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Dr. Susan M. O'Neill

Air Quality Scientist

NRCS-National Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team
1201 NE Lloyd Blvd, Suite 1000
Portland, Oregon 97232-1202
Phone: 503-273-2438
Fax: 503-273-2401
Email: susan.oneill@por.usda.gov

Education
Year Degree/Institution
2002 Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1996 M.S. Environmental Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, MT
Minors:  Hydro-geological Engineering, Computer Science
1989 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Chico, CA

Background
Years Position
2005-current Air Quality Engineer, USDA NRCS National Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team, Portland, OR
2002-2005 Research Air Quality Engineer, USDA Forest Service, AirFIRE Team, Seattle, WA
1997-2002 Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1994-1996 Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, MT
1993-1994 Software Engineer, Metaphase Technology Inc., Minneapolis, MN
1993

Information Systems Consultant, Euler Solutions, Minneapolis, MN
1989-1993 Computer Systems Engineer, General Dynamics/Computer Sciences Corporation, San Diego, CA
 

Publications

Adkins, J.W., S.M. O’Neill, S.A. Ferguson, M. Rorig, C.M. Berg, J.L. Hoadley (2003).  Accessing Accuracy of the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework during Wildfire Events.  5th Symposium of Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Orlando, Florida.

Barna, M.B., B.K. Lamb, S.M. O’Neill, H. Westberg, C. Figueroa-Kaminsky, S. Otterson, C. Bowman, J. DeMay (2000).  Modeling Ozone Formation and Transport in the Cascadia Region of the Pacific Northwest, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 349-366.

Berg, C.M., S.M. O’Neill, S.A. Ferguson, J.W. Adkins (2003). Application of the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework to the Rex Creek Wildfire. 5th Symposium of Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Orlando, Florida (http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/65990.pdf).

Chen J., J. Vaughan, J. Avise, S. O'Neill, B. Lamb (2008a) Enhancement and evaluation of the AIRPACT ozone and PM2.5 forecast system for the Pacific Northwest. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, D14305, doi:10.1029/2007JD009554.

Chen J., J. Avise J, B. Lamb, E. Salathé, C. Mass, A. Guenther, C. Wiedinmyer, J-F. Lamarque, S. O'Neill, D. McKenzie, and N. Larkin (2008b) The effects of global changes upon regional ozone pollution in the United States. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 8, 15165-15205.

Evers, L., S.A. Ferguson, S.M. O’Neill, J. Hoadley (2006). Applying BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework on Wildland Fires. Fire Management Today, Volume 66, No. 3, Summer 2006.

Hoadley, J., M. Rorig, S.M. O’Neill, S.A. Ferguson (2003). Operational Evaluation of BlueSkyRAINS. 6th Symposium of Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Canmore, Alberta, Canada (http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/97388.pdf).

Larkin, N.K., S.M. O’Neill, R. Solomon, S. Raffuse, T. Strand, D.C. Sullivan C. Krull, M. Rorig, J. Peterson, S.A. Ferguson (2008). The BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework. International Journal of Wildland Fire (in-press).

McKenzie, D., S.M. O’Neill, N. Larkin, R. Norheim (2006). Integrating Models to Predict Regional Haze from Wildland Fire. Ecological Modeling, Volume 199, Issue 3, 278-288.

O’Neill, S.M., N.K. Larkin, J. Hoadley, G. Mills, J.K. Vaughan, R. Draxler, G. Rolph, M. Ruminski, S.A. Ferguson (2007). Regional Real-Time Smoke Prediction Systems. Book Chapter submitted to Elsevier Series “Developments in Environmental Science” from the Symposium on Forest Fires and Air Pollution Issues September 2006.

O'Neill, S.M., J. Hoadley, S.A. Ferguson, R. Solomon, J. Peterson, N.K. Larkin, R. Peterson, R. Wilson, and D. Matheny (2006). Applications of the BlueSkyRAINS Smoke Prediction System. EM The Magazine for Environmental Mangers, Air and Waste Management Association, September, p.42.

O’Neill, S.M., B.K. Lamb (2005).  Inter-comparison of the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model and CALGRID using Process Analysis.  Environmental Science and Technology, 39 (15), 5742-5753.

O’Neill, S.M., B.K. Lamb, J. Chen, C. Claiborn, D. Finn, S. Otterson, C. Figueroa, C. Bowman, M. Boyer, R. Wilson, J. Arnold, S. Aalbers, J. Stocum, C. Swab, M. Stoll, M. DuBois, M. Anderson (2006). Modeling Ozone and Aerosol Formation and Transport in the Pacific Northwest with the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System. Environmental Science and Technology, 40, 1286-1299.

O’Neill, S.M., S.A. Ferguson, J. Peterson, and R. Wilson (2003). The BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework (www.blueskyrains.org). 5th Symposium of Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Orlando, Florida (http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/66068.pdf).

