LEAP UBC
Publications
2024
Bhandari, S., *de Ferreyro Monticelli, D., Xie, K., Ramkairsingh, A., Maher, R., Eykelbosh, A., Henderson, S., Zimmerman, N. and Giang A. 2024. Odor, air quality, and well-being: understanding the urban smellscape using crowd-sourced science. Environmental Research: Health, In Press. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ad5ded
Gillies, E.J., Li, M., Christensen, V., Sora, K.J., Hoover, C., Loseto, L.L., Cheung, W.C., Angot, H., Giang, A. 2024. Exploring drivers of historic mercury trends in beluga using an ecosystem modeling approach. ACS Environment Au. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.3c00072
Bhatt, R., Javed, B., Giang, A. and Kandlikar, M. 2024. Equitable charging infrastructure for electric vehicles: access and experience. Progress in Energy. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ad4b8f
Sora, K.J., Wabnitz, C., Steiner, N.S., Sumaila, U.R., Hoover, C., Niemi, A., Loseto, L.L., Li, M., Giang, A., Gillies, E., Reygondeau, G., Cheung, W.W.L. 2024. Finding your niche: Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea Shelf and Slope food web. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae062
Ewing, C., Bertoldi, R., Boyd, D.R. and Giang, A. 2024. Patterns of air pollution enforcement in Canada: misalignment of priorities and outcomes. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1):00062. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00062
Giang, A., Edwards, M.R., Fletcher, S.M., Gardner-Frolick, R., Gryba, R., Mathias, J.-D., Venier-Cambron, C, Anderies, J.M., Berglund, E., Carley, S., Erickson, J.S.; Grubert, E. Hadjimichael, A., Hill, J., Mayfield, E., Nock, D., Pikok, K.K.; Saari, R.K., Samudio Lezcano, M., Siddiqi, A., Skerker, J.B., Tessum, C.W.,, 2024. Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(13), p.e2215688121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2215688121
Steel, D., Phillips, C., Giang, A. and Mintz-Woo, K., 2024. A forward-looking approach to climate change and the risk of societal collapse. Futures, p.103361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103361
Rodgers, T.F.M., Spraakman, S., Wang, Y., Johannessen, C., Scholes, R.C. and Giang, A., 2024. Bioretention Design Modifications Increase the Simulated Capture of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Trace Organic Compounds. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(12):pp. 5500-5511. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c10375
Javed, B., Kandlikar, M. and Giang, A., 2024. Variability in costs of electrifying passenger cars in Canada. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 4(1), p.015008. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ad253e
Jain, S., Gardner-Frolick, R., Martinussen, N., Jackson, D., Giang, A. and Zimmerman, N. 2024. Identification of Neighborhood Hotspots via the Cumulative Hazard Index: Results from a Community-Partnered Low-cost Sensor Deployment. Geohealth, 8(2):e2023GH000935. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GH000935
2023
Selin, N.E., Giang, A. and Clark, W.C. Progress and Opportunities for Modeling Dynamic Systems for Sustainable Development. 2023. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(40):e2216656120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216656120
Rodgers, T. §, Wang, Y. §, Humes, C., Jeronimo, M., Johannessen, C., Spraakman, S., Giang, A., Scholes, R. 2023. Bioretention cells provide a tenfold reduction in 6PPD-quinone mass loadings to receiving waters: Evidence from a field experiment and modeling. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00203
Laskar, I.I., Giang, A. 2023. Mitigation of in-use methane emissions from natural gas-powered shipping: A policy analysis. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 3:025005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/accf33
Elder, S., Wittman, H., Giang, A. 2023. Building sustainability research competencies through scaffolded pathways for undergraduate research experience. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11:1. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00091
Chakraborty, M., Giang, A. and Zimmerman, N. 2023. Performance evaluation of portable dual-spot micro-aethalometers for source identification of Black Carbon aerosols: Application to wildfire smoke and traffic emissions in the Pacific Northwest. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16:2333-2352. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2333-2023
Rodgers, T., Giang, A., Diamond, M., Gillies, E., Saini, A. 2023. Emissions and Fate of Organophosphate Esters in Outdoor Urban Environments. Nature Communications, 14:1175. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36455-7
Bhatt, R., Giang, A., Kandlikar, M. 2023. Incentivizing Alternatives to Agricultural Waste Burning in Northern India: Trust, Awareness, and Access as Barriers to Adoption. Environment Systems and Decisions. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-022-09892-w
2022
Ramachandran, A., Abdi, K., Giang, A., Gladwin, D. and Ellis, N., 2022. Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary programmes for collaborative graduate research training. Educational Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2134312
Li, M., Gillies, E.J., Briner, R., Hoover, C.A., Sora, K.J., Loseto, L.L., Walters, W.J., Cheung, W., Giang, A., 2022. Investigating the dynamics of methylmercury bioaccumulation in the Beaufort Sea Shelf food web: a modeling perspective. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts.
