Monitoring of Air Pollutants

After Dr Patricia Forbes obtained her BSc Honours in chemistry (1994), she spent several years working in the platinum industry, where she completed her MSc and became Environmental Manager. Patricia was then appointed as Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, before moving to the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) where she headed up the Air Quality Research Laboratory and was a Senior Researcher. Patricia completed her PhD at the University of Pretoria (2010), which she then joined as Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry. Her research focuses primarily on atmospheric analyses involving the development of novel sampling and analytical methods for environmental pollutants. Patricia serves on the Executive of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI) and is Chairperson of ChromSA (the chromatography division of SACI). She is Scientific Editor (Analytical Chemistry) for the South African Journal of Chemistry.

1. Perspectives on the Monitoring of Air PollutantsPatricia Forbes2. Passive Diffusion Sampling Devices for Monitoring Ambient Air ConcentrationsJ.J. Pienaar3. Biomonitors Patricia Forbes4. Ambient Air Sampling with Whole Air, In-Field Concentration, and Particulate Matter (PM) Methodologies Jason S. Herrington5. DenudersEgmont Rohwer6. Automated Continuous Air Monitoring J.P Beukes7. Novel and Emerging Air Sampling DevicesJ Grandy8. Spectroscopic and Chromatographic Techniques and Methodologies for the Determination of Metals, Metalloids and Ions in Atmospheric AerosolsPatricia Smichowski9. Chromatographic Techniques for Organic Analytes Pérola de Castro Vasconcellos10. Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility SpectrometryPatricia Forbes11. Microscopic Single-Particle Analytical Methods for Aerosol CharacterizationChul-Un Ro12. Concluding Comments and Future OutlookPatricia Forbes