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Independent career (graduate trainees*; undergraduate trainees**)

9       Lyu, M.*; Young, C. J.; Thompson, D. K.; Styler, S. A. “Influence of fuel properties on the light absorption of fresh and laboratory-aged atmospheric brown carbon produced from realistic combustion of boreal peat and spruce foliage” in Environmental Science & Technology, ASAP (2022).

8       Abou-Ghanem, M.*; Nodeh-Farahani, D.; McGrath, D. T.; VandenBoer, T. C.; Styler, S. A. “Emerging investigator series: ozone uptake by urban road dust and first evidence for chlorine activation during ozone uptake by agro-based anti-icer: implications for wintertime air quality in high-latitude urban environments” in RSC Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, Advance Article (2022).

7       Matchett, L. C.*; Abou-Ghanem, M.*; Stix, K. A. R.**; McGrath, D. T.; Styler, S. A. “Ozone uptake by commercial brake pads and brake pad components: assessing the potential indirect air quality impacts of non-exhaust emissions” in RSC Environmental Science: Atmospheres 2022, 2, 539–546.

6       Abou-Ghanem, M.*; Jensen, B. J. L.; Styler, S. A.; Romanias, M. N. “Ozone chemistry and photochemistry at the surface of Icelandic volcanic dust: insights from elemental speciation analysis” in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2021, 5, 11, 3065–3074.

5       Lyu, M.*; Thompson, D.; Zhang, N.*; Cuss, C.; Young, C. J.; Styler, S. A. “Unraveling the complexity of atmospheric brown carbon produced by smoldering boreal peat using size-exclusion chromatography with selective mobile phases” in RSC Environmental Science: Atmospheres 2021, 1, 5, 241–252.

4       Abou-Ghanem, M.*; Oliynyk, A. O.; Chen, Z.**; Matchett, L. C.*; McGrath, D.; Katz, M. J.; Locock, A. J.; Styler, S. A. “Significant variability in the photocatalytic activity of natural titanium-containing minerals: implications for understanding and predicting atmospheric mineral dust photochemistry” in Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, 13509–13516.

3       Schmidt, M.*; Jansen van Beek, S.**; Abou-Ghanem, M.*; Oliynyk, A. O.; Locock, A. J.; Styler, S. A. “Production of atmospheric organosulfates via mineral-mediated photochemistry” in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2019, 3, 424–431.

2       Gao, S.**; Hilts, R. W.; Ross, M. S.; Styler, S. A. “Particulate matters:  student-led air quality research in the third-year environmental chemistry classroom and the field” in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 2018, 410, 3223–3229 (invited article).

1       Coté, C. D.**; Schneider, S. R.**; Lyu, M.*; Gao, S.**; Gan, C.**; Holod, A. J.**; Chou, T. H. H.**; Styler, S. A. “Photochemical production of singlet oxygen by urban road dust” in Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2018, 5, 92–97.

Postdoctoral research

4       Styler, S. A.; Baergen, A. M.; Donaldson, D. J.; Herrmann, H. “Organic composition, chemistry, and photochemistry of urban film in Leipzig, Germany” in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2018, 2, 935–945.

3       Baergen, A. M.; Styler, S. A.; van Pinxteren, D.; Müller, K.; Herrmann, H.; Donaldson, D. J. “Chemistry of urban grime: inorganic composition of grime vs particles in Leipzig, Germany” in Environmental Science & Technology 2015, 49, 12688–12696.

2       Herrmann, H.; Schaefer, T.; Tilgner, A.; Styler, S. A.; Weller, C.; Teich, M.; Otto, T. “Tropospheric aqueous-phase chemistry: kinetics, mechanisms, and its coupling to a changing gas phase” in Chemical Reviews 2015, 115, 4259–4334.

1       Tilgner, A.; Schöne, L.; Brauer, P.; van Pinxteren, D.; Hoffmann, E.; Spindler, G.; Styler, S. A.; Mertes, S.; Birmili, W.; Otto, R.; Merkel, M.; Weinhold, K.; Wiedensohler, A.; Deneke, H.; Schrödner, R.; Wolke, R.; Schneider, J.; Haunold, W.; Engel, A.; Wéber, A.; Herrmann, H. “Critical assessment of meteorological conditions and airflow connectivity during HCCT-2010” in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2014, 14, 9105–9128.

