Mehmet Talat Odman

Principal Research Engineer

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

311 Ferst Drive

Atlanta, GA 30332-0512

Phone: 404-894-2783

E-mail: odman@gatech.edu

Educational Background:

Ph.D.

1992

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mechanical Engineering

M.S.

1986

Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida

Mechanical Engineering

B.S.

1983

Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Mechanical Engineering

Employment History:

Principal Research Engineer

Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology

2003–Present

Senior Research Engineer

Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology

1997–2003

Research Scientist

Environmental Programs,
MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center

1992–97

Senior Science Specialist

Applied Technology Division,
Computer Sciences Corporation

June-October, 1992

Research Assistant

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University

1988–92

Teaching/Research Assistant

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Florida Institute of Technology

1983–86

HONORS:

Associate Professor of Meteorology

Turkish Council of Higher Education

2007–Present

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
North Carolina State University

1995–2005

Current Fields of Interest

·         Air pollution meteorology and atmospheric chemistry

·         Air quality modeling: local, urban, regional and global scales

·         Computational fluid dynamics in environmental applications

·         Numerical methods and algorithms, high performance computing

·         Visualization, decision support and expert systems

Qualifications

Dr. Odman has over fifteen years of full-time research experience as a Ph.D. In 2003, he was promoted to Principal Research Engineer at Georgia Tech after working as Senior Research Engineer for five years. He made substantial and sustained contributions to the technical literature in his field, as evidenced by his publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals. His technical accomplishments include development of simulation models that are widely used in the field of air pollution management. Dr. Odman developed new research areas that were sponsored by various national organizations. He successfully coordinated and/or managed research projects with participation of researchers from academia, government and industry. These projects contributed to the development of several individuals, including postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. and M.S. students. He served his profession through membership to professional organizations, consulting activities, seminars, testimonies, conference session chairmanship and review of technical publications.

I.                     Research and Creative Scholarship

A.     Research Program Development

·         Development of measurement and modeling techniques for emissions characterization

·         Development of modeling techniques for source impact analyses

·         Application of adaptive grid technology to multiscale air quality modeling

·         Development and application of efficient numerical algorithms in air quality modeling

B.     Research Proposals and Contracts/Grants Funded (PI)

1.       Title: Research on Numerical Transport Algorithms for Air Quality Simulation Models
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Co-P.I.s: Dr. Kiran Alapaty, MCNC and Dr. Robert Yamartino, Earth Tech (formerly Sigma Research Corporation)
Amount Funded: $199,916
Period of Performance: October 1, 1993 through September 30, 1996

2.       Title: Research on Computational Framework in Generic Grids, Adaptive Grids, and Subgrid Treatment for Air Quality Simulation Models
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Co-P.I.s: Dr. Rohit Mathur, MCNC and Dr. Scott McRae, North Carolina State University
Amount Funded: $387,853
Period of Performance: September 15, 1993 through September 14, 1997

3.       Title: Horizontal Advection Solver Uncertainty
Sponsor: California Air Resources Board
Amount Funded: $68,860
Period of Performance: November 30, 1994 through February 29, 1996

4.       Title: Processing of Emissions Data for Adaptive Grid Air Quality Modeling
Sponsor: MCNC, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Amount Funded: $67,280
Period of Performance: August 1, 1998 through December 31, 2000

5.       Title: Development and Evaluation of Modeling Techniques for the Study of Interactions between Urban and Point Source Plumes and Regional Atmospheres in the Formation of Secondary Pollutants
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
Co-P.I.: Dr. Scott McRae, North Carolina State University
Amount Funded: $468,324
Period of Performance: January 15, 1999 through January 14, 2003

6.       Title: Adaptive Grid Modeling and Direct Sensitivity Analysis for Predicting the Air Quality Impacts of DOD Activities
Sponsor: Army Corps of Engineers, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
Co-P.I.: Dr. Armistead G. Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $99,877
Period of Performance: March 26, 2002 through August 18, 2003

7.       Title: Sensitivity Analysis and Source Apportionment for VISTAS
Sponsor: Southeastern States Air Resource Managers (SESARM) / Visibility Improvement - State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS)
Amount Funded: $489,773
Co-P.I.: Dr. Armistead G. Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Period of Performance: December 5, 2003 through September 30, 2008

8.       Title: Improving Mass Conservation in Air Quality Models
Sponsor: California Air Resources Board
Amount Funded: $276,956
Co-P.I.: Dr. Carlie Coats, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems

      Period of Performance: October 20, 2005 through December 31, 2007

9.      Title: Characterization of Emissions and Air Quality Modeling for Predicting the Impacts of Prescribed Burns at DoD Lands.
Sponsor: Army Corps of Engineers, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
Co-P.I.s: Dr. Gary Achtemeier,  U.S. Forest Service; Dr. Luke Naeher, University of Georgia; Dr. Armistead Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $1,080,832
Period of Performance: April 1,  2008 through December 31, 2010

10.     Title: Evaluation of Smoke Models and Sensitivity Analysis for Determining their Emission Related Uncertainties.
Sponsor: Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)
Co-P.I.: Dr. Scott Goodrick,  U.S. Forest Service
Amount Funded: $222,320
Period of Performance: October 1,  2008 through September 30, 2010

C.     Research Contracts/Grants (Contributor)

1.       Title: Atmospheric Modeling Research–Scientific and Computational.
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
P.I.: Mr. Kenneth Galluppi, MCNC
Amount Funded: $7,488,826
Period of Performance: September 15, 1993 through September 14, 1996
Contributions: Investigator

2.       Title: Tightly Coupling Environmental Models with Spatial Analyses in HPCC Environments: Emissions Processing for Adaptive Grid Air Quality Modeling
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
P.I.: Dr. Hassan Karimi, MCNC
Amount Funded: $581,082
Period of Performance: October 28, 1996 through October 27, 1999
Contributions: Co-P.I. until September 30, 1997

3.       Title: Meteorological, Emissions and Air Quality Modeling for an Integrated Assessment Framework in Support of the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative
Sponsor: Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative (SAMI)
P.I.: Dr. Armistead Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $944,175
Period of Performance: June 1, 1997 through September 30, 2002
Contributions: Chief Project Coordinator and Scientist

4.       Title: The Fall-line Air Quality Study
Sponsor: Georgia Department of Natural Resources
P.I.: Dr. Michael Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $2,825,000
Period of Performance: May 1, 2000 through December 31, 2004
Contributions: Investigator

5.       Title: Assessing the Impacts of Hartsfield Airport on Particulate Matter and Ozone
Sponsor: NASA Glenn Research Center
P.I.: Dr. Armistead Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $116.291
Period of Performance: August 1, 2003 through October 31, 2004
Contributions: Co-P.I.

