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Dr. Candis Claiborn

Dean, College of Engineering and Architecture
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

College of Engineering and Architecture
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164 2714

Phone: 509-335-8730
Email: claiborn@wsu.edu

Engineering Education Research Interests

• Recruitment/retention engineering graduate students, particularly women and
  underrepresented group members
• Interdisciplinary engineering graduate education

Education

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 1991, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
  Minor Area: Atmospheric Sciences
• B.A. Chemical Engineering, cum laude, 1980, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

Professional Experience

• Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2003.
• Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2003.
• Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2002.
• Associate Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1997
• Courtesy Appointment, Department of Chemical Engineering, WSU, 1993.
• Graduate Faculty, Environmental Sciences and Regional Planning, WSU, 1994.
• Graduate Faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU, 1993.
• Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1991.
• Senior Process Control Engineer, Process Engineer, ARCO Petroleum Products, Ferndale, WA, 1981-6.
• Process Engineer, Chevron, Western Region Production, San Francisco , 1980-1.

Awards

• Richard Crain Faculty Award for Distinction in Ethics Teaching, 2003
• Outstanding Teaching Faculty in Civil Engineering, 1999
• Leon Luck Faculty Award for the Most Effective Professor in Civil & Environ. Engr., 1998
• Recipient of NSF Career grant, 1995
• Outstanding Teaching Faculty in Civil Engineering, 1994 .

Teaching

• Air Pollution Control
• Intro to Environmental Engineering
• Principles of Environmental Engineering
• Engineering Ethics

