Judith Chow
Dr. Judith Chow is a Research Professor at Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. She has directed the institute’s Environmental Analysis Facility since its inception in 1985. For more than 28 years, Dr. Chow has conducted air quality studies and performed statistical data analysis. She is the principal investigator or co-investigator for the aerosol data analysis portions of the California Regional PM10/PM2.5 Air Quality Study (CRPAQS), Fresno Supersite, Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) carbon analyses, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results grant titled “Uncertainty of Thermal and Optical Carbon Analysis Methods.” Dr. Chow has been principal investigator or a major collaborator in more than 50 large air quality studies (and many smaller ones) across the United States and in several other countries. She prepared and revised sections of the U.S. EPA’s criteria document that pertained to chemical analysis and source emissions. Dr. Chow was the co-principal investigator on evaluation of aerosol measurement methods, sampling strategies, and databases for the U.S. EPA guidance documents on network design, continuous particulate monitoring, and aerosol measurements. As chair of the Air & Waste Management Association’s Critical Review Committee, Dr. Chow is responsible for coordinating the journal article and the presentation that form the core of the association’s annual conference. In addition, she serves as chair of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. She has recently taken on the role co-editor-in-chief of Aerosol and Air Quality Research, an international journal. Dr. Chow earned her Sc.D. in Environmental Science from Harvard University in 1985, after receiving an M.S. in Air Pollution Control from Harvard in 1983. Her initial degree was a B.S. in Biology, earned in 1974 at Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. Dr. Chow is a member of the National Research Council’s (NRC) Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter, and serves on the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology at NRC. In March 2004, she joined the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility (ACRF) Science Board. She is also a member of several other advisory panels for the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. EPA, National Environmental Respiratory Center [New Mexico], and South Coast [California] Air Quality Management District. Other memberships include the Air & Waste Management Association and the American Association for Aerosol Research.