6.       Title: PERCH Air Quality Study (PAQS): Phase I
Sponsor: University of West Florida
P.I.: Dr. Michael Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $449,999 
Period of Performance:  August 1, 2002 through December 31, 2006
Contributions: Co-P.I.

7.       Title: Sensitivity and Uncertainty Assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts on Ozone and Particulate Matter: Examination of Direct and Indirect, Emission-Induced Effects
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
P.I.: Dr. Armistead Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $899,494
Period of Performance: March 23, 2003 through March 22, 2007
Contributions: Co-P.I.

8.       Title: Emissions Inventory and Process Reconciliation Using Molecular Markers and Hybrid/Inverse Photochemical Modeling with Direct Sensitivity Analysis
Sponsor: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program
P.I.: Dr. Armistead Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $499,780
Period of Performance: October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2008
Contributions: Co-P.I.

9.       Title: Air Quality Forecasting in Atlanta, Georgia
Sponsor: Georgia Department of Natural Resources
P.I.: Dr. Michael Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amount Funded: $1,280,236
Period of Performance: April 1, 1997 through September 30, 2008
Contributions: Co-P.I.

10.    Title: Evaluation of Urban and Regional Scale Air Pollution by Simulation of Complex Meteorology Areas: Application to Istanbul and Kocaeli Bay.
Sponsor: Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey
P.I.: Dr. Selahattin Incecik, Istanbul Technical University
Amount Funded: $215,693
Period of Performance: March 15, 2007 through March 15, 2010
Contributions: Investigator

D.     Published Books and Part of Books:

1.       Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Computational fluid dynamic techniques in air quality modeling,” in Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics, pp. 335-402, (V. K. Garg, Ed.), New York: Marcel Dekker (1999).

2.       Byun, D. W., Young, J. and Odman, M. T., “Governing equations and computational structure of the community multiscale air quality (CMAQ) chemical transport model,” in Science Algorithms of the EPA Models‑3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System, pp. 6.1-6.37 (D. W. Byun and J. K. S. Ching, Eds.), Washington: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1999).

3.       Byun, D. W., Young, J., Pleim, J., Odman, M. T. and Alapaty, K., “Numerical transport algorithms for the community multiscale air quality (CMAQ) chemical transport model in generalized coordinates,” in Science Algorithms of the EPA Models‑3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System, pp. 7.1-7.56, (D. W. Byun and J. K. S. Ching, Eds.), Washington: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1999).

E.     Published Journal Papers (refereed)

  1. Czyzewski, T. and Odman, M. T., “Analysis of contact stress and deformation in a trilobe polygonal connection,” Journal of Engineering for Industry–Transactions of the ASME, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 212-217, August 1988. Odman conducted the research as part of his M.S. thesis.

  2. Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Multiscale modeling of pollutant transport and chemistry,” Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 96, no. D4, pp. 7363-7370, April 1991. Odman conducted the research as part of his Ph.D. thesis.

  3. Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “A multiscale finite element pollutant transport scheme for urban and regional modeling,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 25 A, no. 10, pp. 2385-2394, 1991. Odman conducted the research as part of his Ph.D. thesis.

  4. McNair, L. A., Russell, A. G., and Odman, M. T., “Airshed calculation of the sensitivity of pollutant formation to organic compound classes and oxygenates associated with alternative fuels,” Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 172-178, February 1992. Odman helped with computer simulations.

  5. Odman, M. T., Kumar, N. and Russell, A. G., “A comparison of fast chemical kinetic solvers for air quality modeling,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 26 A, no. 9, pp. 1783-1789, June 1992. Odman conducted the research as part of his Ph.D. thesis.

  6. Russell, A. G. and Odman, M. T., “Future directions in photochemical air quality modeling,” Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, vol. 67, no. 1-2, pp. 181-193, March 1993. Odman conducted part of the research that led to this paper.

  7. Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “A nonlinear filtering algorithm for multi-dimensional finite element pollutant advection schemes,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 27 A, no. 5, pp. 793-799, April 1993. Odman conducted the research as part of his Ph.D. thesis.

  8. Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “On local finite element refinements in multiscale air quality modeling,” Environmental Software, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 61-66, 1994. Odman conducted the research as part of his Ph.D. thesis.

  9. Kumar, N., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Multiscale air quality modeling: Application to southern California,” Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 99, no. D3, pp. 5385-5397, 1994. Odman conducted part of the research as a follow on to his Ph.D. thesis.

  10. McNair, L. A., Russell, A. G., Odman, M. T., Croes, B. E. and Kao, L., “Airshed model evaluation of reactivity adjustment factors calculated with the maximum incremental reactivity scale for transitional-low emission vehicles,” Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 900-907, July 1994. Odman helped with computer simulations.

  11. Hwang, D., Byun, D. W. and Odman, M. T., “An automatic differentiation technique for sensitivity analysis of numerical advection schemes in air quality models,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 879-888, March 1997. Odman helped with formulation and software implementation.

  12. Odman, M. T., “A quantitative analysis of numerical diffusion introduced by advection algorithms in air quality models,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 31, no. 13, pp. 1933-1940, July 1997.

  13. Kasibhatla, P., Chameides, W. L., Duncan, B., Houyoux, M., Jang, C., Mathur R., Odman, T. and Xiu, A., “Impact of inert organic nitrate formation on ground-level ozone in a regional air quality model using the carbon bond mechanism IV,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 24, no. 24, pp. 3205-3208, December 1997. Odman helped with computer simulations.

