RSPH Faculty


Yang Liu  

Updated: 02/24/2012    [update]
Assistant Professor (Graduate Faculty)


Department of:
Environmental Health

Rollins School of Public Health
1518 Clifton Road NE
Claudia Nance Rollins Bldg, Room 2031
Atlanta, GA 30322
yang.liu@emory.edu
tel: (404) 727-2131
fax: (404) 727-8744

BS, 1997, Tsinghua University
MS, 1999, University of California
PhD, 2004, Harvard University
 
Areas of Interest/Research:
Disease Surveillance
Global Health
Risk Assessment
Statistical Modeling
 
Selected Research Projects:

Modeling of the spatial and temporal distribution of atmospheric aerosols. Applications of satellite remote sensing in air pollution monitoring and public health research.  Satellite observations of air pollution transport, particle concentration, composition, and size distribution. Impact of global climate change on air pollution and public health.

Group website: http://www.sph.emory.edu/remote-sensing/

 

 
Selected Publications:
Y. Liu, K. He, S. Li, Z. Wang, D. Christiani, and P. Koutrakis
A statistical model to evaluate the effectiveness of PM2.5 emissions control during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Environmental International
, In press, 2012.
 
Y. Liu, Z. Wang, J. Wang, R. Ferrare, R. Newsom, and E. Welton
The Effect of Aerosol Vertical Profiles on Satellite-Estimated Surface Particle Sulfate Concentrations.
Remote Sensing of Environment
, 115: 508-513, 2011.
 
Y. Liu, B. Schichtel, and P. Koutrakis
Estimating Particle Sulfate Concentrations Using MISR Retrieved Aerosol Properties.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
, 2: 176-184, 2009.
 
Y. Liu, R. Kahn, and P. Koutrakis
Analysis of the impact of the Forest Fires in August 2007 on air quality of Athens using multi-sensor aerosol remote sensing data, meteorology and surface observations.
Atmospheric Environment.
, 43: 3310-3318, 2009.
 
Y. Liu, C. Paciorek, and P. Koutrakis
Estimating The Spatial and Temporal Variability of PM2.5 Concentrations in Massachusetts Using Satellite Data, Meteorological, and Land Use Information.
Environmental Health Perspectives
, 117 (6): 886-892, 2009.
 
Other affiliations and Activities:

NASA EOS Terra mission, MISR science team member, 2008 - present

NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team member, 2011 - present

International Society of Exposure Science (ISES), 2008 - present
American Geophysical Union, 2004 - present 


 
 
Link to this page: http://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/YLIU74