Dr Jennifer Ann Salmond

MA(1st Class) (University of Oxford), MSc (University of Birmingham), PhD (University of British Columbia)

Associate Professor

In: Environment » Faculty of Science

Biography

2017 - University of Auckland - Associate Professor

2010-2016 University of Auckland - Senior Lecturer

2007-2009 University of Auckland - Lecturer

2002-2006 University of Birmingham – Lecturer

2001-2002 University of British Columbia – Postdoctoral Fellow

Research | Current

Microscale variation in pollutant concentrations in 3-D within an urban area
Quantifying personal exposure to air pollutants in urban areas
Measurement and analysis of turbulent fluxes including heat, water vapour, particulates and carbon dioxide
Nature – culture and the practice of physical geography, environmental science and inter-disciplinary research
Urban climate risk

Examples of recent funded research projects:

2014-2017 High-density distributed networks of air quality measurement instruments (CI with PI David Williams) funded by MBIE
2015 Health promoting responses to climate change (CI with Ralph Maddison) funded by WUN
2013 - 2015 Quantifying the local rate of ozone formation from vehicle emissions in an urban plume (PI with CI David Williams) funded by Air Quality Limited, Aeroqual and Auckland University
2013 Quantifying the relation between air pollution exposure and pollutant dose (PI with Simon Kingham (UoC), Mike Epton & Malina Storer (Canterbury Health Board) and Kim Dirks (UoA)) funded by School of Environment
2013 Personal exposure and air quality in the Queen Street Valley (PI with Kim Dirks and NIWA) funded by Auckland council
2013 Personal exposure to air pollution whilst travelling by bus (With PI Kim Dirks) funded by Auckland council
2012 Brown Haze in Hawkes Bay (PI with Kathleen Kosyniack, Hawkes Bay Regional Council & Gus Olivaries NIWA) funded by Envirolink
2012 Pollution emissions and air quality in Auckland (PI) funded by Auckland council
2007-2012 Sensors and systems for Urban Air Quality network’ FRST funded project with PI David Williams (UoA), (includes 1 year project extension)
2011 Statistical analysis of industrial and wood burner emissions’ funded by Auckland Council
2011 Spatial and temporal variability of near surface concentrations of carbon dioxide in Auckland’ (with CI Luitgard Schwendenmann) funded by Auckland Council
2011 Transforming Auckland’s transportation system into a resilient, environmentally-friendly and health-enhancing system with a spatial decision support system’ (with PI J. Wang and M Ehrgott, S Costello & K Dirks) funded by Transforming Auckland Cross Faculty Initiative, Auckland University
2010 A multi-modal study of factors influencing the exposure and uptake of vehicle air pollution while commuting’ (with PI K Dirks and S. Costello, (UoA)) funded by Cross Faculty Initiative, Auckland University
2008 Novel methodology for improving our understanding of turbulence in the urban atmosphere’, funded by Auckland University Faculty Development Fund
2008-2009 Exposure Assessment using Carboxyhaemoglobin as a biomarker for Traffic emissions (EXACT)’ with PI I. Longely (NIWA) and CI’s K. Dirks (UoA), S. Kingham (U. of Canterbury) funded by The Health Research Council of New Zealand
2008-2010 Determination of personal exposure to traffic pollution while travelling by different modes’ with PI Simon Kingham (UoC) and I. Longely (NIWA) funded by Land Transport New Zealand
2008-2011 Investigation of the causes of Auckland’s brown haze events’ (with CI Kim Dirks, Peyman Zewar-Reza (UoC) and others) funded by Auckland Council

Teaching | Current

Qualifications
2005 – today Registered Practitioner, The Higher Education Academy, UK
Courses
Environmental Science 713 Air Quality and Atmospheric Processes
Environmental Science 701 Research Practice in Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
Environmental Science 703 Special topic in Environmental Science
Environmental Science 303 Environmental Science, risk & society
Geography 332 Climate and Environment
Environmental Science 101 Environment, Science and Management

Postgraduate supervision

PhD Students
2014 – 2017 Georgia Miskell (with David Williams, Chemistry)

PhD students who have successfully completed
2012 – 2016 Lena Weissert ‘Carbon fluxes in urban environments’ (with Luitgard Schwendenmann)

2009 – 2012 Maryam Alavi ‘Detection of sensor error in an air quality
network’ (with David Williams, Chemistry) *Awarded Prize for Outstanding Poster, ANZIAM, Otago

2009 – 2012 Anushka Elangasinghem ‘Applications of air quality modelling’ (with Naresh Singhal and Kim Dirks)

2008 – 2011 Elizabeth McKenzie 'Persistence of indoor pollutants following
p-lab remediation' (with Gordon Miskelly, Chemistry, University of Auckland)

2007 – 2012 Indrapriya Kularatane ‘Lichens as a bio-monitor for air pollutants’ (with Chris de Freitas, School of Environment, University of Auckland)

2004 – 2008 Heather Walker ‘Modelling the impact of urbanization on regional climate’ (Primary supervisor with Xiaoming Cai, University of Birmingham)

Masters Students

2017

2016 (jul) Quantifying emissions of black carbon Paul Crimmins

Completed:

2015 Andrew Marr ‘Formaldehyde exposure in indoor environments’ with Kim Dirks
2014 Shanon Lim ‘Does meteorology matter: personal exposure in the bus micro-environment’ (funded by Auckland Council)

