Pacific Southwest Research Station

Pacific Southwest Research Station
800 Buchanan Street
West Annex Building
Albany, CA 94710-0011

(510) 559-6300

Pacific Southwest Research Station
Forest Fire Laboratory
4955 Canyon Crest Drive
Riverside, CA 92507

Honors
Senior Fulbright Scholar, 1981-1982; Sigma Xi National Scientific Honorary Society, 1983; invited lecturer, Finnish Academy of Sciences, 1988; Gamma Sigma Delta Agricultural Honorary Society, 1990.

I have been studying air pollution effects on plants for more than 30 years. During my early work in Poland, I was interested in developing methodologies for evaluation of environmental pollution using chemical analysis of plants. Together with my colleagues of the Warsaw Botanic Garden, Polish Academy of Sciences, I have developed maps of environmental pollution by sulfur, fluoride and heavy metals for the territory of Poland based on chemical composition of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) needles. During my work at the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center of the University of California in Riverside (UCR) I was involved in evaluation of air pollution (ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides) effects on California agricultural crops. At that time I started my collaboration with Dr. Paul Miller of the USDA FS Fire Laboratory in Riverside and got interested in evaluation of nitrogenous (N) air pollution and atmospheric dry deposition of N to California ecosystems. In 1980s, I evaluated air pollution status of the southern California mountains (San Gabriel and San Bernardino) as well as atmospheric dry deposition of nitrogen and sulfur to chaparral, mixed conifer forest and subalpine ecosystems of the San Gabriel and Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Since joining the USDA Forest Service (1990), I have been involved in various air pollution-related projects in California and Central Europe. In California my work mostly focused on development and implementation of methods for evaluation of air pollution in remote mountain areas. As a result of those activities our RWU characterized distribution and ecological effects of ambient ozone and nitrogenous pollutants in the Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains. I have been also involved in development and testing of passive samplers for monitoring of gaseous air pollutants such as nitric acid vapor. Such simple devices can be used in remote areas such as mountains or deserts. In 1990s I coordinated several projects in Central Europe aimed at understanding distribution and effects of ambient ozone on local forests. Together with my European and US colleagues we discovered that ozone levels on that part of Europe are elevated and contribute to deterioration of forest condition in the Carpathian Mountain range.

I have been actively involved in activities of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). Since 2002, I have been serving as a deputy coordinator of Research Group 7.04.00 "Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems". At UC Riverside I have been teaching a class "Acquisition and Analysis of Environmental Data".

C.R. Thompson, D.M. Olszyk, G. Kats, A. Bytnerowicz, P.J. Dawson, J. Wolf (1984) Air Pollution Injury on Plants of the Mojave Desert. Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, University of California, Riverside, Ca. Downloadable PDF (4MB)

A. Bytnerowicz and M. Fenn (1996). Nitrogen deposition in California forests: a review. Environ. Pollut., 92, 127-146.

A. Bytnerowicz, M. Fenn, P. Miller and M. Arbaugh (1999). Wet and dry pollutant deposition to the mixed conifer forest. In: P. R. Miller and J. McBride (eds.) Oxidant Air Pollution Impacts in the Montane Forests of Southern California: The San Bernardino Mountains Case Study, Springer, Ecological Series 134, New York, 235-269.

A. Bytnerowicz, J. J. Carroll, B. K. Takemoto, P. R. Miller, M. E. Fenn and R. C. Musselman (2000). Distribution and transport of air pollutants to vulnerable California ecosystems. In: K. M. Scow, G. E. Fogg, D. E. Hinton and M. L. Johnson (eds) Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Health, Lewis Publishers, Baca Raton, 93-118

B. Takemoto, A. Bytnerowicz and M. Fenn (2001). Current and future effects of ozone and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on California's mixed conifer forests. Forest Ecol. Manag. 144, 159-173.

R. Alonso, A. Bytnerowicz, M. Arbaugh (2001). Vertical distribution of ozone and nitrogenous pollutants in an Air Quality Class I area, the San Gorgonio Wilderness, southern California. TheScientificWorld, 1.

