Batterman Lab

Our teaching and research address a wide range of topics in occupational, indoor and environmental settings. Topics include exposure assessment (especially for particulate matter and volatile organic compounds or VOCs); emerging contaminants in occupational, ecological and environmental settings (e.g., brominated flame retardants); biological monitoring (e.g., blood, breath); air quality monitoring (indoor, outdoor); air pollution control engineering (e.g., vapor and particle air filtration); and environmental epidemiology. Other research activities include characterization of VOCs and SVOCs in air, soils and fuels, environmental impact assessment, health impact assessment, risk assessment, environmental statistics, uncertainty analysis; VOC measurement techniques, disinfection by-products in drinking water; hazardous waste/medical waste management; environmental justice; sustainable systems; urban scale air pollutant modeling; environmental impacts of energy production; infectious water-related diseases; and life cycle analysis. Much of this work is done internationally, especially in Africa and Europe.