Associate Specialist
Associate Specialist
2010 PhD in Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Air Quality (Outdoor and Indoor), Chemical Biology, Chemical Ecology, Plant Physiology, Mass Spectrometry, Climate Change, Volatile Organic Compounds, Aerosol Precursors, Photooxidation, Aircraft measurements, Eddy Covariance, Air Pollution, Human Exposure to VOC and Health Risk Assessment
My scientific interests are relatively broad and include among others: 1) quantification of fluxes of volatile organic compounds (VOC) by eddy covariance at ecosystem (tower) and regional (aircraft) scales; 2) understanding the fate, transformations and removal processes of gas-phase aerosol precursors to understand and quantify the role of VOCs for secondary organic aerosol formation; 3) thinking holistically to understand the feedbacks between anthropogenic pollution, biogenic VOCs (BVOCs), and atmospheric chemistry, and their links to climate, food security and health; and 4) interdisciplinary research to quantify the links between atmospheric chemistry (indoors and outdoors), environmental microbiome, and human health.
I believe that future progress can be greatly accelerated by interdisciplinary collaborations, and through designing automated hardware and software infrastructures for measurement data acquisition, processing, and integration into community databases and model testbeds.
Adams, R. I., Lymperopoulou, D. S., Misztal, P. K., De Cassia Pessotti, R., Behie, S. W., Tian, Y., Goldstein, A. H., Lindow, S. E., Nazaroff, W. W., Taylor, J. W., Traxler, M. F., and Bruns, T. D.: Microbes and associated soluble and volatile chemicals on periodically wet household surfaces, Microbiome, 5, 128, 10.1186/s40168-017-0347-6, 2017.
Uehling, J., Gryganskyi, A., Hameed, K., Tschaplinski, T., Misztal, P. K., Wu, S., Desirò, A., Vande Pol, N., Du, Z., Zienkiewicz, A., Zienkiewicz, K., Morin, E., Tisserant, E., Splivallo, R., Hainaut, M., Henrissat, B., Ohm, R., Kuo, A., Yan, J., Lipzen, A., Nolan, M., LaButti, K., Barry, K., Goldstein, A. H., Labbé, J., Schadt, C., Tuskan, G., Grigoriev, I., Martin, F., Vilgalys, R. and Bonito, G., Comparative genomics of Mortierella elongata and its bacterial endosymbiont Mycoavidus cysteinexigens. Environ Microbiol. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13669, 2017.
Yu, H., Guenther, A., Gu, D., Warneke, C., Geron, C., Goldstein, A., Graus, M., Karl, T., Kaser, L., Misztal, P., and Yuan, B.: Airborne measurements of isoprene and monoterpene emissions from southeastern U.S. forests, Science of The Total Environment, 595, 149-158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.262, 2017.
Misztal, P. K., Avise, J. C., Karl, T., Scott, K., Jonsson, H. H., Guenther, A. B., and Goldstein, A. H.: Evaluation of regional isoprene emission factors and modeled fluxes in California, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 9611-9628, doi:10.5194/acp-16-9611-2016, 2016.
Misztal, P. K., Hewitt, C. N., Wildt, J., Blande, J. D., Eller, A. S. D., Fares, S., Gentner, D. R., Gilman, J. B., Graus, M., Greenberg, J., Guenther, A. B., Hansel, A., Harley, P., Huang, M., Jardine, K., Karl, T., Kaser, L., Keutsch, F. N., Kiendler-Scharr, A., Kleist, E., Lerner, B. M., Li, T., Mak, J., Nölscher, A. C., Schnitzhofer, R., Sinha, V., Thornton, B., Warneke, C., Wegener, F., Werner, C., Williams, J., Worton, D. R., Yassaa, N., and Goldstein, A. H.: Atmospheric benzenoid emissions from plants rival those from fossil fuels, Scientific Reports, 5, 12064, 10.1038/srep12064, 2015.
Tang, X., Misztal, P. K., Nazaroff, W. W., and Goldstein, A. H.: Siloxanes are the most abundant VOC emitted from engineering students in a classroom, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00256, 2015.
Wolfe, G. M., ..., Misztal, P. K., et al.: Quantifying sources and sinks of reactive gases in the lower atmosphere using airborne flux observations, Geophys Res Lett, 10.1002/2015gl065839, 2015.
Misztal, P. K., Karl, T., Weber, R., Jonsson, H. H., Guenther, A. B., and Goldstein, A. H.: Airborne flux measurements of biogenic isoprene over California, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10631-10647, doi:10.5194/acp-14-10631-2014, 2014.
Karl, T., Misztal, P. K., Jonsson, H. H., Shertz, S., Goldstein, A. H., and Guenther, A. B.: Airborne Flux Measurements of BVOCs above Californian Oak Forests: Experimental Investigation of Surface and Entrainment Fluxes, OH Densities, and Damköhler Numbers, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 3277-3287, 10.1175/jas-d-13-054.1, 2013.
Misztal, P. K., Heal, M. R., Nemitz, E., and Cape, J. N.: Development of PTR-MS selectivity for structural isomers: Monoterpenes as a case study, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 310, 10-19, DOI 10.1016/j.ijms.2011.11.001, 2012.
Hewitt, C. N., Ashworth, K., Boynard, A., Guenther, A., Langford, B., MacKenzie, A. R., Misztal, P. K., Nemitz, E., Owen, S. M., Possell, M., Pugh, T. A. M., Ryan, A. C., and Wild, O.: Ground-level ozone influenced by circadian control of isoprene emissions, Nature Geoscience, 4, 671-674, Doi 10.1038/Ngeo1271, 2011.
Misztal, P. K., Nemitz, E., Langford, B., Di Marco, C. F., Phillips, G. J., Hewitt, C. N., MacKenzie, A. R., Owen, S. M., Fowler, D., Heal, M. R., and Cape, J. N.: Direct ecosystem fluxes of volatile organic compounds from oil palms in South-East Asia, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 8995-9017, DOI 10.5194/acp-11-8995-2011, 2011.
Langford, B., Misztal, P. K., Nemitz, E., Davison, B., Helfter, C., Pugh, T. A. M., MacKenzie, A. R., Lim, S. F., and Hewitt, C. N.: Fluxes and concentrations of volatile organic compounds from a South-East Asian tropical rainforest, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 8391-8412, DOI 10.5194/acp-10-8391-2010, 2010.
Misztal, P. K., Owen, S. M., Guenther, A. B., Rasmussen, R., Geron, C., Harley, P., Phillips, G. J., Ryan, A., Edwards, D. P., Hewitt, C. N., Nemitz, E., Siong, J., Heal, M. R., and Cape, J. N.: Large estragole fluxes from oil palms in Borneo, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 4343-4358, DOI 10.5194/acp-10-4343-2010, 2010.
Hewitt, C. N., MacKenzie, A. R., Di Carlo, P., Di Marco, C. F., Dorsey, J. R., Evans, M., Fowler, D., Gallagher, M. W., Hopkins, J. R., Jones, C. E., Langford, B., Lee, J. D., Lewis, A. C., Lim, S. F., McQuaid, J., Misztal, P., Moller, S. J., Monks, P. S., Nemitz, E., Oram, D. E., Owen, S. M., Phillips, G. J., Pugh, T. A. M., Pyle, J. A., Reeves, C. E., Ryder, J., Siong, J., Skiba, U., and Stewart, D. J.: Nitrogen management is essential to prevent tropical oil palm plantations from causing ground-level ozone pollution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 18447-18451, DOI 10.1073/pnas.0907541106, 2009.
Contact details
Pawel Misztal
UC Berkeley
130 Mulford Hall #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720