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00108J
Barnard-Chumik, H., Cappe, N., Giang, A., 2022. Knowledge Hierarchy and Mechanisms of Power in Environmental Impact Assessment: Insights from the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project. The Canadian Geographer. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12758
Giang, A., Boyd, D.R., Ono, A., McIlroy-Young, B., 2022. Exposure, access, and inequities: Central themes, emerging trends, and key gaps in Canadian environmental justice literature from 2006 to 2017. 2022The Canadian Geographer. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12754
de Ferreyro Monticelli, D., Bhandari, S., Eykelbosh, A., Henderson, S.B., Giang, A., Zimmerman N., 2022. Cannabis Cultivation Facilities: A Review of Their Air Quality Impacts from the Occupational to Community Scale. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06372
Gardner-Frolick, R., Boyd, D. and Giang, A., 2022. Selecting Data Analytic and Modeling Methods to Support Air Pollution and Environmental Justice Investigations: A Critical Review and Guidance Framework. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01739
2021
Eykelbosh, A., Maher, R., de Ferreyro Monticelli, D., Ramkairsingh, A., Henderson, S., Giang, A. and Zimmerman, N., 2021. Elucidating the community health impacts of odours using citizen science and mobile monitoring. Environmental Health Review, 64(2), pp.24-27. https://doi.org/10.5864/d2021-010
Rossa-Roccor, V., Giang, A. and Kershaw, P., 2021. Framing climate change as a human health issue: enough to tip the scale in climate policy?. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(8), pp.e553-e559. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00113-3
Edwards, M.R., Giang, A., Macey, G.P., Magavi, Z., Nicholas, D., Ackley, R. and Schulman, A., 2021. Repair Failures Call for New Policies to Tackle Leaky Natural Gas Distribution Systems. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(10), pp.6561-6570. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c07531
Vazquez, M., McIlroy‐Young, B., Steel, D., Giang, A. and Öberg, G., 2021. Exploring Scientists’ Values by Analyzing How They Frame Nature and Uncertainty. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13701
2020
Giang, A. and Castellani, K., 2020. Cumulative air pollution indicators highlight unique patterns of injustice in urban Canada. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), p.124063. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcac5 Data: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4007391
Mulvaney, K.M., Selin, N.E., Giang, A., Muntean, M., Li, C.T., Zhang, D., Angot, H., Thackray, C.P. and Karplus, V.J., 2020. Mercury Benefits of Climate Policy in China: Addressing the Paris Agreement and the Minamata Convention Simultaneously. Environmental science & technology, 54(3), pp.1326-1335.
2019
Gorman, H.S., Gagnon, V.S., Giang, A., Perlinger, J.A. and Urban, N.R., 2019. Policy, science and transdisciplinary research: when will it be safe to eat as much fish as desired?. In A Research Agenda for Environmental Management. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2018
Angot, H., Hoffman, N., Giang, A., Thackray, C.P., Hendricks, A.N., Urban, N.R. and Selin, N.E., 2018. Global and local impacts of delayed mercury mitigation efforts. Environmental science & technology, 52(22), pp.12968-12977.
Giang, A., Song, S., Muntean, M., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Harvey, A., Berg, E. and Selin, N.E., 2018. Understanding factors influencing the detection of mercury policies in modelled Laurentian Great Lakes wet deposition. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 20(10), pp.1373-1389.
Muntean, M., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Song, S., Giang, A., Selin, N.E., Zhong, H., Zhao, Y., Olivier, J.G., Guizzardi, D., Crippa, M. and Schaaf, E., 2018. Evaluating EDGARv4. tox2 speciated mercury emissions ex-post scenarios and their impacts on modelled global and regional wet deposition patterns. Atmospheric Environment, 184, pp.56-68.