Selected Publications and Book Sections

1. Aneja, V.P., C.S. Claiborn, Z. LL and A Murphy (1990), Exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone occurring at a 'pristine' area site, The Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 40 (217 220).
2. Aneja, V.P., C.S. Claiborn, R L. Bradow, R J. Paur, and RE Baumgardner (1990), Dynamic chemical characterization of montane clouds, Atmospheric Environment, 24A (563 572).
3. Aneja, V.P., S. Businger, Z Li, C.S. Claiborn, and A. Murthy (1991), Ozone climatology at high vievation in the southern Appalachians, Journal of Geophysical Research, 96 (10071021).
4. Claiborn, C.S., and V.P. Aneja (1991), Measurements of atmospheric hydrogen peroxide in the gas phase and in cloud water at Mt. Mitchell, N.C., Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(18,771 18,787).
5. Aneja, V.P., W P. Robarge, C.S. Claiborn, A. Murthy, D.S. Kim, Z. Li, and E.B. Cowling (1992), Chemical climatology of high elevation spruce fir forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains, Environmental Pollution, 75 (89 96).
6. Claiborn, C. S., and V.P. Aneja (1993). Transport and fate of reactive trace gases in red Spruce needles, part 1: Uptake of gaseous hydrogen peroxide as measured in controlled chamber flux experiments. Environmental Science and Technology 27 (2585 2592).
7. Claiborn, C.S., R. G. Carbonell, and V.P. Aneja (1993). Transport and fate of reactive trace gases in red spruce needles, part II: Interpretations of flux experiments using a mathematical model developed from fundamental principles. Environmental Science and Technology 27 (2593 2605).
8. Aneja, V.P., C.S. Claiborn, Z. Li, and A. Murthy. Trends, seasonal variations, and analysis of high elevation surface nitric acid, ozone, and hydrogen peroxide (1994), Atmospheric Environment. 28 (1781 1790).
9. Claiborn, C.S., A. Mitra, G. Adams, L. Bamesberger, G. Allwine, R. Kantamaneni, B. Lamb, and H. Westberg (1995). Evaluation of PM10 emission rates from paved and unpaved roads using tracer techniques, Atmospheric Environment. 29 (1075 1089).
10. Kempf, K., E. Allwine, H. Westberg, C. Claiborn, and B. Lamb. Hydrocarbon emissions from spruce species using environmental chamber and branch enclosure methods (1996). Atmospheric Environment 30 (1381 1389).
11. Kantamaneni, R., G. Adams, L. Bamesberger, E. Allwine, H. Westberg, B. Lamb, and C. Claiborn (1996). An investigation of roadway PM10 emission rates using tracer techniques, (1996). Atmospheric Environment 30 (4209 4223).
12. Hall, B.D., C.S. Claiborn, and D. Baldocchi. Hydrogen peroxide deposition flux measurements over a Canadian Boreal forest (1997), Journal of Geophysical Research, I 2 (29,343 29,353).
13. Claiborn, C., B.K. Lamb, A. Miller, J. Beseda, B. Clode, J. Vaughan, L. Kang, and C. Newvine. Regional measurements and modeling of windblown agricultural dust: The Columbia Plateau PM10 Program (1998), Journal of Geophysical Research 103 (19,753 19,767).
14. Haller, L., C. Claiborn, J. Koenig, T. Larson and G. Norris. Airborne particulate matter size distributions in an and urban area (1999), Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 49 (161-168).
15. Schwartz, J., G. Norris, T. Larsen, L. Sheppard, C. Claiborn, and J. Koenig (1999). Episodes of high coarse particle concentrations are not associated with increased mortality, Environmental Health Perspectives 107 (339-342).
16. Hall, B.D., C.S. Claiborn, and D. Baldocchi (1999), Measurement and modeling of dry deposition of peroxides, Atmospheric Environment 33 (577-580).
17. Saxton, K. D. Chandler, L. Stetler, B. Lamb, C. Claiborn, B.-H. Lee. (2000). Wind Erosion and Fugitive Dust Fluxes on Agricultural Lands in the Pacific Northwest. Transaction of the ASAE, 43(3): 623-630.
18. Norris, G., T. Larson, J. Koenig, C. Claiborn, L. Sheppard, and D. Finn (2000). Asthma aggravation, combustion, and stagnant air, Thorax 55 (466-470).
19. Claiborn, C., D. Finn, T. Larson, and J. Koenig (2000). Windblown dust contributes to high PM2.5 concentrations, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 55 (1440-1445).
20. Finn, D., B. Rumburg, C. Claiborn, W. Bamesberger, W.F. Siems, J. Koenig, T. Larson, and G. Norris (2001). Sampling artifacts from the use of denuder tubes with glycerol based coatings in the measurement of atmospheric particulate matter, Environmental Science and Technology 35 (40-44).
21. B. Rumburg, R. Alldredge, and C. Claiborn (2001). Statistical distributions of particulate matter and the error associated with sampling frequency, Atmospheric Environment, 35(16): 2907
22. J.K. Vaughan, C.S. Claiborn, and D. Finn (2001). April 1998 Asian Dust Event Over the Columbia Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106:18,381-18,402.
23. R. Villasenor , C. Claiborn, B. Lamb, and S. O’Neill (2001). High Wintertime Particulate Matter Episodes in a City in Complex Terrain, Atmospheric Environment, 35/36: 6479-6491.
24. Claiborn, C., T. Larson, and L. Sheppard (2002). Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane, WA, Environmental Health Perspectives, 110 (supplement 4): 547-552.
25. Place, M ., G.J. Puzon, J. Shaltanis, C. Claiborn, M. Flury, B. Peyton, and J.N. Petersen (2002). Thinking outside the box: A novel interdisciplinary research and education program in environmental engineering and science, in Proceedings of the 2002 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Montreal , Quebec , Canada .
26. Wilson, W.E., J.C. Chow, C.S. Claiborn, W. Fusheng, J. Engelbrecht, and J.G. Watson (2002), Monitoring of Particulate Matter Outdoors, Chemosphere, 49 (1009-1043).
27. Pang, Y., L.A. Gundel, T. Larson, D. Finn, L.-J.S. Liu, and C.S. Claiborn (2002), Development and evaluation of a novel personal particulate organic and mass sampler (PPOMS), Environmental Science and Technology, 36 (5205-5210).
28. Kim, E., T.V. Larson, P.K. Hopke, C. Slaughter, L.E. Sheppard, C. Claiborn (2003). Source identification of PM2.5 in an arid Northwest US City by Positive Matrix Factorization, Atmospheric Research, 66:291-305.
29. Mar, T.E., T.V. Larson, R.A. Stier, C.S. Claiborn, and J.Q. Koenig (2004). An analysis of the association between respiratory symptoms in subjects with asthma and daily air pollution in Spokane, WA, Inhalation Toxicology 16: 809-815.
30. Slaughter, J.C., E. Kim, L. Sheppard, J.H. Sullivan, T.V. Larson, and C.S. Claiborn (2004). Association between particulate matter and emergency room visits, hospital admissions and mortality in Spokane, Washington, Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology. advance online publication 9 June 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.jea.7500382
31. Larson, T., T. Gould, C. Simpson, L.-J.S. Liu, C. Claiborn, and J. Lewtas (2004). Source apportionment of indoor, outdoor and personal PM2.5 in Seattle, WA using Positive Matrix Factorization, Journal of Air and Waste Management 54: 1175-1187.
32. Sundram, I., C. Claiborn, T. Strand, B. Lamb, D. Chandler, and K. Saxton (2004). Numerical Modeling of Windblown Dust in the Pacific Northwest with Improved Meteorology and Dust Emission Algorithms, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 109, D24208.
33. Kjelgaard, J., B. Sharratt, I. Sundram, B. Lamb, C. Claiborn, K. Saxton, and D. Chandler (2004), PM10 Emission from Agricultural Soils on the Columbia Plateau: Comparison of Dynamic and Time-Integrated Field-Scale Measurements and Entrainment Mechanisms, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 125: 259-277.
34. Sundram, I., B. Lamb, and C. Claiborn. Sensitivity of a regional windblown dust model to uncertainties in PM10 emission parameters, submitted (February 2005) to Atmospheric Environment.
35. Sundram, I., C. Claiborn, B. Lamb, and R. Sampang. Modeling aerosol optical depths during episodes of windblown dust from semiarid agricultural regions, submitted (February 2005) to Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres.
36. Jimenez, J., C.-F. Wu, C. Claiborn, T. Gould, C.D. Simpson, T. Larson, and L.-J. S.Liu. Agricultural burning smoke in eastern Washington: Part I. Atmospheric characterization, submitted (April 2005) to Atmospheric Environment.
37. C.-F. Wu, J. Jimenez, C. Claiborn, T. Gould, C.D. Simpson, T. Larson, and L.-J.S. Liu. Agricultural burning smoke in eastern Washington: Part II. Exposure assessment, submitted (April 2005) to Atmospheric Environment.

 

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