Janet Arey
Research Chemist and Professor

Air Pollution Research Center and
Department of Environmental Sciences
Interdepartmental Program in Environmental Toxicology
University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: (909) 787-3502
Fax: (909) 787-5004
E-mail: janet.arey@ucr.edu
Research Interests:

Environmental chamber studies simulating atmospheric reactions of organic compounds including those of biogenic and anthropogenic origin; the identification of product species using chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques; the identification of mutag enic products formed through atmospheric reactions of compounds such as the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; ambient measurements of organic compounds.

Selected Recent Publications:


Arey, J.

1998. Atmospheric Reactions of PAHs Including Formation of Nitroarenes. In: PAHs and Related Compounds - Chemistry, A. H. Neilson, Vol. Ed. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 3, Anthropogenic Compounds Part I., O. Hutzing er, Series Ed., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp. 347-385.

Atkinson, R. and J. Arey

1998. Atmospheric Chemistry of Biogenic Organic Compounds. Accounts Chem. Res., 31, 574-583.

Alvarado, A., E. C. Tuazon, S. M. Aschmann, R. Atkinson and J. Arey

1998. Products of the Gas-Phase Reactions of O(3P) Atoms and O3 with alpha-Pinene and 1,2-Dimethyl-1-cyclohexene. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 25541-25551.

Sasaki, J., S. M. Aschmann, E. S. C. Kwok, R. Atkinson and J. Arey

1997. Products of the Gas-Phase OH and NO3 Radical-Initiated Reactions of Naphthalene. Environ. Sci. Technol., 31, 3173-3179.

Sasaki, J. C., J. Arey, D. A. Eastmond, K. K. Parks and A. J. Grosovsky

1997. Genotoxicity Induced in Human Lymphoblasts by Atmospheric Reaction Products of Naphthalene and Phenanthrene. Mutat. Res., 393, 23-35.

Kwok, E. S. C., S. M. Aschmann, R. Atkinson and J. Arey

1997. Products of the Gas-Phase Reactions of o-, m- and p-Xylene with the OH Radical in the Presence and Absence of NOx. J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 93, 2847-2854.

Gupta, P., W. P. Harger and J. Arey

1996. The Contribution of Nitro- and Methylnitro-Naphthalenes to the Vapor-Phase Mutagenicity of Ambient Air Samples. Atmos. Environ., 30, 3157-3166.
Teaching:

Undergraduate course

    Environmental Science 102 "Introduction to Atmospheric Science"

Graduate courses

    Environmental Toxicology 200L "Analysis and Identification of Environmental Toxicants"