  14. Alapaty, K., Mathur, R. and Odman, T., “Intercomparison of spatial interpolation schemes for use in nested grid models,” Monthly Weather Review, vol. 126, no. 1, pp. 243-249, January1998. Odman was principal investigator and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  15. Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S. and Odman, M. T., “An adaptive grid algorithm for air quality modeling,” Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 165, no. 2, pp. 437-472, December 2000. Odman was principal investigator and faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  16. Sillman, S., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Comment on ‘On the indicator-based approach to assess ozone sensitivities and emissions features’ by C.-H. Lu and J. S. Chang,” Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 106, no. D18, pp. 20941-20944, September 2001. Odman conducted the computer simulations.

  17. Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S. and Odman, M. T., “Simulation of a reacting pollutant puff using an adaptive grid algorithm,” Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 106, no. D20, pp. 24245-24258, October 2001. Odman was principal investigator and faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  18. Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S. and Odman, M. T., “Simulation of dispersion of a power plant plume using an adaptive grid algorithm,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 35, no. 28, pp. 4801-4818, October 2001. Odman was principal investigator and faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  19. Boylan, J. W., Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G., Russell, A. G., Doty, K. G., Norris, W. B. and McNider, R. T., “Development of a comprehensive multiscale ‘one atmosphere’ modeling system: application to the southern Appalachian mountains,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 36, no. 23, pp. 3721-3734, August 2002. Odman was chief project coordinator and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  20. Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., Srivastava, R. K. and McRae, D. S., “Simulation of a reacting pollutant puff using an adaptive grid algorithm by Srivastava et al. – Reply,” Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, vol. 107, no. D22, pp.4644, November 2002. Odman was principal investigator.

  21. Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W., Wilkinson, J. G., Russell, A. G., Mueller, S. F., Imhoff, R.E., Doty, K. G., Norris, W. B. and McNider, R. T., “Integrated modeling for air quality assessment: The Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative project,” Journal de Physique IV, vol. 12, no. Pr10, pp. 211-234, November 2002. Odman was chief project coordinator.

  22. Hakami A., Odman M. T. and Russell A. G., “High-order, direct sensitivity analysis of multidimensional air quality models,” Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2442-2452, June 2003. Odman was faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  23. Hakami, A., Harley, R. A., Milford, J. B., Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G.,  “Regional, three-dimensional assessment of the ozone formation potential of organic compounds,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 121-134, January 2004. Odman was faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  24. Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., Boylan, J. W., “Estimates of PM2.5 levels in the southeastern United States for the year 2010,” Fuel Processing Technology, vol. 85, no. 6-7, pp. 631– 639, 15 June 2004. Odman was chief project coordinator.

  25. Dabberdt W. F., Carroll M. A., Baumgardner D., Carmichael G.,  Cohen R., Dye T., Ellis J., Grell G., Grimmond S., Hanna S.,  Irwin J., Lamb B., Madronich S., McQueen J.,  Meagher J., Odman T.,  Pleim J.,  Schmid H. P.,  and Westphal D., “Meteorological Research Needs for Improved Air Quality Forecasting: Report of the 11th Prospectus Development Team of the U.S. Weather Research Program, ” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 85, no.4, pp. 563-586, April 2004. Odman was a team member.

  26. Hakami A., Odman M. T. and Russell A. G., “Non-linearity in atmospheric response: A direct sensitivity analysis approach,” Journal of Geophysical Research– Atmospheres, vol. 109, no. D15, D15303, August 2004. Odman was faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  27. Boylan, J. W. and Odman, M. T. , “Comment on ‘Geographic Sensitivity of Fine Particle Mass to Emissions of SO2 and NOx’, by S. F. Mueller et al.” Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 38, no. 18, p. 4910, September 2004. Odman was chief project coordinator.

  28. Khan, N. K., Odman, M. T. and Karimi, H., “Evaluation of algorithms developed for adaptive grid air quality modeling using surface elevation data,” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 718-734, November 2004. Odman was principal investigator and directed the study.

  29. Boylan, J. W., Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G., Russell, A. G., Doty, K., Norris, W. and McNider, R., “Integrated assessment modeling of atmospheric pollutants in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Part I – Hourly and seasonal ozone,” Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1019-1030, July 2005.  Odman was chief project coordinator.

  30. Mathur, R., Shankar, U., Hanna, A.,  Odman, M. T.,  McHenry, J. N.,  Coats, C. J., Alapaty, K.,  Xiu, A., Arunachalam, S.,  Olerud, D. T., Byun, D. W.,  Schere, K. L.,  Binkowski, F. S., Ching,  J. K. S.,  Dennis, R. L.,  Pierce, T. E.,   Pleim, J. E., Roselle, S. J. and  Young, J. O. “The Multiscale Air Quality Simulation Platform (MAQSIP): Initial Applications and Performance for Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter,” Journal of Geophysical Research– Atmospheres, vol. 110, no. D13, D13308, July 2005. Odman was a member of the model development team.

  31. Unal, A., Hu, Y., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G.,  “Impacts of aircraft and airport-related emissions on air quality and the importance of comprehensively prescribing the timing, location, mode and type of emissions with application to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 39, no. 32, pp. 5787–5798,  October 2005. Odman was co-principal investigator.

  32. Boylan, J. W., Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G. and Russell, “Integrated assessment modeling of atmospheric pollutants in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Part II – PM2.5 and visibility,” Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 12-22, January 2006. Odman was chief project coordinator.

  33. Hu, Y., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Mass conservation in the Community Multiscale Air Quality model,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1199–1204, March 2006. Odman was principal investigator.

  34. Kindap, T., Unal, A., Chen, S.H., Hu, Y., Odman M. T. and  Karaca, M., “Long-Range Aerosol Transport from Europe to Istanbul, Turkey,” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 40, no. 19,  pp 3536–3547, June 2006. Odman provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  35. Hu, Y., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Re-examination of the 2003 North American Electrical Blackout Impacts on Regional Air Quality,” Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, L22810, doi:10.1029/2006GL027252, 2006. Odman was co-principal investigator.

  36. Bergin, M. S. , Shih, J.-S., Krupnick, A. J., Boylan, J. W., Wilkinson, J. G. , Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G. "Regional Air Quality: Local and interstate impacts of NOx and SO2 emissions on ozone and fine particulate matter in the Eastern United States," Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 41, no. 13, pp. 4677-4689, July 2007. Odman was faculty co-advisor and provided guidance in the conduct of the study.

