Q1 final quarterly report from tvaqca

Tri-Valley Air Quality Community Alliance (TVAQA) Final Q1 Report
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Q1 Tasks
Per the grant’s agreed work plan, the tasks for Q1 were as follows:
1.1 Organize an oversight committee to hire and supervise a part-time staff person who will be
responsible for carrying out grant-funded activities, such as data collection.
1.2 Develop workplan for advisory group outlining its purpose, duties, and responsibilities to
recruit interested community members into joining
1.3 Form an advisory group on air quality issues to include various stakeholders from
throughout the project area, including city representatives, school districts, health
organizations, environmental groups, trade organizations, faith organizations, and seniors.
Advisors will be drawn from a variety of existing organizations and institutions in the Tri-Valley.
The purpose of the advisory group will be to review and comment on outreach plans, serve as
ambassadors at outreach events, review and comment on findings from data gathering, and
review and comment on any recommendations.
Oversight Committee
The Oversight Committee emerged from the team which developed the grant proposal. The first meeting
to discuss developing a grant was held at Livermore City Hall on 25 April 2019, attended four Oversight
Committee members (Van Rainey, Ann Brown, Jennifer Yeamans and Bruce Daggy) plus Trish Munro,
Livermore City Council member and catalyst behind the grant proposal. Two members of Pleasanton City
Council, Karla Brown and Julie Testa, also participated in early discussions and offered support. The
Appendices contain short biographical sketches for the full Oversight Committee as it exists today,
minutes of committee meetings, and a photo of a recent Committee meeting.
The Oversight Committee continued to meet and work, throughout and following grant submission. The
Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance (TVNPA), under the direction of Kathy Young, was recruited to act as the
contracting agency and budget holder. TVNPA’s support saved the Oversight Committee from the
requirement to become a registered charity from the onset; this step might be taken in Q4. Van Raines
will serve as Treasurer for the Oversight Committee and liaise with Kathy Young on budget management.
A job description for the Project Coordinator role was drafted and an interview process and subgroup set.
The Committee agreed upon an organization chart and a set of roles & responsibilities for the Oversight
Committee, the Project Coordinator, the Science Committee, and the Advisory Group (see Appendix).
Project Coordinator
Once the grant agreement was fully executed (02 March 2020), the pre-work by the Oversight Committee
enabled a rapid decision to offer a consulting agreement to Kim Christensen (see Appendix for bio) as the
Project Coordinator on 05 March 2020. The consulting agreement (see Appendix) has a term of 11 months,
roughly coinciding with anticipated acceptance of the final report.
With input & assistance from the Oversight Committee, the role of the Coordinator is to:
• Develop and maintain communications with a broad-based Advisory Group on air quality issues to
include various stakeholders from throughout the project area, including city representatives, school

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districts, health organizations, environmental groups, trade organizations, faith organizations,
students and seniors.
• Assist the Science Committee in gathering existing air quality data from various agencies, health
organizations, and government sponsored organizations to consolidate relevant information as input
for building local awareness to promote engagement with stakeholders and identify further
engagement needs.
• Coordinate and facilitate direct outreach in each of the four Tri-Valley cities, including online
engagement & surveys; booths at community events; forums held at public libraries, schools, and
other venues in the community; and presentations to the Planning Commissions of the Tri-Valley cities
in the project area.
• Consolidate and organize community input/findings and develop recommendations to identify needs
and advance community engagement on identified air quality concerns and priorities, in accordance
with review and input from both the Advisory Group and Oversight Committee.
• Support the Oversight Committee in leveraging capacity developed this effort to establish an ongoing
Tri-Valley Community Air Quality Non-Profit, which will partner with BAAQMD in AB 617
implementation activities in the Tri-Valley via authentic community participation mechanisms.
• Maintain all project records. Develop and submit four (4) quarterly reports and a final grant report to
the BAAQMD, following the format provided by the BAAQMD.
Science Committee
The Science Committee’s charter is to gather and review information and analyses of the scientific
foundations of air quality in the Tri-Valley including current and past emissions, our air quality
measurements with a focus on exceedances, meteorological conditions related to our air quality, and
health and welfare effects. It will develop an understanding the air quality in the Tri-Valley as a basis for
communicating to the stakeholders and as a for developing our recommended actions for continued
improvement. In part due to our proximity to LLNL, our effort is blessed with outstanding technical
expertise. To encourage participation of scientists whose time may be limited and/or whose interests
incline strongly to the technical, Science Committee members will not have a requirement to also serve
on the Oversight Committee. At present, the Science Committee consists of three Oversight Committee
members (Ron Baskett, Bruce Daggy, Laurene Green), Curt Covey and Jeffery Daniels.
The Science Committee has begun collecting relevant data from a variety of sources. This information was
distilled by Ron Baskett (Science Committee Chair) into a technical presentation on air quality in the Tri-
Valley area shared on March 19, 2020 in a Zoom meeting of the Science Committee.
A further draft presentation entitled “A Review of the Air Quality in the Tri-Valley” is included in the
Appendices. This review presents background information on measurements, meteorology, emissions,
and analyses regarding the past and current air quality conditions in the Tri-Valley. This information is
intended for use by the TVAQCA to engage our community stakeholders when jointly developing
proposed actions to improve our air quality.
In 2014 the BAAQMD Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) Program characterized the Tri-Valley as an
area with “Impacted Communities.” TVAQCA understands that this designation was based on ozone and
particulate matter (PM) concentrations measured at the Livermore air quality monitoring station
exceeding the federal air quality standards. However, the Since Livermore PM2.5 measurements which

