Publications and Recent Presentations
Publications:
Dixon, R.W., Editorial – "Aerosol-based detectors for liquid chromatography: Do they have a role in bioanalysis?", Bioanalysis, 1, 1389-1392, 2009.
Villanueva-Fierro, I., C. J. Popp, R. W. Dixon, R. S. Martin, J. S. Gaffney, N. A. Marley, and J. M. Harris, "Ground level chemical analysis of air transported from the 1998 Mexican-Central American fires to the southwestern USA," Rev. Int. Contam. Ambient., 25, 23-32, 2009.
Ward, T. J., R. F. Hamilton,
Jr., R. W.
Dixon, M. Paulsen, and C. D. Simpson, "Characterization and evaluation
of smoke
tracers in PM: Results from the 2003
Montana
wildfire Season", Atmospheric
Environment, 40, 7005-7017, 2006.
Dixon, R. W. and G. Baltzell, "Determination of
Levoglucosan in
Atmospheric
Aerosols Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Aerosol
Charge
Detection", Journal of
Chromatography A, 1109, 214-221, 2006.
Dixon, R. W. and D. S. Peterson, "Development and
testing of a new
detector
for liquid chromatography based on aerosol charging,” Analytical
Chemistry, 74, 2930-2937, 2002.
Dixon, R. W. and H. A. Aasen, "Measurements of
hydroyxmethanesulfonate
in atmospheric aerosols", Atmospheric Environment, 33,
2023-2029,
1999.
Dixon, R., D. Peterson, K. Carr, and B. Deng, "An
examination of
methods
to treat organic wastes using potassium superoxide", 1998 Joint
Conference
on the Environment, Proceedings,WERC Administrative Office, Las
Cruces,
NM, 299-301, 1998.
Gaffney, J. S., N. A. Marley, R. S. Martin, R. W.
Dixon, L. G.
Reyes,
and C. J. Popp, "Potential air quality effects of using
ethanol-gasoline
fuel blends: A field study in Albuquerque", New Mexico, Environmental
Science and Technology, 31, 3053-3061, 1997.
Dixon, R. W., L. Mosimann, B.
Oberholzer, J.
Staehelin,
A. Waldvogel, and J. L. Collett Jr, "The effect of riming on the ion
concentrations
of winter precipitation. 1. A quantitative analysis of
field
measurements", Journal of Geophysical Research, 100D,
11,517-11,527,
1995.
Dixon, R. W. and R. J. Charlson, "Development of a
new real-time
method
for measuring S(IV) in cloud water using a counter-flow virtual
impactor", Tellus, 46B,
193-204, 1994.
Staehelin, J., A. Waldvogel, J. L. Collett Jr, R.
Dixon, R.
Heimgartner,
W. Henrich, C. Hsu, L. Li, L. Mosimann, B. Oberholzer, A. Prevôt,
W. Schmid, T. Schumann, M. Steiner, M. Volken, and B. Zinder,
"Scientific
goals and experiments of the project 'Winter Precipitation at Mount
Rigi':
An overview," Water, Soil, and Air Pollution, 68, 1-14,
1993.
Staehelin, J., J. L. Collett Jr, R. Dixon, W.
Henrich, C. Hsu, B.
Oberholzer,
L. Mosimann, and A. Waldvogel, "Investigations of physical and chemical
processes contributing to winter precipitation chemistry using field
measurements
from Mount Rigi (Switzerland)," in Photo-Oxidants: Precursors and
Products, Proceedings
of EUROTRAC Symposium, 1992, P. M. Borell, P. Borell, T. Cvitas,
and
W. Seiler (Ed.), SPB Academic Publications, The Hague, 1993.
Dixon, R. W., "Additional mass transport
considerations in the
formation
of hydroxyalkyl-sulfonates," Atmospheric Environment, 26A,
899-905, 1992.
Feeney,
P. J.; Cahill,
T. A.; Annegarn, H. J.; Dixon, R.; Beveridge, P. “Solar-powered
aerosol samplers for use with PIXE analysis,” Nuclear
Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, Section B:
Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, B22,
349-52, 1987.
Recent Presentations (including presentations by group members):
Dixon, R. W., N. Kiedrowski, and T. R. Peavy, Use of HPLC with charged aerosol detection for quantification of biologically relevant oligosaccharides, Poster presented at the 60th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chicago, IL, March, 2009.
Kiedrowski, N., M. Bastidas, T. R. Peavy, and R. W. Dixon, Development of an HPLC method for isolation, quantification, and monosaccharide composition determination of biologically releavant oligosaccharides, poster (presented by N. Kiedrowski) at the CSU Biotechnology Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, January, 2009.
Kiedrowski, N., T. Boyce, T. R. Peavy, and R. W. Dixon, Development of a novel HPLC method for isolation and quantitation of biologically relevant oligosaccharides, poster (presented by N. Kiedrowski) at the CSU Biotechnology Symposium, Oakland, CA, January, 2008.
Abhyankar, M. S. and R. W. Dixon, Aerosol monosaccharide anhydrides as trace species for identifying August 2002 wildfire smoke transport to California's Central Valley, poster (presented by M. S. Abhyankar) at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2007.
Dixon, R. W., K. Goodwin, R. Wong, and W. DeGraffenreid, Effects and use of spray electrification in aerosol charge detection for HPLC, oral presentation at the 30th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques, San Francisco, CA, June, 2006.
Wong, R. H. F. and R. W. Dixon, An investigation of charging modes in an aerosol chage detector for HPLC, Poster Presentation given by R. Dixon at the 18th Annual CSU Biotechnology Symposium, San Jose, CA, January, 2006.
Dixon, R. W., Measurement of Carbohydrates in Aerosols from Forest Fires and Residential Wood Burning, invited presentation for UC Davis Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry Graduate Group, October, 2005.