KATERYNA LAPINA                                             
                                                                                    Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.

                                                                                    Michigan Technological University                                                                                         1400 Townsend Dr.,  Houghton MI, 49931

                                                                                    Phone: (906) 487-3494

                                                                                    Email: klapina@mtu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering, 2000 – present

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

 

Master of Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy, 2000

Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary

 

Specialist Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, 1993

Kharkov Polytechnic University (KPU), Kharkov, Ukraine

 

Research Experience

Research assistant at MTU under advisement of Dr. Richard Honrath. Project: Impact of long-range transport of boreal forest fires on the remote atmosphere in the North Atlantic region. 2004 – present

 

Research assistant at MTU under advisement of Dr. Kurt Paterson. Project: Regional source apportionment of air quality using Positive Matrix Factorization. 2000 – 2003

 

Participant in Young Scientists Summer Program working with the Transboundary Air Pollution research group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. June 2 - Aug 29, 2002.

 

Research assistant at KPU, Ukraine. Modeling using finite element method. 1995 – 1997

 

Scholarships & Awards

  • Fellowship provided by the NSF grant for Collaborative Training in Mathematical Geosciences, University of Maine: Summer 2003
  • Award in the GSC Fall Poster Session, MTU, Best Overall Winner: Fall 2002
  • NSF fellowship, IIASA: Summer 2002
  • Full Scholarship of Open Society Institute to study at CEU: 1999 – 2000

 

Presentations

Lapina, K., R.  Honrath, C.  Owen, M.  Val Martin and J.  Strane, Impact of Large-Scale Boreal Fires on Levels of Tropospheric Ozone in the Northern Hemisphere, Eos Trans.  AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet.  Suppl., Abstract A51D-0109, 2005

Lapina, K. Atmospheric Impact of Boreal Forest Fires, CEE Dept., MTU, November 2004 (talk)

Lapina, K. and Paterson K. Assessing source characteristics for PM2.5 in the Eastern United States using the multilinear engine technique, Particulate Matter: Atmospheric Sciences, Exposure and the Fourth Colloquium on PM and Human Health March 31-April 4, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA (poster)

Lapina, K. and Paterson K. Statistical Analysis of Air Quality Measurements at Four Sites in the United Kingdom,  2002 AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA (poster)

Lapina, K. and Paterson K. Aerosol Source Characterization in New Zealand by Positive Matrix Factorization, 2002 AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA (poster)

 

Publications

 

K. Lapina, R. E. Honrath, R. C. Owen, and M. Val Martin (2006),  Evidence of significant large-scale impacts of boreal fires on ozone levels in the midlatitude Northern Hemisphere free troposphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18015, doi:10.1029/2006GL025878

Honrath, R. E., R. C. Owen, M. V. Martin, J. S. Reid, K. Lapina, P. Fialho, M. P. Dziobak, J. Kleissl, and D. L. Westphal (2004), Regional and hemispheric impacts of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions on summertime CO and O3 in the North Atlantic lower free troposphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2004JD005147

K. Lapina and K.G. Paterson (2004), Assessing source characteristics of PM2.5 in the Eastern United States using positive matrix factorization. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association  54 (9): 1170-1174

 

Professional Associations

American Geophysical Union

Air & Waste Management Association