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are not influenced by wildfire smoke have been below the federal standard since January 3, 2018, TVAQCA
needs to establish with the District degree of concern regarding our local PM2.5 levels.
As stated in the above-mentioned Review, TVAQCA understands that there are potentially three current
air quality issues in the Tri-Valley that need to be addressed:
• Ozone (O3): Given that the majority of ozone exceedances in the Tri-Valley are due to emissions
transported into the Valley from the inner Bay Area, what are the District’s expectations regarding the
Tri-Valley’s contribution to precursor emissions and community messaging to reduce regional ozone?
• Fine particulate matter (PM2.5): The TVAQCA plans to review emission inventory data for Tri-Valley
cities and develop a current detailed “community-level emissions inventory” with the goal of assessing
which sources make significant contributions to the local PM2.5 concentrations. In addition, TVAQCA
looks to the District for developing guidance from the Ultra-Fine Particles (UFP) measurements at
Livermore from the last few years.
• Toxic Air Contaminants (TACs): Although based in an initial review, TAC emissions do not appear to
be prevalent in large quantities in the Tri-Valley, TVAQCA believes we should review and develop an
understanding of the location and magnitude of these emissions.
The Review also includes sections covering:
• Monitoring Stations in the Tri-Valley Airshed. In addition to reviewing the BAAQMD air quality data,
TVAQCA believes that collecting and comparing the Purple Air Network data to the District data may
provide insights into potential impacts from local PM2.5 sources.
• Sources of Pollutants in the Tri-Valley. This section reviews the available online emission inventory
data in the Tri-Valley. The next step for TVAQCA is to use available CARB and BAAQMD tools to further
investigate the data sources and develop a current detailed “community-level emissions inventory”
of sources in the Tri-Valley cities.
• Air Quality Meteorology of the Tri-Valley. This section provides a general description of how the
meteorology of the Bay Area affects the formation of our ground-level air concentrations in the Tri-
Valley.
• Ozone and PM2.5 Exceedances in the Tri-Valley
• Recent Ultrafine Particle (UFP) Measurements taken at BAAQMD’s Livermore Station. This section
reviews some of the results from a recent study of the Ultrafine Particle (UFP) measurements
including those taken at BAAQMD’s Livermore station. Further analysis is necessary to understand the
implications for the Tri-Valley. Quoting from the published report: “Toxicity studies suggest that UFPs
may be especially dangerous to human health since they have higher toxicity per unit mass and can
penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream and secondary organs. These toxicology results are
suggestive but more epidemiological evidence is required before the threat to public health from UFPs
can be fully assessed.”
Advisory Group
The Oversight Committee is inviting representatives from diverse sectors of our community with an
interest in air quality and community health to represent their profession/group/affiliation on the

