Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty
Dr. Brian Lamb
Regents Professor
Boeing Distinguished Professor
Office:
PACCAR 442
Phone:
(509) 335-5702
Fax:
(509) 335-7632
Email:
Laboratory for Atmospheric Research (LAR)
Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach (CEREO)
Education
- Ph.D., Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1978 – California Institute of Technology
- B.S., Chemistry, 1973 – Idaho State University
Professional Experience
- Executive Committee Member, Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach (CEREO), 2009 – Present
- Co-Director, Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach (CEREO), 2009 – 2011
- Regents Professor, Washington State University, 2005
- Boeing Distinguished Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Dpartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University 1995
- Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, College of Engineering, Washington State University, 1991-present
- Associate Professor, WSU, 1985-91
- Assistant Professor, WSU, 1979-85
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, 1977-78
Awards
- Haagen-Smit Prize 2008.Outstanding 1987 Paper: A national inventory of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions, Atmospheric Environment
- Bose Research Faculty Award, College of Engineering & Architecture, WSU, 2007
- Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering & Architecture, WSU, 2002
- Outstanding Graduate Adviser Award, WSU Association of Graduate Students, 1999-2000
- Leon Luck Faculty Award, Most Effective Faculty Member, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 1994
- Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering & Architecture, Washington State University, 1993
Research Interests
- Regional grid modeling of photochemical air quality and windblown dust
- Application of atmospheric tracer techniques
- Biosphere/atmospheric interactions
- Three-dimensional turbulence modeling
- Greenhouse gas emissions
Teaching
- Introduction to Meteorology
- Air Quality Modeling
- Environmental Measurements
- Global Climate Change
- Air Pollution Control Technology
Publications
- Edburg,S.L., Gene Allwine, Brian Lamb, David Stock, Harold Thistle, Holly Peterson, Brian Strom, 2010. A simple model to predict scalar dispersion within a successively thinned loblolly pine canopy, J. Appl. Meteorol & Climate (doi: 10.1175/2010JAMC2339.1) 49, 1913–1926.
- Herron-Thorpe, F.L., B. K. Lamb, G. H. Mount, and J. K. Vaughan, 2010. Evaluation of a regional air quality forecast model for tropospheric NO2 columns using the OMI/Aura satellite tropospheric NO2 product, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8839-8854, 2010
- Velasco, E., S. Pressley, R. Grivicke, E. Allwine, T. Coons, W. Foster, T. Jobson, H. Westberg, R. Ramos, F. Hernandez, L. T. Molina, and B. Lamb, 2009. Eddy covariance flux measurements of pollutant gases in urban Mexico City, Atmos. Chem. Phys 9, 7325-7342.
- Avise, J., J. Chen, B. Lamb, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, E. Salathé, and C. Mass, 2009. Attribution of projected changes in summertime US ozone and PM2.5 concentrations to global changes, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9, 1111-1124. SRef-ID: 1680-7324/acp/2009-9-1111
- Chen, J., Avise, J., Lamb, B., Salathé, E., Mass, C., Guenther, A., Wiedinmyer, C., Lamarque, J.-F., O’Neill, S., McKenzie, D., and Larkin, N, 2009. The effects of global changes upon regional ozone pollution in the United States, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 1125-1141.