  37. Odman, M. T., Hu, Y., Unal, A., Russell, A. G. and Boylan, J. W, "Determining the sources of regional haze in the Southeastern U.S. using the CMAQ model," Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, vol. 46, No. 11, pp. 1731-1743, November 2007. Odman was principal investigator.

  38. Hu, Y., Odman, M. T., Chang, M. E., Jackson, W., Lee, S., Edgerton, E. S., Baumann, K. Russell, A. G., “Simulation of air quality impacts from prescribed fires on an urban area ” Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 3676-3682, May 2008. Odman was co-principal investigator.

  39. Napelenok, S. L., Cohan, D. S., Odman, M. T. and Tonse, S, “Extension and Evaluation of Sensitivity Analysis Capabilities in a Photochemical Model,” Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 994-999, August 2008. Odman was principal investigator.

  40. Odman, M. T., Hu, Y., Russell, A. G., Hanedar, A., Boylan, J. W, and Brewer, P. F. "Quantifying the sources of ozone, fine particulate matter, and regional haze in the Southeastern United States," Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 90, no. 10, pp. 3155–3168, July 2009. Odman was principal investigator.

  41. Hu, Y., Napelenok, S. L., Odman, M. T., and Russell, A. G., "Sensitivity of inverse estimation of 2004 elemental carbon emissions inventory in the United States to the choice of observational networks," Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L15806, doi:10.1029/2009GL039655. Odman was co-principal investigator.

  42. Hu, Y., Odman, M. T., and Russell, A. G., "Top-down analysis of the elemental carbon emissions inventory in the United States by inverse modeling using CMAQ-DDM," Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009JD011987, in press. Odman was co-principal investigator.

F.      Submitted Journal Papers

  1. Odman, M. T. and Hu, Y, "A variable time-step algorithm for air quality models," Atmospheric Environment, Odman was principal investigator.

G.     Published Papers (non-refereed)

1.   Odman, M. T., “Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I and II,” Laboratory manual, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, 1984.

2.    Odman, M. T., “Contact Stresses in a Polygonal Connection,” M.S. thesis, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, 1986.

3.       Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., Kumar, N., McRae, G. J., Achilles, G. C., Seaman, N. L., Cole, C. and Stockwell, W. R., “Long Range Transport, Chemistry and Fate of Nitrogen Containing Species Emitted from Urban Areas,” Final report, Contract No. R-814518-01-0, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1991.

4.       Gao, D., Milford, J. B., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “NOx Control and the Corresponding Ozone Reductions: Analysis of the ROMNET Results,” Final report, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1991.

5.        Russell, A. G., McNair, L. A., Odman, M. T. and Kumar, N., “Organic Compound Reactivities and the Use of Alternative Fuels,” Final report, Agreement No. A832-112, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, 1991.

6.       Harley, R. A., Russell, A. G., McRae, G. J., Winner, D. A., McNair, L. A., Odman, M. T., Dabdub, D., Cass, G. R. and Seinfeld, J. H., “Continued Development of a Photochemical Model and Application to the Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS) Intensive Monitoring Periods: Phase I,” Final report, Coordinating Research Council, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.

7.       McNair, L. A., Harley, R. A., Russell, A. G., Cass, G. R., Odman, M. T., McRae, G. J., Seinfeld, J. H., Winner, D. A., and Dabdub, D., “Continued Development of a Photochemical Model and Application to the Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS) Intensive Monitoring Periods, Phase II:  Model Application to the June 24-25 and December 10-11 Periods,” Final report, Coordinating Research Council, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.

8.       Odman, M. T., “Multiscale Modeling of Long Range Transport and Fate of Pollutants Emitted from Urban Areas,” Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1992.

9.       Odman, M. T., “Evaluation of a Positive Definite Advection Scheme and its Incorporation to RADM 2.7,” Final report, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1992.

10.   Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., McRae, G. J., “An Investigation of Error Propagation in the California Air Resources Board Air Quality Model,” Final report, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California. 1992.

11.   Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S. and Odman, M. T., “Governing Equations of Atmospheric Diffusion,” Technical report, MCNC–North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1995.

12.   Odman, M. T. and Ingram, C. L., “Multiscale Air Quality Simulation Platform (MAQSIP): Source Code Documentation and Validation,” Technical report, 83 pp., ENV-96TR002, MCNC–North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1996.

13.   Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G., McNair, L. A., Russell, A. G., Ingram, C. L. and Houyoux, M. R., “Horizontal Advection Solver Uncertainty in the Urban Airshed Model,” Final report, 106 pp., Contract No. 93-722, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, 1996.

14.   Odman, M. T., “Research on Numerical Transport Algorithms for Air Quality Simulation Models,” Final report, 87 pp., Assistance Agreement No. CR822081, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1997.

15.   Odman, M. T., “Processing of Emissions Data for Adaptive Grid Air Quality Modeling,” Final report, 60 pp., Contract # D96-7050-000, MCNC, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2001.

16.     Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W., Wilkinson, J. G., Russell, A. G., Doty, K., Norris, W., McNider, R., Mueller S. F., and Imhoff R. E., “SAMI Air Quality Modeling Report,” Final report, 205 pp., Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative, Asheville, North Carolina, 2002.

17.     Hu, Y.-T., Odman, M. T., and Russell, A. G., “Meteorological Modeling of the First Basecase Episode for the Fall Line Air Quality Study,” Final report, 65 pp., Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003.

18.   Odman, M. T. and McRae, D. S., “Development and Evaluation of Modeling Techniques for the Study of Interactions between Urban and Point Source Plumes and Regional Atmospheres in the Formation of Secondary Pollutants,” Final report, 103 pp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2003.

19. Hu, Y.-T., Odman, M. T., and Russell, A. G., “Air Quality Modeling of the First Basecase Episode for the Fall Line Air Quality Study,” Draft final report, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004.

20. Unal, A., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G.,  “Assessing the Impacts of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Particulate Matter and Ozone in Atlanta Metropolitan Area,” Interim Report, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio, 2004.

21. Odman, M.T and C. J. Coats, "Improving Mass Conservation and Distribution in Air Quality Models, Final Report to Central California Ozone Study (CCOS)," 123 pp, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, 2007.