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Advisory Group. Group members will act as their organization’s liaisons to help share community
outreach and educational materials and will provide input and feedback from the community as it
explores, develops and ultimately implements local solutions. Members may be asked to participate in
community outreach events. We are also seeking the Advisory Group’s input as to any individuals or
groups we have missed from our outreach efforts.
The Oversight Committee created a list of potential members (individuals and organizations) of the wider
community Advisory Group, created a template for outreach communications, and began the recruiting
process. Aneesh Rana made an introduction to Stephanie Anderson, who is helping with outreach to
people and organizations in her network.
So that BAAQMD can follow updates as we expand our Advisory Group, this link provides the current
status. Rows in green indicate acceptances to date.
Impact of the Pandemic
The need to shelter in place currently imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic has required creative solutions
to keep the project on track. The Oversight Committee decided to purchase a Zoom Pro account
($14.99/mo) so that all workgroups could interact in safety. The first use was a meeting of the Science
Committee mentioned above, with Ron Baskett’s technical presentation on air quality science, local
conditions, and the impact on health. Zoom was again used by the Oversight Committee on 27 March as
we worked to finalize this report.
Also, a server on Google Drive for the TVAQCA team was established as a repository for all our documents.
In addition, we are planning to develop a website. Kim Christensen has some website development
experience. Hosting costs would be $12/mo through Squarespace. We likely would have launched a
website anyway, but the pandemic could make this platform more critical.
The pandemic has created difficulties with outreach to the area school districts and school nurses. While
being sensitive to the stresses imposed on this community at present, we are still seeking ways to engage
students, educators, and healthcare providers in the school community. Jill Buck (Go Green Initiative) will
be training another group of local student environmental interns this summer. The interns (and all
applicants) to this program could be a valuable source of student input. Ms. Buck, who has also agreed to
join the Advisory Group, also has a degree in distance learning and is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce; there are multiple ways she can assist in our outreach efforts.
Most of the Q2 tasks should also be possible to conduct without the need for face-to-face meetings. We
can continue to add to the Advisory Group, gather data, and prepare outreach materials. Should
restrictions on public meetings continue into Q3, then we will need to revisit with BAAQMD what we can
do to achieve the grant objectives.
Insights
We have noted around the world that air quality has benefitted from the response to the pandemic. While
we hope that the health crisis and economic disruption quickly resolves, this temporary situation gives an
indication of what is possible. That is one of the messages we will be taking out to the community.

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Appendices:
1) Oversight Committee biographical sketches
2) Documentation of Oversight Committee Meetings
3) Photo of 11 March 2020 Oversight Committee meeting
4) Organization Chart and Roles & Responsibilities
5) Project Coordinator biographical sketch
6) Project Coordinator executed contract
7) Draft Science Committee presentation: “A Review of the Air Quality in the Tri-Valley”
8) Biographical sketches of Science Committee members not also on the Oversight Committee

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Appendix 1. Oversight Committee biographical sketches
Ron Baskett
Much of Ron Baskett’s 44-year career has focused on calculating the health effects from pollutants and
hazardous substances released into the air. Ron earned bachelor and master’s degrees in atmospheric
science at UC Davis in the 1970s completing a thesis on the regional transport of air pollutants from the
Bay Area and Central Valley into Yosemite Valley. The study involved determining the local versus
transported contributions of particulate matter and ozone concentrations experienced by visitors in the
Valley—research with strong parallels to the current AB 617 projects in California. Ron started his
professional career in environmental consulting developing and applying several dispersion models to
generate air quality permits for major new industrial developments in the western US. In 1983, Ron joined
a group at Lawrence Livermore National Lab which develops real-time estimates of the consequences of
major hazardous atmospheric releases of radiological, biological or chemical material worldwide. Several
inter-agency collaborations involved supporting the BAAQMD for responses to accidents in the Bay Area
as well as collaborations with the state’s Office of Emergency Services and Air Resources Board. Retiring
from LLNL in mid-2017, Ron’s current research involves:
1. Realistic worst-case assessments of accidents at oil refineries nationwide,
2. The risk associated with airborne transport of infectious diseases such as coronavirus, and
3. Tools to quantify an unknown hazardous release based on personal air monitor measurements which
suddenly show high concentrations.
As a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Ron has given expert forensic testimony involving the
meteorological conditions for industrial accidents and recently for a case in which a prescribed burn
became a wildfire.
Ann Brown
Ann Brown brings the perspective of an educator and outreach specialist to her endeavors. Ann taught
3rd grade, elementary science and middle school science in public schools for 17 years. She has also
taught in outdoor schools and camps. She is presently a youth educator for Tri-Valley Conservancy and
the Zone 7 Water Agency, teaching children in 4th grade through high school. Ann also teaches about
water issues to the public as an outreach specialist. A passionate advocate for a clean, vibrant
environment, Ann co-founded the Tri-Valley chapter of Citizens’ Climate Education. As group leader, she
has led the creation of the Tri-Valley Youth Environmental Action Summit, Livermore EarthDay, and the
Wild & Scenic Film Festival and Eco-Fair. Ann also volunteers for many local organizations, including as a
troop leader for Girl Scouts, docent for East Bay Regional Park District, Livermore Cultural Arts Council,
Livermore Area Youth Advisory Commission, and Livermore Area Park and Recreation District. Ann enjoys
networking, communicating and collaborating with others to create positive change.

