About
The Outdoor Urban Air Quality Testing Lab (OU-AQTLab) is a reconfigurable outdoor testbed for urban air quality experiments. The lab functions as a mid-scale fixed urban geometry that can have multiple attached sensors measuring urban canyon impacts on GHG, PM, UHI, and other air quality impacts. Analyses consist of ground-truthing the selected urban canyon corridors with fieldwork assessments of details in the canyon and transportation impacts.
Contact Us
Lee Fithian, PhD, AIA, AICP, NCARB, LEED AP
Director, OU-AQTLab
University of Oklahoma
Gould Hall 267
leefithian@ou.edu
(405) 606-5905
Research Team
Lee A. Fithian, PhD, AIA
leefithian@ou.edu
Associate Professor, Gibbs College of Architecture
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Fithian’s research interests include a focus on the application of urban air quality and energy models to architectural and urban design. Dr. Fithian builds connections between interdisciplinary research and urban design and infrastructure, developing urban interventions to conserve and regenerate air, water, and energy in urban and suburban environments.
Petra Klein, PhD
pkklein@ou.edu
Professor, School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Klein’s research Interests include boundary layer meteorology, tropospheric pollution problems, flow and turbulence characteristics in urban areas, wind-tunnel modeling of geophysical flow phenomena, atmospheric measurement techniques, stable boundary layers, and low-level jets.
Wesley T. Honeycutt, PhD
Dr. Honeycutt is a research associate at the University of Oklahoma interested in sensing and how those sensors are implemented. Through interdisciplinary efforts beyond his PhD chemistry including, civil engineering, entrepreneurship, meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and biology, he has sought to provide research tools and the knowledge to employ them well. His research interests at the OU-AQTLab include the application of low-cost, low-power sensing networks for 2D and 3D terrestrial sensor coverage capable of determining trace gas concentrations in the ambient environment to inform design choices which improve the health and wellbeing of the people who occupy designed spaces.
Elizabeth (Liz) Pillar-Little, PhD
epillarlittle@ou.edu
Research Scientist I, CIMMS/CIWRO (2021-Present)
Dr. Pillar-Little is a research scientist I at the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO). Her research at CIWRO broadly centers around on the topic of chemical weather, or how weather influences chemical processes in the atmosphere as well as how atmospheric chemistry impacts weather. This can take shape in many forms such as aerosol-cloud interactions, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality, and much more. She is currently working on projects exploring the role of aerosol on the pre-convective and convective environment, drivers of variations of vertical gradients of CO2 in the ASL/ABL, and the drivers of aerosol distribution in the ASL/ABL.
In the News
OU Big Idea Challenge Funds Five Projects to Explore Solutions to Global Grand Challenges
Five research teams at the University of Oklahoma received internal funding to support innovative research projects. The awards are for the OU Big Idea. Dr. Fithian is Co-PI and Dr. Wenwen Cheng and Dr. Meghan Wieters are Senior Personnel on the “X-GEM: Enhancing Future Community Sustainability via Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring” team.