The Outdoor Urban Air Quality Testing Lab (OU-AQTLab) is a reconfigurable outdoor testbed designed for urban air quality research. It serves as a mid-scale fixed urban geometry equipped with multiple sensors to measure the effects of urban canyon conditions on greenhouse gases (GHG), particulate matter (PM), urban heat island (UHI) phenomena, and other air quality indicators. Research activities include ground-truthing selected urban corridors through field assessments of spatial details and transportation-related impacts.
leefithian@ou.edu
Associate Professor, Gibbs College of Architecture
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Fithian’s research interests include a focus on the application of urban air quality and energy models to architectural and urban design. Dr. Fithian builds connections between interdisciplinary research and urban design and infrastructure, developing urban interventions to conserve and regenerate air, water, and energy in urban and suburban environments.
pkklein@ou.edu
Professor, School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Klein’s research Interests include boundary layer meteorology, tropospheric pollution problems, flow and turbulence characteristics in urban areas, wind-tunnel modeling of geophysical flow phenomena, atmospheric measurement techniques, stable boundary layers, and low-level jets.
Dr. Honeycutt is a research associate at the University of Oklahoma whose work focuses on sensor technologies and their practical deployment across diverse environments. With a PhD in chemistry and a research background that spans civil engineering, entrepreneurship, meteorology, atmospheric sciences, and biology, he develops tools that support both measurement and meaningful application. At the OU-AQTLab, his research explores low-cost, low-power sensing networks for two-dimensional and three-dimensional terrestrial coverage. These systems are designed to detect trace gas concentrations in ambient urban settings, generating data that informs design strategies aimed at improving health and wellbeing in the built environment.
epillarlittle@ou.edu
Research Scientist I, CIMMS/CIWRO
Dr. Pillar-Little is a Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO). Her research focuses on chemical weather, which refers to the dynamic interactions between atmospheric chemistry and meteorological processes. These interactions include how weather influences chemical transformations in the atmosphere and how those chemical processes, in turn, affect weather systems. Chemical weather research encompasses a wide range of phenomena, including aerosol-cloud interactions, land-atmosphere exchanges, and air quality dynamics. Her current projects investigate the role of aerosols in shaping pre-convective and convective environments, the drivers behind vertical gradients of carbon dioxide in the atmospheric surface and boundary layers, and the mechanisms governing aerosol distribution across these layers.
Director, OU-AQTLab
University of Oklahoma
Gould Hall 267
leefithian@ou.edu
(405) 606-5905
