Dr. Cesunica Ivey is an assistant professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Her research centers on developing and applying advanced air quality modeling and data fusion approaches to characterize air pollution in the United States. These advanced approaches are used to answer questions related to community-scale exposure and source characterization.
In terms of COVID-19, see some of her contributions to public media:
- National Geographic: As oil prices crash, tankers idled off California–spewing pollution for weeks, June 12, 2020
- National Public Radio: Traffic Is Way Down Because of Lockdown, But Air Pollution? Not So Much, May 19, 2020
- Fox News: How coronavirus is impacting pollution across the globe, April 7, 2020
Dr. Ivey received her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2016. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Nevada Reno and a visiting scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.