22. Odman, M. T., "Sensitivity Analysis and Source Apportionment for VISTAS," Final Report to Visibility Improvement State and Tribal Association of the Southeast (VISTAS), 121 pp, South Eastern States Air Resource Managers,  Forest Park, Georgia, 2008.

H.    Invited Conference Presentations

1.      Odman, M. T., Mathur, R., Alapaty, K., Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S. and Yamartino, R. J., “Nested and adaptive grids for multiscale air quality modeling,” Next Generation Environmental Models Computational Methods (NGENCOM) Workshop, Bay City, Michigan, August 7, 1995.

2.   Odman, T., “Modeling fine particulate matter in the southern Appalachian mountains,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA) and Southeastern States Air Resource Managers (SESARM) Workshop on PM2.5 Emission Inventory Development, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 5, 2000.

3.    Odman, T., “Atmospheric Modeling for the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative,” Air and Waste Management Association Southern Section Annual Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 2001.

4.     Odman, T. and Russell, A., “Atmospheric Modeling for the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative (SAMI),” U.S. Forest Service National Modeling Consortia Workshop, Athens, Georgia, September 5, 2001.

5.      Odman, M. T., “Adaptive Grid Modeling and Direct Sensitivity Analysis for Predicting Air Quality Impacts of DoD Activities,” 2001 Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Ecosystem Management Project Coordination Meeting, Columbus Georgia, November 5, 2001.

6.      Odman, M. T., Khan, M. N., Srivastava, R. K. and McRae, D. S., “Initial Application of the Adaptive Grid Air Quality Model,” U.S. Weather Research Program, Prospectus Development Team Workshop on Air Quality (PDT-11), Palm Springs, California, November 7, 2001.

7.      Odman, T., Boylan, J., Russell A., “SAMI Modeling Results: Sensitivities to Emission Reductions,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA) Regional Air Quality and Data Analysis Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, January 24, 2002.

8.  Odman, T., Hu, Y.-T., Russell, A. , and Chang, M., “Atlanta Air Quality Study,” National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center,  Atmospheric Impact of Aviation Workshop, Westlake, Ohio, October 30, 2003.

9.  Odman, M. T., "Regional-scale Modeling of Ozone and Aerosols in the Southeastern U.S.," National Park Service 'Communicating Complex Critical Natural Resource Issues in National Parks' Workshop, Dallas, Texas, March 29-30, 2005.

10. Odman, T., "Modeling the Air Quality Impacts of Specific Sources," Georgia Air Policy Symposium, Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta Georgia, December 19, 2005.

11. Odman, T. and Y Hu, "Supermodel, Supermodel, Can I Breathe Tomorrow?" Georgia Air Quality and Climate Summit, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, May 3-4, 2006.

12. Odman, M.T., "Air Quality Impacts from Prescribed Burning: Fort Benning Case Study," Georgia Air Quality and Climate Summit, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7, 2008.

13. Odman, M.T., "Air Quality Impacts from Airport Related Emissions: Atlanta Case Study," Georgia Air Quality and Climate Summit, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7, 2008.

I.       Conference Presentation with Proceedings (refereed)

1.       Odman, M. T., Xiu, A., and Byun, D. W., “Evaluating advection schemes for use in the next generation of air quality modeling systems,” in Regional Photochemical Measurement and Modeling Studies, Transactions of the international specialty conference with the same name held in San Diego, California, November 8-12, 1993, vol. III, pp. 1386-1401, (A. J. Ranzieri and P. A. Solomon, Eds.), Pittsburgh: Air and Waste Management Association (1995).

J.      Conference Presentation with Proceedings (non-refereed)

  1. Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Multiscale horizontal transport for urban and regional air quality modeling,” in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application IX, Proceedings of the 19th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application, held in Crete, Greece, 29 September–4 October, 1991, pp. 211-219, (H. van Dop and G. Kallos, Eds.), New York: Plenum Press (1992).

  2. Milford, J. B., Gao, D., Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., Possiel, N. C., Scheffe, R. D., Pierce, T. E. and Schere, K. L., “Air quality responses to NOx reductions: Analysis of ROMNET results,” Paper 92-89.02, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1992.

  3. Odman, M. T., Kumar, N., McNair, L. A., Blossey, P., Russell, A. G., “Multiscale photochemical modeling of SCAQS and related studies,” in Proceedings of the Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS) Data Analysis Conference, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1992.

  4. Kumar, N. and Odman, M. T., “Error analysis of CALGRID and application to Southern California Air Quality Study using the CB-IV mechanism,” Paper 93-WP-69B.02, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1993.

  5. Kumar, N., Russell, A. G. and Odman, M. T., “Multiscale air quality modeling: Application to southern California,” Paper M5-I.4, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1993.

  6.  Dennis, R. L., Cohn, R. C. and Odman, M. T., “Oxidation of nitrogen: Differences between measurements and predictions from the Regional Acid Deposition Model and whether grid size can explain them,” American Meteorological Society 8th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association, Nashville, Tennessee, January 23-28, 1994.

  7. Byun, D. W., Dennis, R. L., Hwang, D., Coats, C. and Odman, M. T., “Computational modeling issues in next generation air quality models,” in Proceedings of the 14th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics, vol. 2, pp. 614-617, Atlanta, GA, 1994.

  8. Srivastava, R. K., Odman, M. T. and McRae, D. S., “Governing equations of atmospheric pollutant transport,” International Specialty Conference on Acid Rain and Electric Utilities, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995.

  9. Byun, D. W., Hanna, A., Odman, M. T., Mathur, R., Xiu, A., Jang, C., McHenry, J. and Galluppi, K. J., “Prototyping multiscale air quality modeling system for high performance computing: Part 1-Requirements and design,” Society for Computer Simulation’s Simulation Multiconference, Mission Earth Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, April 9-13, 1995.

  10. Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S., and Odman, M. T., “Application of solution adaptive grid techniques to air quality modeling,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations held in Starkville, Mississippi, April 1-5, 1996, vol. II, pp. 1241-1258, (NSF Engineering Research Center), Mississippi State University (1996).

  11. Byun, D. W., Dabdub, D., Hanna, A., Mathur, R., Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., Segall, E. J., Seinfeld, J. H., Steenkister, P. and Young, J., “Emerging air quality modeling technology for high performance computing and communication environment,” in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XI, Proceedings of the 21st NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application held in Baltimore, Maryland, November 6-10, 1995, pp. 491-502, (S.-E. Gryning and F. A. Schiermeier, Eds.), New York: Plenum Press (1996).

