Tianjun (Luke) Lu, PhD
Luke is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at University of Kentucky.
Before joining the University of Kentucky, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Science and Geography at the California State University, Dominguez Hills and a research scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Based on his multidisciplinary training and experience, his research centers on the intersection of urban planning, exposure assessment, and environmental health. He uses sensor technologies, geospatial techniques, and community engagement to develop health-promoting communities. To date, his scholarly contribution falls into three areas: (1) conducting national, regional, and local air quality monitoring and modeling, (2) assessing the built environment’s impact on air quality, and (3) promoting healthy human mobility (e.g., tracking physical activity and measuring telecommuting patterns). An overarching research goal is to ensure the work can improve exposure assessment, inform urban planning, and promote environmental justice and transportation equity.
Kimberly Campos
Kimberly Campos was a Graduate Student in Environmental Science at CSUDH (graduated on May 2023). Her main interest is air pollution and environmental impacts of transportation. After graduating from UC Davis is 2018, Kimberly taught middle school science in South Los Angeles. She noticed several environmental issues affecting her students and rediscovered an interest in studying environmental science. Kimberly’s goal at CSUDH is to study traffic-related air pollution in the Compton-Carson area. She also plans to implement community outreach and environmental education to make scientific findings more accessible to affected communities. Armando Garcia Armando Garcia was a Graduate Student in Environmental Science at CSUDH (graduated on May 2023). His main Interest is to assess pollution exposure in urban and low-income areas. As a low-income resident, he wants to see improvement in these areas and help educate people on the environmental issues that we are faced with today. Armando is a goal oriented person, who has experience in many different fields in the workforce. He is also very good with people and seek to help people any way he can. Most importantly, he wants to share his professional knowledge in environmental science and expertise in field work to engage local communities for cleaner environment and better future. |
Azure Fisher Azure Fisher is a Graduate Student in Environmental Science at CSUDH. Her main interests are assessing climate change, environmental injustice, and air quality in local minority neighborhoods. She was raised next to the Inglewood Oil Fields and became interested in environmental science when she began to see the negative health impacts fracking has on the local communities in Los Angeles. This led to her gaining a degree in Sustainability from San Diego State University and hopes to incorporate long term sustainable practices into environmental science research projects. She is determined to aid those who are historically underserved and looks forward to community based research to help local communities experiencing environmental injustice. Cindy Munoz
Cindy Muñoz was an undergraduate student in Geography with a minor in Earth Science at CSUDH (graduated on May 2023; current position: Tree expert at the Davey Resource Group). Her main interest is to evaluate the environmental threats in impoverished communities to help organize and provide justice to these neighborhoods. She is an active member in the emergency services community with both serving as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and as a seasonal Wildland Firefighter with the United States Forest Service. She resides within a low income community in Los Angeles County and sees first hand how environment injustice affects her community. She is interested in doing field work in the environmental sciences in order to combat environmental injustices within the local Los Angeles community. Dulce Andrea Garcia Dulce Andrea Garcia was a current undergraduate student majoring in Earth Science at CSUDH (graduated on December 2022). Through an opportunity from the LS-AMP program at CSUDH, she has worked on a research project regarding climate effects on basal area growth of Pseudotsuga macrocarpa and is currently working on two other projects. One of which is based on environmental justice in the surrounding LA county area as it explores environmental health disparities among disadvantaged communities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Andrea also holds leadership positions such as president of the Earth Science Club, vice-president of the Sustainability Club and the student representative for Earth Science Club on the recently chartered University Sustainability Committee. She is also currently working as an intern at CSUDH’s Office of Sustainability. |
German Bravo-Villasenor
German Bravo-Villasenor was a Graduate Student in Environmental Science at CSUDH (graduated on June 2021; current position: Air Quality Scientist at South Coast AQMD). His main Interest is in Environmental Compliance associated with air, water and management of hazardous materials. Recently, he has completed an internship at V & M Aerospace. He is familiar with regulations associated with chromium plating and Air Quality Management District Rules 1469, 1469.1 and 1480. He has participated in projects such as the sizing of a desulfurization unit using concentration curves to remove hydrogen sulfide from a natural gas feed. He also studied attainability and potential health benefits of the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard. His most recent project was mapping facilities that emit hexavalent chromium in LA County and sensitive receptors near metal air toxic emitters. |