Research Products
Bingham Research Center Annual Reports
2014 Final Report (UBOS Synthesis) (Exec. Summary)
2013 Final Report (UBOS Synthesis)
Workshop Outcomes Documents
Outcomes from the March 2019 winter ozone modeling workshop
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Uintah Basin Air Quality
Winter Ozone Pollution in Utah’s Uinta Basin is Attenuating (Mansfield and Lyman, 2021)
High Ethylene and Propylene in an Area Dominated by Oil Production (Lyman et al., 2021)
Statistical analysis of winter ozone exceedances in the Uintah Basin, Utah, USA (Mansfield, 2017)
Statistical Analysis of Winter Ozone Events (Mansfield and Hall, 2013)
Emissions to the Atmosphere
Low NOX and high organic compound emissions from oilfield pumpjack engines (Lyman et al., 2022)
Declining methane emissions over multiple years in a western US oil/gas production basin (Lin et al., 2021)
Mass Transport of Gases across the Air–Water Interface: Implications for Aldehyde Emissions (Mansfield, 2020)
Strong temporal variability in methane fluxes from natural gas well pad soils (Lyman et al., 2020)
Numerical Tools for Obtaining Power-law Representations of Heavy-tailed Datasets (Mansfield, 2015)
Ecology and Biogeochemistry
Selenium mass balance and flux in water of Pariette Wetlands, Utah (Jones et al., 2020)
Atmospheric Mercury
Evidence against Rapid Mercury Oxidation in Photochemical Smog (Lyman et al., 2022)
Development of an Understanding of Reactive Mercury in Ambient Air: A Review (Gustin et al., 2021)
Improvements to the accuracy of oxidized mercury measurements (Lyman et al., 2020)
Mercury biogeochemical cycling: a synthesis of recent scientific advances (Gustin et al., 2020)
An updated review of atmospheric mercury (Lyman et al., 2020)
Automated Calibration of Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury Measurements (Lyman et al., 2016)
Detection and Quantification of Gas-Phase Oxidized Mercury Compounds by GC/MS (Jones et al., 2016)
A Review of Passive Sampling Systems for Ambient Air Mercury Measurements (Huang et al., 2013)
Atmospheric Chemistry and Meteorology
Investigation of Ozone Formation Chemistry during the Salt Lake Regional Smoke, Ozone, and Aerosol Study (Ninneman et al., 2023)
Testing stochastic and perturbed parameter methods in an experimental 1-km Warn-on-Forecast system using NSSL’s phased-array radar observations (Stratman et al., 2023)
Trifluoroacetic acid deposition in India, China, and the Middle East (David et al., 2021)
Estimation of Stratospheric Intrusions During Indian Cyclones (Roy et al., 2023)
Ozone Changes Due To Sudden Stratospheric Warming-Induced Variations (Veenus et al., 2023)
Polymer Science
Knot energy, complexity, and mobility of knotted polymers (Vargas-Lara et al., 2017)
Universal interrelation between measures of particle and polymer size (Vargas-Lara et al., 2017)
Theses and Dissertations
Tyler Elgiar Master's Thesis: Development of methods to calibrate ambient oxidized mercury measurements and comparisons to a 3-D photochemical transport model (2023)
Justin Allred Master's Thesis: Soil health assessment of arid rangeland soils impacted by oil and gas exploration, development, and extraction (2020)
Other Reports
Emissions Measurements
Top-Down Estimates of Emissions from Oil and Gas Production in the Uinta Basin (2023)
Air Pollutant Emissions from Natural Gas-Fueled Pumpjack Engines in the Uinta Basin (2022)
Uinta Basin Composition Study (2019)
Oilfield Waste Disposal Pond Model Analysis (2019) and addendum with additional technical information
Hydrocarbon Emission Detection Survey of Uinta Basin Oil and Gas Wells (2018)
Organic Compound Emissions From Burning Gilsonite (2018)
Three reports about produced water pond emissions in Wyoming (2017)
Measurement of carbonyl emissions from oil and gas sources in the Uintah Basin (2015)
Energy Policy
Regulatory Road Map for Oil & Gas Exploration, Development, & Production in Utah (2015)
Ambient Air Quality
The Salt Lake regional Smoke, Ozone and Aerosol Study (2023)
Projecting the Impact of Oil Field Electrification on Uinta Basin Air Quality (2022)
Improving volatile organic compound emission estimates for the Uintah Basin (2021)
Testing low-cost methane sensors in the Uinta Basin (2021)
GC-MS Organic Aerosol Monitor: Air-Quality Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industry, In-
Field Testing, and Software Development (2018)
2015 Annual Report: Air Quality on Ute Tribal Lands (2015)
Other Western Basins & Valleys Analysis (2013)
Health Impacts & Risks Analysis: Asthma (2013)
Upper Green River Basin Summary (2012)
Air Quality Modeling
Assessing Wintertime Ozone Prediction Sensitivity to Photochemical Mechanism (2023)
Improving WRF/CAMx Model Performance using Satellite Data Assimilation (2021)
Uinta Basin Ozone State Implementation Plan Meteorological Modeling (2020)
BLM 2017 Air Resource Management Strategy modeling reports (2020)
- WRF meteorological model evaluation
- ARMS 2017 Emission Model
- Photochemical grid model base year performance evaluation
- Impacts of 2025 future year modeling scenarios
Adapting the SAPRC Chemistry Mechanism for Low Temperature Conditions (2015)
Bonanza Power Plant Emissions Model (2014)
Ecology and Biogeochemistry
Post-wildfire Vegetation and Soil Stability Monitoring Assessment (2023)
Ouray National Wildlife Refuge Selenium Hazard Assessment (2015)
Pariette Wetlands Metals Hazard Assessment (2015)
Fact Sheets
Uinta Basin air quality fact sheet
Other Documents, Programs, and Files
Characterization of Waxy Crude Deposition in Pipelines (2015)
Utah Health Department study investigating adverse birth outcomes in the Uinta Basin (2015)
Utah Health Department study investigating adverse birth outcomes in the Uinta Basin (2017)