Rufus D. EdwardsAssociate Professor, Epidemiology |
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Research Interests |
Air Pollution. Human exposures to air pollution, Indoor air pollution, Paint emissions, Emissions of climate altering pollutant species, Health co-benefits | |
| URL | Dept. of Epidemiology - School of Medicine | |
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Academic Distinctions | Dr Edwards is a member of the WHO Indoor Air Quality Guidelines Development Group (GDG) to establish air quality guidelines for household combustion sources, and is lead author for the chapter on emissions in the forthcoming report. Dr Edwards is also Co-Chair of the Climate Working Group for Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves launched 2010 at the Clinton Global Initiative, and has served as technical advisor to Small Scale Working group of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) for carbon offset assessment methods for Cookstoves | |
| Appointments |
Post-Doctoral researcher at the Finnish National Institute of Public Health, Kuopio, Finland. Analysis of Air Pollution Exposure Distributions of Adult Populations in Helsinki, as part of a European Union 4th Framework RTD Program funded multi-center study - EXPOLIS. Sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Finland. (1999 - 2000) Research Associate with Kirk Smith Environmental Health Sciences University of California, Berkeley Analysis of emissions, Chinese national improved stove program, Particle monitor development |
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Research Abstract |
Dr. Edwards' research focuses on assessment of human exposures to household air pollution from solid fuel use and subsequent health effects; emissions from household combustion sources including greenhouse gases and particulate matter including black carbon; emissions from rural small scale industries; and development of sampling and analysis techniques. | |
| Publications |
31. Chowdhury Z., Edwards R.D., Johnson M., Naumoff Shields K., Allen T., Canuz E., Smith K.R., 2007. An inexpensive light-scattering particle monitor: field validation. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 9 (10), 1099-1106 32. Berrueta, V., Edwards R.D., and Masera O.R., 2008. Energy performance of woodburning cookstoves in Michoacan, Mexico. Renewable Energy 33, 859–870 33. Johnson M.J., Edwards R.D., Alatorre Frenk C., Masera O. 2008. In-field greenhouse gas emissions from cookstoves in rural Mexican households. Atmospheric Environment. 42, 1206–1222 34. Amendariz Arnez C., Edwards R.D., Johnson M.J., Zuk M., Rojas-Bracho L., Serrano P., Riojas-Rodríguez H., Masera O.R., 2008. Reductions in personal exposures and indoor concentrations of PM and CO in rural Mexico as a result of the installation of a Patsari Improved Cook Stove. Indoor Air, 18: 93–105 35. Johnson, M., Edwards, R., Ghilardi, A., Berrueta, V., Gillen, D., Frenk, C.A., Masera, O. 2009. Quantification of Carbon Savings from Improved Biomass Cookstove Projects. Environmental Science & Technology, 43(7), 2456-2462. 36. Allen-Piccolo G., Rogers J.V., Edwards R.D., Clark M.C., Allen T.T., Ruiz-Mercado I, Shields K.N., Canuz E., Smith K.R. 2009. An Ultrasound Personal Locator for Time-Activity Assessment, Internl J Occup and Environ Health, 15 (2): 122-132 37. Edwards R.D. Jantunen M.J. 2009. Subgroups exposed to systematically different elemental compositions of PM2.5. Atmospheric Environment 43 (2009) 3571–3578 38. Smith K.R., McCracken J.P., Thompson L., Edwards R.D., Shields K.N., Canuz E., Bruce N. 2009. Personal Child and Mother Carbon Monoxide Exposures and Kitchen Levels: Methods and Results from a Randomized Trial of Woodfired Chimney Cookstoves in Guatemala (RESPIRE) Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology pp1-11 39. Johnson, M., Edwards, R., Masera, O. Improved stove programs need robust methods to estimate carbon offsets. Climatic Change (2010) 102:641–649 40. Edwards R.D., Lam N.L., Zhang L., Johnson M.A., Kleinman M.T., 2009. NO2 and Ozone as factors in the availability of lead from lead based paints. Environmental Science and Technology 43 (22), pp 8516–8521 41. Cohan A.J., Edwards R.D., Kleinman M.T., Dabdub D., 2009. Potential for Atmospheric Driven Lead Paint Degradation in the South Coast Air Basin of California. Environmental Science and Technology. 43 (23), pp 8881–8887 42. Johnson M.J., Edwards R.D., Berrueta V., Masera O. 2009. New Approaches to Performance Testing of Improved Cook Stoves. Environmental Science and Technology 44, pp368–374 43. Wu J., Edwards R.D., Lejano R., Kleinman M.T., 2010. Spatial Analysis of Soil Lead Concentrations in Los Angeles, California. Environmental Research 110, pp 309–317 44. Armendáriz Arnez C., Edwards R.D., Johnson M.J., Rosas I.A., Espinosa F.J., Masera O.R. 2010. Indoor particle size distributions in homes with open fires and improved Patsari cook stoves in Mexico. Atmospheric Environment 44 2881-2886 45. García-Frapolli E, Berrueta V.M., Riojas-Rodríguez H., Schilmann A., Edwards R.D., Johnson M., Guevara A., Armendariz C., Masera O.R. 2010. Beyond Fuelwood Savings: Valuing the economic benefits of introducing improved biomass cookstoves in the Purhepecha region, Mexico. Ecological Economics 69, pp 2598–2605 46. Mestl H.E.S., Edwards R.D. 2011. Global burden of disease as a result of indoor air pollution in Shaanxi, Hubei and Zhejiang, China. Science of the Total Environment 409 1391–1398 47. Pine K., Edwards R.D., Masera O.R., Schilmann A., Marrón-Mares A., Riojas-Rodríguez H. Adoption and Use of Improved Biomass Stoves in Rural Mexico. Energy for Sustainable Development. June 2011 48. Boarnet M.G., Houston D., Edwards R.D., Princevac M., Ferguson G., Pan H., Bartolome C., 2011. Fine Particulate Concentrations on Sidewalks in Five Southern California Cities Atmospheric Environment 45 pp4025-4033 |
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| Grant | 1)Co-benefits from mitigation of emissions and aerosol toxicity from small-scale industries in Mexico Funding Agency: UCI Environment Institute Investigators:Edwards Kleinman 2)Biochar inoculants for enabling smallholder agriculture Funding Agency: NSF Bread Investigators: Edwards, Lehmann 3) Characterization Of Emissions From Small, Variable Solid Fuel Combustion Sources For Determining Global Emissions And Climate Impact Funding Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Investigators: Edwards, Bond, Smith | |
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Professional Societies |
International Society of Exposure Science International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate Air and Waste Management Association |
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| Graduate Programs |
Epidemiology |
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| Research Center | UCI Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute (GERI) | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4990 | |
| Last updated | 09/16/2011 | |