Mirtha Allain
Environmental Science Associate, Aerosol Processing & Observing Systems, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
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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.
![Mirtha Allain](/assets/global/images/render.php?q=0|26997.jpg|500)
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