Timothy V. Larson

Timothy V. Larson

Professor

Email: tlarson@uw.edu

Phone: 206 543-6815

Expertise: Clean Air, Environmental Health, Pollution

PhD, MSChE

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About

Tim Larson is a professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, where he teaches courses on air pollution control and air quality modeling. He is also the co-director of the Master of Science in Civil Engineering: Energy Infrastructure. Larson has over 35 years of experience in air quality research, specifically in characterization of urban air pollution and its sources. His major focus in recent years has been on assessment of human exposure to outdoor air pollutants, and he has collaborated with other UW researchers on many projects related to the health consequences of exposure to air pollution. He holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Washington.

Affiliations

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington
M.S.Ch.E., University of Washington
B.S.Ch.E., Lehigh University

PhD, MSChE

Professor

Research Interests

Cardiovascular disease and traffic.

Mentorship

Not available to mentor new students.

Research

Urban air pollution: its sources and their contributions to population exposure

Publications

Recent publications

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In the news

Healthy air, healthy schools

January 26, 2022 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Elena Austin, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson | View

Our most-read stories of 2021

December 15, 2021 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Karen Levy, Elena Austin, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson, Kristie L. Ebi, Jeremy J Hess, Coralynn Sack, Howard Hu, Marissa Baker, Martin A. Cohen, John Meschke, Esther Min, Gerard A. Cangelosi, Nicole Errett, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Elizabeth Gribble (Walker) | View

New grants promote cleaner classroom air

November 3, 2021 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Elena Austin, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson, Catherine Karr | View

Tracking air pollution from space

September 2, 2021 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Joel D. Kaufman, Lianne Sheppard, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson | View

Air pollution and dementia study

August 4, 2021 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Lianne Sheppard, Timothy V. Larson, Joel D. Kaufman | View

HEPA air cleaners could prevent deaths from wildfire smoke

May 20, 2021 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson | View

Monitoring air quality in schools

January 27, 2021 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Elena Austin, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson | View

Can trees clean up jet pollution?

June 25, 2020 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson | View

EarthLab announces Innovation Grant recipients for 2020

May 17, 2020 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson, Peter Rabinowitz | View

Communities around Sea-Tac Airport exposed to a unique mix of air pollution associated with aircraft

December 3, 2019 | DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto, Timothy V. Larson, Michael G. Yost | View

Timothy V. Larson

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