2013 Georgia Miskell ‘Nitrogen Dioxide variability in Auckland’ (funded by NIWA MSc. Scholarship)
2013 Rebecca Cunniffe ‘Personal exposure to particulates whilst cycling’ (funded by NIWA MSc. Scholarship)
2013 Ethan Barrowclough ‘Contribution of ports to air quality in New Zealand’

2012 Prabhir Correa ‘Near surface carbon dioxide within the urban area of Auckland, New Zealand’ (funded by Auckland Council with Luitgard Schwendenmann & NIWA)
2012 Huimin Lin ‘Measurements of school children exposure to CO and ultrafine particles’ (with NIWA and U. of Canterbury)
2012 Peter Clelland ‘An Assessment of Traffic-Related Nitrogen Dioxide Exposure and Asthma Medication Use at Early Childhood Centres in Auckland’(Master of Public Health led by Kim Dirks)

2011 Nicholas Talbot ‘Analysis of Auckland’s brown haze events’ (funded by ARC)
2011 Greer Laing ‘Spatial variations in VOC concentrations in Auckland’ (with Aeroqual)
2011 Stuart Grange ‘Nocturnal transport of particulates in Nelson’ (with GNS) * Awarded prize for best student presentation at New Zealand Meteorological Conference in Nelson 2011

2010 Poonam Sharma ‘Exposure to air pollution whilst commuting’ (with K. Dirks)

2009   Kreepa Shrestha ‘The contribution of micro- scale activities to personal exposure in commuting micro-environments’ (joint supervision with U. Canterbury)
2009   Huan Lui ‘Personal exposure to pollutants while travelling by different modes’
2009   Woodroe Pattinson ‘Cyclist exposure to traffic pollution: Quantifying microscale’ variance and the implications of route choice’ (joint supervision with U. Canterbury) * Awarded NZTA Prize for Best Thesis on Transportation and NZGA Prize for Best Thesis

2008 Heather Goody ‘Personal exposure to particulate matter in urban areas’

2007 Sonja Bhatia ‘Vertical exchange of carbon dioxide in Toulouse, France’ * Awarded Norm Thom Prize for Best Thesis in Environmental Science, University of Auckland

Distinctions/Honours

Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society, UK

Responsibilities

2012 - 2014 Member of Faculty Staffing Committee

2013 – 2016 Accredited Chair for Doctoral Examinations

2013 Acting Disciplinary Lead – Environmental Science

2013 Co-Chair of panel to review Environmental Science Programme

2009-2013 Member School of Environment Postgraduate Committee

Areas of expertise

Urban meteorology and air pollution: with specific emphasis on improving our ability to understand and quantify (through measurement and modelling) the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of pollutant concentrations in the urban atmosphere.

Committees/Professional groups/Services

(selected)

2015 - today Secretary for Healthy Polis International Consortium for Urban Environmental Health and Sustainability

2013 - today Co-Editor ‘Weather and Climate’

2010-2013 Member Editorial Board Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

2009-2013 Auckland Vice-President and Board Member New Zealand Meteorological Society

2009 Guest Co-Editor International Journal of Climatology Special Issue on Urban Climate

2005-2010 Board Member International Association for Urban Climate (elected position)

2010-2012 Advisor to the Board of International Association for Urban Climate

2007-2009 Secretary International Association for Urban Climate (elected position)

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Weissert, L., Miles, E., Miskell, G., Alberti, K., Feenstra, B., Henshaw, G. S., ... Salmond, J. A. (2020). Hierarchical network design for nitrogen dioxide measurement in urban environments. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 22810.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117428
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lena Weissert, David Williams
Ma, X., Longley, I., Salmond, J., & Gao, J. (2020). PyLUR: Efficient software for land use regression modeling the spatial distribution of air pollutants using GDAL/OGR library in Python. FRONTIERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, 14 (3)10.1007/s11783-020-1221-5
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Jay Gao
Weissert, L., Alberti, K., Miles, E., Miskell, G., Feenstra, B., Henshaw, G. S., ... Salmond, J. A. (2020). Low-cost sensor networks and land-use regression: Interpolating nitrogen dioxide concentration at high temporal and spatial resolution in Southern California. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 22310.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117287
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/50619
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lena Weissert, David Williams
Salmond, J., & Tadaki, M. (2020). Climatology, Cultural. In A. Kobayashi (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 293-295). Elsevier. 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10779-6
Brook, M., Black, P. M., Salmond, J., Dirks, K. N., Berry, T.-A., & Steinhorn, G. (2019). Exposure to erionite: health effects and implications for geotechnical risk management in the New Zealand construction sector. New Zealand Geomechanics News, 98, 78-81.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Martin Brook, Kim Dirks
Miskell, G., Alberti, K., Feenstra, B., Henshaw, G. S., Papapostolou, V., Patel, H., ... Williams, D. E. (2019). Reliable data from low cost ozone sensors in a hierarchical network. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 21410.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116870
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/49054
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lena Weissert, David Williams
Ma, X., Longley, I., Gao, J., Kachhara, A., & Salmond, J. (2019). A site-optimised multi-scale GIS based land use regression model for simulating local scale patterns in air pollution. The Science of the Total Environment, 685, 134-149. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.408
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Jay Gao
Weissert, L. F., Alberti, K., Miskell, G., Pattinson, W., Salmond, J. A., Henshaw, G., & Williams, D. E. (2019). Low-cost sensors and microscale land use regression: Data fusion to resolve air quality variations with high spatial and temporal resolution. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 213, 285-295. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.06.019
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/49053
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lena Weissert, David Williams