Publications

For the most up-to-date list, please see my Google Scholar page.

2024

H.N Huynh, J.C. Ditto, J. Yu, M.F. Link, D. Poppendieck, D.K. Farmer, M.E. Vance, J.P.D. Abbatt. “VOC Emission Rates from an Indoor Surface Using a Flux Chamber and PTR-MS.” Atmospheric Environment, 338 (2024): 120817.

J.C. Ditto, M. Webb, H.N. Huynh, J. Yu, G.C. Morrison, B.J. Turpin, M.R. Alves, K. Mayer, M.F. Link, A.H. Goldstein, D. Poppendieck, M.E. Vance, D.K. Farmer, A.W.H. Chan, J.P.D. Abbatt. “The Role of Indoor Surface pH in Controlling the Fate of Acids and Bases in an Unoccupied Residence.” ACS ES&T Air, 1 (2024): 1015-1027.

D.K. Farmer et al. “The Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) Study: Using chemical and physical perturbations in a test house to investigate indoor processes.” Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (2024).

M. He, J.C. Ditto, et al. “Total organic carbon measurements reveal major gaps in petrochemical emissions reporting.” Science, 383 (2024): 426-432.

2023

M.F. Link, J. Li, J.C. Ditto, H. Huynh, J. Yu, S.M. Zimmerman, K.L. Rediger, A. Shore, J.P.D. Abbatt, L.A. Garofalo, D.K. Farmer, D. Poppendieck. “Ventilation in a Residential Building Brings Outdoor NO_x Indoors with Limited Implications for VOC Oxidation from NO₃ Radicals.” Environmental Science & Technology, 57 (2023): 16446-16455.

F. Liu, T. Joo, J.C. Ditto, M.G. Saavedra, M. Takeuchi, A.J. Boris, Y. Yang, R.J. Weber, A.M. Dillner, D.R. Gentner, N.L. Ng. “Oxidized and Unsaturated: Key Organic Aerosol Traits Associated with Cellular Reactive Oxygen Species Production in the Southeastern United States.” Environmental Science & Technology, 57 (2023): 14150-14161.

Z. Zhou, L.R. Crilley, J.C. Ditto, T.C. VandenBoer, J.P.D. Abbatt. “Chemical Fate of Oils on Indoor Surfaces: Ozonolysis and Peroxidation.” Environmental Science & Technology, 57 (2023): 15546-15557.

J.C. Ditto, L.R. Crilley, M. Lao, T.C. VandenBoer, J.P.D. Abbatt, A.W.H. Chan. “Indoor and outdoor air quality impacts of cooking and cleaning emissions from a commercial kitchen.” Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 25 (2023): 964-979. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00484D

M. Takhar, Y. Li, J.C. Ditto, A.W.H. Chan. “Formation Pathways of Aldehydes from Heated Cooking Oils.” Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 25 (2023): 165-175. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EM00532D

2022

K. Hayden, S.-M. Li, J. Liggio, M. Wheeler, J. Wentzell, A. Leithead, P. Brickell, R. Mittermeier, Z. Oldham, C. Mihele, R. Staebler, S. Moussa, A. Darlington, A. Steffen, M. Wolde, D. Thompson, J. Chen, D. Griffin, E. Eckert, J.C. Ditto, M. He, D.R. Gentner. “Reconciling the total carbon budget for boreal forest wildfire emissions using airborne observations.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (2022): 12493-12523. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2022-245

K. Yeh, J.C. Ditto, J.P.D. Abbatt. “Ozonolysis Lifetime of Tetrahydrocannabinol in Thirdhand Cannabis Smoke.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 9 (2022): 599-603. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00311

J.C. Ditto, J.P.D. Abbatt, A.W.H. Chan. “Gas- and Particle-Phase Amide Emissions from Cooking: Mechanisms and Air Quality Impacts.” Environmental Science & Technology 56 (2022): 7741-7750. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c01409

J.C. Ditto, J. Machesky, D.R. Gentner. “Analysis of reduced and oxidized nitrogen-containing organic compounds at a coastal site in summer and winter.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22 (2022): 3045-3065. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3045-2022

