Randal Martin
Environmental
Contact Information
Office Location: UWRL 309, ENGR 220Phone: 435-797-1585
Email: randy.martin@usu.edu
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Teaching Interests
At USU Dr. Martin teaches classes related to air quality and air pollution control. Dr. Martin typically teaches CEE 5860 Air Quality Management in the fall, and depending on student requirements has also taught CEE 5750 (Air Pollutant Measurements - every other year), and CEE 6630 (Process Dynamics in Environmental Engineering Systems). He has also organized CEE 6800 (Water & Env. Seminar) for the 2019 and 2020 Spring Semesters and has coordinated CEE 6670 (Env. Process Lab) for the Spring 2020 Semester. Additionally Dr. Martin has taught special studies classes dealing with effective teaching, CEE 6830 (Atmospheric Chemistry), atmospheric pollutant modeling, and senior design teams.
Research Interests
Dr. Martin has led or collaborated on air pollutant research which has included, among other studies, investigations in to the composition, sources, and photochemical formation of PM2.5, wintertime ozone formation in Utah’s oil and gas regions, the atmospheric behavior and sources of gas-phase ammonia, on-road vehicular emissions, air pollutant emissions from agricultural crop and animal production facilities, regional transport of air pollutants over the Colorado Plateau, and biogenic emissions of various hydrocarbons.
Awards
Fulbright Flex Grant, 2017
US Fulbright Scholar Program
2007 Outstanding Engaged Scholar, 2007
Utah Campus Compact
- Wojick, M.D, Martin, R.S, Hatfield, J.L, (2012). Using Lidar to Characterize Particles from Point and Diffuse Sources in an Agricultural Field: Environmental Remote Sensing and System Analysis. CRC Press
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Fact Sheets
- Martin, R.S, Coulombe, R.A, McCann, R.B, (2016). Utah Air Quality: PM2.5. Utah State Univesity Extension Sustainability
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Martin, R.S, Khader, A.L, (2022). Particulate Matter Pollution in Hookah Lounges in Palestine. Journal of Aerosol Sceince, 159, doi: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2021.105892
- Moravek, A., Murphy, J.G, Hrdina, A., Lin, J.C, Pennell, C., Franchin, A., Middlebrook, A.M, Fibiger, D.L, Womack, C.C, McDffie, E.E, Martin, R.S, Moore, K., Baasandorj, M., Brown, S.S, (2019). Wintertime spatial distribution of ammonia and its emission sources in the Great Salt Lake region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19:24, 15691-15709. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15691-2019
- Khader, A.L, Martin, R.S, (2019). Use of Low-Cost Ambient Particulate Sensors in Nablus, Palestine with Application to the Assessment of Regional Dust Storms. Atmosphere, 10:9, 539-544. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10090539
- Khader, A.L, Martin, R.S, (2019). On-the-road testing of the effects of driver’s experience, gender, speed, and road grade on car emissions. Journal of the Air andWaste Management Association, 69:10, 1182-1194. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2019.1640804
- Baasandorj, M., Hoch, S.W, Bares, R., Lin, J.C, Brown, S.S, Martin, R.S, Kelly, K., Zarzana, K.J, Whiteman, C.D, Dube, W.P, Tonneson, G., Jaramillo, I.C, Sohl, J., (2017). Coupling between Chemical and Meteorological Processes under Persistent Cold-Air Pool Conditions: Evolution of Wintertime PM2.5 Pollution Events and N2O5 Observations in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley. Environmental Science and Technolgy, 51:11, 59491-5950. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06603
- Kelly, K.E, Whitaker, J., Widmer, C., Dybwad, A., Sleeth, D., Martin, R.S, A.B, (2016). Ambient and laboratory evaluation of a low-cost particulate matter sensor. Environmental Pollution, 221
- Horel, J., Crosman, E., Jacques, A., Blaylock, B., Arens, S., Long, A., Sohl, J., Martin, R.S, (2016). Summer ozone concentrations in the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake . Royal Meteorological Society - Atmos. Science Letters, 17:19, 480-486. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.680
- Wang, S., Hipps, L.E, Chung, O., Gillies, R.R, Martin, R.S, (2015). Long-Term Inversion Properties in a Mountain Valley of the Wester United States and Implications on Air Quality. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54, 2339 - 2352. doi: DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0172.1
- Moore, K.D, Martin, R.S, Bradford, W.J, Marchant, C.C, Jones, D.S, Wojcik, M.D, Pfeiffer, R.L, Prueger, J.H, Hatfield, J.L, (2014). Derivation and Use of Simple Relationships between Aerodynamic and Optical Particle Measurements. J. of Environmental Engineering
- Watterson, T., Hamilton, B., Martin, R.S, Coulombe, R.A, (2012). Urban Particulate Matter Activates Akt in Human Lung Cells. Archives of Toxicology, 86:1, 121-35. doi: DOI: 10.1007/s00204-011-0739-5
- Wang, S., Gillies, R.R, Martin, R.S, Davies, R.E, Booth, M.R, (2012). Connecting subseasonal movements of the winter ridge in western North America to local-scale inversion climatology in Cache Valley (Utah). Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51:3, 617-627. doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0101.1
- Watterson, T.L, Hamilton, B., Martin, R.S, Coulombe, Jr. , R.A, (2009). Urban Particulate Matter Causes ER Stress and the Unfolded Protein Response in Human Lung Cells. Toxicological Sciences , 112:1, 111-122. doi: doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfp186
- Villanueva-Fierro, I., Popp, C.J, Martin, R.S, Dixon, R.W, Gaffney, J.S, Marley, N.A, Harris, J.M, (2009). Ground Level Chemical Analysis of Air Transported from the 1998 Mexican-Central American Fires to the Southwestern USA. Revista Internacional de Contaminacion Ambiental, 25:1, 23-32.
