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Personal Summary

Dr. Lu Hu joined the ÁÔÆæÖØ¿Ú as an assistant professor in 2017. Before UM, Lu obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 2014, and then completed postdoc training at Harvard University. He went to college China University of Geosciences - Beijing and experienced serious air pollution issues. Since then he has determined to study atmospheric chemistry and contribute scientific knowledge for people to achieve and breathe clean air.

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Education

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Teaching Experience

CHMY 291 Chemistry of the Environment

CHMY 595 Atmospheric Chemistry (with an aircraft observation component, featured by )

CHMY 421 Advanced Instrumental Analysis

CHMY 541 Environmental Chemistry

Research Interests

Dr. Hu's group is a joint experimental and modeling research program studying atmospheric organic chemistry and air pollution. The overarching goal is to improve understanding of the chemical composition of the atmosphere and how it is influenced by human activities and natural processes. His research group uses a combination of field observations, satellite data, and atmospheric modeling to investigate the origins, chemistry, and transport of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and their implications for air quality and climate locally and globally. Current projects focus on global tropospheric ozone budgets, long-term changes of trace gases in the atmosphere, land-atmosphere exchange of organic carbon. More information can be found on his group website at .

Projects

I will be accepting 1 PhD student for Fall 2025. Please see my lab website for details.

Current projects:

• Emission and chemistry of wildfires
• Factors controlling global tropospheric ozone
• Atmospheric chemistry and biogenic VOCs in the changing Arctic

Dr. Hu’s group is using high-performance computing clusters for big data analysis and global chemical transport modeling. The modeling project is to study the impacts of wildfire smoke and tropospheric ozone over the U.S. on ambient air toxics levels such as benzene, a known carcinogen.

Dr. Hu's group also carries out various field experimental projects in those sensitive areas vulnerable to enhanced air pollutants. In 2019, his group went to Alaska North Slope for a field study to investigate the influence of Arctic warming on atmospheric oxidant chemistry through anticipated increasing emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds from the tundra. In 2018, Dr. Hu's group partnered with four other universities and NSF NCAR, and spent more than 100 hours inside a flying research aircraft to sample and study the emission and chemistry of Western U.S. wildfire plumes. One state-of-the-art instrument Dr. Hu brought to this collaborative airborne field campaign is a proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer, which measures the full mass spectrum of volatile organic compounds in real time at 10 Hz. These projects help answer questions like how chemical processes in fire plumes affect air quality, nutrient cycles, weather, climate and the health of millions of people exposed to smoke in the Western U.S.

Field of Study

Air quality and atmospheric chemistry; Biosphere-atmosphere interactions; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs); Ozone; Aerosol; Source attribution of air toxics; Chemical transport modeling at regional and global scales; Field observations; Mass spectrometry

Selected Publications

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Hu, L., C. A. Keller, M. S. Long, T. Sherwen, B. Auer, A. Da Silva, J. E. Nielsen, S. Pawson, M. A. Thompson, A. L. Trayanov, K. R. Travis, S. K. Grange, M. J. Evans, and D. J. Jacob (2018), , Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4603-4620, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4603-2018.

Lu, X., L. Zhang, Y. Zhao, D. J. Jacob, Y. Hu, L. Hu, M. Gao, X. Liu, I. Petropavlovskikh, A. McClure-Begley, and R. Querel (2018), , Science Bulletin, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2018.12.021.

Yan, Y., Cabrera-Perez, D., Lin, J., Pozzer, A., Hu, L., Millet, D. B., Porter, W. C., and Lelieveld, J., Global tropospheric effects of aromatic chemistry with the SAPRC-11 mechanism implemented in GEOS-Chem, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., .

Young, P.J., Naik, V., Fiore, A.M., Gaudel, A., Guo, J., Lin, M.Y., Neu, J., Parrish, D., Reider, H.E., Schnell, J.L., Tilmes, S., Wild, O., Zhang, L., Brandt, J., Delcloo, A., Doherty, R.M., Geels, C., Hegglin, M., Hu, L., Im, U., Kumar, R., Luhar, A., Murray, L., Plummer, D., Rodriguez, J., Saiz-Lopez, A., Schultz, M.G., Woodhouse, M., Zeng, G., Ziemke (2018), , Elem. Sci. Anth., 6(1):10, doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.265.

Hu, L., D.J. Jacob, X. Liu, Y. Zhang, L. Zhang, P.S. Kim, M.P. Sulprizio, R.M. Yantosca (2017), , Atmos. Environ., 167, 323-334, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.08.036 []. []

Zhu, L., L. J. Mickley, D. J. Jacob, E. A. Marais, J. Sheng, L. Hu, G. González Abad, and K. Chance (2017), , Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 7079–7086, doi:10.1002/2017GL073859 [].

Weimer, M., J. Schröter, J. Eckstein, K. Deetz, M. Neumaier, G. Fischbeck, L. Hu, D.B. Millet, D. Rieger, H. Vogel, B. Vogel, T. Reddmann, O. Kirner, R. Ruhnke, and P. Braesicke (2017), , Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2471-2494, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2471-2017 [].

Millet, D. B., M. Baasandorj, L. Hu, D. Mitroo, J. Turner, B. J. Williams (2016), , Environ. Sci. Technol., 50, 4335-4342, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b06367 [].

Schmidt, J. A., D. J. Jacob, H. Horowitz, L. Hu, T. Sherwen, M. Evans, Q. Liang, R. Suleiman, D. Oram, M. Le Breton, C. Parcival, S. Wang, B. Dix, and R. Volkamer (2016), , J. Geophys. Res. 121, 11819–11835, doi:10.1002/2015JD024229 [].

Yan, Y.-Y., J.-T. Lin, J. Chen, L. Hu (2016), , Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 2381-2400, doi:10.5194/acp-16-2381-2016.

Hu, L., D.B. Millet, M. Baasandorj, T.J. Griffis, K.R. Travis, C. Tessum, J. Marshall, W.F. Reinhart, T. Mikoviny, M. Müller, A. Wisthaler, M. Graus, C. Warneke, and J. de Gouw (2015a), , J. Geophys. Res., 120, 826-842, doi:10.1002/2014JD022627 []. []

Hu, L., D.B. Millet, M. Baasandorj, T.J. Griffis, P. Turner, D. Helmig, A.J. Curtis, J. Hueber (2015b), , J. Geophys. Res., 120, 3553-3571, doi:10.1002/2014JD022732 [].

Baasandorj, M., D.B. Millet, L. Hu, D. Mitroo, and B.J. Williams (2015), , Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 1301-1321.

Millet, D.B., M. Baasandorj, D.K. Farmer, J.A. Thornton, K. Baumann, P. Brophy, S. Chaliyakunnel, J.A. de Gouw, M. Graus, L. Hu, A. Koss, B.H. Lee, F.D. Lopez-Hilfiker, J.A. Neuman, F. Paulot, J. Peischl, I.B. Pollack, T.B. Ryerson, C. Warneke, B.J. Williams, and J. Xu (2015), , Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 6283-6304.