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Jesse O. Bash, Ph.D.
AMAD Staff Education:
- B.S. Geography, New Mexico State University, 2000
- Minor: German
- M.S. Natural Resources: Land, Air, Water, University of Connecticut, 2003
- Thesis: A model (HgSIM) of natural emissions of mercury in the Northeast, United States
- Ph.D. Natural Resources: Land, Air, Water, University of Connecticut, 2006
- Thesis: Measurements of total mercury flux over a forest canopy for model validation and development
Professional Experience:
2007 - Present: Physical Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
2000 - 2007: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1998 - 2000: Image Analyst, Center for Applied Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Meteorology, and the Environment, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, NM
Publications:
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Bash, J.O., Walker, J.T., Katul, G.G., Jones, M.R., Nemitz, E., Robarge, W., Estimation of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks in a fertilized Zea Mays field, Environ. Sci. Tech.,in press 2010 (abstract) 
Bash, J.O., Description and initial simulation of a dynamic bi-directional air-surface exchange model for mercury in CMAQ, J. Geophys. Res. in press,2010 (abstract) 
Foley, K.M., Roselle, S.J., Appel, K.W., Bhave, P.V., Pleim, J.E., Otte, T.L., Mathur, R., Sarwar, G., Young, J.O., Gilliam, R.C., Nolte, C.G., Kelly, J.T., Gilliland, A.B., Bash, J.O., Incremental testing of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modelling system version 4.7. Geoscientific Model Development Discussion , 2, 1215-1244, 2009 (abstract)
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., Growing season total gaseous mercury (TGM) flux measurements over an Acer rubrum L. stand, Atmos. Envrion. 43, 5953-5961, 2009(abstract)
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., A relaxed eddy accumulation system for measuring surface fluxes of mercury, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 25(2), 244-257, 2008. (abstract)
Bash, J.O., Bresnahan, P., Miller, D.R., Dynamic Surface Interface Exchanges of Mercury: A Review and Compartmentalized Modeling Framework, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 46(10), 1606-1618, 2007. (abstract)
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., A note on elevated total gaseous mercury concentrations from an agricultural field during tilling, Science of the Total Environment 388, 379-388, 2007. (abstract)
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., Meyer, T.H., Bresnahan,
P., Northeast United States and Southeast Canada natural mercury
emissions estimated with a surface emission model, Atmospheric Environment 38(33), 5683-5692, 2004. (abstract)
Conference Proceedings, Presentations, Book Chapters, and Reports
Bash, J.O., Description and initial simulation of a dynamic bi-directional air-surface exchange model for mercury in CMAQ, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 14th – 18th, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Bash, J.O., Bullock, O.R., A dynamic bi-directional air-surface exchange model for mercury in CMAQ. 7th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, June 7th – 12th, Guizhou, China, 2009
Bash, J.O., Walker, J.T., Jones, M.R., Estimates of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks using measured profiles and turbulence closure models (platform presentation). National Atmospheric Deposition Program Annual Meeting, Madision, WI, 14-16 October, 2008.
Walker, J.T., Jones, M.R., Bash, J.O., Myles, L., Luke, W., Meyers, T.P., Robarge, W., Air-surface exchange of ammina in a fertilized corn canopy from planting through senescence (poster presentation). National Atmospheric Deposition Program Annual Meeting, Madision, WI, 14-16 October, 2008.
Jones, M.R., Walker, J.T., Bash, J.O., Myles, L., Luke, W., Meyers, T.P. Robarge, W., Intercomparison of techniques to measure NH3 concentrations ad fluxes above a fertilized corn field (poster presentation). National Atmospheric Deposition Program Annual Meeting, Madision, WI, 14-16 October, 2008.
Bash, J.O., Modeling mercury air-surface exchange (invited presentation). University of Maryland - Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, 11 September, 2008.
Bash, J.O., Cooter, E.J., Bi-directional mercury exchange over surface waters simulated by a regional air pollution model(poster presentation). 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 20-24 January, 2008.
Bash, J.O., Trends and modeling of the total gaseous mercury flux and mercury deposition in the leaf litter fall in a Northeastern red maple canopy (platform presentation). National Atmospheric Deposition Program Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO, 10-13 September, 2007.
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., Annual mercury total gaseous mercury flux measurements over a hardwood forest (platform presentation). 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, WI, 6-11 August, 2006.
Bash, J.O., Bresnahan, P., Miller, D.R., A proposed dynamic compartmentalized surface layer model for the atmosphere-surface exchange of mercury(poster presentation). 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison, WI, 6-11 August, 2006.
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., Seasonal total gaseous mercury flux measurements over a hardwood forest in Coventry Connecticut, U.S.A. (platform presentation). Northeast Regional Mercury Science and Policy Conference, Newport, RI, 26-27 April, 2006.
Bash, J.O., Meyers, T.H., Bresnahan, P.A., Miller, D.R., A proposed coupling of natural mercury emissions and deposition in CMAQ (platform presentation). 5th Annual Community Modeling & Analysis System (CMAS) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 26-28 September, 2005.
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R.,Meyer, T.H., An eddy accumulation system for mercury flux measurements (poster presentation). 7th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27 June-2 July, 2004.
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R.,Bresnahan, P.A., Meyer, T.H., A model for natural emissions of mercury in the Northeast (poster presentation). 7th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27 June-2 July, 2004.
Bash, J.O., Miller, D.R., Biogenic mercury fluxes in the Northeast (platform presentation). Northeast Agricultural and Biological Engineering Conference, Storrs, CT, 10-13 August, 2003.
Bash, J.O., Bresnahan, P.A., Miller, D.R., A mercury re-emissions model (MREM) for natural surfaces (platform presentation). 25th Agricultural and forest meteorology and 12th Joint Conference on the applications of air pollution meteorology with the air waste management association, Norfolk, VA, 20-24 May, 2002.
Bash, J.O., Bresnahan, P.A., Miller, D.R, Natural and anthropogenic mercury emission processing (platform presentation).Northeast States Pollution Prevention Week, Hartford, CT, 17-23 September, 2001.
Narrative:
My work at the EPA has focused on improving dry deposition
parameterizations in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model,
to better understand ecosystem exposure to air pollutants. This
includes working with scientists in the modeling community to develop
air-surface exchange algorithms for use in regional air quality models
and collaborating with scientists in the measurement community. My
recent research involves modeling air-surface mercury and ammonia
exchange and collaborating with measurement groups to design
experiments to measure critical parameters in their air-surface
exchange algorithms.