2021

J.C. Ditto, M. He, T.N. Hass-Mitchell, S.G. Moussa, K. Hayden, S.-M. Li, J. Liggio, A. Leithead, P. Lee, M.J. Wheeler, J.J.B. Wentzell, D.R. Gentner. “Atmospheric Evolution of Emissions from a Boreal Forest Fire: The Formation of Highly-Functionalized Oxygen-, Nitrogen-, and Sulfur-Containing Organic Compounds”. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (2021): 255-267. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-255-2021

2020

R. Sheu, C. Stonner, J.C. Ditto, T. Klupfel, J. Williams, D.R. Gentner, “Human transport of thirdhand tobacco smoke: A prominent source of hazardous air pollutants into indoor nonsmoking environments.” Science Advances, 6 (2020): eaay4109. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay4109

J.C. Ditto, T. Joo, J.H. Slade, P.B. Shepson, N.L. Ng, D.R. Gentner, “Non-targeted tandem mass spectrometry analysis reveals diversity and variability in aerosol functional groups across multiple sites, seasons, and times of day.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 7 (2020), 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.9b00702

H.M. Rogers, J.C. Ditto, D.R. Gentner. “Evidence for impacts on surface-level air quality in the Northeastern U.S. from long-distance transport of smoke from North American fires during LISTOS 2018.” Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20 (2020): 671-682. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-671-2020

2019

J.C. Ditto, T. Joo, P. Khare, R. Sheu, M. Takeuchi, Y. Chen, W. Xu, A.A.T. Bui, Y. Sun, N.L. Ng, D.R. Gentner. “Effects of Molecular-Level Compositional Variability in Organic Aerosol on Phase State and Thermodynamic Mixing Behavior.” Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 22 (2019): 13009-13018. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b02664

J.H. Slade, A.P. Ault, A.A.T. Bui, J.C. Ditto, Z. Lei, A.L. Bondy, N.E. Olson, R.D. Cook, S.J. Desrochers, R.M. Harvey, M.H. Erickson, H.W. Wallace, S.L. Alvarez, J.H. Flynn, B.E. Boor, G.A. Petrucci, D.R. Gentner, R.J. Griffin, P.B. Shepson. “Bouncier Particles at Night: Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Chemistry and Sulfate Drive Diel Variations in the Aerosol Phase in a Mixed Forest”, Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 9 (2019): 4977-4987. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b07319

P. Khare, A.M. Marcotte, R. Sheu, A.N. Walsh, J.C. Ditto, D.R. Gentner, “Advances in offline approaches for trace measurements of complex organic compound mixtures via soft ionization and high resolution mass spectrometry”, Journal of Chromatography A, 1598 (2019): 163-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2019.03.037

2018

J.C. Ditto, E.B. Barnes, P. Khare, M. Takeuchi, T. Joo, A.A.T. Bui, J. Lee-Taylor, G. Eris, Y. Chen, B. Aumont, J.L. Jimenez, N.L. Ng, R.J. Griffin, D.R. Gentner, “An omnipresent diversity and variability in atmospheric functionalized organic aerosol composition”, Communications Chemistry, 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-018-0074-3

Winner of the 2019 Wagner Award for Women in Atmospheric Sciences
Selected as one of the editors’ picks for the 1st Anniversary Collection in Nature’s Communications Chemistry
Invited companion article: “Behind the Paper” Atmospheric organic aerosol at the molecular level”, Nature Research Chemistry Community, November 2018. Available online.

R. Sheu, A.M. Marcotte, P. Khare, S. Charan, J.C. Ditto, D.R. Gentner. “Advances in offline approaches for chemically speciated measurements of trace gas-phase organic compounds via adsorbent tubes in an integrated sampling-to-analysis system.” Journal of Chromatography A, 1575 (2018): 80-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2018.09.014

2015

J.W. Rice, J. Fu, E. Sandström, J.C. Ditto, E.M. Suuberg. “Thermodynamic study of (anthracene + phenanthrene) solid state mixtures”. Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 90 (2015): 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2015.06.021