  12. Odman, M. T., Mathur, R., Alapaty, K., Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S. and Yamartino, R. J., “Nested and adaptive grids for multiscale air quality modeling,” in Next Generation Environmental Models Computational Methods, Proceedings of the workshop with the same name held in Bay City, Michigan, August 7-9, 1995, pp. 59-68 (G. Delic and M. F. Wheeler, Eds.), Philadelphia: SIAM (1997).

  13. Yang, Y.-J., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Fast three-dimensional sensitivity analysis of photochemical air quality models: an application to southern California,” Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association's Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 1998, 98-WP76A.06, 2pp.

  14. Yang, Y.-J., Wilkinson, J. G., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Ozone sensitivity and uncertainty analysis using DDM-3D in a photochemical air quality model,” in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XIII: Proceedings of the 23rd NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Varna, Bulgaria, September 28-October 2, 1998, pp. 183-194, (S.-E. Gryning and E. Batchvarova, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2000).

  15. Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Mass conservative coupling of non-hydrostatic meteorological models with air quality models,” in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XIII: Proceedings of the 23rd NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Varna, Bulgaria, September 28-October 2, 1998, pp. 651-660, (S.-E. Gryning and E. Batchvarova, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2000).

  16. Hakami, A., Russell, A. and Odman, T., “Uncertainty analysis of episode selection for regional air quality modeling,” Air and Waste Management Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18-22, 2000.

  17. Boylan, J., Wilkinson, J., Yang, Y.-J., Odman, T. and Russell, A., “Particulate matter and acid deposition modeling for the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative,” Air and Waste Management Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18-22, 2000.

  18. Odman, T., Boylan, J., Wilkinson, J., Yang, Y.-J., Russell, A., Doty, K. and McNider R., “Ozone modeling for the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative,” Air and Waste Management Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18-22, 2000.

  19. Khan, M. N., Odman, M. T., Karimi, H. and Goodchild, M., “Developing and integrating advanced GIS techniques in an adaptive grid air quality model to reduce uncertainty,” 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4), Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2-8, 2000.

  20. Khan, M., Odman, T., Karimi, H. and Hanna, A., “Reducing uncertainty of air quality models through coupling adaptive grids with GIS techniques,” 2nd International Conference on GIS for Earth Science Applications (ICGESA), Menemen, Turkey, September 11-14, 2000.

  21. Odman, M. T., Khan M. N., and McRae, D. S., “Adaptive grids in air pollution modeling: Towards an operational model,” in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIV, Proceedings of the 24th (Millennium) NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application held in Boulder, Colorado, May 15-19, 2000, pp. 541-549, (S.-E. Gryning and F. A. Schiermeier, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2001).

  22. Wilkinson, J., Boylan, J., Doty, K., Odman, T., and Russell, A., “Integrated regional modeling of ozone, particulate matter and deposition over the eastern United States: Comparisons over wet and dry episodes,” in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XIV, Proceedings of the 24th (Millennium) NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application held in Boulder, Colorado, May 15-19, 2000, pp. 213-224, (S.-E. Gryning and F. A. Schiermeier, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2001).

  23. Boylan, J., Wilkinson, J., Odman, T., Russell, A., Imhoff, R., “Response and sensitivity of PM2.5 in the southern Appalachian mountains,” Air and Waste Management Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, Florida, June 24-28, 2001.

  24. Odman, M. T. and Khan, M. N., “An adaptive grid model for urban to regional scale air quality problems,” 2nd International Symposium on Air Quality Management at Urban, Regional and Global Scales, Istanbul, Turkey, September 25-28, 2001.

  25. Odman, M. T., Khan, M. N., Srivastava, R. K. and McRae, D. S., “Initial application of the adaptive grid air pollution model,” in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XV: Proceedings of the 25th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 15-19, 2001, pp. 319-328 (C. Borrego and Guy Schayes, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2002).

  26.  Mueller, S. F., Boylan, J. W., Russell, A. G., Odman, M. T. and Wilkinson, J. G., “Performance of an air quality model across a range of environmental conditions,” 10th International Symposium on Transport and Air Pollution, Boulder, Colorado, September 17-19, 2001.

  27. Odman, M. T., Khan, M. N., “Adaptive grid air quality model: Application to an ozone episode,” American Meteorological Society 12th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association, Norfolk, VA, May 20-24 2002.

  28. Mueller S. F., Boylan, J. W., Russell, A. G., Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G., “PM2.5 sulfate and organic carbon estimates for 2010,” PM2.5 and Electric Power Generation: Recent Findings and Implications,” U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 9-10, 2002.

  29. Mueller S. F., Boylan, J. W., Russell, A. G., Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G., “Performance of an air quality model across a range of environmental conditions,” PM2.5 and Electric Power Generation: Recent Findings and Implications, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 9-10, 2002.

  30. Odman, M. T., Russell, A. G., Boylan, J. W., “Estimates of PM2.5 levels in the Southeast for the year 2010: What else can be done?” Air Quality III Conference, Energy and Environmental Research Center, Arlington, Virginia, September 9-12, 2002.

  31. Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W., Russell, A. G., “Estimates of future PM2.5 levels in Southeastern United States,” in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVI: Proceedings of the 26th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-30, 2003, pp. 163-170 (C. Borrego and S. Incecik, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2004).

  32. Odman, M. T., Khan, M. N., “Evaluation of the adaptive grid air pollution model,” in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVI: Proceedings of the 26th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-30, 2003, , pp. 635-636 (C. Borrego and S. Incecik, Eds.), New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2004).

  33. Unal, A. Odman, M. T.,  “Adaptive grid modeling for predicting the air quality impacts of biomass burning,” 5th American Meteorological Society  Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Orlando, Florida, November 16-20, 2003

  34. Kindap, T., S.-H. Chen, A. Unal, M. T. Odman and M. Karaca, "A first approach to estimating air pollutants in Turkey using an air quality model," Third International Symposium on Air Quality Management at Urban, Regional and Global Scales, 26-30 September 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 619-628 (S. Topcu, M.F. Yardim, A. Bayram, T. Elbir, C. Kahya, Eds.), Istanbul Technical University (2005).

