PhD Student Examines Air Pollution Problems

Carleton PhD student Amanda Pappin has won awards and been published for her groundbreaking research that looks at air pollution.

In 2013, she won a prestigious Fulbright Canada award that encourages and promote collaborative research and thoughtful public debate on topics that reflect the broad range of contemporary issues between the two countries.

She used her Fulbright to go to Yale to continue her research on air pollution health effects. Pappin is a member of the Carleton Atmospheric Modelling Group, headed up by Dr. Amir Hakami at Carleton University, which uses advanced modelling techniques to address policy and health questions. Hakami is also Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Environmental Engineering.

Her research has been published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, where it was featured as a Science Selection news piece. Pappin has spoken at scientific conferences in North America, Europe and China and her work has been featured on CBC News and in Carleton’s media.

She began a Master’s degree in 2011, fast-tracking to the PhD program after one year of studies, in Carleton’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering after graduating from Carleton with a BEng in Environmental Engineering. Pappin is a recipient of the Master’s and Doctorate-level Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and she was also awarded Young Scientist Support from the 2012 International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Open Science Conference.

Amanda is featured as part of the Distinctly Carleton campaign, celebrating the many amazing people who have called Carleton home, those who have been transformed by it and many who have worked so hard to support it.