Research Products
Uintah Basin Ozone Study Annual Reports
Workshop Outcomes Documents
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Uintah Basin Air Quality
- Winter Ozone Pollution in Utah’s Uinta Basin is Attenuating (Mansfield and Lyman, 2021)
- High Ethylene and Propylene in an Area Dominated by Oil Production (Lyman et al., 2021)
- A survey of valleys and basins of the western United States for the capacity to produce winter ozone (Mansfield and Hall, 2018)
- Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model for Simulating Winter Ozone Formation in the Uinta Basin (Matichuk et al., 2017)
- Four dimensional data assimilation (FDDA) impacts on WRF performance in simulating inversion layer structure and distributions of CMAQ-simulated winter ozone concentrations in Uintah Basin (Tran et al., 2018)
- Statistical analysis of winter ozone exceedances in the Uintah Basin, Utah, USA (Mansfield, 2017)
- The Magnitude of the Snow-Sourced Reactive Nitrogen Flux to the Boundary Layer in the Uintah Basin, Utah, USA (Zatko et al., 2016)
- Inversion Structure and Winter Ozone Distribution in the Uintah Basin, Utah, U.S.A (Lyman and Tran, 2015)
- Statistical Analysis of Winter Ozone Events (Mansfield and Hall, 2013)
- Mass Transport of Gases across the Air–Water Interface: Implications for Aldehyde Emissions (Mansfield, 2020)
- Strong temporal variability in methane fluxes from natural gas well pad soils (Lyman et al., 2020)
- Aerial and ground-based optical gas imaging survey of Uinta Basin oil and gas wells (Lyman et al., 2019)
- Quantifying methane emissions in the Uintah Basin during wintertime stagnation episodes (Foster et al., 2019)
- Organic compound emissions from a landfarm used for oil and gas solid waste disposal (Lyman et al., 2018)
- Emissions of organic compounds from produced water ponds III: Mass-transfer coefficients, composition-emission correlations, and contributions to regional emissions (Mansfield et al., 2018)
- Emissions of Organic Compounds from Produced Water Ponds II: Evaluation of flux-chamber measurements with inverse-modeling techniques (Tran et al., 2018)
- Emissions of organic compounds from produced water ponds I: Characteristics and speciation (Lyman et al., 2018)
- Hydrocarbon and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes from Natural Gas Well Pad Soils and Surrounding Soils in Eastern Utah (Lyman et al., 2017)
- Numerical Tools for Obtaining Power-law Representations of Heavy-tailed Datasets (Mansfield, 2015)
- Kerogen Maturation Data in the Uintah Basin, Utah, U.S.A, Constrain Predictions of Natural Hydrocarbon Seepage into the Atmosphere (Mansfield, 2014)
- Selenium mass balance and flux in water of Pariette Wetlands, Utah (Jones et al., 2020)
- Selenium and salt mobilization in wetland and arid upland soils of Pariette Draw, Utah (Jones et al., 2017)
- Development of an Understanding of Reactive Mercury in Ambient Air: A Review (Gustin et al., 2021)
- Use of Membranes and Detailed HYSPLIT Analyses to Understand Atmospheric Mercury Chemistry (Gustin et al., 2021)
- Evaluation of sorption surface materials for reactive mercury compounds (Dunham-Cheatham et al., 2020)
- Improvements to the accuracy of oxidized mercury measurements (Lyman et al., 2020)
- Mercury biogeochemical cycling: a synthesis of recent scientific advances (Gustin et al., 2020)
- Use of multiple lines of evidence to understand reactive mercury concentrations and chemistry (Luippold et al., 2020)
- An updated review of atmospheric mercury (Lyman et al., 2019)
- A synthesis of research needs for improving the understanding of atmospheric mercury cycling (Zhang et al., 2017)
- Modeling the global atmospheric transport and deposition of mercury to the Great Lakes (Cohen et al., 2016)
- Automated Calibration of Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury Measurements (Lyman et al., 2016)
- Detection and Quantification of Gas-Phase Oxidized Mercury Compounds by GC/MS (Jones et al., 2016)
- Progress on Understanding Atmospheric Mercury Hampered by Uncertain Measurements (Jaffe et al., 2014)
- A Review of Passive Sampling Systems for Ambient Air Mercury Measurements (Huang et al., 2013)
- Knot energy, complexity, and mobility of knotted polymers (Vargas-Lara et al., 2017)
- Universal interrelation between measures of particle and polymer size (Vargas-Lara et al., 2017)
- Persistent Draining Crossover in DNA and Other Semi-flexible Polymers: Evidence from Hydrodynamic Models and Extensive Measurements on DNA Solutions (Mansfield et al., 2015)
Theses and Dissertations
- Justin Allred Master's Thesis: Soil health assessment of arid rangeland soils impacted by oil and gas exploration, development, and extraction (2020)
- Jerimiah Lamb Master's Thesis: Non-methane hydrocarbon source apportionment and BTEX risk assessment of winter 2015 in Roosevelt, Utah (2017)
- Cody Watkins Master's Thesis: Hydrocarbon and CO2 Emissions from Oil and Gas Production Well Pad Soils Comparative to Background Soil Emissions in Eastern Utah (2017)
Other Reports
Emissions Measurements
- Uinta Basin Composition Study (2019)
- Oilfield Waste Disposal Pond Model Analysis (2019) and addendum with additional technical information
- Long-Term Methane Emissions Rate Quantification and Alert System for Natural Gas Storage Wells and Fields (2019)
- Integrated component-specific measurements to develop emission factors for compressors and gas gathering lines (2018)
- Hydrocarbon Emission Detection Survey of Uinta Basin Oil and Gas Wells (2018)
- Organic Compound Emissions From Burning Gilsonite (2018)
- Three reports about produced water pond emissions in Wyoming (2017)
- Storage Tank Emissions Pilot Project (STEPP): Fugitive Organic Compound Emissions from Liquid Storage Tanks in the Uinta Basin (2017)
- Final Report to RPSEA/DOE: Measurement of Hydrocarbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Uncharacterized Area Sources (2016)
- Measurement of carbonyl emissions from oil and gas sources in the Uintah Basin (2015)
- Siting Renewable Energy in Utah: Identifying Locations Compatible with Department of Defense Operations (2019)
- Regulatory Road Map for Oil & Gas Exploration, Development, & Production in Utah (2015)
- GC-MS Organic Aerosol Monitor: Air-Quality Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industry, In-
Field Testing, and Software Development (2018) - 2015 Annual Report: Air Quality on Ute Tribal Lands (2015)
- Other Western Basins & Valleys Analysis (2013)
- Health Impacts & Risks Analysis: Asthma (2013)
- Upper Green River Basin Summary (2012)
- Improving WRF/CAMX Model Performance using Statellite Data Assimilation (2021)
- Uinta Basin Ozone State Implementation Plan: WRF Meteorological Model Performance Evalutaion (2021)
- BLM 2017 Air Resource Management Strategy modeling reports
- Adapting the SAPRC Chemistry Mechanism for Low Temperature Conditions (2015)
- Bonanza Power Plant Emissions Model (2014)