- Martin, R.S, Silva, P.I, Moore, K., Erupe, M., Doshi, V.S, (2008). Particle Composition and Size Distributions in and around a Deep Pit Swine Operation . J. Atmos. Chemistry, 59:2, 135-150.
- Watterson, T.L, Sorenson, J., Martin, R.S, Coulombe, Jr. , R.A, (2007). Effects of PM2.5 Collected from Cache Valley, UT on Genes Associated with the Inflammatory Response in Human Lung Cells. J. Tox. and Environ. Health, 70, 1732-1744.
- Martin, R.S, (2006). Meteorological and Environmental Aspects of the Worst National Air Pollution (15 January 2004) in Logan, Cache Valley, Utah, U.S.A.. J. Atmos. Res. , 79:2, 108-122.
- Villanueva, I., Popp, C.J, Martin, R.S, (2004). Biogenic Emissions and ambient Concentrations of Hydrocarbons, Organic Acids, and Carbonyl Compounds from Ponderosa Pines and Cottonwood Trees at Rural and Forested Sites in Central New Mexico. Atmos. Env. , 38:2, 249-260.
- Martin, R.S, Villaneuva, I., Zhang, J., Popp, C.J, (1999). Nonmethane hydrocarbon, monocarboxylic acid, and low molecular weight aldehyde and ketone emissions from vegetation in central New Mexico. Environ. Sci. Technol., 33, 2186-2192.
Professional Journal
- Moore, K.D, Young, E., Gurell, C., Wojcik, M.D, Martin, R.S, Bingham, G.E, Pfeiffer, R.L, Prueger, J.H, Hatfield, J.L, Ammonia Measurements and Emissions from a California Dairy using Point and Remote Sensors. Transaction of the ASABE.
- Marchant, C.C, Moore, K.D, Wojcik, M.D, Martin, R.S, Pfeiffer, R., Prueger, J.K, Hatfield, J.L, (2011). Estimation of Dairy Particulate Matter Emission Rates by Lidar and Inverse Modeling. Transaction of the ASABE, 54:4, 1453-1463.
- Marchant, C.C, Wilkerson, T.D, Bingham, G.E, Zavyalov, V.V, Anderson, J.M, Wright, C.B, Conelson, S.S, Martin, R.S, Silva, P.J, Hatfield, J.L, (2009). Aglite lidar: A portable lidar system for investigating aerosol and wind motions at or around agricultural production facilities. J. Applied Remote Sensing, 3:1
- Bingham, G.E, Marchant, A.B, Zavyalov, V.V, Ahlstrom, D.J, Moore, K.D, Jones, D.S, Wilkerson, T.D, Hipps, L.E, Martin, R.S, Hatfield, J.L, Prueger, J.H, Pfeiffer, R.L, (2009). Lidar based emissions measurement at the whole facility scale: Method and error analysis . Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 3:1, 033510. doi: 10.1117/1.3097919
- Frost, G.J, Trainer, M., Allwine, G., Buhr, M.P, Calvert, J.G, Cantrell, C.A, Fehsenfeld, F.C, Golden, P.D, Herwehe, J., Hubler, G., Kuster, W.C, Martin, R.S, McMillen, R.T, Montzka, S.A, Morton, R.B, Parrish, D.D, Ridley, B.A, Shetter, R.E, Walega, J.G, Watkins, B.A, Westberg, H.H, Williams, E.J, (1998). Photochemical ozone production in the rural southeastern United States during the 1990 Rural Oxidants in the Southern Environment (ROSE) program. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos, 103:D17, 22491-22508.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Research Reports
- Martin, R.S, 2017 Utah Winter Fine Particulate Study Final Report. *
- Martin, R.S, Assessment of Automobile Start and Idling Emissions under Utah Specific Conditions: Cold Start, Hot Start, and Idle Emissions as Measured on Northern Utah Vehicles. *
Other Reports
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Publications | Other
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.