Judith Perlinger

My research interests are in the areas of environmental transport and transformation of organic chemicals, effects of these on human and ecosystem health and climate, as well as Great Lakes region chemical stressors, climate, and water and heat budgets. They are oriented towards development and verification of predictive models to describe processes to assess risk. Some areas on which I am focusing or have recently focused are listed here. Research in these areas has been supported through grants from the U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Protection Office, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Great Lakes Commission GLAD Program, Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund, and the Michigan Research Excellence Fund.

· Low-flow multicapillary collection device (MCCD) sampling and analysis technology for measurement of semivolatile organic compound (SOC) concentrations in the atmosphere

· Refinement of SOC sampling and analysis methods using MCCDs

· Persistent bioaccumulative toxicants (PBTs) in the built environment

· High-flow MCCD sampling and analysis technology for measurement of SOC concentrations in the atmosphere

· Secondary organic aerosol molecular composition, formation, processing, and effects

· Great Lakes Region Research

o Great Lakes Dynamic Mass Balance (GLaDMB) Model to study transport and transformation of PBTs in the Great Lakes

o Internal Boundary Layer Transport Exchange (IBLTE) Model to account for effects of fetch and atmospheric stability on estimation of air-water exchange of SOCs and other trace gases

o Micrometeorological measurement of air-water exchange fluxes of PBTs in the Great Lakes

o Micrometeorological measurement and modeling of CO₂ concentrations and air-water exchange flux in Lake Superior

o Micrometeorological measurement and modeling of Great Lakes surface latent and sensible heat fluxes

o Monitoring of herring gull egg contamination and amphibian populations in the Lake Superior watershed

Recent Publications

Rowe, M.D., and Perlinger J.A., Prediction of collection efficiencies of gaseous and particle-associated semivolatile organic compounds in multicapillary diffusion denuders, Environ. Sci. Technol., in review.

Rowe, M.D., and Perlinger, J.A., Gas-phase cleanup method for analysis of trace atmospheric semivolatile organic compounds by thermal desorption from diffusion denuders, J. Chromatogr. A,

       in press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2009.06.034.

Rowe, M.D., Perlinger, J.A., and Urban, N.R., Modeling contaminant behavior in Lake Superior: A comparison of PCBs, PBDEs, and mercury, In: M. Munawar, I.F. Munawar (Eds.), State of Lake Superior,

      Ecovision World Monograph Series, Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management Society, Burlington, Canada, 2008.

Perlinger, J.A., Rowe, M.D., and Tobias, D.E., Atmospheric transport and air-water exchange of hexachlorobenzene in Lake Superior, Organohalogen Compounds, 70, 598-601, 2008.

Rowe, M.D., and Perlinger, J.A., Thermal extraction and analysis of semivolatile organic compounds collected in multicapillary collection devices, Organohalogen Compounds, 70, 38-41, 2008.

Tobias, D.E., Morrow, P.S., Doskey, P.V., Perram, D.L., and Perlinger, J.A., Direct thermal desorption of semivolatile organic chemicals from diffusion denuders and gas chromatographic analysis for trace concentration measurement, J. Chromatogr. A, 1140, 1-12, 2007, doi=10.1016/j.chroma.2006.11.045.

Perlinger, J.A., Tobias, D.E., Morrow, P.S., and Doskey, P.V., Evaluation of novel techniques for measurement of air-water exchange of persistent bioaccumulative toxicants in Lake Superior, Environ. Sci. Technol., 39, 8411-8419, 2005; doi=10.1021/es050899q.

Perlinger, J.A., Simcik, M.F., and Swackhamer, D.L., Synthetic organic toxicants in Lake Superior, Special Issue of Aquat. Ecosyst. Health Manage. on Emerging Issues in Lake Superior Research, 7, 491-505, 2004.

Updated 7-2-09

J. Perlinger