Bart Croes
Mr. Bart Croes is currently Chief, Research Division, California Air Resources Board and director of the State’s health, exposure, atmospheric processes, emission control, and economics research programs for air pollution. This includes responsibility for setting California ambient air quality standards. An atmospheric scientist with a background in air quality simulation modeling and a P.E. in Chemical Engineering (California), his former responsibilities include California’s air-quality measurement network design, data management and data analysis programs, and evaluation of the environmental fate of non-oxygenated and ethanol alternatives to MTBE in gasoline (1998-2000). Mr. Croes was the program manager for the 1997 Southern California Ozone Study (SCOS97-NARSTO), the SCOS97-NARSTO Aerosol Program and Radiation Study, California's Particulate Matter Research Program, the California Acid Deposition Monitoring Program, atmospheric chemistry and modeling research, and California Clean Air Act ozone transport research (1992-1998). Mr. Croes holds advanced degrees with an M.S. (Chemical Engineering) from the University of California at Santa Barbara, 1983, and a B.S. (Chemical Engineering) from the California Institute of Technology, 1979. He is Public Sector Co-Chair for the NARSTO Executive Assembly and former member of the National Research Council Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter (1998-2004). Mr. Croes has been a peer reviewer for the National Research Council, the U.S. EPA, and numerous journals, and received the Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing from the Journal of Geophysical Research (1997). He has published peer-reviewed articles on air quality simulation modeling, emission inventory evaluation, reactivity-based VOC controls, acid deposition, the weekend effect for ozone and PM, PM data analysis and trends, and diesel particle traps.