Kwon, S.Y., Selin, N.E., Giang, A., Karplus, V.J. and Zhang, D., 2018. Present and future mercury concentrations in Chinese rice: insights from modeling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(3), pp.437-462.
Perlinger, J.A., Urban, N.R., Giang, A., Selin, N.E., Hendricks, A.N., Zhang, H., Kumar, A., Wu, S., Gagnon, V.S., Gorman, H.S. and Norman, E.S., 2018. Responses of deposition and bioaccumulation in the Great Lakes region to policy and other large-scale drivers of mercury emissions. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 20(1), pp.195-209.
Presentations
2020
Li M, Briner R, Hoover C, Loseto L, Gillies E, Giang A. Modeling Methylmercury Bioaccumulation in the Beaufort Beluga Food Web. Presentation. Arcticnet Annual Scientific Meeting. December 2020.
Gardner-Frolick R, Boyd DR, Giang A. Framework for Selecting Data Analytic and Modeling Methods for Environmental Justice Analysis. Poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020.
Bhatt R, Giang A, Kandlikar M. Agricultural Waste Burning in Northern India -- Towards Integrated Cost Analysis and Farmers' Perspectives. eLightning. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020.
Chakraborty M, Thornton S, Jain S, Zimmerman N, Giang A. Comparison of Air Exchange Ration Calculations in Rural Indian Households using Low Cost Sensors. Poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020.
Luna-Perez E, Ramankutty N, Giang A, Mehrabi Z, Burney J, Gonzalez Abraham C. Mexico Perennial Crops in a Changing Climate. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020.
Laskar I, Giang A. Mitigating In-Use Methane Emissions during Maritime Transportation Operations: A Policy Analysis. Poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020.
Gardner-Frolick R, Boyd DR, Giang A. Framework for Selecting Data Analytic and Modeling Methods for Environmental Justice Analysis. Presentation. American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, October 2020.
Laskar I, Giang A. LNG and its implications as a marine fuel. Presentation. MEOPAR (Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response) Annual Scientific Meeting. October 2020.
2019
Giang A, Li M, Barnard-Chumik H. Interdisciplinary methods for linking mercury sources, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem and human health. Presentation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2019.
Edwards M, Macey G, Giang A, Magavi Z, Nicholas D, Schulman A. Co-Developing Tools to Assess Leak Repairs in Natural Gas Distribution Systems. Poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2019.
Gardner-Frolick R, Tessum C, Marshall J, Giang A. Intervention Model for Air Pollution (InMAP) Performance Assessment in Canada. Poster. American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Portland, OR, October 15, 2019.
Chakraborty M, Meiklejohn J, Babaee K, Rogak S, Giang A, Zimmerman N. Portable Real-time Black Carbon Monitoring Using the MA300: Performance Characterization in Laboratory and Real-world Environments. Poster. American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Portland, OR, October 2019.
Barnard-Chumik H, Cappe N, Giang A. Environmental Impact Assessment as a Tool to Reduce Local Exposure to Methylmercury. Presentation. International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Krakow, Poland, September 9, 2019.
Barnard-Chumik H, Cappe N, Giang A. Health Impacts of Hydroelectric Projects. Presentation. Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Vancouver, BC, June 3, 2019.
2018
Chakraborty M, Zimmerman N, Giang A. Framework for assessing air quality and health impacts of rural emissions in the Indo Gangetic Plain through measurement and modeling. Poster. International GEOS-Chem Meeting, Cambridge, MA, May 8, 2019.
Castellani K, Boyd D, Giang A. Exploring Indicators for Air Pollution and Environmental Injustice in Canada" Poster. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington DC, December
10, 2018.
Giang A. Environmental data justice in the smart city: A research agenda for developing environmental justice indicators. Paper and presentation. Social Justice and Equity in the Engineering of Smart and Connected Cities Workshop, University of Washington, December 10, 2018.
Castellani K, Boyd D, Giang A. Towards a Systematic Review of Environmental Injustice in Canada: National Patterns of Environmental Risks and Benefits. Poster. Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Ottawa, ON, August 29.
Giang A. Understanding the epistemic influence of non-state actors in treaty implementation: Case Study of the Minamata Convention. Paper and presentation. International Studies Association 59th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, April 6.