  35. Odman, M.T., Hu, Y., "A variable time-step algorithm for air quality models," in Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVII: Proceedings of the 27th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Banff, Canada, October 24-29, 2004, pp. 411-420 (C. Borrego and A.-L. Norman, Eds.), New York: Springer (2007).

  36. Kindap, T.,  Unal, A., Chen, S. H., Hu Y., Odman, M. T. and Karaca, M., “Long-range aerosol transport from Europe to Istanbul, Turkey," Proceedings of the 27th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Banff, Canada, October 24-29, 2004, pp.656-658 (C. Borrego and A.-L. Norman, Eds.), New York: Springer (2007).

  37. Odman, M. T., Hu, Y., Russell, A. G. and Chang, M. E., "Forecasting Ozone and PM2.5 in Southeastern U.S.," Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XVIII: Proceedings of the 28th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in Leipzig, Germany, May 15-19, 2006, pp. 220-229 (C. Borrego and E. Renner, Eds.), New York: Elsevier (2007).

  38. Im, U., A. Tek, T. Kindap, S. Topçu, S. Incecik, O. Yenigün, M. T. Odman, M. Tayanç, "Investigation of tropospheric ozone levels in urban and semi-urban areas of Istanbul," Seventh International Conference on Air Quality–Science and Application (Air Quality 2009), 24-27 March, Istanbul, Turkey.

  39. Hu, Y., A. Yano, M. T. Odman, "A Mass Consistency Method for Air Quality Modeling over Complex Terrain," 30th NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in San Francisco, USA, May 18-22, 2009.

  40. Odman M. T., Y. Hu, D. S. McRae, S. L. Goodrick, Y. Liu, G. L. Achtemeier, L. P. Naeher, "Predicting the Regional Air Quality Impacts of Prescribed Burns," 30th NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in San Francisco, USA, May 18-22, 2009.

  41. Incecik, S., U. Im, T. Kindap, O. Yenigün, M. T. Odman, S. Topçu, M. Tayanç, "An investigation of high summertime ozone levels in Istanbul," 30th NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application held in San Francisco, USA, May 18-22, 2009.

K.    Conference Presentation without Proceedings

1.       Odman, M. T., Mathur, R., and Hanna, A., “Applications of the Multiscale Air Quality Simulation Platform (MAQSIP) to regional ozone modeling,” 5th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality, Seattle, Washington, June 18-20, 1996.

2.       Tanrikulu, S. and Odman M. T., “ The effects of advection solvers on the performance of air quality models,” 5th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality, Seattle, Washington, June 18-20, 1996.

3.       Odman, M. T., Ingram, C. L., Russell, A. G., Wilkinson, J. G., and McNair, L. A., “An investigation of the uncertainties related to the solution of horizontal advection in UAM-IV,” 5th International Conference on Atmospheric Sciences and Applications to Air Quality, Seattle, Washington, June 18-20, 1996.

4.       Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W. and Russell, A. G., “Regional scale aerosol modeling for an integrated assessment in the southern Appalachian mountains,” 18th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Tacoma, Washington, October 11-15, 1999.

5.       Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W. and Russell, A. G., “Integrated modeling of PM2.5 and its sensitivity for the Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative,” 19th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November 6-10, 2000.

6.       Bergin, M. S., Boylan, J. W., Wilkinson, J. G., Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “Regional multiscale atmospheric modeling: Comparison of model performance for aerosol simulation using two grids,” 20th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 15-19, 2001.

7.       Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W. and Russell, A. G., “Sensitivity of future PM2.5 levels in the southern Appalachians Mountains to regional emissions,” 20th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 15-19, 2001.

8.       Odman, M. T., Boylan, J. W., Wilkinson, J. G., Russell, A. G. and Mueller, S. F., “Response of PM2.5 in the southern Appalachian mountains to future year emission control strategies,” 21st Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 7-11, 2002.

9.       Boylan, J. W., Odman, M. T., Wilkinson, J. G., Russell, A. G., Mueller, S. F. and Yang, Y.-J.,  “Sensitivity of PM2.5 in the southern Appalachian mountains to emissions of SO2, NOx and NH3,” 21st Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 7-11, 2002.

10.   Odman, M. T. and Russell, A. G., “New techniques for modeling air quality impacts of DoD activities” Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and Workshop sponsored by Strategic Environmental Research And Development Program and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, Washington, DC, December 3-5, 2002.

11.  Unal, A., Odman, T. and Russell, A. G., "Assessing the impacts of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on PM2.5 and O3 in Atlanta area," Third Annual Models-3 Users' Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 18-20, 2004.

12.  Odman, M. T. and Hu, Y., "Evaluation of a variable time-step algorithm in CMAQ," Third Annual Models-3 Users' Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 18-20, 2004.

13.  Hu, Y., Odman, M. T., and Russell A. G., "Mass Conservative Coupling of MM5 with CMAQ," Third Annual Models-3 Users' Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 18-20, 2004.

14.  Manomaiphiboon, K. Russell, A. G., He, S., Odman, M. T., Park, S.-K., Hu, Y., Cohan, D. S.," Direct and emission-induced impacts of climate change on ozone and fine particulate matter: Preliminary results," Third Annual Models-3 Users' Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 18-20, 2004.

L.     Evidence of Technical Accomplishments

·      MAQSIP: While working at MCNC, Dr. Odman was a primary developer of the Multiscale Air Quality SImulation Platform (MAQSIP). MAQSIP is the air quality component of an advanced decision support framework (the Environmental Decision Support System, EDSS) developed at MCNC under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL), to assist both scientists and environmental policy-makers. MAQSIP is a fully modularized three-dimensional system with various options for representing the physical and chemical processes describing regional- and urban-scale atmospheric pollution (http://www.emc.mcnc.org/products/maqsip).

·       URM: While a student at Carnegie Mellon University and, later, while at Georgia Tech, Dr. Odman was a primary developer of the Urban to Regional Multiscale (URM) model. URM is a multiscale, multipollutant (ozone, PM, and acid deposition) air quality model with unique features such as flexible grids and direct sensitivity analysis. URM is being used as a research tool at Georgia Tech as well as other institutions including academia and industry both in the U.S. and abroad.