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Bruce Daggy
Bruce Daggy is a research scientist and educator determined to see nutrition & lifestyle approaches
effectively incorporated into our healthcare system. Improving air quality as a disease prevention strategy
is consistent with that goal. His career spans over 30 years in global roles with P&G, GlaxoSmithKline,
Nutrisystem and Shaklee.
Dr. Daggy holds a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University and a B.A. in Biology from
University of Virginia, and serves as Adjunct Professor in the Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences
Department of Florida State University. He is a member of the Pleasanton Energy & the Environment
Committee, Citizens Climate Education, and the Sierra Club. Bruce and wife Anne have nearly made their
50-year old house net zero and have minimized water use while creating a wildlife & edible garden in
place of an irrigated lawn and pool.
Laurene Green
Laurene Green is a Water Resources Engineer interested in ensuring a clean environment especially in the
Tri-Valley Area – water, air, and land. She has a B.S. in Geology, and an M.S. in Civil Engineering – Water
Resources (Stanford). Her career includes working in the environmental and energy fields in the US and
abroad. She spent several years contracted to LLNL working on Site 300 CERLA and RCRA sites, in
particular, ground water contamination identification and remediation. Her most significant work
overseas was simulation and reservoir engineering work for the world’s largest CO2 Injection Geo-
Sequestration project, Gorgon in Australia. Recently, Laurene was elected to the Zone 7 Water Agency
Board of Directors.
Van Rainey
Van Rainey is an environmental activist who is on the steering committees of East Bay Clean Power
Alliance, California Alliance for Clean Energy, and the lead of the Environmental Committee of Livermore
Indivisible. He has also been active with Citizens’ Climate Lobby/Education. He has helped promote
through tabling activities for East Bay Community Energy. He is a retired developer of alternate energy
systems that include commercial solar projects, wind energy projects, and waste to energy systems for
producing electricity and fuels for vehicles.
Jennifer Yeamans
Jennifer Yeamans manages grants and capital projects for the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority
(LAVTA), the Tri-Valley’s public transit provider. Previously she worked for the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission on short- and long-range regional planning projects, including management
of the region's Community Based Transportation Planning program and development of the region’s first
coordinated transportation and land-use blueprint, Plan Bay Area, for which she served as project
manager for the Plan's Equity Analysis.

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Jennifer holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley,
and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She also serves as the appointee of
Alameda County to the Tri-Valley Conservancy Board of Directors and is a member of the City of
Livermore's Community Asset Management Program Outreach Committee. Jennifer lives in Livermore
with her husband and their two children.

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Appendix 2. Documentation of Oversight Committee Meetings
Included are minutes from two meetings prior to grant approval and our only in-person meeting
in the four weeks since approval. Our most recent meeting held on 27 March was via Zoom,
where the one agenda item was working on this report.
AB 617: Air Quality Community Alliance of the Tri-Valley (AQCQTV)?
May 14, 2019 Meeting Notes
Attending: Julie Testa, Karla Brown, Laurene Green, Jennifer Yeamans, Valerie Jonas, Bruce
Daggy, Trish Munro, Ann Brown
Introductions all around. Welcome, Pleasanton! Trish gave an introduction to AB 617, and
handed out the PowerPoint slide packet that was shared by the Bay Area Air Quality
Management District (BAAQMD). https://ccap.org/californias-ab-617-a-new-frontier-in-air-
quality-managementif-funded/
We are forming the Tri-Valley Community Alliance that is to include Livermore, Dublin,
Pleasanton, San Ramon, and Danville. This group is to include any stakeholders who are
particularly interested in improving air quality. Our group tonight included citizen activists, city
council members, health services administrators, members of the Pleasanton Energy &
Environment Committee, and a parent. We hope to recruit many more members: from school
districts, businesses, students, Kaiser, Valley Care, LLNL, park districts, sports organizations,
etc.. It was wondered if city planning staff might be more helpful in this Alliance than city council
members.
This Alliance is tasked with creating a grant proposal to BAAQMD that would provide funds for
capacity building of the Alliance. AB 617 requires that the solutions proposed are led by the
community. We need to present a timeline and realistic outreach actions to begin in the fall of
2019. These actions may include:
● Gathering data on the impacts of poor air quality on citizens’ health.
● Educate the community about our local air pollution levels
● Gather input from the larger community of their perceptions of the impacts air pollution
is having.
● Generate ideas for local solutions that will reduce air pollution locally
Next
steps:
1. Valerie will talk to the Tri-Valley Non-Profit Association (TVNPA) to see if the Alliance
can be umbrellaed under TVNPA to qualify for non-profit status and/or serve as our fiscal
agent. 2. Trish will reach out again to colleagues in San Ramon and Danville. 3. Jennifer will
write a first draft of the grant application. 4. Ann has typed up these notes and is sending
them out to participants for review. 5. After any revisions, these notes, along with a warm

