Chelsea Preble

Chelsea Preble

Chelsea Preble is an Assistant Research Engineer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley and Affiliate in the Energy Technologies Area at Berkeley Lab. She's a Golden Bear through-and-through, earning her BS in Environmental Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2010, MS in Environmental Engineering in 2013, and PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2017. Her research interests include characterizing in-use emission sources and their controls, developing community-based air quality sensor networks, and evaluating the real-world emissions impacts of new regulations and alternative energy technologies.

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Publications

2023

Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from Composting

Authors: Nordahl, Sarah L; Chelsea V Preble; Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown.
02/2023

2022

In-Use Passenger Vessel Emission Rates of Black Carbon and Nitrogen Oxides

Authors: Sugrue, Rebecca; Chelsea V Preble; Anna G Tarplin, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
06/2022

Insights from application of a hierarchical spatio-temporal model to an intensive urban black carbon monitoring dataset

Authors: Wai, Travis Hee; Joshua S Apte; Maria H Harris; Thomas W Kirchstetter; Christopher J Portier; Chelsea V Preble; Ananya Roy, and Adam A Szpiro.
05/2022

2021

Measured Influence of Overhead HVAC on Exposure to Airborne Contaminants from Simulated Speaking in a Meeting and a Classroom

Authors: Singer, Brett C; Haoran Zhao; Chelsea V Preble; William W Delp; Jovan Pantelic; Michael D Sohn, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
09/2021

Determining black carbon emissions and activity from in-use harbor craft in Southern California

Authors: Schlaerth, Hannah; Joseph Ko; Rebecca Sugrue; Chelsea V Preble, and George A Ban-Weiss.
07/2021

2020

Air Pollutant Emission Rates for Dry Anaerobic Digestion and Composting of Organic Municipal Solid Waste

Authors: Preble, Chelsea V; Sharon S Chen; Toshifumi Hotchi; Michael D Sohn; Randy L Maddalena; Marion L Russell; Nancy J Brown; Corinne D Scown, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
11/2020

Comparison of Mobile and Fixed-Site Black Carbon Measurements for High-Resolution Urban Pollution Mapping

Authors: Chambliss, Sarah E; Chelsea V Preble; Julien J Caubel; Troy Cados; Kyle P Messier; Ramon A Alvarez; Brian W LaFranchi; Melissa M Lunden; Julian D Marshall; Adam A Szpiro; Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Joshua S Apte.
11/2020

Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management StrategiesLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management Strategies

Authors: Nordahl, Sarah L; Jay P Devkota; Jahon Amirebrahimi; Sarah Josephine Smith; Hanna Breunig; Chelsea V Preble; Andrew Satchwell; Ling Jin; Nancy J Brown; Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown.
07/2020

Comparing the Use of High- to Low-Cost Black Carbon and Carbon Dioxide Sensors for Characterizing On-Road Diesel Truck Emissions

Authors: Sugrue, Rebecca; Chelsea V Preble, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
01/2020

2019

Control Technology-Driven Changes to In-Use Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Emissions of Nitrogenous Species and Related Environmental Impacts

Authors: Preble, Chelsea V; Robert A Harley, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
11/2019

A Distributed Network of 100 Black Carbon Sensors for 100 Days of Air Quality Monitoring in West Oakland, California

Authors: Caubel, Julien J; Troy Cados; Chelsea V Preble, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
06/2019

Constraining a Historical Black Carbon Emission Inventory of the United States for 1960–2000

Authors: Sun, T; L Liu; M G Flanner; Thomas W Kirchstetter; C Jiao; Chelsea V Preble; W L Chang, and T C Bond.
03/2019

2018

Accelerating the Deployment of Anaerobic Digestion to Meet Zero Waste Goals

Authors: Satchwell, Andrew; Corinne D Scown; Sarah Josephine Smith; Jahon Amirebrahimi; Ling Jin; Thomas W Kirchstetter; Nancy J Brown, and Chelsea V Preble.
11/2018

In-Use Performance and Durability of Particle Filters on Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks

Authors: Preble, Chelsea V; Troy Cados; Robert A Harley, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
08/2018

2016

Large reductions in urban black carbon concentrations in the United States between 1965 and 2000

Authors: Kirchstetter, Thomas W; Chelsea V Preble; Odelle L Hadley; Tami C Bond, and Joshua S Apte.
02/2017

2015

Effects of Particle Filters and Selective Catalytic Reduction on Heavy-Duty Diesel Drayage Truck Emissions at the Port of Oakland

Authors: Preble, Chelsea V; Timothy R Dallmann; Nathan M Kreisberg; Susanne V Hering; Robert A Harley, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
07/2015

2014

Emissions and Climate-Relevant Optical Properties of Pollutants Emitted from a Three-Stone Fire and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove Tested under Laboratory Conditions

Authors: Preble, Chelsea V; Odelle L Hadley; Ashok J Gadgil, and Thomas W Kirchstetter.
06/2014

Soiling of building envelope surfaces and its effect on solar reflectance – Part II: Development of an accelerated aging method for roofing materials

Authors: Sleiman, Mohamad; Thomas W Kirchstetter; Paul H Berdahl; Haley E Gilbert; Sarah Quelen; Lea Marlot; Chelsea V Preble; Sharon S Chen; Amandine Montalbano; Olivier Rosseler; Hashem Akbari; Ronnen M Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats.
03/2014

2010

Quantification of Black Carbon and Other Pollutant Emissions from a Traditional and an Improved Cookstove

Authors: Kirchstetter, Thomas W; Chelsea V Preble; Odelle L Hadley, and Ashok J Gadgil.