M.   Research Recognition Awards

·         2nd place in Bennett Student Research Competition, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992.

·        The Outstanding Research Faculty Award, The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.

II.                   Teaching/Instruction/Student Development

A. Individual Student Guidance/Development

1.       Postdoctoral Fellows supervised

·         Dr. Yueh-Jiun Yang, October 1997 through May 1999, Sensitivity analysis of three-dimensional photochemical models.

·         Dr. Yongtao Hu, March 2001–April 2006, Meteorological, emission and air quality modeling at regional scales.

·         Dr. Alper Unal, October 2002–December 2004, Quantification of uncertainties in emission inventories and air quality modeling.

2.       Ph.D. Students supervised

·         Dr. Ravi Srivastava, North Carolina State University (lead co-advisor with Dr. Scott McRae), September 1994 through August 1998. An adaptive grid technique for use in air quality modeling.

·         Dr. James Boylan, Georgia Institute of Technology (co-advisor with Dr. Armistead Russell), October 1997 through May 2002, Integrated modeling of air pollution dynamics in the southern Appalachian mountains.

·         Dr. Maudood Khan, Georgia Institute of Technology (lead co-advisor with Dr. Armistead Russell), December 1997 through May 2003, Development and application of an adaptive grid air quality model.

·         Dr. Amir Hakami, Georgia Institute of Technology (co-advisor with Dr. Armistead Russell), September 1998 through December 2003, Sensitivity analysis using air quality simulations.

·         Dr. Shuo Liu, University of Pittsburgh (member of the Dissertation Committee), January 2005 to July 2005,  Geoprocessing optimization in grid systems.

·         Dr. Sergey Napelenok, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of the Dissertation Committee), January 2004 to December 2006, Sensitivity analysis in air quality models for particulate matter.

·         Dr. Michelle Bergin, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of the Dissertation Committee), August 2004 to December 2006, Three dimensional regional multiscale air quality modeling: Inter- and intra-state pollution Impacts.

·         Dr. Kuo-Jen Liao, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of the Dissertation Committee), September 2007 to August 2008 , Sensitivity and uncertainty assessment of global climate change impacts on regional ozone and PM2.5.

·         Ms. Jaemeen Baek, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of the Dissertation Committee), June 2007 to present, Improving aerosol simulations: Assessing and improving emissions and secondary organic aerosol formation in air quality modeling.

·         Ms. Burcak Kaynak, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of the Dissertation Committee), June 2007 to present, Assimilation of trace gas retrievals obtained from satellite (SCIAMACHY), aircraft and ground observations into a regional scale air quality model (CMAQ-DDM/3D).

3.       MS students supervised

·         Mr. Jongseop Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology (co-advisor with Dr. Armistead Russell), September 1998 through May 1999, Application of Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Chemistry Transport Model (CCTM) to Atlanta air quality study.

·         Ms. Tien-Ru Rosa Chi, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of Thesis Reading Committee), August 2004, Uncertainty analysis of the NONROAD emissions model for the state of Georgia.

·         Mr. Santosh Chandru, Georgia Institute of Technology (member of Thesis Reading Committee) October 2007 through May 2008, Trans-boundary Pollutant Impacts of Emissions in the Imperial Valley Calexico Region and from Southern California.

·         Ms. Aika Yano

·         Mr. Fernando Garcia-Menendez

4.       BS students supervised

·         Mr. Gokhan Ozkan, Istanbul Technical University (advisor, practical training at Georgia Institute of Technology), September 2005 through January 2006, Meteorological Modeling with WRF.

III.                 Service

A. Professional Activities

1.       Member, Sigma Xi Research Society, 1990–Present

2.       Member, American Geophysical Union, 1991–Present

3.       Member, American Meteorological Society, 1996–Present

4.       Member, American Association for Aerosol Research, 1999–Present

5.       Member, Air and Waste Management Association, 1999–2001

B. Outside Professional Activities/Consulting Professional Activities

1.       MCNC, Correction of the mass conservation error in MAQSIP, February through June 1998.

2.       Russell Engineering and Management, Consulting to Tennessee Valley Authority for using URM model, May–June 2000.

3.       SAIC, Impact of climate change on the air quality in the U.S., December 5-7, 2001

IV.                Other contributions

A. Seminar Presentations

1.       Odman, M.T., “Generations in air quality modeling,” Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, April 10, 1996.

2.       Odman, M.T., “Integrated multiscale air quality modeling,” Department of Meteorology, Texas A&M University, April 26, 1997.

V.                  National and International Professional Recognition

A. Invited Conference Session Chairmanship

1.       19th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Session 14-C: “PM2.5 III,” Co-chair with Dr. Nels Laulainen, St. Louis, Missouri, November 10, 2000.

2.       20th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Session 13-B: “Atmospheric Aerosol Modeling II”, Co-chair with Dr. Jason West, Portland, Oregon, October 19, 2001.

B. Editorial and Reviewer work for Technical Journals

  1. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2009-present.

  2. Reviewer, Atmospheric Environment, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

  3. Reviewer, Atmospheric Research, 2007

  4. Reviewer, Computational Geosciences, 2007

  5. Reviewer, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2001

  6. Reviewer, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2008

  7. Reviewer, Environment International, 2006

  8. Reviewer, Environmental Management, 2009

  9. Reviewer, Environmental Modelling and Software, 2004, 2006

  10. Reviewer, Environmental Science and Technology, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

  11. Reviewer, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2008

  12. Reviewer, Environmental Software, 1992

  13. Reviewer, Geophysical Research Letters, 2008

  14. Reviewer, International Journal of Environmental Pollution, 2006

  15. Reviewer, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2009

  16. Reviewer, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 1996

  17. Reviewer, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2002

  18. Reviewer, Journal of Computational Physics, 1999, 2000

  19. Reviewer, Journal of Environmental Management, 2008

  20. Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1994, 1995, 2006

  21. Reviewer, Monthly Weather Review, 1996

  22. Reviewer, Science of the Total Environment, 2006

  23. Reviewer, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 2002

VI.                Professional Development

  • Workshop on applications code optimization and performance analysis for Cray X/Y-MP systems, National Environmental Supercomputing Center, December 1992.
  • Title III Workshop, Air and Waste Management Association, February 1994.