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invitation, will be sent to our contact list. 6. All members will continue to add potential
members of the Alliance to the contact list.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cnaRtHEEOK7oBymH_LXWHG-
fGuiKviJcMd GBaETcFUk/edit#gid=0
Next Meeting: Tuesday, May 28, 7:00 - 8:30, Ann’s House: 3227 Saratoga Ct., Livermore,
CA 94550
Submitted by Ann Brown aewbrown@gmail.com 415-246-7697
Tri-Valley Air Quality Community Alliance Meeting Notes
October 17, 2019 4725 First St, Pleasanton, CA
Karla Brown, Jay Maille, Laurene Green, Bruce Daggy, Jennifer Yeamans, Ann Brown.
Interested: Don Lucas, Ron Baskett
1. Introductions (see above)
2. Review of Work Plan, Attachment A. Once we agree on our Work Plan, it may take the
Air district up to two months to execute it. Once that happens, we can start our
reimbursables.
3. Jennifer took our summary and input it into a 3-part plan, using our project summary as
a guide. It streams our 5 activities into
4. Two universes: Oversight committee to oversee the hiring and progress of staff
person. TVNPA would be the “employer” and will collect and hold the funding. They
will get 10% of the grant for their services.
5. Other is Advisory board, programmatic
6. Goal at the end of the first year to form a Non-Profit
7. Quarter 1 - Start up, forming the two above groups, hiring
8. Quarter 2 - Gathering data would be primary task of hired person. Focus on Tri-Valley
data, which includes Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore, San Ramon.
9. Quarter 3 - outreach, bringing info, data we have collected, getting reactions, find out
what is important to address
10. Quarter 4 - synthesizing feedback and preparing reports
How to hit the ground running? Write the job description - will be a part time job, self-starter,
can work at home, write reports, facilitate outreach events, maintain contacts, book meeting
places. 15 - 20 hours/week, $20 - $15/hour. One pager job description.
Can get tangible work products that they can add to their portfolio.
Can part timers with a City be involved? Are there hazards to losing them?
Use grant application as a way to let them know what is involved,
Laurene knows someone at the city who might be interested.
Check in with TVNPA.

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Please start working on job description - Van and Bruce.
Tri-Valley Air Quality Community Alliance (TVAQCA) Meeting Notes,
March 11, 2020
Present: Bruce Daggy, Laurene Green, Ann Brown, Kim Christensen, Van Rainey (host), Ron
Baskett, Curt Covey.
Introductions all around - welcome to Curt, attending for the first time.
Core mission of TVAQCA : first collect information on contributors to our poor air quality
(particulates and ozone), educate the community, and come up with local solutions.
Need to clarify with Aneesh. Is there scope to go beyond smog? (Greenhouse gas
emissions?)
Diesel (particulates) are the main thing that is affecting our health (Tri-Valley).
186 toxic air contaminants - come from stationary, mobile sources
We qualify by P/m2.5 and ozone. Our plan needs to address those two inputs. Ozone takes 6
- 8 hours to form, from any combustion process, come from SF Bay Area and settle in
Livermore. It is NOT from here. Ron is preparing a PowerPoint to convey the information on the
particulate input and ozone creation. It’s fascinating!
Bruce - Five Spare the Air Resource Teams are coordinated by Stephanie Anderson of Bay
Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). Aneesh will introduce him to Stephanie, who
can then put us in touch with the Tri-Valley Group - Hacienda and one other business
partner. We can look for common ground and synergy.
Our main task at the end of this quarter is to form the Community Advisory Group. We do have
Karla Brown, and Julie Testa, from Pleasanton City Council. This group will be a resource and
will not meet regularly. They do not need to be formalized and will not meet until second
quarter (later this spring). They will help us get feedback from a wider network.
Process for miscellaneous expenditures - Kathy Young suggested that we get two
signatures. Van will serve as treasurer. Then would we need/want at least one other
signatory? Should we set a threshold for the amount of miscellaneous expenditures?
Bruce will call Kathy to see if we can submit invoices by e-mail.
TO-DOs
1. Outreach effort to potential Advisory Group members - Ann will send the spreadsheet
and the draft letter from Bruce & Ron to all Oversight Committee members. (see
attached)
2. Everyone will look for your name and the people you are to contact. Modify/customize
the draft letter and send it to those people. If any reply back to you, refer them to Kim, or
send Kim his/her contact info.
3. Everyone should send a short paragraph bio with all of their affiliations to be included in
the quarterly report. Send to Kim.
4. Kim will create a drop box and review instructions for drafting the first quarterly
report. Oversight committee members will be referring contacts to Kim. We will ask our

