbon traces (PFTs) found in the ambient background to determine the amount of unfiltered in-leakage into the COntrol Building and Control Room of Nuclear Power Plants.
• Machine learning applications in mass spectrometry and atmospheric chemistry using the Aerosol. Chemical Speciation Monitor.