Graduate / undergraduate research

15     Nevo, O.; Valenta, K.; Tevlin, A. G.; Omeja, P.; Styler, S. A.; Jackson, D. A.; Chapman, C. A.; Ayasse, M. “Fruit defence syndromes: the independent evolution of mechanical and chemical defences” in Evolutionary Ecology 2017, 31, 913–923.

14     Valenta, K.; Miller, C. N.; Monckton, S. K.; Melin, A. D.; Lehman, S. M.; Styler, S. A.; Jackson, D. A.; Chapman, C. A.; Lawes, M. J. “Fruit ripening signals and cues in a Madagascan dry forest: haptic indicators reliably indicate fruit ripeness to dichromatic lemurs” in Evolutionary Biology 2016, 43, 344–355.

13     Valenta, K.; Brown, K. A.; Melin, A. D.; Monckton, S. K.; Styler, S. A.; Jackson, D. A.; Chapman, C. A. “It’s not easy being blue: are there olfactory and visual trade-offs in plant signaling?” in PLoS One 2015, 10, e0131725.

12     Valenta, K.; Brown, K.; Rafaliarison, R.; Styler, S. A.; Jackson, D. A.; Lehman, S. M.; Chapman, C. A.; Melin, A. D. “Sensory integration during foraging: the importance of fruit hardness, colour, and odour to brown lemurs” in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2015, 69, 1855–1865.

11     Di Biagio, C.; Formenti, P.; Styler, S. A.; Pangui, E.; Doussin, J.-F. “Laboratory chamber measurements of the longwave extinction spectra and complex refractive indices of African and Asian mineral dusts” in Geophysical Research Letters 2014, 41, 6289–6297, doi:10.1002/2014GL060213.

10     Valenta, K.; Burke, R. J.; Styler, S. A.; Jackson, D. J.; Melin, A. D.; Lehman, S. M. “Colour and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs” in Scientific Reports, 2013, 3, 2424, doi:10.1038/srep02424.

9       Styler, S. A.; Myers, A. L.; Donaldson, D. J. “Heterogeneous photooxidation of fluorotelomer alcohols: a new source of aerosol-phase perfluorinated carboxylic acids” in Environmental Science & Technology 2013, 47, 6358–6367..

8       Styler, S. A.; Donaldson, D. J. “Heterogeneous photochemistry of oxalic acid on Mauritanian sand and Icelandic volcanic ash” in Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46, 8756–8763.

7       Styler, S. A.; Donaldson, D. J. “Photooxidation of atmospheric alcohols on laboratory proxies for mineral dust” in Environmental Science & Technology 2011, 45, 10004–10012.

6       Zelenay, V.; Monge, M. E.; D’Anna, B.; George, C.; Styler, S. A.; Huthwelker, T.; Ammann, M. “Increased uptake of ozone on soot due to UV/Vis radiation” in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2011, 116, D11301, doi:10.1029/2010JD015500.

5       Styler, S. A.; Loiseaux, M.-E.; Donaldson, D. J. “Substrate effects in the photoenhanced ozonation of pyrene” in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2011, 3, 1243–1253.

4       Cheung, L. L. W.; Styler, S. A.; Dicks, A. P. “Rapid and convenient synthesis of the 1,4-dihydropyridine privileged structure” in Journal of Chemical Education 2010, 87, 628–630.

3       Styler, S. A.; Brigante, M.; D’Anna, B.; George, C.; Donaldson, D. J. “Photoenhanced ozone loss on solid pyrene films” in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2009, 11, 7876–7884.

2       Watson, I. D. G.; Styler, S. A.; Yudin, A. K. “Unusual selectivity of unprotected aziridines in palladium-catalyzed allylic amination enables facile preparation of branched aziridines” in Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126, 5086–5087.

1       Braban, C. F.; Carroll, M. F.; Styler, S. A.; Abbatt, J. P. D. “Phase transitions of malonic and oxalic acid aerosols” in Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2003, 107, 6594–6602.