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contacts to reply by … 2 weeks. He will study up on AB 617 and create a doc with the
salient points.
5. Bruce will ask Aneesh if can we get new data from BAAQMD? New monitoring
happening.
6. Bruce will get contact for Stephanie and see if science committee can meet with
Stephanie or at least advise.
7. Ron will continue developing the PowerPoint.
Tentative meeting on March 27, 4:00, at Ron’s home in Pleasanton. Stay tuned - perhaps we
will meet via Zoom.

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Appendix 3. Photo of 11 March 2020 Oversight Committee meeting
Likely our last in-person meeting for a while. We switched to Zoom after this meeting.
Clockwise from plaid: Ron Baskett, Curt Covey (Science Committee), Bruce Daggy. Ann Brown, Laurene
Green, Van Rainey.

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Appendix 4. Organization Chart and Roles & Responsibilities

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Appendix 5. Project Coordinator biographical sketch
Kim Christensen
I have over 20 years of project and management experience. I have won two R&D 100 awards. I have
many years of experience leading cross-functional teams in the development of successful products. I
am actively involved in many environmental groups such as Citizens Climate Change Lobby and
Greenpeace. I was a project engineer at LLNL for 15 years. I was the vice president of Andros, Inc. which
was one of the largest SMOG testing firms in the world and worked with CARB. I was a manager of a
wind turbine company in the 1980’s. I have a BSME and an MBA.
Appendix 6. Project Coordinator Executed Contract
This fully executed contract will be sent as a separate file.
Appendix 7. Draft Science Committee presentation: “A Review of the Air Quality in the Tri-Valley”
This report will be sent as a separate file.
Appendix 8. Biographical sketches of Science Committee members not also on the Oversight
Committee
Curt Covey
Curt Covey retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in 2017 after 30 years as an atmospheric
scientist, specializing in global climate change. During that time, he participated in a number of research
projects and served as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (www.ipcc.ch).
Earlier relevant experience includes a 1982 PhD degree from UCLA in Geophysics and Space Physics, and
a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (www.ncar.edu). My
experience will provide the Committee with general scientific background on the interaction between air
pollution and weather, including future changes of climate.
Jeffrey Daniels
Jeffrey Daniels is a retired research scientist who performs multi-pathway (inhalation, ingestion, dermal)
exposure analyses and risk assessments for toxic substances (chemical, radiological, biological, and
emerging such as nanoparticles) in multiple environmental media (air, soil, water, and food). He holds
doctorate is in Environmental Science and Engineering (a multidisciplinary degree) that was awarded by
UCLA (1981), as well as Masters and Bachelor’s Degrees in Biology (from CSUN and UCLA). For 29 years
(1979 to 2008) he worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, followed by two-years (2008 to
2010) as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Laboratory, located in Silicon Valley, and four additional

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years (2010 to 2014) in the Nevada System of Higher Education at the Desert Research Institute in Las
Vegas Nevada. Over his distinguished career Dr. Daniels has led and participated in multidisciplinary
studies to develop risk-based concentrations for substances in environmental media that have led to
standards to protect worker and public health and support environmental protection, technology
development, and national security. He has also participated in international efforts in proliferation
prevention and been an invited participant at meetings that include the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) and NATO research and development. Additionally, he has been an author of multiple
scientific publications in the peer review literature and also an invited guest instructor at prestigious
universities that include UCB, UCLA, Harvard, Stanford, and San Jose State. In retirement, Dr. Daniels
continues to participate in science and math education in the San Ramon Unified School District and
provides scientific reviews and consults on human-health risk assessment upon request.

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