O’Neill, S.M., B.K. Lamb, J. Chen, C. Claiborn, D. Finn, S. Otterson, C. Figueroa, C. Bowman, M. Boyer, R. Wilson, J. Arnold, S. Aalbers, J. Stocum, C. Swab (2002). Modeling Aerosol Formation and Transport in the Pacific Northwest with the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System. 2002 Models-3 Users Workshop, EPA, Research Triangle Park (http://www.cmascenter.org/conference/2002/session4/oneill_final_abstract.pdf).

O’Neill, S.M. (2002). Modeling Ozone and Aerosol Formation and Transport in the Pacific Northwest and Calculating Fractional Source Contributions to Downwind Receptors.  Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA.

O'Neill, S.M., B.K. Lamb, J. Chen, S. Napelenok, E.J. Allwine, D. Stock, J.B. McManus, J.H. Shorter, C.E. Kolb (2001). Correlating an Upwind Source-Footprint with Urban Emissions Data Using the MM5/MCIP/CALPUFF Modeling System. Preprint Volume of the International Emission Inventory Conference, US EPA (http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei10/invval/oneill.pdf).

O’Neill, S.M., R. Villasenor, B.K. Lamb, D. Stock, E. Allwine, J.H. Shorter, J.B. McManus (1998).  “Turbulence Model of an Urban Landscape for use in an Urban Footprint Model.”  Preprint Volume of the 23rd Conference on Agricultural & Forest Meteorology, 13th Conference on Biometeorolgy and Aerobiology, and 2nd Urban Environment Symposium, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 180-183.

O’Neill, S.M. (1996).  The Meandering INstantaneous  Diffusion (MIND) Model.  Masters Thesis, Department of Environmental Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana.

Peterson, H.G., T. Donovan, S.M. O’Neill, B.K. Lamb (2003).  Peak Concentrations and Plume Diffusion in the Atmospheric Surface Layer.  Intermountain Journal of Sciences, Volume 9, No. 2/3:87-100, September 2003.

Peterson, H.G., D. Mazzolini, S.M. O’Neill, B.K. Lamb (1999).  Instantaneous Spread of Plumes in the Surface Layer, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 38, 343-352.

Pouliot, G., T. Pierce, W. Benjey, S.M. O’Neill, S.A. Ferguson (2005). Wildfire Emission Modeling: Integrating BlueSky and SMOKE. 14th Annual International Emission Inventory Conference, Las Vegas, NV (http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei10/invval/oneill.pdf).

Sestak, M., S.M. O’Neill, S. Ferguson, J. Ching, D. Fox (2002). Integration of Wildfire Emissions into Models-3/CMAQ with the Prototypes: Community Smoke Emissions Modeling (CSEM) System and BlueSky. 2002 Models-3 Users Workshop, EPA, Research Triangle Park (http://www.cmascenter.org/conference/2002/session5/fox_abstract.pdf).

Villasenor, R., C. Claiborn, B.K. Lamb, S.M. O’Neill (2001). Mesoscale Modeling of Wintertime Particulate Matter Episodes in Eastern Washington, USA.  Atmospheric Environment, Volume 35, Issue 36, December 2001, pages 6479 – 6491.

C.P. Weaver, X.-Z. Liang, P.J. Adams, P. Amar, J. Avise, M. Caughey, J. Chen, R.C. Cohen, E. Cooter, J.P. Dawson, R. Gilliam, A. Gilliland, A.H. Goldstein, A. Grambsch, A. Guenther, R.A. Harley, S. He, B. Hemming, C. Hogrefe, H.-C. Huang, S. Hunt, D. Jacob, P. Kinney, K. Kunkel, J.-F. Lamarque, B. Lamb, N. Larkin, L.R. Leung, K.-J. Liao, J. Lin, B.H. Lynn, K. Manomaiphiboon, C. Mass, D. McKenzie, L. Mickley, S. O’Neill, C. Nolte, S.N. Pandis, P.N. Racherla, C. Rosenzweig, A.G. Russell, E. Salathe, A.L. Steiner, E. Tagaris, Z. Tao, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Williams, D. Winner, J.-H. Woo, S. Wu, D.J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu (2008).  A Preliminary Synthesis of Modeled Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Regional Ozone Concentrations.  Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Wiedinmyer, C., B. Quayle, C. Geron, A. Belote, D. McKenzie, X. Zhang, S.M. O’Neill, K.K. Wynne (2006). Estimating Emissions from Fires in North America for Air Quality Modeling. Atmospheric Environment, 40 (2006) 3419-3432.

 

Honors and Awards

2005 Certificate of Appreciation.  USDA.  For excellence as acting Team Leader for AirFIRE.
2005 USDOI and USDA National Fire Plan Excellence in Research Award to the BlueSky Consortium.
2003 Gold Medal Innovation Award, U.S. EPA Region 10.  For the BlueSkyRAINS System.
1998 – 2001 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship

  • Engineer in Training (EIT) Certification (1989)
  • Guard School for Fire Fighter “Red Card” Certification (2002)

Professional Society Memberships

American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
American Society of Mechanical Engineers