A. Bytnerowicz, M. Tausz, R. Alonso, D. Jones, R. Johnson, N. Grulke (2002). Summer-time distribution of air pollutants in Sequoia National Park, California. Environmental Pollution, 118, 187-203.

A. Bytnerowicz, B. Godzik, W. FrÄ…czek, K. GrodziÅ„ska, M. Krywult, O. Badea, P. Barančok, O. Blum, M. Kerny, S. Godzik, B. Mankovska, W. Manning, P. Moravčik, R. Musselman, J. Oszlanyi, D. Postelnicu, J. Szdzuj, M. VarÅ¡avova, M. Zota (2002). Distribution of ozone and other air pollutants in forests of the Carpathian Mountains in central Europe. Environmental Pollution, 116, 3-25.

M. J. Arbaugh, A. Bytnerowicz (2003). Ambient ozone patterns and effects over the Sierra Nevada: synthesis and implications for future research. In: A. Bytnerowicz, M. Arbaugh, R. Alonso (eds), Ozone Air Pollution in the Sierra Nevada: Distribution and Effects on Forests, Developments in Environmental Science, vol. 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 249-261.

A. Bytnerowicz, P. E. Padgett, M. J. Arbaugh (2003). Methodological needs and perspectives for monitoring ambient air pollution and regional haze: tools for understanding forest responses. In: A. Bytnerowicz, M. Arbaugh, R. Alonso (eds), Ozone Air Pollution in the Sierra Nevada: Distribution and Effects on Forests, Developments in Environmental Science, vol. 2, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 263-283.

A. Bytnerowicz, A., Badea, O., Fleischer, P., Godzik, B., Grodzińska, K. (2004). Science, land management and policy in international studies on the effects of air pollution on Carpathian forest ecosystems. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 19, Supplement No. 4., 129-137. A. Bytnerowicz, B. Godzik, K. Grodzińska, W. Frączek, R. Musselman, W. Manning, O. Badea, F. Popescu, P. Fleischer (2004). Ambient ozone in forests of the Central and Eastern European mountains. Environmental Pollution, 130, 5-16.

Editorial Activities

J. Solon, E. Roo-Zielinska, and A. Bytnerowicz (eds). Proceedings of the U.S.- Poland conference "Climate and Atmospheric Deposition Studies in Forest Ecosystems in Central and Eastern Europe", Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, September Poland, 1994, 276 pp.

A. Bytnerowicz, M. J. Arbaugh and S. Schilling (eds). Proceedings from international symposium "Air Pollution and Climate Change Effects on Forest Ecosystems", USDA General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-166, Albany, CA, 1998, 332 pp.

A Bytnerowicz, Guest editor, Special issue of Environmental Pollution "Air Pollution and Climate Change Effects on Central European Forests", vol. 98, No 3, 1997 (16 scientific papers).

A. Bytnerowicz (Ed.). USDA General Technical Report "Atmospheric and Biospheric Interactions of Gases and Energy in the Pacific Region of the United States, Mexico and Brazil", PSW-GTR-161, Albany, CA, April 1997, 42 pp.

R. Szaro, A. Bytnerowicz and J. Oszlanyi (eds). Proceedings from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Effects of Air pollution on Forest Health and Biodiversity in forest of the Carpathian Mountains", Stara Lesna, Slovakia, May 2001, 319 pp.

A. Bytnerowicz, S. Krupa and R. Cox (eds). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Passive Sampling of Gaseous Air Pollutants in Ecological Effects Research, Riverside, CA, April 2001, TheScientificWorld (2001).

A. Bytnerowicz, M. J. Arbaughand R. Alonso (eds). "Ozone Air Pollution in the Sierra Nevada: Distribution and Effects on Forests", Elsevier Developments in Environmental Science 2, Amsterdam, 2003, 402 pp.

A. Bytnerowicz, R. Musselman and R. Szaro (eds). Special issue of Environmental Pollution "Effects of Air Pollution on the Central & Eastern European Mountain Forests", vol. 130, No. 1, 2004 (13 scientific papers).

W. Widacki, A. Bytnerowicz and A. Riebau (eds). "A Message from the Tatra – Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing in Mountain Environmental Reseach", Jagiellonian University Press, Krakow Poland, 233 pp.